Sandbags stir charges of special treatment

[Steve]

U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown’s office asked Mayor John Peyton’s chief of staff to help protect her Jacksonville home from rising floodwater Friday.

Adam Hollingsworth, who once worked for Brown, told city workers to deliver sandbags to her home, something he now says was a judgment error. No one else would get such preferential treatment, he said when contacted by the Times-Union, and Brown will be billed by the city for reimbursement.

Hollingsworth also told city workers to deliver sandbags to City Councilwoman Denise Lee, this time unsolicited.

Peyton did not condemn Hollingworth’s actions, saying Friday he was “delighted our public works employees were able to help save these homes.”

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/082308/met_322010783.shtml

[Steve]

Peyton sometimes reminds me of Billy Zane's Character from Titanic.  When Kate Winslet said half the people on this boat are going to die, he responds, "Not the Better Half"

[uptowngirl]

This is such total BS. I am sorry, but while city workers were hauling sand bags and stacking them up Ms. Brown was WATCHING, not helping not doing a dang thing, well except trying to defend herself when the nes crew attacked. AND of course peyton thinks there is nothing wrong with this, he alos thinks there is nothing wrong with giving his friends our tax dollars for nothing, nothing at all...just as a gift.

[RiversideGator]

Too bad the storm did not wash Peyton out of town (metaphorically speaking of course).   

[BridgeTroll]

I was hoping CNN would have jumped on this story... She is so fun to watch on TV...

[apvbguy]

if peyton had any brains (something I don't think he has) he'd hang hollingsworth out to dry (nice pun), not only was using city resources for her wrong, his (hollingsworth) moronic attempts at spin just made it look worse, scapegoats to the right please

[jbm32206]

Yes...and it involves more than just a woman in a flood zone getting sandbags

[RiversideGator]

are we serious?

someone is pissed because the city dropped off sandbags to a woman in a flood zone?

Yes.  She was just your ordinary average "woman in a flood zone".   

[BridgeTroll]

Did anybody else get sand bags?  Possibly her neighbors?

[jbm32206]

No, they didn't...

[Driven1]

are we serious?

someone is pissed because the city dropped off sandbags to a woman in a flood zone?

Yes.  She was just your ordinary average "woman in a flood zone".  

yep - nothing special about her.  nothing at all about her position in government that would've prompted charges about preferential treatment.  nothing to see here.   

[apvbguy]

are we serious?

someone is pissed because the city dropped off sandbags to a woman in a flood zone?

please tell me that you don't grasp the misallocation of resources involved! wouldn't a better allocation of the limited city resources been better put to use handling problems at city owned properties instead of using those city owned (otherwise known as taxpayer) materials and labor to secure privately owned property?
While the newspeak is that we are all equal apparently some are more equal than others

[apvbguy]

I dont think its about her being 'special'.  I would hope that anyone who asked for sand (in florida) could get some in an emergency.

I dont see anything wrong with it.

not to be rude, but if you don't see what is wrong here, you are either blind or a sycophant of these politicians

[BridgeTroll]

I dont think its about her being 'special'.  I would hope that anyone who asked for sand (in florida) could get some in an emergency.

I dont see anything wrong with it.

I dont see anything wrong with it either... as long as everybody else gets the same treatment.  Therin lies the outrage...

[apvbguy]

was someone denied sandbags or something?

as per the tv story I saw, the next door neighbor of the congress critter asked for some bags as was told ( not a quote) sorry bub, we're not really here