June 03, 2004
Nudity and corrections
Alert readers will notice that I got the date wrong for the Hillsborough BOCC meeting yesterday. Actually, I got the day wrong too. In the future, I promise not to create hasty error-ridden blog entries at 1:30 in the morning right before my radio show. I know that BOCC meetings are on Wednesdays. I have no idea what I was thinking when I wrote up that entry.
In related news, the meeting which I had wrong took place as scheduled yesterday. Joe Redner was there and he made sure that the Babtists were called on their lies. Also, Ronda Storms got a richly deserved but very rare comeuppance leading to a bizarre utterance about backstabbing. Ronda is a true nutcase.
Hillsborough County Commissioner Ronda Storms had more than 500 churchgoers in her corner. The crowd filled the commission's board room, flooded the stairwell and packed the lobby.Posted by Norwood at June 3, 2004 10:11 AMThey came armed with more than 10,000 signatures and a video presentation. All to back up Storms, who was fighting Wednesday to get a referendum on the November ballot that would ban public nudity.
But in the end, Storms couldn't get even one commissioner to second her motion to put the item up for vote.
"I'm shocked at my colleagues," she told the crowd. "I'm shocked and appalled. You should give the people an opportunity to vote on it."
......Storms' plea was preceded by appeals to the commission by Tom Biles of the Tampa Bay Baptist Association and David Gibbs of the Christian Law Association. Both men are also leaders in Citizens for Decency, a grass-roots group of church members spearheading the effort.
......Amid the sea of Christians was nude dance club owner Joe Redner, who was thrown out for yelling insults at Biles as he tried to address the commission.
Biles argued that Hillsborough County had three times the number of adult businesses as Miami.
"That's not true!" Redner screamed from the audience.
Biles continued, throwing out rape statistics.
"That's a lie!" Redner said.
A security guard ushered Redner out of the meeting as he screamed: "He is a liar! Call a liar a liar. Pray for the liar!"
Redner then taunted the overflow crowd gathered downstairs with an article about a priest accused of molesting altar boys.
"This is where the child molesters are," Redner said, pointing to the headline.
......When Storms made the motion to place the item - which has yet to be crafted - on the November ballot, she was met with silence.
"It died, lack of a second," Scott said. "There was no second."
Storms then offered a different motion: to have commissioners vote on placing the ordinance as it had been written and presented at a previous meeting.
That, too, failed to gain any momentum.
Later, when Commissioner Kathy Castor gave her reasons for not supporting a Pat Frank-backed item on the agenda, Storms looked at Frank and said, "Don't worry, I've got daggers in my back, too ... Feels good, doesn't it?"
Rhonda Storms should have her DSLs(dick sucking lips) removed because it might insight someone to face fuck her. That woman must have been seriously abused as a child. I think she really wants to be stabbed in the back (in her no-no hole). This is what happens to people when they don't get proper sex education as children. Rhonda needs to get out a little. Maybe visit a European beach or two, so she can see that normal adults and children don't give a shit if there are naked people in public. The human body is a work of art. Well, maybe not so much in the U.S. as 60% of the population is obese.
Posted by: Jesus Christ at June 3, 2004 10:54 PM
Hurling insults via the internet is like farting in a hurricane - you have to be much less timid about making your views known - Letters to the Editor are far more effective!
Also, you now have someone worthwhile to vote for in District 4 - Jean Bartronie!
Posted by: Gary Mitchell at June 21, 2004 11:32 PMI'm glad you liked the smell enough to put forth the effort to make a comment! That's just what we need - more dialogue. Thank you.
Posted by: Jesus Christ at June 24, 2004 07:07 PM