News must be tough when the LW Herald and now the Post editorial does a hatchet job on Jennings. The Ethics Committee has said that "the allegations are legally insufficient to indicate any violations of Florida Statutes...there is no indication that the respondent Jennings violated Florida Statutes as there is no indication that the CDC would be considered her principal." Granted, she failed to disclose a mortgage she obtained before she was elected and it came from PB County, not the CDC, according to Jennings. Commissioner Jennings has always said that a Commissioner should disclose any potential conflict if a contract comes before them to vote upon.
Right now, this is nothing more than an allegation by a political enemy and anyone can accuse anyone of anything. It is done every day of the week. The Florida Commission on Ethics is looking into her failure to disclose a liability on a CE Form 1. Until that is completed and their findings are published, this is nothing more than an accusation.
She has also been a proponent of the "will of the people." On that note, she failed miserably by pushing through and accepting the Michael Singer Artist manipulated plan for our beach based on 240 people who took a survey that was contrived. This was a poll that steered them in one direction rather than getting the opinion of 37,000 residents of our city based on a fair value judgment. There was NO will of the people only those few hundred that took a fixed survey.Singer and company failed to get up to the beach and ask one person who uses the beach upper level parking what would be their priority: upper level convenient parking or "green" with a Jungle Jim for little Johnny.
The aerial they used was not indicative of the general feeling you derive from driving to the beach. The lower level parking lot has a LOT of green. Drive it and notice all the green. You do NOT get a sense of too much asphalt. It was an unfair photo.
