- April 22, 2025
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Unhinged, was the takeaway from the mayor’s State of the City speech last week. It was an astonishingly divisive firehose of grievances, unfounded allegations and absurd conspiracy theories while denigrating city staff.
The mayor even recruited his “good versus evil” sounding pastor as a prelude prop to bolster his upcoming seemingly paranoid rant about some evil cabal of outside elements teaming up and plotting with past and current city staff to ruin him. Sadly, his State of the City speech thusly became more of a tribute to irrationality.
How can he ever garner the respect of the city employees he works daily with, including the City Council after such a performance and with such a mindset? How can he effectively carry on in the role of mayor and foster the vital teamwork necessary to run our town? Unfortunately, the answer is, he can’t.
Sarah Brinkley
Palm Coast
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