Wednesday, March 13, 2002
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Wednesday, March 13, 2002 |
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Brown created current PTC climate of political sniping I just finished reading Mayor Steve Brown's State of the City address posted on the city website. There are so many different things to say about this presentation it is difficult to limit my comments. I will say that I wrote my first letter to the editor a year ago in response to then-Mayor Bob Lenox's version of the time. For all of my criticism of his points at least he presented the State of the City and not the "State of Me" as Brown has done. Mayor Brown has to learn that he is no longer the community activist folk hero he fancies himself to be. He cannot keep playing the poor downtrodden underdog routine for much longer without producing some common sense policy and results. In his speech he mentions that we are going to have more crime because of Wal-Mart but does not offer a plan to mitigate it. He says we are going to have problems with growth on our borders but offers no solutions. He says that he wants to work with the development authorities but has been smearing them in his e-mails and personal comments for years. Community activists are allowed to complain without solution; leaders are supposed to have a plan. What bothered me the most was his warning to the city to get ready for factional politics. To complain about this situation is the ultimate hypocrisy. We have been watching factional politics since the first letter Steve-the-activist wrote four years ago. He cannot sit in office and complain about the environment that he and his friends created through this paper and his e-mail campaigns of the past. Factional politics in Peachtree City is Steve Brown's ugly child. So, enough is enough with the "woe-is-me" routine. Nothing that has been said about Mayor Brown is half as bad as what he said about Bob Lenox, Carol Fritz, Annie McMenamin, Jim Webb, Rick Lindsey, Tate Godfrey, Bill Alleshire or any of the other tens of people that he freely attacked over the years but has never offered one apology to. We don't need the "Victim-in-Chief" in City Hall who hypocritically complains about having to function in a political environment created by his own actions. Mayor Brown, you can't say you want to work with people and then attack them in the same breath. Working with people means compromise and give and take. You just take, and when you don't get your way, you complain and whine about factional politics. Get on with it. We are tired of your stupid Sports and Entertainment Authority. No one wants the CID tax district. The development moratorium was thrown out by the courts. So stop complaining and get on with the things you actually promised to do in your campaign. Fred Wellman Peachtree City WellmanPTC@aol.com [Wellman was a candidate for mayor last year but withdrew before the November election because of a military commitment.]
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