Oy Vey, who would have thought that commenting on high jacking constituents emails addresses would provide so much blog fodder!
First, Moonhowler penned a thread regarding the misuse of her email for electioneering purposes by Pete Candland, of which, by the way, I agreed with entirely with her premise. I have often castigated Corey Stewart for the exact same “violation”. However, at least I once openly supported Corey, even hosted a fundraiser for him in my home. There is a reason he has my personal email address, I supported him at one ,albeit many years ago. Probably the Sheriff would not know that history as he miraculously materialized on the PWC political scene as soon as Pete was elected. What an interesting coincidence!
So I will, once again, attempt to be concise in my explanation so that the “sheriff” may understand why elected officials should NOT misuse constituents personal email addresses’. Let me say that I did not receive any e-mails from any elected official telling who to vote for, I am simply defending the principal of Moonhowler.
When you reach out to YOUR elected official with a constituent concern, you are reaching out to them within the context of their elected position, as your advocate, to address certain issues that have arisen. You are NOT abdicating all rights to your personal information for political gain. That the sheriff defends Pete’s action by saying the email was generated from the political arm of his office actually makes the use of Moonhowler’s email even MORE egregious. I’m not sure if the Sheriff has noticed, but Moonhowler is not necessarily supportive of Mr. Candland and his behavior towards public employees or the school system, I possibly may have put that a tad lightly!
Were it not for Moonhowler contacting Mr. Candland over county business, he would NOT have her email address. She is NOT a card-carrying Republican, she is Independent. That he then hijacked her email address and added it to his political arsenal for partisan purposes is wrong. It’s not complicated, this premise, it’s so basic I have to wonder why there is such confusion. I won’t even address the fact that he clearly did not know that within in the Gainesville district there are two congressional districts ?
Pete displayed poor manners, that simple. Constituents should be able to trust their elected officials that their private information will not be misused.
You know Sheriff, I continue to be thoroughly entertained by your “compliments” to Moonhowings! The cartoon you reference IS fabulous. It is a classic political cartoon, wrought full of irony, good old-fashioned cartooning similar to the likes of Thomas Nast. There were no personal attacks on physical attributes, clothing they wear, or their intellectual capacity or lack thereof. Maybe it’s because to be mean comes so easy and more nuanced political dynamics allude your writing. We don’t need to resort to base insults when addressing the people who live in our community. I have never said a comment about a politician I would not say to their face. I don’t imagine if you saw Marty, you would tell him he looks good in a tutu, and if you did, you should be ashamed of yourself.
“I don’t imagine if you saw Marty, you would tell him he looks good in a tutu.”
Actually, I would except for the fact that it would be a lie, ugh, cold chill at the mental image now burned in my brain.
That cartoon was actually commissioned. The artist is anonymous and I have owner rights to the cartoon.
I will be the first one to admit that we had the wrong puppet master. My apologies to Corey.
Mom,
Look, I get why, from a policy perspective, Marty is persona non grata to you. I am often VERY frustrated by his votes on land use, no question, no argument.
However, for as long as I live, I will always be grateful to Marty for having the gonads to stand up to the crazy batshit anti immigrant rhetoric that was running rampant in this county. For those who said nothing and risked nothing, it’s hard to imagine putting yourself out there like Marty did and so many others did. But for his fortitude, I don’t even want to think about how that entire fiasco would have eventually ended.
I have to say that I agree with Elena about Marty and I will always remain grateful to him for stepping up to the plate. It wasn’t the popular thing to do.
Lest anyone wonder why Marty often gets a pass from me on issues–think back.
OK, I get it. If that’s where Candland got Moon’s email from, he should explain the mistake and rectify it – not send political emails to constituents just because they ever emailed him.
Though the context here is that we all get robocalled and polled to death, just for breathing air.
Yes we do. I wouldn’t have minded AS MUCH, if he had emailed me before election day asking me to vote for 2 of his chums, 1 whose district I didn’t live in. (even the ill-begotten way he got my email address.) However, on election day, telling me I still had time to vote for his buds…nah. If he were a statesman rather than a politician, he would have reminded me to get out and vote without suggesting for whom.
Your highness, Elena, I am going to suggest that perhaps some folks simply don’t understand the difference between suggesting that someone is a political puppet and taking shots at their being, whether it be their intelligence, their appearance, their sexuality, or personal behavior.
Too many of the supervisors have been called out by one particular blogger over being ..let’s see…a thief, a drunk, a cross dresser, a physically repulsive character from Star Wars, a womanizer and a cheater…you get the drift. None of those negative attributes have a thing to do with policy. They were just to be nasty. Being seen as a puppet before an election is all about policy and has nothing to do with persona. Hell, the cartoons were even wearing ties.
In my world those things aren’t equivocal. However, I will confess to being more careful about what I say about local officials since there has been a new sheriff in town. He has lead by counter-example.
Your Highness, someone also outted the birdie to me. Caught caught caught, as suspected!!!
Some things are just too transparent.
Birdie, it really doesn’t matter. Anyone who can read can see what I clearly wrote.
To all, my post was an opinion. I am not calling for anyone’s arrest or indictment.
The fact that he’s SOOOO reactive is a dead giveaway. I think the ego is SOOOO large it’s not used to being questioned and obviously can’t deal with it. Now you don’t have to be Aaron Hochner to profile that! Keep it up guys…we know where the balance is.
Was it one of those posts where the multitudes materialize murmuring the same concept over and over and over again? Those are my favorites “…oh such good work, you speak the minds of the people, PWC would be lost without you, oh your humor is so wicked….thank goodness we have the best supervisor….” Gag me with a spoon. Now there a wickedly intelligent comment – haven’t used it since 8th grade, oh wait isn’t that what that blog is? A slam book?
Slam book.
Lyssa, you crack me up.
I bet Corey would far rather me call him a puppet master than what he gets called over there. However, I did apologize to Corey. I got the right puppet and the wrong puppet master on that one.
It should be noted that the cartoon was commissioned back in 2011, before there even was a Sheriff’s blog. There was a Gainesville Truth Squad which pretty much did the same thing.
You should give him and his 10 cronies no mention at all. You can see his plagiarism from this article http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/city-economic-development-corp-wined-dinned-businesses-harvard-club-taxpayer-dime-article-1.190050 in his Seeds of Corruption article.
The whole QBE buying Pace West School is getting very incestuous – he should really look into that. QBE buys Pace West. They let the sports fields remain and they let local groups use the fields for property tax offsets – I think I am ok with that. Then they hire Candland. Then the RPV rents an office there and Pace West remains a polling place for election day. One would think that the placement of a political parties offices in the same building would disqualify said building as a polling place.
I do have a problem with the RPV being at the polling place. That is far too incestuous.
That was a good find on that article.
It is hard to read this sophomoric prattling with a straight face. It appears to me that Moon and Elena have never heard about how mailing lists (e-mail/snail mail/telephone numbers/cell phone numbers/landline numbers/home addresses) are bought and sold-mailing lists touting who to vote for all the way to what type of toilet paper to buy (or is it bathroom tissue?). Is it hard to walk around with your knifers in such a knot? It certainly must chaff. Perhaps cash in a Gold Bond coupon you got in some mailer that purchased your address from who knows (or is it whom).
I too now have a vision of a PWC politician prancing around the local government center in a tutu.
This “Sheriff” fellow seems to be about as popular here as the original one was in Sherwood Forest.
Yea, lots of character assassination of locals…shredding of people over personal stuff rather than disagreeing with policy. An opposing vote makes someone a rat bastard rather than someone who voted for something you don’t like.
I figure Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Brown etc really don’t read local blogs. I don’t see those folks in the grocery store. I do see our supervisors and most of them read the blogs.
It’s easy to be destructive.
Pat,
Wait til you hear the OTHER half of that story. The Town of Haymarket SOLD the school at reduced price in order to allow citizens access to the school “fields”.
Now, fast forward a in time, and QBE makes a deal with the County to once again give “access” to citizens only now the pot is sweetened with a tax break.
Talk about double dipping!
How did Haymarket come into possession of that property? Did they buy it from the county? I am missing a few pieces to the puzzle.
I love when the mis-informed start talking land use.
1. QBE buys Pace West at a reduced price (roughly half the market value) from PWCS and PWC.
2. Reduced price was due to a covenant/requirement that the ball fields be maintained in perpetuity.
3. Property lies 2/3 in Haymarket and 1/3 in the County.
4. Haymarket portion zoned residential, County portion zoned for business usage.
5. QBE goes to the Town to have that portion rezoned to match County use.
6. QBE asserts to Town that the Town can’t require them to keep the ball fields as that would reduce the market value of the property they bought at half price. Instead offers Town the right of first refusal if property is ever to be sold.
7. Stupid Town Council buys argument from friends at QBE at rezones property despite being warned that QBE wasn’t giving them the full story. (Ball Fields status to be determined at time of next sale when parties will argue which set of facts/deeds controls)
8. Town and County do boundary adjustment to put the entire parcel within Town Limits.
Town never sold anything to QBE, “tax breaks” are a result of land usage and nobody is double-dipping. Did QBE get a hell of deal and play fast and loose with the facts, yes. Was the County at fault, no. Did PWCS enter into a bad sales deal, probably. Were several members of the Town Council and particularly the Mayor complete morons and probably personally conflicted, damn straight.
Thank you Mom!
Well, it does sound like QBE may not have the highest ethical standards in my humble opinion.
No argument there but I wasn’t arguing that particular point.