As the campaign-season mud-slinging heads into the playoffs, we turn our eyes to contentious Highland Heights, an East Side sliver crammed between Richmond Heights and Mayfield. That’s where a mayoral face-off between two-term incumbent Scott Coleman and council president Scott Mills has taken a Disneyesque turn.
It seems an anonymous letter made the rounds among city officials and others blasting Mayor Coleman for a lack of transparency and Dimora-grade cronyism. It also included an expertly doctored photo of the mayor sporting Pinocchio’s nose.
Asked about the letter but presumably not the nose, Coleman told the Sun News, “I can refute everything in it.” He did not, however, return Scene’s invitation to do so.
Mills, meanwhile, insists he’s wrongly taking the fall — and admits he’s in a tough spot because of it. “Absolutely, unequivocally had no idea about it,” he says. “I’m getting more flak than faith on that letter.” Mills happens to agree with the gist of the mystery missive, but wishes he’d busted out his own version first.
“I can’t argue with the facts,” he says. “But I would never discredit the office of the mayor by drawing a nose on him.”
This article appears in Oct 12-18, 2011.
I think it’s pretty funny that Mills’ campaign signs feature a big red “M4M” on them…
Isn’t M4M a “males for males” dating website?
MILLS 4 MAYOR is what it means in Highland Heights. Inteligent people will totally understand what M4M means. At the end of the day, Mills is going to be the next mayor of Highland Heights.
So did he win the race? Ohhh wait all the bullshit didnt work. Thanks sam
Whats with all this pro-gay M4M stuff from this guy? I mean who doesn’t like to sample the sausage now and then but enough is enough. Is Highland Heights a town with a lot of gay bars? Where? We need more blacks the gay diversity is quite obvious but why no blacks?
There was a bootleg bar back in the day called “Woodies Place” in the basement of a house, on Bishop Road I think. Some dude named Rome used to sing (quite badly I might add) and tongue kiss with some dude named Scott. The security guy was a midget named Jimmy that wanted to be a cop I think. My girlfriend took me there twice and I said no more. Scott Mills should never be mayor because he is exploiting the gays and trannys and that’s not right.