From FaceBook: Jessie Odell's Commentary on the Cottage harassment issue...

"I have been watching closely the situation at hand that is swirling around the Cottage in Lake Worth and Susan Stanton. I find it all very hypocritical with all the PSA's I have done, and so many others on Bulling that one of our own is now doing the bulling. Susan Stanton for those of you who don't know is the Trans-gender Lake Worth City Manager.  Her Story was also featured in CNN as they followed him as he became a she.  Susan Stanton was also Fired from her previous job when he Announced he intended to have the operation.  Susan Stanton found the love and safety she'd so craved when she came to Lake Worth and was hired as City Manager.  Most of the Gay community rallied around Susan.  Compass, former Mayor Jeff Clemons, Everyone was on the Stanton Bandwagon.  Now the things have changed. All the preaching we have all done about bulling our youth, bulling our Gay brothers and sisters, it's has a new Face.  Susan Stanton. That's right.  Not to long ago Compass held an event in the cultural park in the middle of Lake Worth. Shortly after they were contacted by the City manager with outrage about how men dressed as women offended so many and it wasn't going to happen again.  One has to wonder How a person who was once only a man in a woman's dress could take such a harsh opinion, when after all Compass, and many of its DONORS stood behind and supported Ms. Stanton being hired on as City Manager.

Now it seems Ms. Stanton has turn her eyes on the Cottage.  She wants the Sunday Tea dance stopped.  Once again she feels that Men in dresses and Men dancing with other men is offensive to the gay community.  Has Ms. Stanton forgot that she was not to long ago just that?  A man in a woman's dress, dancing with other men?  It seems that it was ok then, but not so much now that she's had a sex change.  Did the sex change also change her to republican?  Perhaps she is keeping company with Sarah Palin these days?

What I am getting at with all this, is we MUST protect our community.  I am calling out to the entire GLBT community world wide to focus it's eyes on the Lake Worth City Manger.  We have a bully who needs to be addressed as such. Every GLBT member, Every Member of Compass and Donors of Compass, need to step up and defend the discrimination that is happening right now with in out community. If your not standing up and helping, your part of the problem.  Before you right another check to support ANYTHING in Lake Worth, ask them if they will be standing up to protect ALL of the gay community in what is happening here, or are they just protecting what benefits their own best interest. 

If Ms. Stanton is allowed to move forward with this kind of behavior, Lake Worth will be moved back into the fifties where Everyone claimed to be straight, and coward if anyone knew other wise. The Gay pride flag will no longer the flown in front of City hall, Community organizations such as Compass, will be a thing of the past, and their certainly will be no gay pride.  So decide NOW, TODAY, where you stand on this issue.  You may think it's not your problem, but it is. Get to the commission meeting tomorrow in Lake Worth and make your voice count. We have to stop the bulling, and it's not just in the school house any more.

I will personally be spending my day contacting every news media organization I can nation wide to ask them to help remind our City Manager Who and what she was, and who it was who loved her and supported her and gave her a place to call home, and a job.  I encourage you all to take the time today as well, write to CNN, FOX NEWS, NBC, and ABC. Let them know, give them the history and tell them the story, of the man who was fired because he wanted to be a woman, and the community who welcomed him with open Arms, that he turned on, once he became a she.   If this isn't stopped now, we will be set back by years.

You don't have to be Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered or BI to be affected by this, or to feel the need to come to action.  Maybe you have a child, a brother, sister, mother or father, a cousin.  Maybe you just believe in love and equal rights for all. Come show your support. Contact your news affiliates, contact people whom you know that donate into the gay community. This not going to be an easy fight, but it is a necessary one.  It's all so spilling over into the City Workers.  So now more than ever, you can see Bulling is not just a gay thing.  I can imagine how these workers must feel.  Times are hard, if they go against the City manager, they may not be able to support their families.  You can Bet Ms. Stanton will find a reason to let them go. If nothing else after all, the City of Lake Worth is in Financial Crisis, simply lay them off if they speak out. The position of City Manger is that, it's not a title of dictator and I think we all need to send a Strong message to Ms. Stanton to remind her of where her pay check is coming from.

Please go to the Lake Worth City hall and fill out the card so that your voice maybe heard at tomorrow nights commission meeting.  Support your GLBT community.  Show your gay pride.  Please repost this anywhere permitted."  Signed Jessie Odell