It is imperative that the candidacy of Pastor, Grossman and Jaleski be successful.

I have criticized these group of commissioners for being foolish on the Longboat key Club, being brain dead on the Publix expansion and reckless for the Hilton, but with their feverish desire to cut no matter the consequences goes beyond all of their previous idiocy’s.

What is the driving force that requires the commissioners to run back into that burning building they just were rescued by the court and do it again?

We all know what Mr. Lesser had in mind instead and we also know the result of this overreach. The Sarasota Bar Association is still thinking of putting up a statue in honor of Mr. Lesser.

The Town Commission is now playing with dynamite with a policy change that could totally destroy what many of us labored over the years to make a true paradise.

I find several items in my mind of late. Each might be worthy of note… So I’ll pour out these maybe unrelated thoughts.

The Town Commission is passing an amendment to the zoning codes that not only emasculate the Planning and Zoning Board but open up the two major PUDS, Islandside and Harbourside to anything and everything the Lesser Corporation with the acquiescence of a compliant Town Commission chooses to do in the future.

The decision before the voters is clear. Between the incumbent Vice Mayor David Brenner and his opponent, Ray Rajewski, there is a glaring clear difference: the former for unfettered expansion versus the latter’s belief in carefully coordinated maturation.

It is up to the voters on March 20 to decide. The choice couldn’t be clearer. Did the people at PIC, Arvida and others who came along later have the right idea, or are Brenner and his colleagues correct in wanting to go a different route?

One of the questions I am most asked is how I seem to keep up with what is happening on Longboat Key since I don’t live there anymore. It is a very good question, and when I hear from two of my readers that they have been told by friends that they are not comfortable with showing any favor to the contender for the Town Commission, Ray Rajewski, because they might suffer some consequences, I do feel that I do no longer know the town.