And of course phony Tony looked around like "What Happened???? Did I do it wrong?"
I watched the very long video last night of the BCC meeting. There was never ANY doubt (in my mind) T. Anderson and C. Jones would vote to approve the DRI. No surprise, so predictable and proof positive that developers and big money control their seats on OUR County Commission. Neither of them give a damn about their constituents despite their feeble protests to the contrary.
Comander (in my opinion) is distancing herself from the 3 musketeers as she said she would after she was blindsided by Chapman and lost her chair to C. Jones. Sara did the right thing and should get kudos for that. KUDOS Sara!
Nipper proved she
IS the peoples representative on the BCC and her questions were centered around the 5000 homeowners who would be impacted the hardest by approval of the DRI. Her comments and questions were thoughtful, well researched and factual in content. Despite being new to all of this and her nervousness, she asked tough questions and was not swayed by double speaking attorneys who tried to make the truth of what was really intended with the DRI as proposed more palatable.
The wildcard, Chapman...was only moved to vote against this by homeowners unwilling to relinquish their property rights to Sandestin. His body language spoke volumes about his internal conflict (whether to approve or deny the DRI) and I think his brain finally realized property owners intended to fight back against the taking of their property. It was the right thing to do Chapman! KUDOS to you also for haltingly taking some responsibility for your constituents. It should never be an internal struggle to do the right thing.
As to the majority of those who spoke in favor of the DRI, it did not go unnoticed that most of them were either employees of SDI or homeowners who would benefit from the proposed DRI in the way of "improvements".