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Foster's 40 Follies, Part II

Here is Part II of a two part series outlining “Foster’s 40 Follies” and why it is time for a change at City Hall.

1.      Foster bulldozes a crime scene, which some experts found disturbing. Then he has 8 different reasons for the decision:  

2.      Foster didn’t bother to vote in the 2011 city elections. 

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3.      Foster forms a sports alliance that hasn’t really done anything.   

4.      Foster gives a no-bid contract to the Red Light camera company.

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5.      Foster says he will “fight like the dickens” to stop light rail in Tampa without including St Pete. 

6.      After 3 years of avoiding the Gay Pride Parade proclamation like the plague, Foster flip flops and signs his own proclamation just days after declining to sign Council’s proclamation. 

7.      Foster becomes the first Mayor in 22 years to raise property taxes.

8.      Foster claims he always wanted the public to vote on the pier.  Remember when he told all of us to “put up or shut up”?

9.      Foster is the kind of guy who laughs at a (Bob Kersteen’s) funeral

10.  Foster gives the non-local for-profit Rock & Roll Marathon a $30k handout while stiffing other local non-profit marathons.  

11.  Foster jeopardizes our safety by implementing Fire Department brownouts to save money.

12.  Despite the Mayor’s Mentors Program and his efforts on education, Foster presides over a city with 7 F graded schools, and the worst African American male graduation rate in the state of Florida.

13.  Foster gives Sams Club a $240k tax break for building on contaminated land.  Even though a Home Depot and Office Depot previously occupied the same property without any issues.  

14.  Foster turns off visitors to downtown by sticking parking meters everywhere.

15.  Foster screws over one of our heroes, firefighter Brad Westphal.

16.  Foster’s park fee hike kills the Crawfish Festival at Vinoy Park. 

17.  Foster flip flops on his the Rays stadium position.

18.  Foster travels to DC to give speech on being a “mold breaker”   

19.  Foster clumsily fires Go Davis less than one month after stating that he was performing his job at a very high level.   

20.  Foster receives an endorsement from Governor Rick Scott, the least popular governor in America.  LOL!

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