Mayor Bill Foster's Hidden "Eighth 'S'": Stumble

I received another "Foster's Weekly Forecast" email yesterday with an update on how the Mayor thinks he is doing with his "7 S's for City Success" after two years in office.

He mentions a drop in the "overall crime rate" this year(no mention of the murder rate going up) and he spends most of the SAFETY portion talking about how we are paying $1.8 million a year to ship our homeless problem to Largo.

In the SMALL BUSINESS section, he talks about his goals for helping businesses and "eliminating those things that are progress resistant", maybe he should start by rolling back all of those new and raised permitting fees he just pushed so hard for.

In the SUSTAINABILITY section, he talks about budget challenges and the "three budget summits scheduled so that residents can have early input in formulating next year's budget", so you mean you are actually going to listen to the residents this time? I can't think of a single suggestion given by residents during the last round of budget summits this year that you implemented. Loudest among the suggestions was getting rid of the more than $200,000 in yearly vehicle subsidies for high-ranking city administrators that almost never use their vehicles for work. In the end, Mayor Foster ignored the people and kept the perk.

With the exception of the SPORTS, ARTS & CULTURE section(most of which had little to do with the Mayor directly), the other S's had mostly fluff content in them, especially the SEEMLESSNESS section which used 66 words to say pretty much nothing at all.

So on to the main topic of this post, Mayor Bill Foster's hidden eighth "S": Stumble. From his consistently horrible mishandling of the Rays(on several occasions) to his poor schedule management, poor prioritization of issues, his fear of his own employees, contempt of his City's citizens and even ambivalence to his own city's election(which he wasn't even in the country for), Mayor Foster has clearly STUMBLED through the first two years of his term as Mayor, we can only hope that when he says in the email "I've said to staff that we find ourselves at half time", that it means he won't be seeking a second term as Mayor.