I'm Not Holding My Breath Waiting For Milton Hunter to Grow Up.

I got a call today about Milt Hunter's latest blog post.  Since Milt apparently likes to quote popular lyrics, I'll quote some: "he's ba-ack."  This time, Milt is going on, for some unexplained reason, about Roxy Ross.  And here's the thing about which Milt appears to be whining just now.  He sort of thinks Roxy is picking on poor David Hernandez, who Milt apparently thinks can't defend himself, and he thinks Rox is vying for some sort of imaginary dominance over the Village.  As an aside, it appears Milt also disqualifies Commission meetings, if he doesn't think there are enough viewers.  (The fact is, Commission meetings are completely legitimate, and essential, even if there are no viewers, "virtually" or in person).  But this is what appears to be on the seemingly otherwise idle mind of Milt Hunter right now.  You can follow Milt's tragic nonsense at www.thebiscayneparker.blogspot.com.  Not that I'm suggesting you waste your time (cartoons on TV, or endless hours of stuff on youtube, are much better, but you do have options), but just if you want to follow along.

Milt, get a girlfriend.  Or a boyfriend.  Or any friend.  Or a pet.  You're losing it big time, boy.  Funny enough, Milt even ends his pathetic screed by commiserating that he knows "that all of our nerves are a bit frazzled."  "A bit," Milt?  And keep in mind that "all" of us includes you.

But here's what appears to be Milt's sort of major point.  This is his thrust.  This is where he seems to think he's going with this.  He says Commissioner Roxy Ross, who is one of the INTERIM manager's five direct employers, is too involved with telling the INTERIM manager what she thinks is best for the Village (the Village: that's her constituency), and he thinks she threatened the INTERIM manager by saying that if he continued to use his opportunity to address Village problems (which, as I've discussed before, he is not adequately doing) to try to promote himself as a candidate for the PERMANENT  manager position, which is not the position he occupies, then she would make openly clear what are his deficiencies.  Which she would most likely do anyway, if David applied for the position of PERMANENT manager, since that might be her job, unless he succeeds, with the propping up of Ginny O'Halpin, Dan Samaria, and Will Tudor, in delaying this charade until after Roxy is no longer a Commissioner.  And if we're lucky enough "not to have [Will Tudor] to kick around any more," to quote or paraphrase Richard Nixon, and if we instead have an actually functional Commission, then maybe Rox won't have to say a word.  David isn't subtle.

Speaking of which, one of Milt's many specific criticisms of Rox is that the episode of the David Hernandez Show, Starring David Hernandez, masquerading as a PSA, about which Rox was complaining, lasted five minutes and thirty-seven seconds, out of which David only promoted himself for 22 seconds.  This proves to Milt that the PSA wasn't really David's self-advertisement.  Imagine some other advertisement, for some product, and it lasts for 5:37, but the product is only named or shown by name for 22 seconds.  Would you fail to get the point?  Me, neither.

Frankly, I don't know that anyone knows what Milt's real agenda is.  It's very possible Milt doesn't know.  Here's one guess I would make.  Milt does nothing at all for the Village.  He never has.  In the past, when I have suggested that he run for office -- since he seems to have such compelling ideas about what would be best for the Village -- he has declined.  Unflinchingly.  He sits by himself in his house, cranking out nonsense on his computer, and when he gets things wrong -- sometimes horribly wrong -- he refuses to let people correct him.  Roxy Ross, on the other hand, has been an unbelievable representative of this Village.  She is the finest elected official I have ever known of or heard of.  She is smart, incredibly well-organized, rarely or never gets anything wrong, is level-headed, expends endless energy on behalf of any task she undertakes (most certainly including the Village!), and is humblingly generous.  So one thing that occurs to me is that Milt is (rightfully) embarrassed by his comparative inadequacy or inferiority, and he's frankly jealous.  And he wants to settle his feelings of inadequacy, inferiority (both well-deserved) and jealousy at Roxy's expense.  If that's not the explanation for poor Milt Hunter, then maybe it's something else.


By the way, Milt makes a logical error in his post.  He says that Roxy is now a Commissioner, with a term ending in November, because she ran "unopposed."  She was not at all unopposed.  She was opposed by every qualified Biscayne Park resident.  And every one of us forfeited, either because we knew she would make a better Commissioner than we would, or because we knew we couldn't beat her at the polls.  That includes Milt, me, and everyone else.  And we were all right.