Political Circus

Most people love the circus. They love dancing bears and will at least say they like clowns even when they are terrified of them. Most people have the same reaction to politicians. They make us laugh and cry, and we are scared to death of what they will do to our wallets if they are left alone with us for even a few minutes. When it comes to local candidates and campaigns most of us love the political circus of the silly season.

The WayneWho staff has decided to start a "Political Circus" article that we will run a few times to help catch our readers up on the behind-the-scenes silliness. This will make it easier than dedicating entire articles to gaffs and missteps along the way.

To start off this edition of "Political Circus" we would like to point out a very interesting comment in El Nuevo Dia on Thursday. Kissimmee Mayor Jim Swan attacks his opponents John Cortes and Jorge Miranda for making irresponsible campaign promises. He then goes on to state that "in 14 years of public services I have never lied to my community." In essence he is calling his opponents liars for what their campaigns are promising. Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire!

According to El Nuevo Dia and our remote blogging friend, the Farquharson Brief is not complete. The lawsuit over discarded petition cards continues on and is being fought by Mercedes León. Will the elections office end up in another constitutional battle? Has Beulah finally found her calling?

Another tidbit from our remote blogging friend is a re-printed e-mail from Judy Robertson in response to an article from the blogger Carl Cricket at http://ksib.net/ that our remote blogger friend re-sent to his e-mail list (with all the proper credits given this time). The original article was in reference to signs placed by Mrs. Robertson's campaign without the permission of property owners. "I personally asked Mr. Schoolfield about locations that he would allow me to put my signs. He told me 'anywhere there is a Schoolfield sign'. I then thanked him and said I realized that was a lot of locations and that if I put one in a place he objected, to please let me know and I would remove it. So far, he hasn’t called. Any person who has a sign on their property that is not wanted can remove it and you know it. Check out who is using the rights-of-way and who is not." was her response. In another line she points out that County Commissioner Bill Lane has become the Sign Czar of District 5 and has personally taken it upon himself to do the job of code enforcement. "I did receive a complaint from Mr. Bill Lane about the zealousness of my sign people because of my signs on Schoolfield’s property. I assured him of the permission I received, but I guess he can’t accept that I was given that permission so now he is crying to you guys." reported Mrs. Robertson. This is not the first report we have heard of Mr. Lane crying about campaigns that have offended him by running against him. It seems that Mr. Lane's campaign is not doing that well even with all of the special interest money, so he is resorted to bullying tricks from the political past.

Another great point from Mrs. Robertson's e-mail reprinted by our California-Kissimmee insider is about a stalled debate that was being put together by the Fred Hawkins campaign that excluded most of the candidates and was basically a meet and greet for Mr. Hawkins. It seems that even the other republicans in the race don't want to be associated with the Hawkins campaign. All we can say is bring out the clowns.