COLDnews Editor Celebrates Shay-Love Prematurely

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Exactly one week after Valentine's Day, City of Ludington Daily News (COLDNews) Managing Editor Patti Klevorn couldn't wait to report the good news that Ludington City Manager John Shay wasn't going to be moving to Holland Township and force her to lose her best city hall reporter:

I admire that she resisted the temptation to headline the column "Shay to Stay, Yay!"  But in reporting what seems to lead to a sigh of relief for her and other crony loyalists of the city chief executive, she offered up news that was far from accurate.  The Holland Township Board did not select Steve Bulthuis last night, they didn't even have a meeting last night. 

The selection subcommittee of that board last night voted unanimously to recommend Executive Director of the Macatawa Area Coordinating Council Steve Bulthuis to the board of trustees. This will be voted on by the full Holland Township Board at a special meeting 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, at the township offices, 353 N. 120th Ave.  Bulthuis apparently has the three votes of the trustees in the committee and their recommendation, but there are still four other votes, not to mention these committee members could change their mind at the Saturday meeting.

This version of the facts is corroborated by local sources in the Holland area representing print, TV and radio media:  The Holland Sentinel, WHTC, and Van 92.7 .  The local MCP even has it right:  Shay likely to stay as Ludington city manager.  The only one with false news is the ever-loyal COLDNews, with the managing editor needing her own managing editor in this instance.  

To broadcast the bogus, she quotes John Shay:  "It was meant to be.  Ludington's a great community.  This is the one place we've truly called home."  He's never asked the question:  "So then why are you trying to leave after you've saddled us with so much debt, have looming deficits, and your new job, when you count benefits, is paying you roughly the same as you are getting now?"  

Nope, let's not ask that question; instead let's ask the only other person in town with a greater Shay-love than Patti, Mayor Kaye Holman, about how much he would have been missed here in Ludington-- if the Holland Township committee hadn't noticed his track record.

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Just in case you were still wondering, on Saturday, the HTB voted and chose Bulthuis over Shay.  It was a unanimous vote in the rejection of Ludington's 16 year city manager, with the board deciding to go with an 8 year director of an inter-municipality study committee.  A humbled John Shay is undoubtedly readying a new quasi-legal attack launched by his LPD minions on the Ludington Torch and its members for interfering with his career move by printing the truth about him and his corrupted and unlawful acts and policies over the years.  His lap dogs are likely to be out in force tonight at the city council meeting trying to blow up his deflated ego.