CORRECTION Mayor Kant was not in California until Wednesday, he and Jennifer just skipped the planning and zoning meeting Monday night for no legitimate reason. Several employees have called the Eagle and informed us that the dynamic duo was in hiding. WOW what leadership. An America in Bloom vanity award in sunny Southern California was the reason Mayor Kant and Public Works Director Jennifer Fidler were conspicuously absent at this week’s planning commission meeting entertaining the controversial Fly Creek Apartment deal for the sixth time. While Kant and Fidler, Sherry Sullivan did not make this trip, were wining and dining with the fawning politicians of coastal Arroyo Grande, the Fairhope Planning Commission sealed the fate of the dubious high-density project with a 4-2 vote. Their two votes, in lieu of Commissioner Fogarty’s absence, were crucial. However, the fact that the mayor turned his back on the citizens, the developers, and property owner, at the eleventh hour of this costly, tortuous ordeal speaks volumes about his character and even more about the near future of Fairhope politics. What is the mayor thinking? Fairhope came in second for the same award last year, out of three entries, think about it.
Jimmy Conyers steamed rolled incumbent Diana Brewer for a Fairhope City Council seat with 66% of the vote. Diana now joins Tim Kant, as the second person to lose their job because they refused to listen to their constituents, they will soon have company. People elected to office pledge one thing over and over in their election bids, “I will listen to you.” Then after being voted into office they soon realize that they are smarter than everyone else.
Be sure you read City asking GulfQuest to cough up utility payments, as agreed According to Executive Director of Finance Paul Wesch, GulfQuest National Maritime Museum has not been holding up its end of an agreement with the city to pay its utility bills.
Commissioner Tucker Dorsey the citizens of Baldwin County have lost confidence in you. You began your political life as a commissioner by firing the county manager, EMA director county attorneys and others. Outgoing Baldwin County commissioners fire county administrator and planning, personnel directors - al.com BAY MINETTE, Alabama -- In the last meeting for the current board of commissioners, officials fired three directors and demoted a fourth upon the employees; request and voted to support the Baldwin County Watershed Coalition's stormwater initiative.
Baldwin County has recently been introduced to the traffic intersection known as a roundabout.” The modern roundabout is a beautiful thing. Traffic flow is improved, they look nice and they are safer than traditional intersections. In the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Status Report about Roundabouts, they cite research from the University of Maine that found a 39% reduction in crashes, a 76% decrease in injury-producing crashes, and a 90% decrease in collisions involving fatal or incapacitating injuries when studying a sample of 25 intersections turned into roundabouts. Other research finds that while roundabouts are safer than traditional intersections, they also have the potential to reduce traffic delay by up to 75%.”
Mayor Kant, after receiving the official news that he lost his re-election bid, promised a smooth transition from his administration to the new administration, which takes over Nov. 7th. The Mayor, like much of the community, is slowly coming out of shock; and he’s still taking orders from his good ole boy club and a remora-like gaggle of entitled attorneys. The Mayor’s first transition move was his announcement of a Performing Arts Center:
The Ripp Report made a complaint against Steven Patrick Johnson to the Alabama State Bar, CSP NO. 2016-296. On March 17, 2016 they responded “Two attorneys in the Office of the General Council of the Alabama State Bar have reviewed your complaint and the attorney’s response to the complaint. In view of the nature and content of the complaint and the response of the attorney, we will take no further action in this matter.” Of course we are not privileged to the response of the attorney.
It is no secret that I have spent 10 years trying to unseat the Mayor of Fairhope. It is expected after an election to be gracious and heap accolades on the departing Mayor, I will reserve my comments until Nov. 7th. The transition period between now and Nov. 7th will be telling. I hope it is civil with no surprises or forced through agendas that may impact the city negatively.
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The Ripp Report and Baldwin County Legal Eagle is a nonprofit. We are a consumer group and take no donations from political candidates or organizations that wish to use our platform. The Ripp Report files legitimate complaints with the agency that may handle that case. Currently complaints reside with Attorney General, Ethics Commission, Judiciary, and Bar Association. These complaints originate from consumers contacting us. We endorse candidates and encourage public participation in exposing political and Judicial Corruption in Baldwin County. YOU are the Court of Public Opinion.
