We asked Supervisor of Elections David Stafford if a convicted felon like Tim Eagan can vote in any city election or referendum:
“It is against Florida Statutes and the Florida Constitution for a convicted felon to vote in Florida unless and until his/her civil rights have been restored.”
Popularity: 31% [?]
Where you lay your head at night can’t be independent. That is the problem.
Why are people choosing the county vs the city?
What is being done to attract residents to the city?
Those who pay the extra taxes to live in this city get a bit irritated to hear folks who chose Gulf Breeze with lower taxes, better schools, 1% less sales tax and no special taxing districts with an addtional 2% tax tell us how things should be done or only cross the city limits to work here or receive a benefit from city taxpayers.
Same for county residents. Did the county business owner oppose a city fire assessment as long as he was receiving city fire services under a city/county agreement proposed by none other than our city staff? What kind of a deal was that?
Eagan has enough questionable baggage without bringing up voting record. That opened the door.
I don’t see how this is the City staff’s efforts to placate him. Sam Hall negotiated with Eagan & the city attorney reduced their agreement to writing. Al Coby didn’t know about the agreement until after it had been signed. Sam for strong mayor & Eagan for city administrator?
Anonaly:
I am not disqualifying Eagan’s plan, only the city staff’s efforts to placate him. Is he a credible person to present a billion-dollar development to the city council?
But the point is, Rick was pointing out that Eagen can’t vote. This leads you to believe that he is disqualifying his plan due to his inability to vote. DO you see where I’m going with this?
Mike, I happen to enjoy golf. There isnt a golf course in the city. I lived in the city for many years and moved to a golf course. My love and passion for the entire community is and should be independent on where I put my head down at night.
Why didn’t you choose the city?
C.J, et.al, I hope someday we are going to stop being naive enough to think that things that happen or don’t happen inside the city limits only effect city residents. I also hope someday we will also stop being elitist enought to think that the only good ideas in the community can come from an ever shrinking 50,000 ish population. I certainly hope that our elected city officials don’t poll staff to see if they live in or out of the city before accepting recommendations. I know that I was asked for many political contributions from those running for office in the city and they never once checked to see if I lived in the city. I will stack up my time, talent, and resources that I contribute to this community (in and out of the city limits) against most folks that use that argument and I think I will fair favorably. Not living in the city means one thing, I can’t vote on city issues. It doesn’t mean I can’t contribute and try to improve our community. My hope is that someday we stop all the irrelant comments that aren’t helpful to the issue of moving our community forward and start focusing on the issues that will. C.J, I will ask just once. Don’t pick a battle you probably really don’t want. I respect your position but disagree. If you want to have a civil discussion about the facts, count me in. If you want to try and taint reputations etc. I’m out. Please stick to the facts of the debate and leave the personal issues out. Those aren’t helpful.
Yes Anonaly you will never see this paper make an issue about Studer’s choice of residence or Peacocks-seller of the grand mayor scheme.
How’s Studer’s renovation of Gussie’s record shop coming along.
After Ivan while trying to sell the ballpark plan, Studer visited the Belmont neighborhood and said he was going to live there! Now I hear there is going to be a minor change to that plan and it is going to be a restaurant.
just goes to show you to what extent the crooked city officials will do to get what they want, that they will even give this crook the time of day.
..and Quint Studer doesn’t live in the city. Look what he’s gotten accomplished.
Charlie moved out .
Did Birdwell, Peacock, and vocal Gulf Breezers ever move in?
CJ:
Charlie Fairchild doesn’t live in the city either and he is heading up the opposition. Jarada Drive is actually further from the city limits than Marcus Point.
People living on the Marcus Pointe Golf Course also can’t vote in city elections or referendums. John Peacock lives there. He is the most vocal proponent for changing our city’s form of government to create a Strong Mayor position. That is his “passion.” He testified before the CRC and the council and the Chairwoman even once reported on their discussions about the “consolidation timeline.”
John will of course get an official “say so” as a county voter on the consolidation issue to bring city quality services at city prices to those now living outside of city limits in the urbanized area where most county residents actually reside. Although we’ve not yet voted one idea on the table is to bring all code enforcement standards up to City of Pensacola standards.
People who are not citizens of our community inject their input all the time. Non-city voter Jane Birdwell sent an e-mail to the city’s Charter Review Commission. The Chairwoman Crystal Spencer read it aloud just before they spent a whole 20 minutes on November 5, with no public input permitted, deciding by a vote of 7-3 to change our city’s form of government. Birdwell wrote, “I am writing to express my full and sincere desire for a Strong Mayor form of government.”
The question you might have asked David Stafford is how a person who is not a qualified elector of the City of Pensacola (Tim Eagan) can initiate a petition to challenge a decision, however bad, made by the Pensacola City Council? If he can, that’s another loophole in the present charter that needs to be fixed.