ZANESVILLE — The exotic-animal owner who killed himself after turning loose dozens of lions, tigers and other beasts was deep in debt, and a fellow big-cat enthusiast said Thursday that he had taken in so many creatures he was “in over his head.”
A Powell resident is asking councilwoman Sara Marie Brenner to resign from council because she has a federal tax lien on her business. That resident, Kent Bermingham, visited council’s regular meeting Tuesday night, during which council discussed Bermingham’s initial September request that Brenner be removed from her seat on the city’s finance committee.
The leader of the local Democratic Party criticized Republican State Rep. Andrew Brenner for his association with a Powell business that owes more than $43,000 in unpaid federal payroll taxes. “It gets down to these things where people say one thing in their campaigns, and in their personal lives, they’re 180 degrees opposite,” said Ed Helvey, chair of the Delaware County Democratic Party.
Sometimes fame and glory just don’t get spread around evenly. Like the quarterback of a football team or the lead singer of a rock band, there are parts of any entity that get more attention than others. The same is true for the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.