That "Vision Thing"

President George Herbert Walker Bush called it that "vision thing." Bush and his somnambulistic sons never had it.
But our City of St. Augustine certainly has -- view the video of the May 22, 2013 visioning steering committee meeting and consider what Cathy Brown said: This is a "working class town" and we don't want to be "fancy."
Ms. Cathy Brown, former Council on Aging Director, said in a sentence what we have feared for years.
Former Commissioner Susan Burk and former City Manager WILLIAM BRUCE HARRISS stated they wanted to run working class people out of St. Augustine, and make this a dull Republican replica of Boca Raton (Spanish for "rat mouth.")
We don't like Boca Raton.
I once lived near Boca Raton, in Deerfield Beach, a working class town.
We avoided Boca Raton.
We reject Boca Raton's plasticity, its nouveau riche smugness, and its sheer pretentiousness.
Three cheers for Cathy Brown!
Let St. Augustine be St. Augustine, and proud of it!

P.S.: To those misguided soulless rich sourpusses who want St. Augustine to be more like Boca Raton, there is Ponte Vedra.
Go there.
Stay there.
Play golf.
Stay there and look down your distended nostrils at the rest of the world.
You're welcome to come dine and party and enjoy history in St. Augustine, but "at the end of the day," please go back to Ponte Vedra. (And, please don't try to inflict another cramdown bigoted undemocratic county charter on the rest of us -- we beat you twice in 2008, beat you like drums, and had fun doing it!)