Kristen Burke may be used to turning heads. Going forward, she had better get used to seeing a glare on the associated faces.
Cue more chiropractor jokes.
Hey, did you hear the one about County Commissioner Burke being willing to change her stormwater vote? All it will take is eight to 10 regularly scheduled public hearings.
The picture of her fiddling on her phone, hidden behind her laptop, as the commission meeting burned with indignation was getting a lot of traction on Facebook yesterday. Publicity-wise, the therapeutic wobble chair-woman was having a no good, very bad day.
That photo turned out to be the straw that broke the Facebook camel’s back, so to speak.
“I don’t care what the voters say I’m playing on my phone and being rude to them, peasants taking up my time,” Charles Hodges quipped.
“The way she talked to the people last night I will NEVER step foot in her business again. She will never see another dime of my hard earned money,” Lauren Davis said.
Brandon Leino said he would find some other way to deal with his pain rather than attend her chiropracty. (Yes, that’s a word.)
Plenty of commenters predicted her Fleming Island crack-tice may have to adjust to economic hard times. Others called for an outright boycott or an outporing of one-star reviews.
Not a quip but an indictment from Sherry Gonyon:
When she argued with that older gentleman towards the end who asked her to please pay attention and not look at her phone, I was just blown away. She sounded like a petulant child. Those people have three minutes to speak, you can look at your phone between speakers. Just wow. I get it was a long night, but he waited HOURS to have those three minutes.
“She's one arrogant, miserable bitch,” said Robert Phillips, his choice of words milder than those of some of the others sharing his sentiments.
A suburban witch named Zette Fleming actually put a curse on Burke or, more accurately, her landscaping: “May chinch bugs devour that complacent, self-absorbed woman’s lawn to the point she can’t afford the fines and replacement sod for the rest of her days.”
Ouch!
“Remember after a couple of hours, someone brought her a cord to charge her phone? She likely ran down the battery playing Candy Crush,” Brian Driver said.
(Dear Brian, you are obviously unaware of the mobile app Chiropractor 3D featuring doctor-patient adjustment gameplay.)
So, we know who Tuesday’s big loser was. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the big winner going to be Amendment 3?
Oh, and you can probably forget about that pay raise.
She needs to be the first one to be ousted from the board for incompetence. I look forward to being one of the first to sign a recall petition with her being the first on the list. Ironic that Burke gave a several minute diatribe about no-clapping or hand gestures while the residents at the meeting clapped for maybe 5 secs at best. She was the one wasting people's time, not the residents. Her and the other commissioners who voted to proceed with the fee need to be ousted immediately from office. I would be more than happy to sign the recall petition.
Under Florida law, according to Florida Statute § 100.361, these commissioners can be removed for incompetence and I believe that fraud, waste, and abuse of tax payer dollars falls squarely on the majority of our current board. They have clearly mismanaged Clay county tax payer dollars since they were elected to office and they knowing chose to spring this nasty little surprise on the residents to give very little time to fight back waiting until the last possible legally required time to send out a notice to residents, hoping that this would fly under the radar.
She knew about the stormwater issue going back years and, instead of using tax payer dollars to begin proactive steps to fix the issue when it was first reported by the state, she and the rest of the majority, chose to waste our money on frivolous things such as million dollar "Welcome to Clay Signs" and replacing perfectly fine electronic school billboards with new billboards under the guise of "security" whatever that means.
Too bad Commissioner Burke is only accountable to voters in her district instead of the whole county that will be affected by this action.