Another Nail In The Truman Annex Image

Not everyone thinks the City is without fault in the Southard Street dispute. Truman Annex resident, David Lybrand, is one of them. Though we disagree with him, he is entitled to his opinion headlined "City of Key West taking advantage of a good neighbor" that appeared as a Guest Commentary in The Key West Citizen on Sunday, October 8, 2006. Unfortunately, while perhaps unintended, his words came across in the same condescending patronizing manner that has been characteristic of the TAMPOA Board communications.

His Guest Commentary added another nail to the coffin containing the image of Truman Annex and stirs an already boiling pot. Regrettably, his words have reinforced the already rampant notion that folks who live here in the Annex are a bunch of rich, arrogant, patronizing, condescending, classist, brats who don't care about anything or anybody except their million dollar houses and getting their own way.

Certainly the timing of the Guest Commentary could not have been worse. TAMPOA and the City, as we reported Saturday, are about to embark on a new round of settlement discussions. Neither side needed a such a condesending and patronizing prelude to the difficult negotiations ahead.