I hope you address the Rich Campbell’s article in the Press Journal. Now that the human interest writer, Russ Lemmon, has failed, Scripps is bringing in their sports writer turned columnist, Rich Campbell, who works out of Stuart.

Campbell wants to be the news media’s “objective third party at tomorrows’  meeting in Orlando between leaders of Vero Beach and representatives of the FMPA.  He proposes to, “cover the issues discussed and report on the content and tenor of the negotiations.”

As I witnessed first hand with the “dog park,” objectivity and balanced reporting is about the last thing the Press Journal strives for.

“A majority of have consistently supported the sale,” Campbell writes. Of course, in his “objective” writing he neglects to say that majority support for the sale was measured when the voters thought we were getting a minimum of $90,000,000 proceeds Charlie Wilson was promising, not bailing out the FPL stocks holders to the tune of paying $26,000,000. FPL has to recognize that they can not go around saying they are paying $52,000,000, if we are paying $26,000,000 million.

Exploring “just how far away Vero Beach, FPL, FMPA, OUC are from completing a deal” should maybe have been done before we spent $1,500,000 attorney fees, with another $1,500,000 budgeted in the future. Here again Campbell’s “objectively” omits the family relationship between FPL and Press Journal.

Thanks,

John Wester