Tonight, the number of people attending the board meeting doubled to 21. The bulk of the group were Concerned Citizens. The twitter sisters were even present, and they twittered, until President Walton had to bang the gavel. During one of the reports it was mentioned that there had been a complaint about the Wedgefield Examiner. The hypocritical complainer was in the audience. I haven't identified this person, but I did provide his/her complaint earlier. Garrison went on to speak about freedom of speech, mentioned The Wedgefield Examiner, said some things that didn't apply to the documented articles provided here. When we reached the point of resident comments, a male resident spoke about how The Wedgefield Examiner was splitting the community and harming real estate values. He sat in a row of chairs which contained the very first developer of not only the first website, but the mass mailer of ugly messages to all residents in 2009 - 10, condoner of one president's video taping of special residents at board meetings (Garrison was on that board), and a supporter of the slugger president at the court house as he plead guilty, the very person who put Wedgefield in the newspapers, after leading a golf cart parade of Concerned Citizens carrying ugly signs for the photo op.
As editor of the Wedgefield Examiner, I stood up and told the group, and the board that as long as the board operated as they had been, that The Wedgefield Examiner would continue. My grandmother who often made the statement, "that's like the pot calling the kettle black", often would also say, "consider the source", and The Wedgefield Examiner did.
We have a week with Florida cousins starting Thursday AM. We will have to report on the meeting after our visit is over. We'll be back up and running after March 26. We are visiting, not running from this group of hypocrites.
