Sprayground Won't Open This Summer - That's OK

Halburn Continues To Obsess About Area Pools


Who starts a story with "once again, the children of Putnam County get screwed?

Why, it's everyone's favorite asshole, Mark Halburn, of course.

Once again, Halburn uses a sexual connotation when he talks about children. And not surprisingly it has to do with his favorite thing, public pools.

He loves to talk about the children of Putnam County getting screwed. Wishful thinking, fatsack? Wish it were you doing the screwing?

What he's all worked up about is the construction of the Sprayground at City Park.

Last year Hurricane Mayor Scott D. Edwards announced the construction of the new Sprayground. City Manager Scott Newhouse and Development and Tourism Manager Brenda Campbell raised the $200,000 needed for the project through grants and donations.

In May, a dozen children attended the ground breaking ceremony, and Edwards announced that the Sprayground was expected to be completed and open to the public by August 2011. The best part? It will all be free!

Notice that there was never any guarantee of a opening date.

The word is now that it won't open until 2012.

Mayor Edwards explains, "The first part of the year we were met with delays due to the wet weather, then later in construction, we just ran into numerous other issues, that the manufacturer says is very common. I'm using the city workers for the construction for 2 reasons: 1 - to keep us from getting a loan for $100,000 for someone else to do it and 2 - now that we built it, we can maintain it and save even more money."

And of course California liberal Hallburn takes offense to this. "Spend the money faster", he screams. "Never mind the cost, just get it open!!! I WANT TO SWIM!!! I WANT TO SEE THE KIDS IN THEIR BATHING SUITS!!!" You can almost see him stomping his feet and drooling.

He's wrong. As usual.

PutnamLIES.com applauds Mayor Edwards for his actions. Using workers already on the payroll helps stretch the grant money and donations. This is just a smart move. If contractors were hired, prevailing wage laws would drive up the cost tremendously.

The grantors and donors should know that their money is being spent wisely. And in this case it is. We think they would approve.

It's irresponsible to spend funds willy-nilly just to meet some arbitrary deadline. The project will be done when it's done. And by taking time, it can be done correctly. Why rush the Sprayground just to open it for less than a month?

The children and their parents will be there next year. For the entire summer.

And you know what? There's not a kid in town that really gives a damn at this point in the year. Summer is over. School is back in.

Then he continues with his sexual and scatological innuendos, saying that Putnam government officials have both "screwed" and "dumped on" kids.

He then goes on to blame two more of his booger men, Joe Haynes and Steve Andes, neither of which had anything to do with this matter.

Then, he complains that Scott Edwards won't return his emails. Hasn't Hallburn called Edwards every name in the book since he was elected? He's lucky Edwards doesn't kick his flabby ass.

Halburn calls the Sprayground situation bad news. This motherfucker can't be positive about anything. This is a quarter million dollar project that people in the community will be able to use absolutely free.

If someone gave this guy a shit sandwich, he'd complain there wasn't enough shit on it.

Two references to screwing kids and one to shitting on them in the same blog post. A new low even for Mark Halburn and PutnumLive.com