Well done Ms. Curle!

Chris, some would read your piece and come away believing it is you who would continue the rancur. Why are words like "loser" or the term "machete manicures" necessary to make your point? I am one who offers my support to the new Council and their desire to move forward, letting bygones be bygones. Your piece lends to the view that one of the reasons our opponents did so poorly is because you and your husband used your paid platforms to unfairly enfluence our supporters. I enjoy winning as much as anybody, but I feel so much better about it if I played on a level playing field. Please stop this nonsence and help our new council bring us all back together again. Do something for your community for a change. Stop making those of us who voted for progress feel dirty about the way we succeeded. Take your negative writings back to the national arena where political thought is less personal and let our small City get back to normal.

So Beowulf you are just upset because all the trucks with signs at the bridge did not do anything. Chris and Don are columnist. I do not think they really influenced anything. Marco has a very intelligent electorate. You guys keep stressing that you were fighting the good fight. Perhaps you misread what the people wanted. With all the money you spent on signs; At debates, In front yards, in front of Dr. Guidry’s office, in the back of trucks you would think that just as many people saw these signs as read the articles by Chris and Don.

I personally believe that the silent majority came out and voted for what was best for Marco.

Please stop expressing your frustrations at Don and Chris.

I believe the Marco Island Eagle does a great of treating both sides fairly.

MarcoAven, If it wasn't clear enough in my comment to the piece above, then I'll make clear now. I voted for the pro-sewer candidates. I know that Chris is a columnist. I also believe that most of Marco Island is inhabited by intelligent people. I too believe that the majority voted for what was best for Marco. I simply do not like the idea of a professional columnist being paid to write pieces designed to influence people in small City local elections. There is something about doing so that is unethical in my view. I see no reason to "stop expressing my frustrations" about any columnist, editorialist, reporter, editor or owner of any media. That's my right. Or does MarcoAvenger believe the press should not be held accountable? Is this how this works? I write my opinion and then someone out of the blue who doesn't even read what I wrote takes time to cut me up? If that's the case, no wonder Marco Island is such a mess.

You answered your own question. Don and Chris have the right to express their own opinion. Perhaps you could write a column for the Eagle expressing your opinion. It could be that some people are too lazy to do anything but complain. Perhaps the Eagle would like to have someone write from the other side? Maybe you should do something and stop complaining. When I was in the Army we had an expression. "Do something or get the Hell out of the way". That is kind of the way I live my life.

Bewulf,
Are you a uniter or still a personal divider?
Insulting the messenger because you don't like the message is foolish & narrow minded.
For you, it all boils down to the fact that it's gonna cost you $$'s to have sewers because the state of FL has decided to upgrade its costal residential areas.
Not a bad concept really. It's about time.
If Rome had sewers 2,000 years ago, Marco Island has some catch up to do!

Both responses are not relevant and serve no purpose in this discussion. Feel free to continue this discusson amongst yourselves.

They are both relevant. You just can not handle the truth.

Beowulf,

You couldn't have been more clear in your original posting. You and I were on different sides of the main issue in this election and your side won. That's okay. That's the American Way. But now you're getting a taste of what your own supporters are like. They say they are for love, peace and reconciliation and then turn on one of their own for registering a concern about the effect that the press had in determining the outcome of the election. You stand on the high ground and your own supporters beat up on you because they just cannot stand anyone who opposes them in any way whatsoever. I think if anyone made an analysis of the name calling that went on before the election, they'd find that it was the pro-STRP side that was slinging most of the mud and the anti-STRP side that (for the most part) stuck with verifiable facts. There were reasonable people on both sides ... and unreasonable ones on both sides too. But it's over. Marco has made its decision and the residents must lie in the bed they made.

Ed Foster

Ed Still trying to cause problems, Beowulf and I were having a discussion. I do not think there was any name calling etc. going on. Now you come on the board and try to stir the pot. As for your last sentence, I think Marco has made a great bed to lie in. I am going to stay here to see things through and help to make Marco a better place. I am not going to run off to the Mountains of North Carolina.

Beowulf - I was trying to say is that perhaps it would be nice for Don and Chris to have an opposing viewpoint writing a column in the paper.

who has been more uncivil on Marco in the past three years than Mr & Mrs talentless(Curle and Farmer)?

Do you really want to go into this.

The anti-city people have disrupted city council meeting, threaded city councilor members and their families, booed a religious figure, tried scared tactics on our older population, damaged personal property of city councilor members, and filed frivolous lawsuits against the city. Do I need to keep going? You guys try to stand on the moral high ground. However, your moral compass is drastically off. Please grow up and stop being so negative.