It's all been said before .....

We need to hire Sonny McCoy to get to the bottom of all Conch ethical challenges.

bubbas are above the law and entitled to feed at the public trough . .

The Conch Bubba System contributes so much to the community they are entitled to some perks.

How could the city and county Code Enforcement shake down citizens without conchs and the years of blind double dipping of Special Master Overby?

How could Ed Swift sustain and defend a municipal monopoly like the Conch Train with out the bubba system?

How could a real estate agent who has never sold a house become mayor and a realty developer without any experience, without the support of the bubba community and his Vice Principal wife releasing high schools students to wave signs for him on election day as a "civics lesson"?

How else could a struggling young attorney with scant experience suddenly get all of that school board work, start his own firm, and then become city attorney?

How would we count the cash from the parking meters?

What other than a bubba school board which spends more per student than any other continue to pump out more conch voters well prepared for a career in municipal nepotism?

How would the city and county sheriffs and police departments run if it were not for the conch code of ethics? How would the Toppinos get all of those no bid contracts?

How would the Housing Authority hand out pension and health and welfare and subsidised housing to relitives and the connected, while parking valuable property off the tax roles until a bubba developer is ready to develop the land? How would the Spottswoods fair if they had to face the permitting and variance process of we mere citizens?

And the Aqueduct Authority and Keys Electric??? Can there be better examples of cost effective and productive conch work ethic this side of the staffing of any city and county government office???

On the eve of the transfer of the most prime property in the keys, has the Bahama Village Land Trust ever been audited or has any of their spending been accounted for ?

And least we forget the ex parte extraordinaire .... It's always a ca$h and carry bar at the affordable play house where the elite (and the wanna-be elite) meet with the unfrocked and pickled to break bread and cut deals.... judges don't bring their robes or gavels but everyone gets hammered regardless....

The conch aristocracy bubba it up nightly on the taxpayer's back in their own private 'club' with their sweetheart $1 a year lease from the city for the Key West Yacht Club..... And just to rub our noses in it, the Yacht Club then sublets for a handsome profit, a healthy portion of the waterfront property it leases from the city for $1 a year .... Break the bubba lease let them sue for the $1 per year for the balance of the 100 year lease and turn the property into a rateable ...

And some say the conchs don't serve the community well. The conchs have a long and honored tradition of community self-service and here I've enumerated just a few ... so stop picking on them for just a few isolated coincidences. And don't forget their support groups.

They couldn't continue these prosperous traditions without the compliant sophistry of the local press and our local justice system (how's Harry Bethel's son's arson prosecution progressing?)

Kiss a bubba today thank them for all they do for the community each day ..... and then just hand over your wallet.

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