Roy Payton - Jane Murray's Middle Finger

When you get pulled over for speeding, do you give the officer the finger? Jane Murray does. If the IRS came to your office, would you flip them off? Jane Murray would. That is what we conclude, based on a flood of emails (to ptownu@yahoo.com) we are receiving from inside sources at the City of Portsmouth. (All corrspondence received is kept strictly confidential.)

Convicted felon, Roy Payton, Jr. Jane Murray's Middle Finger to Ohio EPA

On Murray's first day in office she abruptly terminated several department heads, accusing them of gross mismanagement. Two of these department heads were highly qualified experts in their fields who are very highly thought of at the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. This immediately raised the concern of officials in State offices at "very high levels."

Murray's termination of Sam Sutherland, a Class IV operator and her public comments that she was going to have him investigated, on charges the EPA believes are trumped up, are a serious problem. Her public comments that she was going to put Roy Payton, Jr., a Class I operator, who is also a disgruntled former employee and a convicted felon, assigned to the water plant as a volunteer overseer and have him re-hired. This is the biggest middle-finger F.U. to the Ohio EPA we can imagine.

Apparently, Ms. Murray is unaware of the threats Roy Payton made to several witnesses prior to his firing that he was going to make "Mike Layne look like a walk in the park," referring to former city employee and water works employee Mike Layne's deadly shooting spree a few years ago.

Ohio EPA is not unaware of Roy Payton's threats to get revenge against the City of Portsmouth and his role in the Jane Murray Adminstration.