No truancy, but a few days off

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

No truancy, but a few days off

City commissioners have mixed records for attendance

BY MANDY MILES Citizen Staff
mmiles@keysnews.com

Key West's elected officials have not discussed their attendance policy for meetings, despite a discussion earlier this month at the county level.

County commissioners recently ended a policy that allowed elected officials to miss more meetings of the Tourist Development Council than their unelected counterparts, saying each TDC member is equally busy and elected officials s...

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Mark Rossi

Submitted on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 10:32am by just ask me

Mark Rossi's comments reflects his attitude, he is an arrogant, the dictionary includes overbearing, and I will add obnoxious, egomanic, rude, big fat person who make his living off women. He votes his opinion as long as it benefits his bar business. He refuses to re-cycle as it is too costly for his bottom line. He make suppliers jump thru hoops for fear of losing his account. The fact he stated how many employees he has and how busy he is, would tell me it time for him to go. Take an online vote, it will be 90% against him, ask anyone that has to deal with him. He is what he is.

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He acts as if he's doing someone a favor to not take any pay for

Submitted on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 3:53pm by *.*

his service. What a joke! First he never shows and he only votes when it will benefit him or his friends or line the pockets of his buddies. If that's not pay, I don't know what is.

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Why does Rossi run and

Submitted on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 9:01am by Ed

Why does Rossi run and accept the position if he does not have time? He makes me sick. Like he is doing us a favor! If you are too busy selling overpriced drinks and running your strip club, please DO NOT RUN AGAIN! Your constituents have the right to be represented full time. I wonder how many of his 100 employees are even legal. All his strippers are Russian or from The Czech republic. I am sure their mothers would be proud of the opportunity Rossi has given their daughters.

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Here's why he runs.

Submitted on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 4:18pm by Mac

He runs because he wins. How does he do that? With the bubba vote combined with placing pressure on all his employees to vote for him-- the way Ed Swift pressures all his employees to support his candidates. Vote the wrong way (let anyone find out) and you're out of a job. Any wonder that Belland sits with Rossi at Ricks drinking before every city commission meeting? Remember Ed Scales-- the HTA attorney who actually voted on issues involving HTA? Reminiscent of Jim Hendrick-- the county attorney who actually formed land use legislation for the county with their knowledge that he was principal attorney for Pritam Singh. It's one big country club (or Yacht Club) at city/county hall. And Rossi skips votes so he doesn't have to be on record voting against buds.

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Yup. It's embarrassing isn't it?

Submitted on Sun, 03/21/2010 - 3:52pm by *.*

And, don't forget to check Rossi out on all the dating sites. You'll find him and his picture under Key West and Florida Keys on most all of them. Scary, huh?