What did I say? Follow the phone messages, or texts.
On a major issue that would have helped employees with sick time pay, the Repub Mayor stalled until it was too late to put the issue on the ballot. When there was a public records request for her phone texts, it was learned she had deleted them. When they were recovered, we saw something that many of us suspected would happen back when she decided to select a local lawyer from a law firm with too much private interest:
Texts show lawyer advised Jacobs on sick time
Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs on Thursday released previously deleted cellphone texts that show she received advice and coaching from a longtime political ally on the day commissioners voted to delay a sick-time initiative from the ballot.
Much of the debate in the Sept. 11 hearing centered on whether the ballot measure's wording was misleading, and if commissioners had the power or duty to delay a vote and revise it. Commissioners voted 4-3 to study the initiative, which effectively kept it off the ballot, though Jacobs voted against the delay.
During the debate, BakerHostetler attorney Kevin Shaughnessy texted Jacobs to suggest she ask sick-time proponents if they wanted to use the wording listed on its more than 50,000 signed petition forms, or use revised language that they had submitted that day.
A short time later, he texted Jacobs: "Then take a break stating you want the County Attorney to review the NEW language and you and your colleagues want to study it too and you need to determine what we can and cannot do with the new language."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-sick-time-jacobs-messages-20120927,0,5805110.story
