(PENSACOLA) --- The title says it all.
Pensacola loses American Idol, as it should.
The pomp and circumstance surrounding a local’s rise on the iconic television competition has revealed much.
It shows how elected officials who dismiss detrimental city issues will do anything for some facetime, as seen in this report. As always, we must begin with Mayor D.C. Reeves, who was just waiting for a chance to fly to Hollywood the moment Pensacola made the top 12.
He uses the area and its residents for his own ends, possibly a trait passed down from his father, James Reeves, who was proud to recently pass a $250K measure for tourism development on the drop of a taxpayer’s dime, all pun intended.
Like his father, Reeves is attempting to turn Pensacola into a destination station while ignoring the homeless.
(Photo: Mayor D.C. Reeves' Facebook Post)
Tagging his post from Hollywood, “2,078 miles apart, never felt this close to home,” is ironic to say the least. Reeves calls Pensacola home, yet he does not treat it the same.
His attempt to turn Pensacola into Hollywood, along with his father and friends, takes away from the people here who struggle daily.
This reporter has watched Reeves betray both the public and the council continuously from one story to the next, so I am not surprised by his actions. Nor am I surprised by Representative Michelle Salzman.
(Photo: Representative Michelle Salzman's Facebook post)
Like Reeves, she has ignored a local dog-attack victim story that has garnered nearly 5.5K hits, showing it matters, but apparently not to her.
What she will pay attention to is the day of free press next to the local American Idol contestant. Then comes Councilwoman Tenaide Broughton, who recently treated a citizen at the podium with such disrespect that even this reporter of 20 years was surprised, and that says a lot.
(Photo: Facebook post of Councilwoman Tenaide Broughton waiting for a local American Idol contestant's return at the airport)
I wonder if she would have talked to the local American Idol contestant the same way if the contestant had stepped up to the podium. Of course, she wouldn’t.
Then come the Pensacola residents, who actually argue that the local should have one, not Hannah Harper.
You're wrong, Harper won because she is the better singer according to America’s vote.
Accept it.
I will not waste time regurgitating hateful comments about Harper, since she deserves better.
So, in the end, Pensacola loses American Idol as it should. I will end on a lesson for us all to consider.
I John 5:21...Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.
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