Facebook posting from Democratic guy Steve Beste from yesterday sent in by an astute reader.
Ritter has made grumblings about running for Congress in the past, perhaps in part because her lobbyist/hubby, Russ Klenet, shifted his business to D.C. Of course, she also expected a position in the Obama administration at one point.
Ritter clearly isn't enjoying the commission much these days. Inside, see her Twitter posting during Tuesday's commission meeting and hear about her latest little fit.
The tweet:
Why doesn't the morning meeting ever conclude in the morning?
10:04 AM Feb 8th via Twitter for iPad
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| Ritter from this week's coffee talk. |
I can see how this would bother her considering that she makes only $92,000 a year to have to attend the meetings (or not, considering Ilene Lieberman). Mostly when she talks lately, she's in whiner mode. For instance, during Tuesday's meeting, her only lengthy time speaking on the dais was when she said she would refuse to rank county attorney candidates because she believed it ran contrary to the ethics laws. Don't get it wrong, though -- she wasn't trying to be ethical; she was trying to be difficult and take a jab at those ethics laws, which she clearly hates with a passion after she failed to kill them before they were born. Ritter's argument was that s
ince commissioners no longer can sit on selection committees to pick contractors, etc, they can't pick a county attorney either. Her argument was idiotic -- as just about everyone on the dais diplomatically tried to tell her -- because the charter dictates that the commission directly hire that position. It was, as one political source put it, sheer petulance.
Ritter is heavily Tweeting these days, by the way. And she doesn't mind my posting her stuff; in fact, she wrote: "A big thank you to the media types who publish my tweets and FB status. My name recognition is through the roof! Keep it up and thanks."
-- Incidentally she gave her "coffee talk" this week, and she seems to have a strange lisp in it. I have no idea why. Her interviewee, Broward County Human Services Director Susan Myers, has a slight one too, so I don't know if I'm just picking up lisps in an extra-sensitive way right now or it was a true lisp-fest. Perhaps one or the other of them developed a sympathetic lisp (it's the kind of thing good politicians do). I just don't know.
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