To the editor:<\/p>\n
On June 22\u00a0a forum was held at the Mosquito District Office for District 5 Lee County Commissioner Candidates, Lee County Commissioner Trish Petrosky stated, \u201cIf you have any questions that didn\u2019t get answered I\u2019m here for you. Call my office. Email me. I\u2019m always accessible. I\u2019m always answering and I\u2019m here for you.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0(YouTube quote at 1:56:29).<\/p>\n
On June 23, I emailed follow-up questions to Commissioner Petrosky and still have not received a response from her. The questions were:<\/p>\n
(1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Would she advocate to allow citizen participation at Commissioner Workshops?<\/p>\n
(2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How would she increase citizen participation in the budget process?<\/p>\n
(3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Lee County Domestic Animal Services (LCDAS) charges what appears to be an excessive amount for public records and redacts information without an explanation. Concerned about transparency and open government, the following questions were posed:<\/p>\n
How do you intend to address this?<\/p>\n
Why aren\u2019t Domestic Animal Services records readily available to the public online?<\/p>\n
From this experience it appears Commissioner Petrosky professes to represent everyone and respond to all constituents but avoids addressing issues she does not like.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Apparently, she isn\u2019t here for us! Her rhetoric does not match her actions as a County Commissioner and candidate!<\/p>\n
Joyce Campana<\/p>\n
Fort Myers <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: On June 22\u00a0a forum was held at the Mosquito District Office for District 5 Lee…\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-350795","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\/350795","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=350795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350795\/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=350795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}