Erik, Put That Rock Down

In last year's background report, we learned that city manager Copeland had a record of failing to pay his property taxes on time. More recently, we heard about city employment attorney Bethel being late to pay his taxes as well. And today we see on Maplewood Voices another nugget — apparently Mayor Longrie herself was, shall we say, less than timely in paying for her own bills for ads in city publications (or perhaps she negotiated net 360 terms on that first invoice).

So I guess you can see why the mayor, looking around at all those brittle glass walls, would ask Erik Hjelle if he might stop and think before throws any more accusations about delinquent payments around. Who knows what other news he might break in the process?