Congratulations to Sarah Sprinkel and Steve Leary. The numbers speak for themselves.
Category: Elections
Truth or Consequences.
March 6, 2011 Below you will find messages I received this weekend. One from a former mayor and commissioner who served our city for 12 years, another from a former member of the Historic Preservation Commission and a current leader of the friends of Mead Gardens, and then one from a group of citizens. Please vote on Tuesday. Please encourage your family, friends, and neighbors to vote on Tuesday. In recent years our local elections have provided an outlet for the most strident and churlish among us to willfully engage in lies, distortions, hypocrisy, and character assassination, I presume on…
Don’t let your vote be manipulated.
March 1, 2011 City management noted material falsehoods (see below) in the Fleet Peeples Park mailer sent under Herb Weiss’s name. Herb Weiss acknowledges that the the mailer was paid for by people who wish to remain anonymous. The most sensational points about “environmental devastation” in this mailer are totally bogus, fabricated, a manipulation to support an intentionally inflammatory conclusion designed to influence your vote on March 8. Don’t fall for it. Our city deserves better. We as voters need to see through the curtain of fear and elect people who are motivated to serve our city, not their personal…
Is this the behavior of a Winter Park city commissioner?
February 25, 2011 Every Winter Park voter needs to read the email exchange below before marking their ballot in the March 8 election. Related reading: Lawyers or Leaders? When is something true? Regards, Pete Weldon
I Heard It Through the Grape Vine.
February 24, 2011 I was informed this evening that there continue to be people in Winter Park who disparage me personally, apparently because they disagree with my political positions. Ah, Winter Park, where character assassination is the political practice of choice. It seems some in Winter Park consider me a “nut job” and a rumor spread about me three years ago has resurfaced. Did you know that I was “a trust fund baby whose family paid him not to be involved in their family business?” Funny, neither did I. The lack of character and quality of such people continues to…
Herb Weiss Speaks (but what is he saying?)
(Be sure to check out this follow-up post from March 1.) Herb Weiss authored the six page mail piece Winter Park residents received recently that details his concerns about Fleet Peeples Park. The following is my letter to Herb on the subject after speaking with him at length about these issues. February 24, 2011 Dear Herb, First let me thank you for investing so much energy into something you believe is important and for your time on the phone discussing these issues. As you have likely noted, I have been at it for several years and appreciate those willing to…
Vote NO on Amendment #1
February 18, 2011 You will find an Amendment on the ballot for the March 8 election. The language of the Amendment (see below) offers no insight into it’s consequences. Our current mayor and six former mayors are recommending a NO vote on this Amendment for the following reasons: A NO vote protects against electing a majority “slate” of three members at one time who would serve four years without challenge. A NO vote protects our current right to change the majority view on the City Commission annually, assuring governance is responsive to the wishes of the citizens. The Charter Review…
When is something true?
February 16, 2011 Winter Park citizens take their elections seriously and several of us send out letters and emails claiming to understand the nature and positions of the candidates, and make recommendations. How do you know any of these communications have any elements of truth? The answer involves doing the work necessary to corroborate evidence and getting input from others who have also done their homework, looking for consistency of fact and viewpoint. Shortly after I published my recommendations for the upcoming March 8 election the Orlando Sentinel also endorsed Sarah Sprinkel and Steve Leary. For those looking to decide…
Election 2011 – Lawyers or Leaders?
February 15, 2011 We have two lawyers and two leaders running for city commission. Bonnie Jackson, a lawyer, is running against Sarah Sprinkel, an educator and administrator. Scott Callahan, a lawyer, is running against Steve Leary, a businessman. While the candidates have credible resumes, two have demonstrated the leadership skills and independent thinking that will move Winter Park in a responsible direction and fairly represent the full breadth of constituencies in our city. I believe Scott Callahan would be a good commissioner but he clings unnecessarily to positions of the “Dillaha” camp, positions that have proven to have negative consequences…
I am voting for Sarah Sprinkel
February 15, 2011 Below is my letter to Bonnie Jackson noting that I am voting for Sarah Sprinkel in the March 8th election. Bonnie, I watched the Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board candidates’ interview and will be supporting Sarah Sprinkel. Your interview and your candidacy concern me on many levels. In your interview you monopolize the time by speaking without ever stating your position on several important issues including commuter rail. You also make a point of questioning our current Mayor’s integrity while acknowledging you have no basis for doing so. Your assertion that you are supported by “a lot of…