Ramiccio beats up on Waterman - Again

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The buck stops with Mr. Ramiccio

We all have difficulty with the spelling of some words from time to time. But there is no excuse because we live in the spell-check era-- On-line dictionaries and resources at our finger tips there to assist the most ignorant of us with our mental spelling lapses. When sending out a campaign mailer, it is most important not to appear stupid, not to appear careless, and to make your message appear worthy and plausible. We got the drift of Mr. Ramiccio's message and being a bully is his style.

I was hoping that Tom Ramiccio was going to take the higher road in this run-off campaign. That was not to be. Today there were two attack mailers--one misspelled the word lien three times on the front, words boxed in red, and the other misspelled the word violation.

As it costs 23 cents a card plus the printing to produce the mailer, Tom Ramiccio's mailer cost at least $2,000 not to mention the labor involved in its design, to send to 5,000 super-voters to harp on Ms. Waterman's unfortunate situation when she lost her job thus losing her properties and was wondering how she was going to feed her family. Ramiccio wants to make sure that everyone knows she had a tough situation and to beat up on her just one more time.

Ms. Waterman:

"The company I worked for was affected by the recession and closed its doors. I was the primary income earner for my family and was suddenly unemployed with a 10 week old and a 13 month old at home. I eventually lost my home and rental property. Wasn't much I could do - despite 15 years of perfect credit, without an income the banks refused to modify my loans. But, I kept my family together. We have rallied, know how to accomplish more with less and understand the challenges and emotions shared by the 250,000 Floridian families who have faced a foreclosure in the past 4 years.

My understanding is the liens have been released and I have struggled with WPB utilities for over a year to get the public record corrected.

The code violation was taken care before I even got the letter from the city (our grass got long during a rainy season when Yure was on deadline for a sculpture - but it was mowed before we even got the letter from the city). I called them and they told me just to disregard it."

I trust that there might be a measure of understanding here with Ms. Waterman's explanation. It's okay for Mr. Ramiccio to dish it out but he sure gets up in arms when someone says something he does not like.

Do we need a mayor who can't even SPELL?