Political stunt...

After reading the lead story in this morning's Hernando Times, "Democrats sense an opening" by John Frank, this phrase immediately came to mind. "I told you so". This entire episode has been an media-driven story to fuel the democrats liberal agenda. Does any remember the editorial last month condemning Congresswoman Ginny Brown Waite for her press release? I do. In fact, in a previous post of mine, I wrote: "This is selective nitpicking of our republican congresswoman. If a democrat had made a similar statement in a press release it would have flown under the radar without even a whisper from the media".

Mr. Frank's story referencing last week's political demonstration was accurately described in his second paragraph and would have been believable if it had not been for the last sentence (in that paragraph). Words like fiery crowd, megaphone, political signs were all accurate but where were the myriad of American flags? The headline photographs last week had the protesters proudly parading with Puerto Rican banners, flags and political signs, not a myriad of American flags that were few and far between with these protesters.

Another point that should be emphasized in Mr. Frank's article was that Jay Rowden was standing on the steps of the courthouse. Mr. Rowden was apparently in attendance at this rally with Orange County Democrat Executive Chairman, Bill Robinson his democrat counter-part from across the state. In my post last week "Partisan stunt costs Hernando County," I called for the reimbursement of taxpayer money for this political stunt. I stand behind my call for reimbursement of this political rally to Hernando County taxpayers.

It needs to be noted that Jay Rowden is the husband of Hernando County Commissioner Diane Rowden. Commissioner Rowden is directly responsible for the financial oversight of taxpayer money along with her fellow commissioners. It will be interesting to see if she stands up at tomorrow's commission meeting to insist that Democrat Executive Committee's from Hernando and Orange Counties be held responsible for the costs incurred to the taxpayers for last week's political rally.