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efficient, huh?

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by tommy @ 8:51 am

Even when meeting for important issues, your elected officials still can’t get anything done. Ridiculous.

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8 Responses to “efficient, huh?”

tim Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 10:38 am
How do these people get elected? We’re a national mockery because of our local elected officials. I suppose I should care more if I lived in Hillsborough County, but since everyone assumes I live in Tampa, and I basically live in Tampa anyway, I’m attached to their hooliganism.

It doesn’t reflect well on the citizens who elect officials who behave like nine-year-olds and seem to have similar cognitive abilities.
cookie Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 1:36 pm
Good God, it’s like we elected Romper Room to run the county.
bamaroller Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 2:28 pm
We sorely need more competent people to seek public office. Unfortunately, many of these folks have REAL jobs that they can’t afford to quit in order to serve, let alone run for a seat. And you can’t vote an idiot out of office when he doesn’t have sufficient opposition. I would do it but I’d probably only get votes from all seven of my friends, and even then I’m not sure!
editengine Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 2:34 pm
I’d vote for Tommy.

Hell I’d vote for bamaroller too if they live outside Kathy Castor’s district.
PortTampa Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 3:11 pm
I thought the whole column was out of line and misinformed. I was watching the city council meeting live when they had to delay acting on some things before them, like homeowners asking for rezoning or citizens speaking for/against development, to leave their regularly scheduled meeting to attend this “workshop” in which they would basically have a listening role and to which they were invited by the HCC. I hardly think it would have made sense for them to vote ahead of time to support the results of the workshop since they had no idea what the recommendations would be. Anyway, I got the distinct impression that the column was written with an agenda of griping against both city council and the county commission without giving the real context in which the incident occured.
tommy Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
the current BOCC and TCC is sooooooo dysfunctional (especially in concert with each other) that they cannot even coordinate a proper meeting. And I think that is the point.
Editengine Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 4:52 pm
this sounds like a fight I’d hear at the movie theater on Friday night when all the pre-teens are waiting for their parents to pick them up.

Linda told the group they woul dhave to leave by 10PM because of their curfew.

Ronda said, “So? The point is?”

Ronda wasn’t through and wanted to know if Linda supported that b*tch Michelle on the cheerleading team who stole Kevin from her.

Let’s Sing ‘Kumbaya’

According to one story Kevin, who is running for student council president, said the group had come over only to hang out. That, in turn, prompted Tom Scott, who also likes Ronda, to say, “That’s not what I heard.”
You can almost smell the oxy-clean can’ you?
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February 1st, 2006 at 1:17 pm
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