BODY LANGUAGE: MAYOR GEORGE GARDNER'S HANDS IN HIS POCKETS (AND YOURS)

BODY LANGUAGE: MAYOR GEORGE GARDNER'S HANDS IN HIS POCKETS (AND YOURS)


Body language experts say that people who habitually have their hands in their pockets have something to hide, are secretive or disrespectful or dejected or anxious (or perhaps thinking about money or sex).

Mayor, GEORGE GARDNER spent much of the time at the Lincolnville Festival with his hands in his pockets, his shoulders hunched.

Third-generation scion of a political family that has won some 17 elections in 90 years, was GARDNER thinking about his missed opportunities to lead for four years and why voters who avidly supported him have now rejected him (see below). Perhaps GARDNER was rejecting his anti-Gay votes against Rainbow Flags on the Bridge of Lions (twice), voting to ban all but government flag-flying after the Federal Court ordered the flags to fly because of First Amendment violations.

Or perhaps GEORGE GARDNER was thinking about all of the money wasted by the City Hall he now admits suffers from "rampant corruption" (see below) under the regime of CITY MANAGER WILLIAM B. HARRIS. (See below).

One thing's for sure -- if voters defeat pollution and what GARDNER admits is "rampant corruption" and defeat corporate welfare advocate GEORGE GARDNER, he won't have GARDNER's hands in our pockets any longer.

With 400 blanket purchase orders, de facto sole source procurement, and rampant purchasing irregularities (including buying gasoline and diesel fuel based on oral telephone quotes every time a storage tank runs out), unbridled discretion of CITY MANAGER WILLIAM B. HARRISS to spend up to $500,000 on his say-so, wasting $22 million on an oversized Taj Mahal parking garage and over $500,000 utility bill-paying building for a little town of 13,000, our city government contractors have their hands in OUR pockets.

As former United States Senator Gary Warrent Hart (D-Colorado) perhaps said it best, "you won't get government off your back until you get your hands out of its pockets."


We sincerely hope that GARDNER's hands will no longer be in OUR pockets (or inappropriately touching the persons of city employees).


GARDNER deserves defeat on Tuesday, November 7 (just like defeated County Commissioners KAREN STERN and BRUCE whom City Commissioner JOSEPH LEROY BOLES, JR. refers to as "KAREN " AND "BRUCE."

Peter Romano is the candidate to reform our Nation's Oldest City as Mayor and Commissioner.

See below.