Comments on: Appeals Court Says Vanette Webb, Former District 5 School Board Member, Can Seek $200,000 From Board

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:15:42 +0000

Asking questions about how taxpayer money is spent is apparently not a good thing for some people. That alone – even if there was nothing else – is what should be expected by our public servants, especially those in a “GOBS” (good-ole boy system).

Some people just like it like the way it is. GOBS.

By: taxpayer

taxpayer — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:28:38 +0000

Still a few moving around the Issue…Name “ONE” thing good she every did for the School System, other than embarrassment herself?
just one..give it a try!
The good Ole boy system had nothing to do with the Question..what a cheep way out to always defend actions with a statement like “She wasn’t a good Ole Boy” means nothing…I’m still waiting for a good response to my Question! Just name of One thing She did for the Students and TaxPayers, give it a try…….

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:11:43 +0000

“All Webb accomplished during her time in office was to waste the school boards time and money. When Webb got her case dismissed (in2003 ) it just shows that with enough time an money you can get out of any thing.”

The Webb’s expended their meager savings to pay Vanette’s first attorney a paltry sum, and that attorney, like those following after, after a nominal down payment, basically worked without payment to correct the injustice. As anyone knows who deals with courts and the concept of “justice,” it doesn’t just fall out of the sky and hit you in the head: you have to force it to happen through effort. She didn’t just “get” her case dismissed as if it took no effort; it took massive, unpaid effort by a lot of folks who knew she got a kangaroo trial at the hands of a biased and ignorant judge, who prevented Mrs. Webb from preventing a meritorious defense at her trial. That’s why a second, rational judge, after seeing the sham of a trial, awarded Mrs. Webb another one. Fact.

Your implication that large sums of money were spent on attorneys and that that – along with a waiting game – is what it took to get justice, is a joke, and of course, like body parts we all have, uninformed opinion.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:29:51 +0000

All Webb accomplished during her time in office was to waste the school boards time and money. When Webb got her case dismissed (in2003 ) it just shows that with enough time an money you can get out of any thing. Some good did come out of her tenue, never again will a parent be denied access to thair childs school records . Its only common sense that if any one keeps a record on me or my child I should have the right to review it

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:40:52 +0000

excellent post mike. I thought mrs. webb did a fine job, her only problem was that she was not politically correct among the “good ole boys”.

By: Mike Rollo

Mike Rollo — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:16:08 +0000

Mrs. Webb is not and has not been convicted of anything. The bogus charges were eventually dismissed due to the efforts of her attorneys, and the State Attorney’s Office knew they could not convict her in a second trial, so they dropped (nolle prosequi) the case. In fact, there could not have been a conviction the first time without the assistance of the Judge, Pat Kinsey, who actually helped the State prosecute Mrs. Webb during the trial.

Public Officials are entitled to be provided legal defense when their official conduct is challengd either civilly or criminally. The School Board sold her down the river and wanted her out of office because she was asking too many questions about massive, unaccounted for spending out of a discretionary fund.

It was a conspiracy, actually, as the second trial judge stated in awarding Mrs. Webb a new trial, before the State dropped the case.

Whether you liked her techniques or personality or not, she had the guts to ask how the taxpayer’s money was being spent. That was enough to get her arrested.

My opinion. I was there.

By: TaxPayer

TaxPayer — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:30:29 +0000

Vanette Webb
Was an embarrassment to the Taxpayers, she should have used the past nine years getting (professional) treatment! Not one person will ever recall anything positive she did while serving as a Board member, I’m sure a few will take a stab at it, but none can prove nothing. She was the most vindictive member to have ever served on the School Board.
Escambia County needs to keep moving forward!

By: Proper Grammar

Proper Grammar — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:03:15 +0000

JF, I believe the word is “improper.”

By: Frank Hudson

Frank Hudson — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:03:12 +0000

Did you guy not read that the Charges were dropped and she was reinstated.
She deserves to be treated as any other whether you or I agree or NOT.

If legal fees were not covered for Public officials the Common Joe could not serve or run for Public office.

If for no other than the likes of Susan Watson.

I remeber PTO meetings she and another former Board member from the North Stired utter caos because they did not get thier way through the Democratic prossess.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:14:16 +0000

Mrs. Webb has the right to due process of the law just as you and I. If it cuts into the school boards budget then so what, its all part of doing business. I was’nt so sure that she got a “fair shake” back then and this only validates my thought.