The great Aretha Franklin spells it out as she says: R-E-S-P-E-C-T find out what it means to me!
For the past couple of weeks, I quietly sat back and witnessed a great deal of Lack of Respect in the City of Franklin. This Lack of Respect has been on many levels.
- Lack of Respect for the citizens of the communities of Franklin and Oak Creek by the 27th Street Steering Committee to dare to criticize the name of Boomgaard District and the costs involved in naming it.
- Lack of Respect for members of the 27th Street Steering Committee who have spent much time working on the 27th Street project. Yes they may be bull headed but have spent a lot of time and sweat on the project which they get paid nothing for.
- Lack of Respect from City officials (like Alderman Sohns) to bloggers (who are their constituents) and to the other vocal citizens of Franklin.
- Lack of Respect from the media as we become a laughing stock due to this Boomgaard fiasco (Sykes, Belling and Stingl)
- Lack of Respect from other communities as we weather the issues of mistrust of our community leaders and their leadership.
- Lack of Respect from the Zizzo group to the citizens of Franklin for not involving us in renaming a major part of our city.
- Lack of Respect to our city officials, who some say, do not deserve our respect on how they have handled this issue.
- Lack of Respect from a fellow FranklinNOW Blogger for other community bloggers that choose to blog about this Boomgaard fiasco. Who asked in one of his blogs "How's that "New Day" working out for you guys?" I guess not too well with all this Lack of Respect!
