Seventy-Seven Trombones
Leo…buddy…has your cheese finally slipped off the cracker totally?
It’s true. I did attend the last commission meeting—however--I uttered NOT ONE SINGLE PEEP. (And…I missed the prior meeting!) Yet, your Web site account of the October 28th meeting made it sound like I marched through the City Hall auditorium leading a 100-piece marching band with double euphoniums. What’s up with that, buddy?
Has your source failed you or did you just decide to take a little more creative license because it made for a better read? I didn’t know that merely “being there” seated in the audience at a commission meeting qualifies as yowling.
Damn…and here I thought attending commission meetings was akin to participating in my local government and caring about how my tax dollars are being spent in IRB. What was I thinking anyway?
Nancy Obarski
Beach Trail/IRB
IRBeHEARD Bloggers: LEO NEEDS A THEME SONG. While I trust that many of you will do much better when you blog in with your own nominations, how about “Luck Be a 93-year Old Lady”?
Luck be a 93-year old lady tonight.
Luck be a 93-year old lady tonight.
Stick with me baby, Im the gal who beat up Leo.
Luck be a 93-year old lady tonight.
Leo…buddy…has your cheese finally slipped off the cracker totally?
It’s true. I did attend the last commission meeting—however--I uttered NOT ONE SINGLE PEEP. (And…I missed the prior meeting!) Yet, your Web site account of the October 28th meeting made it sound like I marched through the City Hall auditorium leading a 100-piece marching band with double euphoniums. What’s up with that, buddy?
Has your source failed you or did you just decide to take a little more creative license because it made for a better read? I didn’t know that merely “being there” seated in the audience at a commission meeting qualifies as yowling.
Damn…and here I thought attending commission meetings was akin to participating in my local government and caring about how my tax dollars are being spent in IRB. What was I thinking anyway?
Nancy Obarski
Beach Trail/IRB
IRBeHEARD Bloggers: LEO NEEDS A THEME SONG. While I trust that many of you will do much better when you blog in with your own nominations, how about “Luck Be a 93-year Old Lady”?
Luck be a 93-year old lady tonight.
Luck be a 93-year old lady tonight.
Stick with me baby, Im the gal who beat up Leo.
Luck be a 93-year old lady tonight.
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Kennedy’s Actions Add
To Wonderful Picture of a City
In Touch With Itself
By Lee O
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Nov. 6 – The navigations of Indian Rocks Beach’s Cookie Kennedy, current member of the City Commission and frequent candidate who raises to the challenge for whatever may be needed to be tackled, amaze many observers of the political scene here.
IRB’s commission is taking care of very important things that need to be done right now – getting a city manager, finding a competent city treasurer, wrestling through a political campaign that will begin shortly, putting up with clowns and yowlers (Leo Coughlin and his band of thieves) that disrupt the business of governing. It goes on and on for a city on the right track.
Gone are the old days. Days when, under Bob DiNicolas heavy hand this town was due for change. Bob, where are you now? Washed up? Probably.
If only he had Kennedy’s strength.
Item – When the case of Marty Schless was before the commission at its meeting October 13, Kennedy had the strength to motion to fire the guy. It passed, 3-2. Now that’s backbone!
Item – At the commission’s last meeting, in what might have been consider genius, Ed Piniero (who is better than Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. caliber when it comes to tricky legal matters), a citizen, requested that an item to nominate someone to the Pinellas Planning Council be removed from the consent agenda. That was done and the subject was to be on the November 13 agenda. Then Kennedy announced she would like to be nominated to that position. Pure genius. To think, IRB may have one of it’s own on the PPC would be truly a great step in the right direction to solidify it’s small town atmosphere.
That takes some heart.
First off, it’s great that a citizen has the knowledge of asking for any kind of change in an agenda. Once again, this demonstrates that the government meetings in IRB are seen by many citizens as the equivalent of true democracy.
That clearly is the attitude in Indian Rocks Beach where the strong-willed and honest mayor, R.B. Johnson, is not afraid to bring under orderly control clowns like Leo Coughlin and his gang who disrupt the commission meeting week after week.
Leo and some of those disrupters – termed "yowlers" by some folks – are the laughing stock of the city. They surely will not be on the ballot in March seeking the seats now held by Bert Valery and Terry Hamilton-Wollin. But among the possibilities are “Honest Abe” Phil Wrobel and “Mr. Sincere” Scott Shapiro who helped the city’s lawyer, Maura Kiefer, with a very hard time that Leo and his gang gave her at a recent meeting. This guy is a dirt-bag, one observer said. I would have loved to have seen the beat down he got from that 93 year old lady. No wonder he left town, all beat up and scared is no way to live your life.
On the sidelines and willing to support the commission in more ways than one is the ever intelligent Nancy O’Barski, whose steady handed understanding and intelligence of the issues is unmatched. She is seen to be a wonderful citizen by past Mayor Bill Ockunzzi, who made Ex-Mayor “Bumbling” Bob DiNicola look like a grade-school drop-out.
Past Mayor Piniero, an expert in law and code, questioned the procedure at the last commission meeting that was followed in firing Schless. There will be a "re-do" on this, similar to the "re-do" on setting the millage rate. Thank you Mr. Mayor Pinero for keeping the city on the right track.
What is amazing, again, is the performance of Kennedy. The Pinellas Planning Commission matter would select a delegate to the PPC representing IRB, Belleair Beach, Belleair Shore, Indian Shores, North Redington Beach, Redington Beach and Redington Shores and she is sure to win!
With the commission nominating her, and making herself available for such, as it were, Kennedy evinced how dedicated she is to IRB. In this case she set her sights on Jerry Knight, the current representative from the area, who is about 10 percent sure of re-nomination.
One observer opined, Kennedy is a true champion for this city. A warrior and one that will not put up with a clown like Leo Coughlin. I think he’s stopped taking his meds, one observer was heard to say.
It gets more and more curious regarding Leo. Reports are afoot that a 93 year old lady beat the stuffing out of him and he ran away, far away. Leo now lives over 1000 miles away in a distant town, driven to throw rocks, hide behind bushes, and spends his night crying because of his fear of the dark and soiling himself.
In the meantime, Danny Taylor, who has been serving as interim city manager for almost a year, advised the commission that he was not interested in seeking the position and desires to return to his job as Planning and Zoning Director.
Finally some good reporting around here, thank you Lee O
By the way, I love that Sinatra song and its going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day.
Ol Lady in Town
93 year ol lady in town,
Ol lady here in town,
She smacked Leo up,
Smacked Leo down,
93 year ol lady in town.
93 year ol lady in town,
Ol lady here in town,
She pound Leo’s face,
Oh what a disgrace,
93 year ol lady in town.
93 year ol lady in town,
Ol lady here in town,
A right to the eye,
Leo started to cry,
93 year ol lady in town.
93 year ol lady in town,
Ol lady here in town,
Leo’s face she did dance,
He soiled his pants,
93 year ol lady in town.
93 year ol lady in town,
Ol lady here in town,
She told me that night,
He ran out of sight,
93 year ol lady in town.
93 year ol lady in town,
Ol lady here in town,
Sent Leo packin,
With one good smackin,
93 year ol lady in town.
93 year ol lady in town,
Ol lady here in town,
Now Leos up north,
Frightened of course,
93 year ol lady in town.
93 year ol lady in town,
Ol lady here in town,
His face she did bash,
Then took out the trash,
93 year ol lady in town!
Thank you mam!
Excellent! How about we take up a collection for reward leading to the information on who this 93 year old is? I think she deserves an honerable mention, a plaque and a dinner at the Salt Rock. Can anyone find her, does anyone want to put their investigative skills to work?
Bueller Bueller
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