Just had to get this off of my chest as our wonderful news reporters are some of the most useless individuals in the business. Our county has two commissioners who have screwed this county into a lawsuit due to a complete lack of competence and dereliction of duties based on their personal opinions. Every fucking media organization that has said anything about the county awarding the pier contract to Mr. Gibson has never informed the public how that contract was fraudulently awarded. Here's how it works folks. The county uses what is called a matrix system to award contracts based on the merits of the contract with the lowest total score winning. In the case of the Navarre Pier Mr. Gibson won the contract as was reported in the press. What has not been reported is the way that came about. Commissioners Salter, Cole, and Lynchard ranked Dorothy Slye, the current operator, 1st and Gibson 2nd based on the good of the county. Commissioners Melvin and Williamson ranked Gibson 1st and Slye 5th and 4th (respectively). Mr. Melvin has been quite vocal in his personal hatred of Ms. Slye and told numerous people before the vote that she would not be getting the contract again. On Monday of this week the commissioners made and passed a motion to have this contract voted on as it was never voted on in a meeting. That day there were people mad at the three commissioners that did their job based on the good of the county. Today Mr. Gibson filed a lawsuit against the county, which may cost the taxpayers. It is beyond me how anybody with half a lick of sense believes that Melvin and Williamson based their ranking of the contracts on there benefit to the county and not their own personal opinions of an individual. These two commissioners are going to cost the taxpayers money that they say they don't have. Regardless of your personal opinions of the two individuals and based solely on the way this thing was handled it stinks. I personally think that the two commissioners should take responsibility for their lack of competence and if not I hope the State ethics commission gets their asses. It just pisses me off that the media have led the public to believe that the three commissioners that did their jobs with no personal bias are the ones doing the wrong thing. Yes I know this is a gun forum but this is more about the issue at hand than the pier itself. Our system is set up so there is always an odd number 5 people vote you will have a majority winner. In this case the winner was chosen by 2 beating 3, go figure. So FUCK YOU - Navarre Press, Pensacola News Journal, TV 3, and the Northwest Florida Daily News for giving the people the information you want them to know not, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story. I am going to break something now and I will feel better.