To the editor:<\/p>\n
Michele and I supported Joe Kilraine for council two years ago.\u00a0\u00a0That mistake will haunt us for another two years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Even after his behavior over the last 18 months, I was shocked to see how he conducted himself during the May 6 council meeting.\u00a0\u00a0His actions were at best disappointing and at worst a violation of civil liberties.\u00a0 Breaking decorum by telling the mayor to throw out a citizen for her passionate outburst due to the cost of her UEP expense was a complete overreaction and an abuse of power.\u00a0\u00a0Not to be outdone, he was the only dissenting vote to continue citizen\u2019s input for the few remaining citizens to speak was out of line.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joe\u2019s smug, superiority and his \u201cemperor without clothes\u201d attitude is not what we voted for in 2024.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
His voting record is also troubling. Joe supported taxes and assessments increases last year totaling more than $27 million.\u00a0\u00a0Maybe even more troubling was awarding the City Manager a perfect score on his yearly evaluation.\u00a0\u00a0Joe claims to be a disciple of GE\u2019s Jack Welsh.\u00a0\u00a0Jack would never give a perfect score to anyone as there is always room for improvement.\u00a0\u00a0The City Manager has mismanaged many things: The Yacht Club, Jaycee Park (Bistro), Parks GO Bonds, Bimini East and the Flag\u2026..I could go on and on.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
When I am wrong, I admit it.\u00a0\u00a0So, when I saw Charlie Pease recently, I apologized for not casting my vote for him.\u00a0\u00a0To those I convinced to vote for Joe over Charlie, I am sorry.\u00a0\u00a0I got that wrong.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
I hope that Joe reads this and remembers his campaign promises.\u00a0\u00a0He has just over two years to go and must recommit to reducing taxes, common sense spending and holding the city manager accountable for making the city more efficient.\u00a0\u00a0His theory of \u201cgo-along to get along\u201d with the establishment is not serving the citizens of Cape Coral. Joe, if you need role models, follow Rachel Kaduk, Jennifer Nelson and Derrick Donnell. They seem to make their decisions based on the voice of the people.<\/p>\n
Tom Shadrach<\/p>\n
Cape Coral<\/p>\n
(Editor\u2019s note: Tom Shadrach is an announced city council candidate. He is not running in Councilmember Kilraine\u2019s district.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Michele and I supported Joe Kilraine for council two years ago.\u00a0\u00a0That mistake will haunt us…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-272605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}