Wow! that was a tad bit embarrassing! You gotta watch this meeting.

Looks like the Board of Mythomania can't play nice together. And to think this Board unanimously voted in the Leadership of Shi & Moroney!?!

So, while they went at each other, recognize that three arguable mistakes were made:

1. Super Dr. Richard 'Looking for the Exit Ramp' O'Malley gets by with with a tie vote to accept his resignation with one board member missing (so it fails).

2. He gets a $10k bonus for accomplishing only one of his three goals, and

3. That $251.9 million Bloated Pot of Money they call a school budget with an outrageous increase in the Local Tax Levy goes to the County Super for approval.



To summarize the vote on whether Señor O'Malley should stay:

But hey, it was nice to see Dr. Frank again - he was questioning rumors to dismiss the Super, the BA, the Insurance Broker, the Auditor and the Insurance Agent, questioning the appointment of the new attorney and with all the changes being considered - he's concerned about potential for fraud, corruption, kickbacks and pay to play etc.

He's concerned these things could happen when the Board is taken over by a 5-4 majority and the 4 in the minority are shut-out. Wow!

Guess he forgets that all Edison Boards play the 5-4 Game - Dickinson used it to bring in DiMuzio to replace an ousted Toth and he told Maeroff that when he had 5 votes, he could do what he wants and when he had the 5 votes - he did, Maeroff used it to bring in Señor O'Malley to replace an ousted DiMuzio, Iyer used it to keep him with a Safe-Haven Contract after he was out publicly interviewing for a new gig and he himself used it just to name a few.

It's a Game of 5 - always has been and always will be.

Finally, he wants us to read Edison resident and CPA Joe Petrucelli's book on Fraud. Kudos Joe, you got a plug at the Board of Mythomania action meeting.

And then it was nice to see Ms. Melissa Perilstein, currently part of Mayor Tom 'Now 15.4% but Won't Debate' ChoiLankey's administration - but you remember her from her time on Jun Choi's Council,  and certainly you remember that 'reformer', affectionately known as Jun 'rforme' Choi.

Seems she's concerned about keeping Señor O'Malley for the sake of continuity with all the changes going on and dealing with the Overcrowding. Of course, I don't quite remember her taking exception to the lack of continuity with all the changes Choi and his Council made when they had the majority when he took over. For that matter, the same holds true for Señor Lankey.

So, while I respect her right to make her case for Señor 'Malley, maybe it's wasn't the strongest or best argument she could of made to support keeping Señor O'Malley.

And finally, nice to see Margot Harris (not that it matters but I actually like her) - you remember her, a Former Board member and Former Vice-President of the EDO. She apparently has some strong opinions about Jerry Shi that don't exactly fall into the Hugs & Kisses category. Well, Welcome to the club Margot but that was interesting to watch.  But honestly, don't know how her thoughts about Jerry Shi do anything but make you realize we should of never moved the BoE election to November.

Anyhoo,  'Jerry Shi shut me out' 'this board is dysfunctional' -  surely, the only person finding any of this Board banter in any way beneficial has to be Señor O'Malley. Sad!