W.T. F.

As I wrote in an earlier post I had no idea who the lunatic CAVE people were what I've been finding out is so bizarre it would be funny if it weren't for the fact that apparently some folks are dumb enough to take their hysterical paranoid accusations seriously. Here's what Austin Leedom had to say aboout our city solictor and some other local lawyers and business people on his Shawnee Sentinel site,

i>Look for more dirty tricks from the gang, expect it,

dirty tricks will happen; the recorded history of Port.smouth shows

there it no limit to their vicious abuse of all dissenting citizens who

dare speak up for justice, liberty and our inalienable God-given Constitutional

rights as American citizens.
Written by Austin Leedom, An American Citizen of Portsmouth, Ohio - 20Nov09

Here's what one of his former colleagues has to say about him on yet another web forum.

Does Sentinel Owner Austin Leedom Pay Taxes? Does the owner of the Shawnee Sentinel Website pay his fair share of taxes? Well out of his own mouth Austin Leedom told me that he refuses to pay Portsmouth City Income Taxes on income he makes when he works out of the State of Ohio. Leedom has been asked this question directly by Portsmouth Mayor Jim Kalb but Leedom refuses to answer the question. So, if what Leedom told me is the truth, and it was told to me during the 2004 tax year, what right does Leedom have to denegrate any public servant? I knew there might come a day that Leedom would turn on me so I wrote it all down, dated it, timed it, and had a witness sign it, including the location where it was told to us, and the time it was said to us and I have verified that my friend still has his copy of the document. The statement was made during a morning breakfast at the Gallia Street McDonalds. The time has come for Leedom to come clean on his tax information. Leedom leaves Portsmouth and makes thousands of dollars after hurricanes, floods, ice storms, etc. ... He rarely writes stories. He still uses my stories even though my attorney wrote him an email to stop using my intellectual property. Leedom now has hooked up with a well known drug abuser named Joe Ferguson and Leedom is promoting how honest this guy is and how great his (Ferguson's) investigations have been. I challenge anyone to go find a story Ferguson actually investigated and didn't just hear on a scanner or get a call to come rush to see a fire or something to that affect. Ferguson pled guilty to drug charges. This guy claims to be disabled yet he worked for "free" (if you believe that) for Lee Scott at the Columbia Music Hall. Could Scott have been paying Ferguson under the table too?? Are Leedom and Ferguson two peas in a pod? Only their tax forms and the people that hired them know the truth about these matters. Until Leedom shows his out of state income and proves to the people of Portsmouth that he paid his fair share of city income taxes nobody should ever believe a word he says or writes. I believe Leedom told me the truth, that he won't pay his city taxes on the money he made while working out of state. -John Welton (aka Doug Deepe

Elsewhere these folks refer to several of their number as convicted felons.
Their writings are full of unfounded accusations and vicious probably libelous attacks on prominent citizens. On of the favorite slurs is accusing folks of being "Mafiaosos" [sic] Get a clue guys don't accuse people of being something you can't spell the correct spelling is MAFIOSO. We at the Irish Mob respect our Italian opposite numbers far too much to not get the name spelled correctly. Anyway, the point of all this is that anywhere else thes fruitcakes would be laughed out of town
or at least kept from spewing their venom at every council meeting, isn't it time we started treating these bozos like the morons they are. I'm just saying.