BIG DON…BIG BAD DON.

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BIG DON…BIG BAD DON.

Villagers are always worried that somehow..the great unwashed..otherwise referred to as “those people” will somehow invade their walled white haven and spoil everything. A few years ago it was a serious worry that “those people” from Wildwood would invade “their square” in Brownwood and actually spend some money to help out the economy. About a year ago after Wildwood mayor Ed Wolf told Morse Industries to stick it in their ear over their proposal to buy up a failed developer’s project there was all sorts of worry and whining about how some other developer would come in and allow “those people” to move in and somehow sully the perfect world of TV.

Recently there was a new twist to the standard worry about “those people”. The fact that “those people” might actually become Villagers! How you ask? Let me explain.

A few weeks ago the Wildwood board gave the go-ahead for a development that is 4 miles away from TV. It (thought) it was giving its’ OK to a group called Reader and Partners of Orlando. But..wait for it…SURPRISE!!! Right after the go-ahead Reader & Partners announced that the vast share of the business was being sold to…THE VILLAGES!! Dean Barbarree of the Reader group said that the Morse Machine was not mentioned in the proposal because negotiations with TV was still on-going. Amazing! Somehow the negotiations somehow came to full agreement the second the Wildwood board put their stamp of approval on the project.

This little move managed to keep TV out of any sort of necessary public hearings and given Wildwood mayor Ed Wolf’s opposition to TV doing any more development in his town, it allowed some other face to do the heavy lifting of getting the permits approved.

In fact, according to Barbarree, the ONLY thing Reader & Partners of Orlando is now going to do with the project at all is to build the infrastructure. TV couldn’t get their project honestly, so they did it with trickery. Gee..what a surprise. I’m pretty sure Ed Wolf’s not going to forget that one!

Now the odd part of all of this, is that this “village” which is be called “The Village Of Fenney” is going to be 4 MILES outside Brownwood, with no connecting villages between it and Brownwood. According to published reports those people buying in Fenney will be given all the various access to ALL Villages amenities. Now it is certainly possible that the Morse Machine is thinking that if they get this one started they can buy land and build north eventually connecting Fenney with the rest of TV.

But here comes the rub with the Villagers who are worried about “those people”. Homes in the Village of Fenney will be different than current builds. Some of the housing will be lower cost townhomes and multi-family dwellings. Now bear in mind that this Village is still going to be a 55+ community, no different than any other part of TV. But the “lower cost multi-family buildings” has sent the “those people” goofballs soaring into the stratosphere with their worry about the end of TV as they know it.

In the on-line newspaper VillagesNews.com when the story was reported the “those people” brigade struck fast. The on-line paper allows for instant on-line comments. Apparently none of these Rhodes scholars can write a cogent letter to the editor these days.

The “those people” venom started flowing fast and furious from some guy named Don who wanted us all to know that TV building “affordable” housing was the key to letting in the dregs of society. Affordable in TV is a whole different thing than some sort of welfare project. But Don doesn’t know that. He’s just another babbling boob who can’t stand the thought that somehow his perfect walled white haven just might be invaded by somebody who worked hard and got a chance to retire, but who didn’t have a bank account..and a head..as thick as Big Bad Don’s.

There were of course others who clucked their approval to Don’s idiotic remarks and a few people who found Don’s remarks to be utterly boorish. But for the most part, the remarks were centered around just how to keep “those people” OUT of TV.

The Morse Myth Machine works day and night spinning the tale of just what a wonderful place TV really is and what wonderful people its’ citizens are. Unfortunately every single time they try to make that myth stick…the REAL Villagers..who all sound and act like Don step forward to prove that “America’s Friendliest Hometown” is nothing but that.

A…MYTH.