Heard with my own ears...

There is a former Mayor who lives in the Great Walled City that seems to have a problem with a duly elected Commissioner now in his second term. He has been reminded that we didn't have an election in March since no one chose to run against the incumbents, but that doesn't seem to matter to him. I am sure he will start asking for birth certificates soon.

This "whisper campaign" is meant to cast doubt on the abilities of someone without a college education and somehow that makes them unfit or questionable whether they should hold the office. So, without further ado, the list following includes some names you might recognize. These are people who either: never went to high school, dropped out of high school, and two who got quickly thrown out of college for being unfit for higher learning:

Christopher Columbus
Horace Greeley, co-founder of the modern Republican Party
President Abraham Lincoln (8 U.S. Presidents never went to college)
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Walt Disney, yes, that one
Ray Kroc
Henry Ford, yes, that Henry Ford
Rosa Parks
Benjamin Franklin
Ansel Adams
Dave Thomas
Tom Cruise
Carl Bernstein, that's right
Mario Andretti
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie, yes, that one
Simon Cowell
Ellen DeGeneres
Ray Bradbury
Don Imus
Julie Andrews
Sean Connery
Wolfgang Puck

The list of names is much too long to include everyone that has made a name for themselves in world history who don't have a high school education. Google away to check! This is simply a sample. By the same token Lake Worth once had a commissioner with plenty of college education along with an MBA, wrote three books, 'renovated' an old building, and traveled all over Europe. We also have a doctor of soil science from Cornell. How did that work out for ya?