Daily Times Covers For Council Vindictiveness

Forgive me, folks, but today's Daily Times story on the spiteful pull of health insurance benefits from council was just plain barf material. No slam on the reporter. She's new and the Daily TImes doesn't pay its reporters enough to spend any time researching a story. Those recent college grads put in their two years to claim experience on their resumes, then run for the nearest REAL newspaper where they can get hired.

Everyone who knows the REAL history of the YEARS of effort to hurt Debbie Campbell and Terry Cohen understands that this is NOT about saving money, it is NOT about the principle of whether elected officials should get benefits or not, it is NOT about fairness.  Salisbury News has already told you what it's REALLY about, but just in case you didn't get it, let me say it again.

It's about revenge for Debbie Campbell saying a benefit of electing her over Michael Day was she could pay for her own benefits, which she did for years until she couldn't any more. Debbie never knocked Michael for taking the benefits, but you know this sick bunch of leftovers from Barrie Tilghman could twist a steel rod if they were obsessed with doing it.

If they couldn't get Debbie, then they would get Terry Cohen, who has young children, works more hours on council than any "part-time" employee, and works to feed those kids on top of that!

There was no public outcry at the public hearing on health benefits against the elected officials having them. IN FACT! there were very few people there at all and most weren't for such a drastic change. Even Lynn Cathcart didn't say cut the funding entirely, although Lynn had to bring up (without naming names) Debbie's first election comment and how awful it was it too poor little Michael Day.

Salisbury has to be the most VINDICTIVE city in this country! The last act Barrie Tilghman did as mayor was to cut the council health insurance from her proposed budget.

I mean, WHERE ELSE would you find a man dealing with the level of cancer Gary Comegys is, leaving office, and OBSESSED, as one of his last acts on council, maybe on earth, taking health insurance away from a woman with two kids?

As a bonus, Gary got to slam Jim Ireton for doing the legal and right thing. I've got my differences with Jim Ireton, and do others including Debbie and Terry, but Gary's problem is personal through and through.  Mayor Jim Ireton kicked Gary's butt in the election and Gary can't man up and get over it.

I won't even get into the disgrace that Louise Smith and Shanie Shields are over this.

No wonder Salisbury is a laughing stock! It's also a crying shame. Really. You voters in Salisbury better get out and vote Tuesday to say "ENOUGH OF THIS SICKNESS!" Look where the signs are. You can tell whose owned by the landlords of Salisbury. You can tell who has NO RESPECT for the law by all the signs in the public right of way and by railroad tracks (just like Gary Comegys did, same places, right, Muir?)

This is your last chance, Salisbury. Don't blow it or you're lost for good!

And let me just add, Gary Comegys' cancer treatments are paid for by the taxpayers of Maryland, but he'll act like it's just awful for the CHILDREN of a hard-working councilwoman to be protected?