Marsha's blog

The meeting has been moved up to 6:30pm.  Don't use the agenda as an English lesson for your children.

Lets see, we've had Bill Garrison tell them it should be changed, we have had the SOE wanting it to be changed, and now they're going to discuss what the last CRC wanted to do and hopes they'll take it on now.

Perhaps this should be called the Citizens Petition Intiative Review Commission rather then the Charter Review Commission.

They not only want to change it to a percentage of the registerd electorate rather then base it on a percentage of how many people voted in the election.  They also want it to be changed to where there will have to be at least 2% from each District.  Is that because the BCC appears to service only 2% of the voters in their District?

In the last two BCC meetings I have watched Wendell Davis speak untruths, even once the truth was pointed out to him yesterday he still made insinuations that are not based in fact.  This report he has referred to in BCC meetings and in print media is located within the Florida Realtors site, no suprise there and here it ishttp://www.florida2010.org/docs/20100121_Amendment4_Impact_Scenario.pdf.  

Note that it is a "scenario", not a study.  Now. before you go look at the 34 page scenario with all of it's graphs and charts you need to look into just who the group is, "Washington Economics Group Inc" located at 2655 Le Jeune Rd Suite 608 in Coral Gables which is Dade County.

I received my new voters registration card a couple of days ago.  John Thrasher going back to Tallahassee was enough to push me over the edge. 

This isn't so much against the Republican Party itself, if it were I would have gone Democrat but I didn't. However make no mistake there are alot of aspects about the local Republican Party that is revolting to me personally. What started my thinking this way is watching former CRC people taking amendments to court just to get their way.  Having petition gatherers run off from places where they used to be able to get signatures for years with no problem. Dirty tricks.

Those of you who actually participate in these blogs please indulge me while I send the spammers off the right side for recent comments.

It is too bad Jonathan and/or the TU is not maintaining this site like they should.

Remember that not only do you not want to give business to those who break the terms of service but also keep in mind that.

THESE PEOPLE COULD BE IDENTITY THEIVES AND ANY LINK YOU CLICK ON COULD COST YOU IN MORE WAYS THEN ONE.

Feel free at anytime to use this blog to do exactly what I am trying to do.

 I am disapointed with what took place over the CRC convening longer then every four years. Some of the responsibility for that I will accept, Sitting and waiting through two very long, tedious and somewhat unproductive meetings I failed to make my points in a way that would sink in. Either that or no one on this commission cares about the integrity of the Charter like I do. I will make sure to do better in four years.

I came home and tried to make sense of the schedule of agendas that was being formatted and quite frankly I just got tired of listening to it. The public should be able to count on a date within the county website to expect agendas to be posted. Many citizens have to make arrangements to come. More then once you took the "church crowd" into account but you also need to consider those who work for a living and have children. There was an error on the last agenda, items are getting passed onto other meetings. Listing studying the final report of the last CRC is a little vague because they had much to say, including adding two more or new levels of difficulty to the Citizens Petition Intiative.

Below is a copy & paste of an email I just received. The court ruled before Thrasher was picked to lead the GOP. 

Hometown Democracy law is unconstitutional

LIES, UNETHICAL TACTICS AND UNDUE POLITICAL INFLUENCE PUSHED "REVOCATION" LAW. THE SAME PEOPLE ARE NOW OPPOSING PASSAGE OF AMENDMENT 4

The devastation in Haiti is gut wrenching, let alone the poverty most live in before the earthquake even happened.

For those of you out there who may be regular patrons of Longhorn at Argyle Forest, and even those of you who are not but have a giving heart.  Jean works in the kitchen at the resturant, he and his wife came to this country five years ago to make a better life for their family.  They have lost several members of their family, but most tragic, their children.

I don't know Jean, but two of my daughters work there and they do.  They have started to gather donations from wherever they can.  The Darden Corporation owns Longhorn as well as several other familar chains, they have a "Darden Dimes" program that will match any donations they get.

Once again a reporter for MCS has written an article that is obviously biased, picking and choosing what they're going to report.  In the news section of this site there is an article about how Durwood Smith was chastised by the "City Council" when it was actually the BCC.  Durwood used his three minutes talking about how sending the county garbage to Georgia is fiscally irresponsible and about how had it not been sent up there they may have had the opportunity to catch a killer.

I don't know why he chose that topic or why he used that situation (though he mentioned no names) but I find it in incredibly poor taste that everyone wants to still pick on Durwood even though everyone knows he lost his wife recently after a long illness.  I am amazed he's still showing up at those BCC meetings........would you had you just lost your spouse of many many years?

I was too busy the other day to sign in and agree with Baxley about the changes on the table regarding flashing digital signs.  So, after having written to the Commissioners to let them know what I think about it I thought I would bring the issue back to the front page of the blogs.

They're tacky, ugly, distracting to drivers and should not be allowed. I find it a little self serving on the part of Ronnie Robinson.  I think there are more pressing issues at the moment and it's a waste of the taxpayers money to even be dealing with this. 

This is about to be voted on, if you care you need to let your feelings be known by writing to the BCC.  Commissioners@co.clay.fl.us

I've noticed a pattern lately, lots of people joining only to sell or advertise something.  It's all over the internet, not a single place, or story where someone does not take advantage for a little free advertising.

Personally, I would never do business with someone who would act this way, it's a bit like cheating and for me tends to suggest it's probably not the only dishonest thing going on.

A woman writes a blog about a missing child and Penny Stocks writes not one, but five blogs on top of it all trying to sell the same thing

Shame on you.