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Commissioner's projects
don't need a cheerleader
"Public dissension over
the county's proposed purchase of the Hickory House restaurant and
potential approval to relax height and density restrictions on
affordable housing projects left Commissioner Dixie Spehar saying she
wants the county to hire a public information officer to help the board
educate the public." (As quoted in the press.)
Is this the same
commissioner who always whines, "The county has no money" when some
issue arises that is not one of her pet projects?
Maybe it is not the
public who needs to be educated. Maybe it is the [county commissioners
who] need to listen to the electorate who placed them in office.
Hmm, could we possibly
hire a public information officer to explain to Commissioner Spehar she
wasn't anointed, but elected by the voters to serve their best
interests?
It is amazing how an
out-of-county contractor figured out very quickly what the public
wanted, "saddled up" and left town. Commissioner Spehar reminds me of a
former vice presidential candidate whose most famous line was, "Where am
I and why am I here?"
I wait for the other shoe
to drop. Disney World-South on Stock Island with daily trips to the
Vandenberg, maybe?
I am sure a good PR
person could rally the taxpayers around such a great tourist attraction.
How about it,
Dixie?
Howard Gelbman,
Key Largo |
