Grounded
Sometimes you get a comment that really humbles you. Here's one I recieved this evening to a post I wrote back in August called "The Last Hurrah for Mr. Florence-Firestone."
Mitch,
Have you ever considered that some people felt bullied by your self appointed role of vain glorious self love. You may not have been as loved an admired by the comunity as you would have all believe other than your Mother. Why if you were so successful and passionate about making such a difference did you leave so quickly? Was it perhaps a little overdone your pompousness? Or did you find that without funding it is hard to have the same facade or interior structure as those which you so glibly point out expensive neighborhoods enjoy. What did you really accomplish how many loans did any owners get to improve their bldgs that no banks or lenders will lend to, it is after all a redlined district or as you called it an armpit! Shame on you for desecrating/ calling a community in struggle, an armpit. Thank goodness you are gone and are replaced by kind empathetic folks who really understand the plight and try to help find solutions and not personal backslapping gain, political aggandizement. You are not humble nor Mr Florence -Firestone in OUR esimation.
Mitch,
Have you ever considered that some people felt bullied by your self appointed role of vain glorious self love. You may not have been as loved an admired by the comunity as you would have all believe other than your Mother. Why if you were so successful and passionate about making such a difference did you leave so quickly? Was it perhaps a little overdone your pompousness? Or did you find that without funding it is hard to have the same facade or interior structure as those which you so glibly point out expensive neighborhoods enjoy. What did you really accomplish how many loans did any owners get to improve their bldgs that no banks or lenders will lend to, it is after all a redlined district or as you called it an armpit! Shame on you for desecrating/ calling a community in struggle, an armpit. Thank goodness you are gone and are replaced by kind empathetic folks who really understand the plight and try to help find solutions and not personal backslapping gain, political aggandizement. You are not humble nor Mr Florence -Firestone in OUR esimation.
Florence Chamber and BusinessImprovement District Membersn and Owners
posted by Mitch Glaser @ 8:20 PM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Wow, that's impassioned and rather...harsh. Still, you're right, a humbling reminder for young up-and-comers in the public sector that what we do has an impact on the public we serve, and that whatever kudos we receive for our hard work inevitably has come at the expense of somebody who didn't get what they wanted out of the deal. Don't let it eat you too much, fearless blogger. You can't please everybody, least of all when you work for the County. ;o)
looks like someone finally got around to googling themselves.
Somehow I got this mental image of 12 foot bronze statue of you Mitch, erected in these people's local park...
Don't listen to those assholes.
Apparently the fact that they can't seem to keep their community in order has completely surpassed their realm of understanding....
Sometimes we all need to get served. And Mitch, YOU GOT SERVED! Tho I feel you will still stick to your convictions, which is the more important thing.
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