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A man of intellect, character, accomplishment and a repect for our citizens. He's got my vote along with Batte, Hall, and Neylon.

Shoemaker is hand picked by Moss and Minozzi. He will be nothing more than more of the same and will be gone in short order when the new council gets control. The question is "How much damage will they do in the interim?"

I am sure it is a good salon. Unfortunately he carries the Popoff name. I am sure all of the Popoff clan are suffering from the widespread dislike of brother Rob Popoff. Rob's lack of integrity and actions on the council has ruined the lives of many of our islanders. When Naples Pool sold their accounts to Rob's nephew, I immediately cancelled my contract. I, as many others, don't want anything to do with the Popoffs. By the time Rob is through trashing the family name they will either have to change their names or move off the island.

I am sure that Mr. Gibson is a nice guy. A former bar tender, golfer, turned real estate salesman 3 years ago, that has lived with his significant other out of wedlock for 12 years, really doesn't seem to be the kind of background a candidate needs to run a city with a budget of over $100 million dollars a year. I don't think the fact he has been on Marco for 21 years has any value. Who cares what happened in the past? We are in a major financial crises. We need people with demonstrated managerial skills to step in and solve our problems.

Our council is made up of an attorney and six people that are nice people but never amounted to anything in their lives prior to comming on the council. Unfortunately, they have proven to be very poor choices for Marco Island. Look at the mess we are in. If you want four more years of this and worse, vote for another attorney, a Kights of Columbus Minozzi clone that hasn't worked since 1995, and Mr. Gibson.

If you want to turn things around and save this island before its too late, vote for people with a demonstrated track record of success, Batte, Guidry, Hall and Neylon.

I wouldn't want to have anything to do with any candidates proposed by Moss or this council if I were on the new council. Who would? The new council will select their manager using their methods. This is just another waste of money by Moss and the current council. What less would you expect. Vote for Batte, Hall, Guidry and Neylon to bring democracy back to Marco.

Most of the hate speech on this blog comes from Leyroy, Sailingby, Beau, etc., all blog names used by a mentally disturbed person known to us all. He doesn't have anything positive to say. he just rants hate. Read his blogs and you will see one sick looser. He used to be a decent guy until his son won the dumb criminal of the year award by breaking and entering a convience store. He cut a hole in the roof to avoid the cameras. Unfortunately he couldn't climb back out so he had to walk out the door in front of the cameras. He was caught in a matter of hours. No wonder Leroy is so bitter with that as a family legacy.

Leslie, I hope you follow Mr. Moss to Naples and the NDN. We know you are young and inexperienced but Moss's pixie dust has clearly obscured your objectivity and balanced reporting. The Eagle used to have a city propagandist named Billy Bruce. It would appear you are clearly following his career path. At this point joined you have joined Farmer in your lack of objectivity. When will the Eagle provide us with balanced journalism?

ILOVEMARCO There is absolutly NO evidence the septic tanks are polluting. It has been proven that the sewer lines are leaking 100,000 to 300,000 gallons a day of raw sewerage into the aquifer. That is the danger to our environment. Until we deal with this problem, we run the risk of closed beaches due to leaky sewer lines just like Sanibel has every year. They replaced their septics with central sewer and look what happened. Stop spreading misinformation.

The names, addresses and resumes of the 61 applicants are all public record published in the NDN. I would hope our new council would be smart enough to pick up the phone and start calling the better ones while the newly elected council members are in their 6 week transition period. If Marco Island is going to survive as a city, the next council will have to look for ways to save money, not ways to spend it.

I don't think we have the $145,000 per year to spend on anything, be it doggie parks, teen centers, or old folks activities. This council has squandered our $50 million in reserves and burried us in debt. We won't know how badly until we get a new council that will determine and disclose the truth.

The current council has abandoned fiscal responsibility. They don't know where we are financially and they don't care. If you don't believe me, ask any one of the councilors where the reserves went or how much of the $20,000,000 revolving line of credit from the state we just got has been spent or how much of the $25,000,000 loan from the B of A has been spent. You will be shocked to find out they don't have a clue to the answer.

If this council wants it, they can have it. They will just find another way to tax us to pay for it. They are like spoiled kids with a credit cards.

When we were kids, the older kids taught the younger kids how to smoke and have sex. That isn't cool anymore. Today the older kids are introducing the younger kids to drugs and sex. Don't try and tell us that Marco kids don't do sex and are above all that. I suggest that we have sex education classes and free condoms at our new center unless we want a rash of teen pregnancies.

This whole STRP is going to die on 1/29/2008. We don't need to waste any more money on this dumb program. In the very unlikely event three pro STRP candidates get elected, they can buy the equipment then. Stop trying to bankrupt us by spending money we don't have. We already wasted $1,300,000 on lift stations that will never be used. Don't you have any decency or mercy on the citizens you oppress?

Mr. Recker displays his intolerance for opposing views in the above link. Rather than accept there may be a problem he procliams a conspiricy by a few mal contents. Another Tucker clone. I wonder if he has photographic evidence to prove it.

Vote for people that care about our citizens, Dr. Guidry, Batte, Hall and Neylon.

"Each year the MICA board of directors mails a survey to the members of MICA and asks questions regarding issues that affect the lives of those who live on our beautiful island. The survey results are tabulated and shared with all. MICA members certainly respond to the annual survey. They want their voices heard and the MICA survey is a good mechanism to take care of this."

This year the survey came back anti development and a 60% dissapproval rating for Moss and the council. What use did MICA make of this information other than hide it for three months?

Don, It is well recognized that the MICA membership and leadership is pro city yet their survey reflected that 2/3 of the 2,600 respondents gave Moss and the council a fair to poor rating. The angst against Moss and the council runs far deeper than you give it credit.

When my kids were growing up we wanted to know who their friends were. We certainly wouldn't have wanted to farm them out to a city sponsored teen sitter where we wouldn't have full awareness of who they were associating with and what they were doing. I don't think it is healthy to mix 12 year olds with 16 year olds.

Since Marco Island is awash in money, let's give Terri her prize and see how it works. If it doesn't we can shut it down since no leases are involved.

This is just another extension of big government taking care of its citizens in true socialistic fashion. Now we need an old folks center where we have people arranging for games and activities for our senior citizens.

Good article Sayre which puts this council's and city management's attitude towards the citizens in perspective. I, as others, continue to disregard Ed Issler's worthless jibber jabber. He lost all credibility when he stated that various state agencies would mandate a sewer system for Marco Island in the future. He claimed to have spoken to several departments which had assurred him this was the case and provided the names of those departments. We called those people and none of them knew of any impending regulations, now or in the future, that would force us to connect to our leaky central sewer system. We all knew he is a fool, now we know he is a lying fool.

Would Mr. Recker and Ed Issler, and all the other lying rascals that claim that central sewers will be mandated for Marco Island in the future either put up or shut up. We are tired of our lying city govenment and its lying supporters.

I think that you all should check on the $60 million dollar sewer system on Sanebel which has now closed Sanebel's beaches for the second year in a row. Then take a look at the Marco Island Beach cam and see the red tint to our beaches and ask yourselves if our very leaky 30 year old collection system isn't about to do the same for Marco. It is the 100,000+ galons a day of exfiltration that is leaking into our acquifer from our sewer system that is the threat, not the septic systems.

Leslie you need to check your math. It is a $6.5 million dollar hole in the ground when you add the design and pipes into the cost. We can't trust the city to give us the right figures, we would like to trust you.

Well said LInda and heebeed. The only thing that will stop this madness is a new council. Vote Allen, Batte, Hall and Neylon in January. Otherwise this will go on for years.

Leroy, It's common knowledge that up until April 2007 Ray Beaufort was one of the leaders, the major computer guy and very active in the group that you want investigated. I understand Beaufort is tight with Forcht, Popoff and Kiester and had a lot of communications with the councilmen. He is the strongest suspect out there that could be a conduit. Shouldn't we get his e-mails too?

I think Trotter's actions reflect his priorities and total lack of regard for the health and well being of the citizens of Marco Island. He clearly places cheap shots at his fellow councilmen over the need to comply with the council's direction regarding further contamination of the citizens. Too bad he isn't as concerned about the problem as he is in trying to intimidate those two councilmen that are trying to protect us. Kiddos to Terri and Chuck! Too bad we don't have more like you.

If you call Mrs. Webb, the leading broker for English and German buyers over the past 20 years, she will tell you those buyers are flocking AWAY from Marco and putting their properties on the market. As they tell her and their friends, who would want to come here to this mess with the Mediterranean is so much prettier, nicer and closer. Buyers are not going to come back until we clean up the island, stop kidding yourselves.

My snowbird neighbors don't even want to come back, why would someone new want to be here?

Patton1, I looked at Mr. Waldack's blogs. He hasn't had a job in 12 years by his own admission. What part of optomist's comments weren't true? I also don't see where optomist said anything about Mr. Waldack's integrity, he just questioned his qualifications. Try and substitute facts, if you have any, for hate speech, you would be much more persuasive.

There isn't any septic seepage as proven by the dewatering.