Well, it looks like business as usual at the Hernando Today with the new editor, Chris Wessel taking over for the retiring editor, with his endorsements for county commission. To refresh your memory, the previous editor nearly ran this newspaper into the ground with his personal vendetta to attack everything and everyone in county government. This previous editor was not content with writing the news, only making the news with his articles and editorials that reeked of half truths and innuendos to sell his "rag" on the street.
Let's all calm down and take a real deep breath to analyze the endorsements of Zydenbos and Adkins for county commission. We will take an analytical approach to understanding the spurious ramblings of this editorial staff for these, almost comical, endorsements of Adkins and Zydenbos.
Let's play a little word game with these endorsements.
Which candidate for county commission most comes to mind when you think of words like sub-prime mortgage failures, foreclosures and personal bankruptcy. If you guessed "JAZ" Zydenbos, please pat yourself on the back.
It is really amazing that Zydenbos is being offered as the best choice for county commissioner with his past failures in the business world. Zydenbos blamed his 2002 bankruptcy on the collapse of online businesses. Zydenbos stated that he recovered well and was able to buy and invest. So in 2005, Mr. Zydenbos started a new career as a real estate agent and mortgage broker. Zydenbos now blames Hernando County for out-of-control spending during the height of the building boom when soaring home values brought in a windfall of property tax money and this is where the words sub-prime failure and foreclosure should bring you back to reality. These numerous failures for this candidate in the private sector certainly do not provide adequate qualifications to oversee our county budget. We, as citizens, do not need Zydenbos' ambition to be a county commissioner to become just "another failed business opportunity" for our community.
A few word hints about the other candidate include sleight of hand, talking out of both sides of his mouth, hypocrisy, lackey and boot-licker for the REC chairwoman and state Republican committeeman for Hernando County. If you guessed Jim Adkins, please yell bingo right now.
As a former fire chief for the city of Brooksville, Adkins certainly was not a penny pincher by any stretch of the imagination, and that's where the terms sleight of hand and talking our of both sides of his mouth, come into this discussion.
Adkins has a long history in Hernando County "with his spare no expense approach" in the name of fire departments. A large, unnecessary capital expenditure built by this former fire chief was Brooksville Fire House No. 2 at 600 S. Brooksville Avenue that now sits abandoned in the city DPW parking lot.
Mr. Adkins is the same individual who stood silent in the atrium of the county building last year when the Hernando County Fire Rescue asked for, and received, as 28 percent fee increase, and this is where the term sleight of hand term applies once again. You see, he boasted about his presence at the budget hearings last year with his "ax the tax" mantra, while secretly promoting massive fee increases for the HCFR.
The textbook definition of lackey and boot-licker is a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage, which fits Adkins to a tee when it come to his association with the state Republican committeeman and the Republican Executive Committee chairwoman. While these two Republican Party representatives have been personally promoting their "puppet" for over four years with their actions and pocketbooks, Adkins has ingratiated himself with his menial tasks like a marionette dancing to the music.
It's time to end the era of "good-old-boy politics, as usual" in Hernando County by overwhelming rejecting these two negative candidates at the polls next Tuesday.
Anna Liisa Covell
Nobleton
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