The Village Council is a mess

The Cocoanut Grove Village Council has decided to postpone this week's meeting and hopefully meet at another date this month. They have gone back and forth on the issue these past few days. The Village Council is a mess and most of those going out of office in January just don't care anymore. They really should just give up until the new Council is sitting in January and not even pretend to want to help the community.

This current Village Council is a disgrace and they should go out with a whimper. They have no reason to be proud of themselves and they have jerked the public around enough this week and are basically scared little puppets afraid to make any decisions. I don't know what the higher ups have on them, but there must some mighty big skeletons in their closets for them to back out like little wimps. I have no respect for most of them at this point.

They voted among themselves as to whether to meet and this is how it went: David Collins, Felice Dubin, Gary Hecht, Alyn Pruett and Martin Zilber voted not to meet tonight. Liliana Dones, Michelle Niemeyer, Adam Weirich and Lottie Person voted to have the meeting.

Make out of it what you will. I must say that I do regret that they had to be bullied and scared into not meeting at all. And it all boils down to the 5 am bar closing issue, which ironically is not even the decision of the Village Council, but may be settled in the courts -- spot zoning, petitions and other items may be involved at this point. I alone have been contacted by a few attorneys to help fight the cause, and it isn't even my cause. I can only imagine what the bar owners are planning.

This bullying of the Village Council, having them thrown out of City Hall, having them knocked off tv and every other devious tactic (like threatening phone calls and such) is just fueling the fire and people are getting more upset by the day. The new Mayor Regalado has even been thrown in the mix and blamed. I will have his side of the story shortly.

I am confused as to how in this day and age that people are scared to meet, talk and basically live their lives. Are we living in the United States or in Cuba or Venezuela?