U.E.P. vote disgraceful
To the editor:
Those Cape Coral Council members who voted against the moving forward with the water program displayed an arrogance and a pomposity that can only be characterized as shameful. The vote, specifically, was against jobs, against progress, against cleanliness, against the overwhelming majority of city citizens, and against the cities opportunity to begin to fight it’s way out of a catastrophic recession.
Council members Deile, Grill, Brandt, and Day by deciding to leave the responsibility for the welfare of Cape Coral to the next council displayed a gigantic gutless incompetence in direct conflict with the obligations they have sworn to uphold. Of course, we are all sensitive to the unfortunate plight of everyone who is adversely affected by the current state of the economy but the four pinheads who voted against the majority were not elected to act as the moral conscience for the citizenry, they were elected to improve the city and vote on all issues in concert with what is best for most of the tax payers.
In this case they violated our trust, they acted unprofessionally, and they took their salaries under false pretense. These four need to be told that “showing up”is not reflective of “doing the job.” All four should be men enough to resign, apologize, and return to the taxpayers the salaries they did not earn. As for Bertolini, Donnell, and Tate, council members who were not intimidated by some rude and tawdry individuals, their actions optimized responsibility, intelligence,and government at its best. These deserve our gratitude. Brandt, Day, Deile, and Grill deserve the disrespect and the scorn that comes with the shirking of responsibility.
Dick Kalfus
Cape Coral