Pension fix only issue on Mayor Lenny Curry's agenda

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Noone

#75
July 06, 2016, 07:15:15 AM
Quote from: tufsu1 on July 04, 2016, 10:24:51 PM
So the City's fireworks downtown tonight were nothing short of embarrassing. While there's clearly not much of a relationship between Toney Sleiman and Mayor Curry, shooting the fireworks solely off the Acosta Bridge meant most of the people in the Landing Courtyard saw very little.  Even worse, the fireworks messed with the flight pattern of the thousands of bats that come out around the TUPAC every night.  Many were disoriented and crashed into windows and people at the Landing.

I'm sure this is all part of the Mayor's plan to get folks to vote for his pension plan, but it may have backfired.  People left VERY disappointed!



I'm voting NO to BJP- Better Jacksonville Pyrotechnics

acme54321

#76
July 06, 2016, 07:26:58 AM
Quote from: tufsu1 on July 04, 2016, 10:24:51 PM
So the City's fireworks downtown tonight were nothing short of embarrassing. While there's clearly not much of a relationship between Toney Sleiman and Mayor Curry, shooting the fireworks solely off the Acosta Bridge meant most of the people in the Landing Courtyard saw very little.  Even worse, the fireworks messed with the flight pattern of the thousands of bats that come out around the TUPAC every night.  Many were disoriented and crashed into windows and people at the Landing.

I'm sure this is all part of the Mayor's plan to get folks to vote for his pension plan, but it may have backfired.  People left VERY disappointed!

Not to mention that everyone along the riverwalk between the Penninsula and DCSB building could see absolutely nothing, even though the city's website showed that as a viewing area. 

BridgeTroll

#77
July 06, 2016, 07:47:52 AM
Wow... they managed to mess up the only thing they did right... I wonder is some of the reason to move was all the riverwalk area by the Hyatt being closed off...
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mtraininjax

#78
July 06, 2016, 07:55:06 AM
Fireworks looked great from RAM!
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FlaBoy

#79
July 06, 2016, 08:37:11 AM
Quote from: mtraininjax on July 06, 2016, 07:55:06 AM
Fireworks looked great from RAM!

The looked amazing all the way down through Riverside and Brooklyn.

Why couldn't they be seen from the Landing? You should still be able to look up and see most of the Fireworks even deep into the Landing.

Tacachale

#80
July 06, 2016, 08:44:50 AM
I'm more interested to hear what this has to do with the pension crisis.
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strider

#81
July 07, 2016, 01:25:45 PM
You know what?  Past all the rhetoric involving the Pension Sales tax "fix", one thing stands out above all else.  Trust.  For that is the only for sure thing coming out of all of these discussions.  The tax payers must trust the Curry Administration to do the right thing here after we all vote for his sales tax or else idea.  I learned not to trust the Brown Administration and while many of us hoped change would be positive, we actually simply got the same old same old here so now I know we can't trust the Curry Administration.

That lack of trust should be saying to us all, Vote No!

If Curry wants us to trust him at all, perhaps he needed to have not surround himself with people who have been shown not to be trustworthy.

A big public for instance is:

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,26519.0.html

Appointed city leaders ignoring the very laws they are charged with enforcing.  A lawyer changing voted on motions to insure the final order on the COA fits what the department heads wanted to do not what was actually voted on..

Or, how about this:

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,27125.0.html

Curry's Chief of Staff gets linked to wrong doing and his comment is that he is only concerned what they do under his leadership? Sorry, but that leads me to believe he wants people around him that will have his and their own bank accounts as top priority not what is best for us tax payers. Anyone ever wonder how he found the funds to replace what Stewart illegally moved? The budget is so bad we need to vote yes for the pension tax or else, but he can bail out his Chief of Staff with our money?

The sad truth here is that the corruption of our government has become a given and no one seems to care much anymore.

I will be voting NO on Curry's ideas from now on.  Pension tax included. I don't think we can allow Curry and this City Council to have extra funds. We can't trust them to do the right thing with them.

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The_Choose_1

#82
July 07, 2016, 05:56:15 PM
Quote from: strider on July 07, 2016, 01:25:45 PM
You know what?  Past all the rhetoric involving the Pension Sales tax "fix", one thing stands out above all else.  Trust.  For that is the only for sure thing coming out of all of these discussions.  The tax payers must trust the Curry Administration to do the right thing here after we all vote for his sales tax or else idea.  I learned not to trust the Brown Administration and while many of us hoped change would be positive, we actually simply got the same old same old here so now I know we can't trust the Curry Administration.

That lack of trust should be saying to us all, Vote No!

If Curry wants us to trust him at all, perhaps he needed to have not surround himself with people who have been shown not to be trustworthy.

A big public for instance is:

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,26519.0.html

Appointed city leaders ignoring the very laws they are charged with enforcing.  A lawyer changing voted on motions to insure the final order on the COA fits what the department heads wanted to do not what was actually voted on..

Or, how about this:

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,27125.0.html

Curry's Chief of Staff gets linked to wrong doing and his comment is that he is only concerned what they do under his leadership? Sorry, but that leads me to believe he wants people around him that will have his and their own bank accounts as top priority not what is best for us tax payers. Anyone ever wonder how he found the funds to replace what Stewart illegally moved? The budget is so bad we need to vote yes for the pension tax or else, but he can bail out his Chief of Staff with our money?

The sad truth here is that the corruption of our government has become a given and no one seems to care much anymore.

I will be voting NO on Curry's ideas from now on.  Pension tax included. I don't think we can allow Curry and this City Council to have extra funds. We can't trust them to do the right thing with them.
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saltlife_steve

#83
September 04, 2016, 09:10:59 PM
Pension referendum no doubt a success for Curry. Considering how much time, money, and effort was put into "Yes for Jacksonville," it better have passed -or else the people would have realized how many other issues Curry ignored while he pushed the pension reform down our throats. Even if you don't agree with the pension reform itself, Curry believes he's doing what's right for Jacksonville. That's nothing groundbreaking. That's what all "leaders" are supposed to do. Yet, he's being excessively praised. Sam Mousa says, "We had a leader with enough guts to do it." Um, you mean doing his job? Thats guts.

Does anyone else find it somewhat alarming Curry uses football analogies in every single situation? Complex issues are just about getting those TD's folks.
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