Foley gets a 28 day reprieve. All the others, should feel shame

The 2nd District Court of Appeals gave Mike Foley 28 days to answer my Quo Warranto writ for removal from office. That gives him at least another months pay that he doesn’t deserve. As usual, legal language is clear as mud:

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED AND REQUIRED TO SERVE UPON THE RELATOR’S ATTORNEY, OR UPON THE RELATOR, IF THERE IS NO ATTORNEY OF RECORD, A COPY OF AN ANSWER TO THE COMPLAINT WITHIN TWENTY-EIGHT (28) DAYS AFTER SERVICE OF THIS SUMMONS ON YOU, EXCLUSIVE OF THE DAY OF SERVICE. YOUR ANSWER MUST BE FILED WITH THE COURT WITHIN THREE (3) DAYS AFTER THE SERVICE OF A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE RELATORS ATTORNEY.
IF YOU FAIL TO APPEAR AND DEFEND, JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT WILL BE RENDERED AGAINST YOU FOR THE RELIEF DEMANDED IN THE COMPLAINT.

If lawyers and courts could actually get into the current century (INCLUDING LEARNING THAT ALL CAPS MAKES IT HARDER TO READ AND COMPREHEND) and learned to use the English language it would say something like the following:

You are required to respond to the attached complaint within 28 days of receiving this summons (not including the day of service).

Send a copy of your answer to the Relator or their attorney (if one is listed), and file your answer with the court within 3 days of serving it.

If you do not respond, the court may issue a default judgment against you and grant the relief requested in the complaint.

The sad part about all this is that Foley shouldn’t be paid going all the way back to his indictment, and neither should the four worthless attorneys for the State Auditors “Special Investigations Unit” that allowed this clown show to go on for almost a year. I’ll be lucky to get my filing fees back for having to do all the work researching, writing the Quo Warranto, filing- and exposing myself to the very dangerous and vindictive criminal organization that I call the “Monarchy of Montgomery County.”

It would be nice if there was a “whistle blower” clause in the ORC to compensate people who step up to remove criminals from office. What’s even more disgusting is that Foley’s partner in crime, former Judge James Piergies got to quietly walk away and “retire” keeping his retirement- despite his role in illegally dealing with Foley to give his son a job.

I’ve been thanked by so many people in and out of government for pursuing this, when others wouldn’t. It’s brought in donations from people who’ve never donated before, and the best one, was from someone in Foley’s office who said that they were all rooting for me, and check my blog often for updates throughout the workday. Hint- you can subscribe and just get an e-mail notification of all posts.

As per usual, the local news media pretends this legal action didn’t happen, and that Foley is somehow still going to be able to pull his “no contest plea.”

The reality is, Foley has only 3 options at this point:

• Respond to my filing, go to court, lose to me. and be forever a loser.
• Miraculously get his plea rescinded, go to court on all charges, and lose and go to prison for a very long time with a very big fine.
• Resign now and take his sweetheart deal.

And at some point, the court needs to unseal all the evidence gathered in this investigation of public corruption, paid for by the public, to investigate a public official who is screwing the public. But of course, that would open the door to the way all public business is done in Montgomery County- corruptly.

I’m working on additional stories that are as big or bigger than this one. Currently, the Montgomery County Prosecutors office has been sitting on a Public Records request for months- delaying a story that will prove that Sheriff Streck should be in a jail, not running one.

While the local media is full of “If it bleeds, it leads” stories- or fake stories of “economic development” caused by stealing from the poor and donating to the rich (latest example is the “Air City Garage” project) or not questioning why the City would spend so much on the Paru tower repairs- a building it had no legitimate reason to buy in the first place (back in 2016), stories like Esrati filing to remove Mike Foley from office- get zero coverage.

Thank you again to all who donated, and those who’ve told me thank you (including a bunch of Republican’s who want Foley gone).

Also on my horizon is watching what the County does with the onefifteen program that’s shutting down their brand new sparkling building and abandoning town. Heaven help us if somehow that falls into the hands of Helen Jones-Kelley and her quasi-governmental posse– who will let the building get broken into, scrapped, and then she’ll pay someone to empty it out, or the city will call in the vulture, Industrial Realty Group (IRG) and pay them to clean it out and sell it to someone else like they did with the Emery/USPS facility at the airport or the old truck plant in Moraine.

What really needs to happen is the building needs to be turned into a residential mental health facility for the County to take the mentally ill folks out of the jail and give them treatment. But, you didn’t read that idea here first either…

Here’s the courts full response: