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Winter Springs citizens Have been "Bush-Whacked" !

"Bush dropped out of politics for a while and said residents forgot about him for a few years.   Then some commissioners who liked his style of governing urged him to run again.    In 2002 he beat Paul Partyka, who had unseated him in 1996."

Unless you are talking votes for referendums to set up special taxing districts, or annexing Dyson Drive, then your vote really doesn’t count because Bush’s buddy Ronnie McLemore is throwing votes out.    If you want to have your vote count in 2006, don’t vote John Bush or, if it is rumored to be true, don’t vote for Cindy Gennell or David “Take It to the Bank” McLeod either.      It may be time for former Mayor Partyka to kick John Bush out of the mayor’s office ---- again?

"Bush has borne witness to Winter Springs' growth over the last decade - and along with it, creation of the Town Center, the annual Fourth of July Celebration of Freedom and redevelopment of the State Road 434 corridor."

Has the man gone blind?    The "environs" certainly have changed in Winter Springs.    Yes, what few trees are left, they are definitely bigger.     Isn’t it amazing what happens if you just let a tree grow?    According to Bushism, fewer trees fit the lifestyle of upscale.    Wow!   

It also fits the serious reduction of oxygen to the brain occurring in Bush’s head.    What makes Bush say spin garbage like that?    He definitely can take credit for that … a diminishing tree line in our city.    Since when is Tiny Town upscale?    We don’t’ see the Mayor of Palm Beach pushing a Publix shopping cart around his town center.
 

"Bush - no relation to the president's family - graduated from Indiana State University with a degree in education and went on to earn a doctorate in guidance and psychological services. Much of his career has centered on education administration and computer software services."

What do you expect?    The people Bush lied to during the last election definitely don’t like him.   (This writer knows --- I was one of the many).    Where’s the shake up in City Hall he promised?    Where’s the heat he was going to put under Ron McLemore’s seat?     McLemore is running the city…running it right into the ground.    The only thing he’s doing well at is snookering Bush and the City Commission into a spending frenzy.   

Hey Bush, take heed, the membership of “The Friends Who Want to Oust Ron & John from City Hall” is growing stronger everyday.

"Bush said McLemore handled the hurricanes last fall very well, including his urging the City Commission to maintain a prudent reserve fund without raising taxes."

Yes, the City Manager handled it so well that he waited for a commission meeting to find out what to do for the families and their homes that were flooded with raw sewage by the City’s error.    Prudent reserves in city-speak means they don’t have reserves.     The City Manager didn’t urge not to raise taxes, he raised them.    

If the City had such prudent reserves, why did the City Commission raise the storm water fee $2.25 per month on our water bills?    So instead of $39 per year, every water bill customer will pay $66 per year.    Raising taxes, raising fees, it’s all semantics.   

Don’t even ask what they are doing to raise fees for getting a building permit.    Heck, it costs $67 to get a required permit to change out your garage door.    Yes, these are the hidden taxes that Mayor Bush hides in his deep pockets.    What reserves?    Give us a break Bush.

"In the future, the city will continue to grow, Bush said.    The next two years will usher in a "tremendous amount of construction" in the Town Center, he said.    Two thousand new Townhomes units have been approved, which will help the area blossom, he said.    "The Town Center will really develop.    By the time I'm up for re-election next year, you'll really be able to see it."

So much for those bigger trees.    Yes, the area will blossom but there won’t be any trees left for the blossoms to be on.    That’s why according to Bush “you’ll really be able to see” the town center, there won’t be a tree in sight to obstruct it.    At that continued rate of growth of new townhomes in the town center, expect ALL Tuscawilla high school students to be rezoned to Oviedo High School in the future.   

If Bush and his cronies on the Commission keep ordering up more townhomes (now 6,000+) faster than you can order a taco at Tijuana Flats, then all students living within the fringes of the city’s limits will be rezoned out of Winter Springs High School, and perhaps other schools as well.

"One issue of contention that remains uncertain is the fate of the Black Hammock, a rural area of historic farmland and homes east of the city in unincorporated Seminole County.    The city created a commission to study ways of managing what Bush has described as impending growth and development, which is aligned with the city's interest in annexing the Black Hammock."

So much for those bigger trees again.    With Bush at the helm is there any doubt that the Black Hammock is doomed in the name of an upscale lifestyle?

"City leaders have been criticized by residents for what is said to be a reluctance to curtail urban sprawl.    Bush said he doesn't understand what the fuss is about."
 

With an arrogant response like that doesn’t it indicate to you exactly what Bush thinks of the rural commission the city set up?    It’s totally bogus, man.    Bring on the bulldozers!    Eastward HO!

"A lot Seminole County residents don't even know where it is located," he said of the Black Hammock. Still, he said he only favors voluntary annexations in the area - contrary to rumor that the city plans to take over the area.

"I don't go out there very often either," he said. "I've driven through it, but that's about it.    I don't have any reason to go out there."

Just because people don’t know where it is located, doesn’t mean they don’t care about its existence.    Now we know what Bush feels about what American citizens do to protect sensitive environmental areas around the world.   

According to Bushism, if you haven’t been there then you don’t have a right to vote to save or protect it.    It is Bush’s ultimate goal to give him a reason to drive through the Black Hammock on a regular basis.   He’s sees shopping carts in the Black Hammock’s future, lots of them.   

Oh, and for the uninformed, voluntary annexation in City-speak means the City sends a big, juicy carrot of an enticement letter to Black Hammock property owners asking them to annex.    It’s called the “bait and switch plan” in City Hall.    Lure the property owner, and then make it look like they wanted to do it in the first place without any help from City Hall.
 

"He said when his term in office ends next year, he's ready to run again, because his job with the city isn't done yet. "I'm enjoying the work, and I think we're making some real great strides in the city," Bush said. "I want to stay a part of it."

Yes, Bush’s job is not quite done.    He hasn’t mowed down the Black Hammock yet, that’s on his to-do list.    He has only disenfranchised 75% of the voters and business owners west of SR419; he’s got 25% more to turn off.   

Bush hasn’t totally pushed every Tuscawilla student out of Winter Springs High School, but he’s got a good jump on it and if he continues to put up thousands of more townhomes students in other areas of Winter Springs will be forced out.   

Oh, Bush has not quite made a billionaire of former commissioner David McLeod, his biggest campaign supporter in the 2002 election.    He’s working on that too with some spiced up Town Center land deals.

He has not finished padding Ron McLemore’s pockets either.    By the end of Bush’s term, McLemore will be making over $200,000 not including benefits for managing a Tiny Town.    Bush didn’t quite get the pay increase he had hoped for himself and his City Commissioners, but he did get all their pay well increased that perhaps he won’t have to push a shopping cart around the Publix parking lot any longer.   

Give him another term and he’ll increase the mayor’s and commissioner’s pay twofold.    Yes, Bush still has a lot work to do.    The question is: Can taxpayers afford to have him “work” another term at their expense?

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