fools gold

The editor of the Gazette has once again lost any credibility he may have had with his latest editorial. As he frequently does, he uses his position and platform as a bully pulpit to disparage those who don't agree with him. He fairly frequently comes to conclusions that have NO basis in fact. One example might be his defense of Garcia's pulling up opponents signs during a campaign. That flimsy and transparent attempt to defend those actions were laughable. In the latest installment he admits that he is a lazy journalist at times. It is also easy to see one who is very biased and not interested in fairness or a balance approach to reporting. He suggests that annexation is a done deal but, at last count, 9 of the County commissioners were NOT in favor of allowing ANY annexation. IF the Council was doing there job and had done ANYTHING close to due diligence about annexation this petition would NOT be necessary. Like they did with the new gym project, they looked at a few numbers and ruled out any other possible alternatives before deciding. In the case of annexation they looked at some implausible numbers at best, and decided that the zoning, pollution, mitigation fees, and boundary concerns were not important issues to be discussed or debated. The numbers they quote are from the City Manager- the same guy who told us the CC addition was going to cost 150k (and would up costing 500k); he also told us the bathrooms would cost 200k (even tho they can be built for 140k easily). That bathroom's costs are now close to 500k. WHO would trust his numbers to be anywhere close in THIS instance, when they weren't anywhere close before? That would be ridiculous, right? show us where and how you came up with those numbers so we can investigate them for ourselves. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me..