Jeff Koterba Color Cartoon For November 7, 2012, Campaign Election
Thank you to the citizens of Marco Island
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who worked so diligently to help our respective campaigns and want to reiterate our pledge to do the best we possible can for the good of all of Marco Island! For those who didn't support us we want to reach out to you to know that our only reason for running was that we felt we could do a better job for all of our Island paradise and ask that you give us a chance to demonstrate that we mean what we say. We have seen enough divisiveness; it is now time for all of us to come together for our mutual benefit.
We'd be remiss if we didn't give our best wishes to the outgoing Councilors who were not re-elected. All these men ran a vigorous campaign and should be commended for conducting themselves as gentlemen throughout the entire process. Your continuing input will be welcomed!
To Larry Honig we want to congratulate you on your election, and we look forward to working with you as we all contribute to making Marco Island everything we all want it to be.
Lastly, to the incumbent Councilors, Joe Batte, Chuck Kiester, and Larry Magel, we look forward to working with you and making this next Council the best the citizens of Marco Island have ever seen!
Ken Honecker, Amadeo Petricca, Larry Sacher
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Comments » 35
MrBreeze writes:
Great job guys. It is time the people of the island are fairly represented. I like many others purchased my home to enjoy in retirement. I love the island and see myself as the customer Deltona and the Mackel Brothers envisioned when they created this paradise.
Gentlemen, I hope you also see that vision not one of large development, razing older homes that displace people. Temper the greed that has been a part of the island for many years. Return us down a path of balanced living and fiscal balance. Let folks live here in peace not wondering when the next crazy expansion and commercial boom is heading to the island.
Get our water rates under control and make it fair to all residents not selected groups.
Please, do not let us down the people of the island are counting on you.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
Don't worry! Be happy!
I hope you clean up the miss.
1 year time. Than we judge!
bondie writes:
Thank you beforehand for all of the things you hope to accomplish. The community is now in your hands. Let us all come together for the betterment of our fine community. Those of us who chose to live here did so with positive expectations.
JohninMarco writes:
Now look into the 400k fire boat that does NOT have fire fighting ability. Its clearly a rescue boat, and the past council should have known it.
lauralbi1 writes:
Mr Breeze: You really need to look at the plans that Deltona had for this Island. For if you did, you would see much more development, MORE schools, more businesses that what are here already and certainly nothing that resembles a retirement community.
I do, however, agree that there is room for all of us to get what we want out of this Island Paradise. I certainly hope that the new Council members always remember that they represent all of us. If not, we can only hope that as a 7 member Council that the majority votes in a manner that represents a vision that moves our Island forward.
Ed Issler
dc5799 writes:
Issler,
Do you really think the old council represented all of us? I think not.
JohninMarco writes:
Ed, when I see you breaking bread with Magil at the country club, then I will believe your rant.
26yearsonmarco writes:
It became clear which side Honig is on when the vote was taken regarding the City Manager job rating.
If the three new guys are stalemated by the majority, nothing will change.
If nothing changes, the next step for We the People is to look into this:
http://www.legis.nd.gov/cencode/t40c5...
KlausStoertebeker writes:
That is one of your typical political statements of dummies. Why shall city council stalemated?
With the best man Chuck Kiester - the only guy in the past with common sense - it is not possible.
And your note to
CHAPTER 40-53.1
DISSOLUTION OF CITIES
shows nothings else than your level of education. Totally wrong interpreted. Go back at school and learn something about government rules in America.
26yearsonmarco writes:
KLAUS,
I know this will be hard for you to understand, but it’s We the People who rule America under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, not your IDOL who you spent months ranting about, has now been re-elected, and will aid and abet in the destruction of what's left of our once Great Country.
Articles such as this are just the beginning of what is in store for our once Free People.
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/1...
I can only hope the next four years have a major negative effect on you, as it is going to be on us.
1Paradiselost writes:
26..... You lost!
The majority of American has spoken.
Act like an adult and suck it up!
26yearsonmarco writes:
To 1P & Klaus,
I am not the only loser. Read this and you might understand, but I doubt it:
Choices have consequences.
America is now discovering that fact after re-electing to the White House the most left-wing president since FDR. In the wake of Obama’s return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, corporate chieftains around the country have begun announcing a rash of layoffs. Some began the process even before Mr. Obama won a second term, confident the welfare-state legislation he enacted in his first four years will disrupt their business.
But voters increasingly prove in America that politics, even at the federal level, really is quite local. People vote for what they think is best for themselves … not what’s best for the country. Because if voters spent any amount of time truly contemplating the consequences of their choice, we’d be preparing for an entirely different inauguration in January.
The Cost of ObamaCare
Consider this list: Darden Restaurants, the company that runs Red Lobster, Olive Garden and other chains; pizza purveyor Papa John’s; McDonald’s; burger chain White Castle; Denny’s; Apple-Metro, the New York Applebee’s franchisee; sandwich chain Jimmy John’s; medical-device makers Metronic, Boston Scientific, Welch Allyn, Stryker, Smith & Nephew, Hill Rom and St. Jude Medical; drug giant Abbot Labs; and auto-parts maker Dana Holding. These are some of the American companies that have announced plans to axe workers in response to Obama’s re-election and the fact that ObamaCare will now not be overturned.
The president’s seminal legislation is a pox on America. Sure, the country gets universal health coverage (in theory), but at what cost?
The price tag is steep for me and you, as well as American businesses that keep the nation employed.
Our personal taxes are going up – a new surtax on dividends, interest and home sales; a surtax on income for the wildly misnamed “high earners”; caps on itemized deductions and Flexible Spending Accounts; and a tax on any medical device costing more than $100, among others.
It’s the lunacy of social engineering that is anathema to the American way … yet, it has now been woven in the fabric of our country – kind of like a piece of burlap woven into a cotton quilt.
26yearsonmarco writes:
Consequences continued:
In this case, the consequences hurt the very people the Democrats purport to care about: middle class workers who, in the midst of the most-anemic recovery in modern U.S. history, now find more and more employers are either cutting their jobs or refusing to hire, or they’re facing higher prices in their day-to-day lives – all because of a raft of horrendous social-welfare policies.
Welch Allyn and Papa John’s are quintessential examples of the trend.
Welch Allyn, the New York-based maker of medical diagnostic equipment, is laying off 275 workers – a not-so-insignificant 10% of the workforce – because of the medical-device tax inside ObamaCare that will raise the company’s cost of doing business. Papa John’s, meanwhile, is reducing employee hours to less than 30, the government-established full-time threshold at which the company would be forced to provide pricey and government-approved healthcare benefits. In addition, Papa John’s is raising the price of its pizzas.
An owner of multiple Denny’s restaurants in Florida will soon impose an ObamaCare surcharge – itemized as such on the receipt – for all meals and immediately cut hours to less than 30 for his employees. Otherwise, he says, the individual restaurants would not be able to cover the costs of providing the mandatory health insurance.
Choices by voters … and the consequences of their actions.
Some will argue that these business leaders are reactionary. That they are voicing a political protest rather than making a business decision based on economic facts. Maybe they are. Maybe not.
Either way, the point is the same.
Whether their decisions are political or financial, they are reacting to a realization that America – or, rather, the America that once existed – is under siege. You cannot successfully run any country for very long by imposing on society social-welfare programs that undermine job-creators, while coddling certain classes of people.
Politicians, particularly Democrats, think businesses exist not to generate profits for those who built that business but, rather, to generate taxes for Washington to redistribute as part of its vote-buying endeavors.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
You believe all this BS? I guess you are totally indoctrinated of the yesterday party GOP with their right wings tea party idiots have no idea of American needs.
Go ahead and promote this kind of stupid thinking clever America denied on election day. We are the people trusting the constitution have spoken. We the people like this President. We the people are happy that a flip-flopper is history. We the people need a President understand our problems and work for us.
We the people are happy President Barak Obama is our President for the next 4 years.
1Paradiselost writes:
26.... What a cry baby you are.
Your ideas are out of date.
Change or you and your republican friends will never win another national election.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
Bad times for 26yearsonmarco-to-much on Marco for him and his friends. Largest population of losers in USA.
26yearsonmarco writes:
CONGRATULATIONS TO 1P AND KLAUS.
THEY HAVE BEEN RANKED BY A RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER:
PRAVDA: OBAMA RE-ELECTED BY 'ILLITERATE SOCIETY'
'Ready to continue his lies of less taxes while he raises them'
(PRAVDA) Putin in 2009 outlined his strategy for economic success. Alas, poor Obama did the opposite but nevertheless was re-elected. Bye, bye Miss American Pie. The Communists have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyuganov who only received 17% of the vote. Vladimir Putin was re-elected as President keeping the NWO order out of Russia while America continues to repeat the Soviet mistake.
After Obama was elected in his first term as president the then Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin gave a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January of 2009. Ignored by the West as usual, Putin gave insightful and helpful advice to help the world economy and saying the world should avoid the Soviet mistake.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
26yearstomuchonmarco what did you know about Russians Komsomolskaya Pravda, did not exists anymore. And what did you know about Davos? I guess you have no idea where it is located.
26yearstomuchonmarco it is so simple. Even for you. The large majority of America did not like the yesterday party GOP with their right wing idiots called tea-party. By the way an insult to the American history to call themselves "tea-party member".
America did not like a flip-flopper. America did not like people have no answers for the hard questions modern America faces.
The victory of President Barak Obama was the win of intelligence,responsibility, social security and political smartness!
Very simple.
26yearstomuchonmarco take a beer and relax. Your time is over. You remember me on some Germans still believe they won WWII or Americans still believe they won in Vietnam.
Over is over, a loss is a loss. YOU loss!
lauralbi1 writes:
26: The people of Marco Island have spoken and by a vote of 184 of "us", yes 184 votes, the slate of 3 candidates were victorious. They worked harder than their competitors and they won. They are to be congratulated.
But just like any Democracy, their membership on the Council is 3 out of 7 for most votes. The only leverage these Council memebers have is when the Budget comes up for approval. It is then that the people of Marco (all 13,000 registered voters) will see the real impact of who they have elected.
I believe the Budget requires a super-majority in order to pass (5 out of 7 votes). That is where we will see who supports what.
I do not see the current Council voting against themselves to change past decisions and policies. I anticipate many 4-3 votes on issues.
I also see that Sunshine Law will play a very important role in the near future. It has already been demonstrated that the 3 candidates are discussing issues outside of Chambers. Let us hope that this behavior stops immediately.
And Mr. Honig has started off demonstrating that he is a man of his word and has conducted himself exactly as he stated he would during the campaign. Let us hope that he continues to do so.
Ed Issler
1Paradiselost writes:
26....
I'm sorry, your wrong.... "Rick Santorum tells Republicans "Smart people will never vote for them" On 9/17/2012.
What do you think? Time to give it up? Or are you one of those "Smart people"?
YOU LOST! What don't you understand, the people have spoken!
This American don't care what any others thinks about America!
If your going to quote a newspaper from Russia, maybe you should move to Russia and find out how good you have it in AMERICA!
Take it like a MAN or the next 4 years are going to be very long for you.
Also, stop watching FOX (FAKE) News!
Below is your typical Republican voter. listen to the "common sense" of these people in the video. (It's not funny)!
They lack the education to make decisions based on what's best for them. Would you live like that? Problem is only 20 miles from here humans live like this.
This is the Republican base voter.
You can't judge the this country by the people living on Marco Island. People living here are blessed. Start living!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48Qqc...
KlausStoertebeker writes:
Oh Eddi you build a new agenda? Maybe better it is some urban legends! I think you start again to divide city council in the good, the bad and the ugly. The good are in your favor and interest. The bad is the best: Chuck Kiester. And the ugliest are the guys breaking the Sunshine-Law. In my opinion one of the most use lesses law ever created. How shall that work? What do you think happen in the past if Minozzi, Tucker, Trotter and Aceri had a couple of drinks with you Eddi? Do you think you talk about NFL, golfing or the weather?
However - the majority of Marco Island has spoken. To the best ever of Marco Island.
Hope is on.
26yearsonmarco writes:
To paraphrase on your comments:
“Below is your typical Democrat voter. Listen to the "common sense" of this person in the video. (It's a typical Democrat base voter)!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJ...
"They lack the education to make decisions based on what's best for them. Would you live like that? Problem is only 20 miles from here humans live like this."
"You can't judge this country (anymore) by the people living on Marco Island."
Because, like me, we risked our own money, worked hard, employed people, and earned the ability to live, and retire here. I have to admit, we are a dying breed, and the America we knew will die along with us.
I have serious doubts that our children and grandchildren will be ALLOWED TO PROSPER AS WELL UNDER THE SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT WE ARE BEING LEAD INTO.
I can only assume you must have lived a sheltered life within a system that rewarded you for little or no effort on your part, and is still doing so.
dc5799 writes:
Give it up Issler you are a loser and a sore one at that.
1Paradiselost writes:
26.....
Unlike you I can't take it with me. I know your type well.
Next time you go to a funeral, Remember the BRINKS truck never follows the Hearst to the grave!
Your the typical Cheep Republican miser America voted against this past election.
I have no problem paying 39.5% as I did when I was a business owner during the 1990's while Bill Clinton was president. Can you say the same?
If the country goes off the financial cliff, if interest rates go to 18% (as they did under Regan) you can blame yourself and your Republican friends.
I'll make a bet with you.. I bet your a FOX news watcher and you listen to that shock jock Rush Limbaugh? I'll also bet if you shut both off for 6 months your blood pressure would drop 20 points? However you would rather die making your tired right wing points to people who rejected you during the past election... give it up, your a broken record.
Stop worrying about what others have and start worry about your own family. You live in the best country on this planet. You seem ungrateful for all the blessings this life has given you. Just living on this small island name Marco is a blessing in it's self.
It's ALL the people in this country, that makes America great, even the 47% you seem to despise!
KlausStoertebeker writes:
I have serious doubts that our children and grandchildren will be ALLOWED TO PROSPER AS WELL UNDER THE PAST TERRIBLE W. BUSH GOVERNMENT WE ARE BEING LEAD INTO. Give 5 % of the citizen big advantages AND STEEL THE MONEY FROM THE 95% OF THE POPULATION HAVE ANYWAY NOT ENOUGH TO LIVE.. WHAT A GREAT POLITIC. The problem with you and your friends 26yearstolongonmarco is, you believe your own lies. Read the PRAVDA. Not exist anymore.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
"26yearsonmarco writes:
To 1P & Klaus,
I am not the only loser."
Thanks that you acknowledged that you are a loser! A small step for a man, but a big step for an idiot.
lauralbi1 writes:
dc5799: Read every blog I have written and I think you will find great objectivity on this subject. It is not I who has lost, for the future of Marco island is something that we all share in.
As I stated above, there are 7 members on our City Council. That means, as always, that policy will require at least 4 members of Council to agree on a particular issue in order for it to be passed or approved.
As long as all discussion on issues takes place in Chambers, I see a very interesting pattern that will develop. We will have to wait and see.
The most experienced City Planner/Maanger type on Council right now is Mr. Kiester. And while he and I have differed on some past issues, he certainly has provien that he has the future of Marco Island as his most important priority. He is not working a "Private Agenda" and I do not believe he will be part of anyone's "Agenda".
Ed Issler
KlausStoertebeker writes:
" He is not working a "Private Agenda" and I do not believe he will be part of anyone's "Agenda".
Totally different to you Eddi.
"dc5799: Read every blog I have written and I think you will find great objectivity!"
I will recall some of your best statements on this blogs, Eddi. Showing your great wisdom and objectivity:
Number one:
"Mr. Waldack is doing exactly what the people that voted for him want him to do. And I assure you that he will be re-elected if he runs, for the same reasons he was elected the first time."
Ed Issler
Number two:
"Fossill (Mr. McMullan): How dare you. You have some nerve. You have no right to speak of Public Councils or Public conduct based on what you have done to destroy any Public confidence in anything that you have been involved in."
Ed Issler
Number three:
"Mr. Breeze: In rwssponse to your observations, these blogs are just that. Blogs for people to express their opinions. As you can observe, the blogs are mostly from the minority of voters on the Island as a result of their frustration from the results of recent elections."
Ed Issler
Number 4:
" The STRP is something the majoirty of the citizens want (as evidenced by the last election)"
Ed Issler
Number four:
" You may have forgotten that a consultant has already studied the figures and stated that we can save $5 million a year by taking over LCEC."
Ed Issler
Number five:
"While Mr. Waldack needs no defense from any of us, you must someday come to grips with the fact that he was elected by nearly 7 out of every 10 voters on this Paradise that you share wth all of us. And irrespective of any of that, tell me what it would mean to you if a study was done and showed that we could save $5 million a year by taking over LCEC, and your virtuous LCEC decided to lower our rates by $3 million a year to keep us."
Ed Issler
Number five B:
"Bill Moss did not create problems on Marco, he solved them and upgraded our City in line with the desires and direction of the City Council."
Ed Issler
KlausStoertebeker writes:
Number six:
"Boy, what a shame for the people of Marco island to have someone so ignorant, lazy and uninformed even being able to run for City Council. I had heard that Mr. Batte was an investigator in his career before he retired. "
Ed Issler
Number seven:
"But I must provide you with some additional information, as you have put much too much faith in the words and supposed facts spewed by Mr. Hall. You see, Mr. Hall has been mis-quoting people/officials (he has been corrected and/or reprimanded in writing by these officials), he constantly uses examples of other cities that do not apply to Marco Island when trying to argue his opinion on an issue, and he is a spinmaster at creating his own facts that are not true, that in this case, has given you the entirely wrong impression."
Ed Issler
Number eight:
"Dear Mr. Foster: What you don't seem to realize is that it is just a minority of the residents on Marco that really care what you say, said or did."
Ed Issler
Number nine:
"Strike3: take a pill and read, settle down. It sounds like your under a lot of stress, for no reason. What is happening, if you read the article, is that the City is removing Septic tanks and pumping water from the ground into the canals. Theyt are also just excavating around Septic Tanks, running into this polluted groundwater.
So, when you understand and go out and look at what is being done, then maybe you can settle down."
Ed Issler
Number ten:
"Soil and dirt samples, along with airborne monitoring found no asbestos at all. The fragments that were found were discovered to be a result of breakage and not crushing. As a certified asbestos technician, I can assure you that I was just as concerned, initially, as you."
The last: Eddi as ambassador of Marco Island:
"Mr. Wardack: You are not wrong. In fact, I was going through customs at Atlanta Airport last week and the agent noticed on my Declaration that I was from Marco island. He stated he used to live here and still keeps an interest on what is going on. He stated to me "Who are these nuts called CARES and why are they trying to destroy the City of Marco?" I toldf him that they are not destroying anything, they just do not have enough to do with their time (I was in a hurry to catch my flight). If you look at all the negative, critical letters and responses, you will see that they consist of items from a group of maybe 10 people. One day an item will be voted on that is legal and worthwhile to all residents that will demonstrate just how the majority feels. In the meantime, keep up the good work and independent thought process. Democracy is a great thing. That is why it is not legal to recall an elected representative for how they vote on an issue."
MarcoBiker writes:
Can't believe I'm going to do this ..... Klaus, Math 101, "a large majority of America" is 80-20 or better, maybe even 75-25%. ODUMDUM did NOT win an election by a large percentage. ... 4% or 2M is really a squeaker for an incumbent. Welcome to the land of looters, mooches, and racists. Makes ya proud Klaus. Come see me in four years if ODUMDUM-care hasn't killed you.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
I guess you never saw a class from the inside. President Barack Obama won by a tsunami.
As your "hero" W. Bush "won" against Al Gore, a peace Nobel prize winner by the way and democrat, W. had a loss of 3 Mio. public votes.
" Come see me in four years if ODUMDUM-care hasn't killed you."
I guess you talking about the free elected winner by a landslide President Barack Obama.
Maybe you will be killed in the next 4 years by your uncontrolled hate, envy, political stupidity, ignorance and lying in your own pocket. The problem by the way with people like you is, they believe finally their own lies and have no sense for any reality anymore. Join the Eddi Issler club. The loser club of Marco Island is packed with people like you now. Their headquarter at godfathers single family home is not big enough anymore. Maybe they will get a new clubhouse at San Marco. The test to join them is very simple. If you can count to 5 you can NOT be a member. You can not even count to 3 so you are in.
Be happy!
KlausStoertebeker writes:
"Here is a fact you do not seem aware of............President Barack OBAMA---332 Mutt The Mormon---206.....Not even close.........4 more years........"
I found this post above. Please be so nice and tell me the percentage of the win of President Barack Obama.
Unfortunately I am to stupid to do it.
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26yearsonmarco writes:
MarcoBiker & Ed Issler:
I have made up my mind that blogging with people like 1P & KLAUS, our new Marco Czar and Czaress, is a complete waste of time.
If we all stop answering them, they will run out of people to rant to, and shut the H*LL up.
KlausStoertebeker writes:
Of course you stop. You have no arguments to blog with substance, honor and knowledge. All you can do is insult and libel. Eddy tries better. But he has not the best ideas and terrible predictions.
But who cares.
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