Was in Caribbean as pandemic rages
By JOSH RESNEK
The mayor took about 70-90 days of vacation in 2019.
That’s nearly three months of vacation.
When questioned about it he was quoted as saying: “I deserve it for all that I do for the city.”
His other excuse is that he works 24/7 and has no vacation days allotted to him. He has said he can run the city from his cellphone either while vacationing in Italy, Aruba, Arizona, or Las Vegas.

He grabbed in 2019 an extra $12,500 for a car stipend but never used it for a car. He threatened the city council to appropriate the money for him or he’d make things bad for the city council.
“You’re fooling around with me over $12,500 after everything I do for this city!” He ended up giving back the car stipend this year.
He was riding high, money coming in at every turn of his shoulder.
The casino opened. The hotel was glamorous. The $30 million a year paid by Encore to the city was looking like a bottomless oil well-gushing gold for the city treasury.
That was 2019.
That was then. This is now.