in response to Skipilotz:

How you post doesn’t matter to me, actually I find your Chicken Little slapdash style amusing. It matters to you though, or should, if you want people to consider your opinion to be worthwhile. We agree on Stef’s community contributions, now we are getting somewhere. But you either failed to get, or chose to ignore the point. Stef stands in a public meeting and competently makes his points. You anonymously snipe from the comfort of your home, refusing to take responsibility for you past reactionary and erroneous tirades. We are on opposite sides again now, as I disagree with your opinion held by most of the island. If most of the island felt that way, they would be raising the roof at City Hall and Council meetings. Email, phone calls to councilors would be effective, as would letters to the editor in the local papers. Heck, why don't you call a reporter and ask them interview you if you have some answers not just complaints? MITA alleges hundreds of members, but where is their massive bemoaning congregate at meetings? You expect me to believe that after a decade or so, MITA can only rally a paltry percent of their members to any meeting: sewer; budget and other meetings where the inference is that the world will soon end? Their lack of presence is for the same 2 reasons only a handful of people ever write letters to the editor. Imaginary people can’t write or drive. More people have shown up to meetings about boats than taxes: FACT. Most of the people on the island are content and or happy. There are few maybe even a thousand who are not. Not a majority. As a second example highlighting the difference between a majority and minority: the last election. After a dozen or so rabble-rousers implied they had the masses supporting their campaigns they were defeated. Why: Imaginary people can’t vote either. Incidentally, while the few MITA members attend council meetings share the mic with Stef and make their point in a public way, they share your perchance for disinformation. Before one of the sixteen of them has a stroke let me cite a recent example. A MITA member stood up in a recent meeting stating because Sanibel has no police, Marco should not. No logic to support their argument, no facts presented, just nonsense. Sanibel has had their own police since 1986. JohninMarco, pay attention, you will see this topic again. Back to what you claim is your point: out of control city spending. Believe it or not I partially agree with you. I question many of the financial choices made by city leaders. I question construction project timing. I question other things too; the difference is I speak councilors and city people in-person. I tell them exactly what I like and what I don’t like. I have to ask: what do you really expect to happen by posting 800 or so anonymous, unfounded blogs? The way I see it you are wasting sundowns. While I have set the record straight, I may be in danger of missing one too.