Thursday, June 16, 2005
Would it help if I said I was sorry?
The buzz around south Seminole all week has been this past Monday evening's Casselberry City Commission meeting. As has often been the case in the past, Mayor Bob Goff verbally tangled with Commissioner Susan Doerner on more than several occasions.
Indeed, the pair seem to be made for one another. Doerner exudes an attitude of unremitting cantankerousness during committee meetings. The diminutive commissioner wears a perpetual look of petulance and is obviously irked by the free-wheeling and opinionated Goff, and his "no holds barred" style of behavior.
At one point during Monday's meeting, Doerner's contempt clearly showed when she admonished Goff for his attempts to explain what he felt Doerner "meant" by one of her comments.
Goff, you might remember, said at the start of the year that he was taking a class on how to get along with difficult people because of Doerner's demeanor and comportment during commission meetings.
Apparently, the class has yielded some positive effect, at least judging by yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Joint City/County Advisory Committee. Goff and Doerner sit jointly on the Joint Committee as Casselberry's two representatives. While making a point during committee proceedings yesterday, Goff went out of his way to make sure everyone knew he was voicing strictly his own opinion, and that Susan could "speak for herself" on the matter.
Doerner appeared not to be impressed, her scowling countenance showing no change of expression at Goff's apparent extension of a fig leaf.
Indeed, the pair seem to be made for one another. Doerner exudes an attitude of unremitting cantankerousness during committee meetings. The diminutive commissioner wears a perpetual look of petulance and is obviously irked by the free-wheeling and opinionated Goff, and his "no holds barred" style of behavior.
At one point during Monday's meeting, Doerner's contempt clearly showed when she admonished Goff for his attempts to explain what he felt Doerner "meant" by one of her comments.
Goff, you might remember, said at the start of the year that he was taking a class on how to get along with difficult people because of Doerner's demeanor and comportment during commission meetings.
Apparently, the class has yielded some positive effect, at least judging by yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Joint City/County Advisory Committee. Goff and Doerner sit jointly on the Joint Committee as Casselberry's two representatives. While making a point during committee proceedings yesterday, Goff went out of his way to make sure everyone knew he was voicing strictly his own opinion, and that Susan could "speak for herself" on the matter.
Doerner appeared not to be impressed, her scowling countenance showing no change of expression at Goff's apparent extension of a fig leaf.
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