Comments on: Assistant Escambia County Administrator Larry Newsom Resigns

By: bartender

bartender — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:46:41 +0000

if he would have made county adminstinistrator this would have been a bad move.he always wanted things sweep under the rug.if you were poor the heck with you if youre rich he would listen.thank goodness hes gone.

By: Kay Campbell

Kay Campbell — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 01:19:04 +0000

Good Luck to you Mr. Newsom in your future endeavors. You will be missed by the citizens of Escambia county. You did a great job for us , and we sure hate to see you go.

By: Jacqueline Rogers

Jacqueline Rogers — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:58:11 +0000

This is good for the county.
Mr. Newsom was trained under George Touart and had too much time operating in that kind of manner. Just like a new, unconnected administrator was good for Escambia County, this development will let the professional administration staff act as the professionals they were trained to be, without fear of reprisals.
What I have seen from Administrator Jack Brown has been good so far and this makes me more hopeful. Now, with a reasonable District 2 commissioner, we have hope for the board getting things done and much less needless drama.

By: jeeperman

jeeperman — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:44:29 +0000

“in order to pursue other opportunities,” county spokesman Bill Pearson said.
That is a nice way to say his new boss, Mr. Brown did not want his assistant (who had been doing a pretty good job) to be around to take his job.
Having an assistant that could replace you so easily at a moments notice made Mr. Brown nervous.
Now the BOCC will have to work with Mr. Brown and will have nobody they can use as a threatened replacement “hammer” against Mr. Brown.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 06:25:28 +0000

What the county should have done is make Larry the County Administrator instead of doing all the searches for someone from out of the area. But the way this County works, they would not be happy without some type of conflict!

By: tg

tg — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 22:01:11 +0000

Time to move to bigger and better oportunities. Thats how it works.