I made a donation to the Kevin Beckner campaign for Hillsborough county commission. As Tommy pointed out, Brian Blair is the Republican incumbent for countywide District 6, and will be faced by Democrat challenger Kevin Beckner. If you don’t know why I’d support Beckner over Blair, you must be new around here. Blair hands out political favors [...]
About the Hillsborough County Commission, and how to find your district. The Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners is made up of 7 officials. The first four each represent a different district within Hillsborough County. Depending on where you live, you could expect to speak to (and therefore vote for) any one of 4 different commissioners. [...]
For four years the Tribune and the Times have been bashing county commissioner Brian Blair, and when we finally get a chance to vote him out of office they turn around and endorse the Bozo?!? The Tribune’s endorsement column begins with a few understatements: [Blair] often appears less thoughtful, less farsighted and more strident than his colleagues. and, He [...]
Hillsborough County employs about 10,000 people, but, blaming budget cuts, county commissioners are poised to lay off the ONE guy responsible for protecting our wildlife from the bulldozers. If they adopt the budget with this proposed cutback, they will gut our upland habitat protection program, just like they tried to gut our wetland protection program [...]
Your local elected officials are the people who determine if Wal-mart will build in your neighborhood. They determine how much you pay for parking, which amenities your parks have, how many police are on hand, and how fast the fire department will show up at your house. Local leaders are responsible for a myriad of public [...]
County administrator Pat Bean has decided we don’t need any more nature preserves. Oh, did you want to vote on that? Me too. After all, we always have held a vote to decide whether or not to continue our county’s Environmental Lands Acquisition and Protection Program (ELAPP), and the voters have always passed ELAPP by an [...]
Although he appeared calm, sitting still in the audience of the public hearing, the Executive Director of the Planning Commission, Bob Hunter, had to have been aghast as he watched the County Administrator blithely break the county’s promise to protect his agency from state-sponsored meddling. I know I was flabbergasted. Was this the blatant act [...]
Another Tuesday with nothing to watch on the tube. I’m not a typical television watcher. On any given week, I watch about two hours of TV. I watch Heroes on Mondays at nine and Chris and Todd Present on Tuesdays at 11. Soon, I might have to go around saying “I used to watch Chris and [...]
Yep. Here’s more on the HCBOCC’s killing wetlands protection. Before I get to Jadell Kerr, I just want to point out the opening of an editorial from the St. Pete Times – Wetlands sellout: Not since three members were hauled away in handcuffs in a vote-buying scandal 24 years ago has the Hillsborough County [...]
