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The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 17, 2008

A Shameful Scam

The last time I was at Lowry Park Zoo the admission was $6. Recently, I paid $17 and was very pleased. It is a small, intimate and beautiful park.

It is a shame and a sham what zoo CEO Lex Salisbury wants Tampa Bay residents to believe, but in the present day situation, it is not hard to believe he would conduct business like any other greedy CEO.

GARY A. LEVOS

Tampa

Sense Of Entitlement

This is another example of CEO greed and sense of entitlement.

Why does Lex Salisbury - and others like him - believe it is all right to take taxpayers' money and treat himself to trips to Europe and Africa, personal use of a credit card and a quarterly bonus of over $20,000? Is it because the people paying for his extravagances are the faceless taxpayers who actually pay for their vacations and credit card bills?

Who is in charge of overseeing public money, and why did it take so long to audit Salisbury? I hate to think how much of the taxpayer's money is wasted without anyone diligently overseeing its use.

LINDA BRENNAN

Temple Terrace

Questions For Lex

Was Lex Salisbury afraid he just couldn't make it with $400,000, plus many benefits and probably a nice retirement package? Was he greedy, or does he aspire to a higher position in politics? How much do you think he has taken the zoo and the city for in 21 years? Or did it take him a few years to learn the system and he thought he could beat it?

I really enjoyed his statement: "I never improperly profited from my 21-year connection with the zoo." Is this anything like, "I did not have sex with that woman?" Or is there a "proper" way to screw your employer out of thousands of dollars.

Thanks to the Trib for uncovering this because the city or the zoo board never would have.

D.K. SLIMAN

Tampa

TSA In Charge

In light of the Iraqi would-be shoe assassin, it is time to transfer the security responsibility for the president from the Secret Service to the Transportation Security Administration. With the TSA in charge, no shoes could ever be used as a weapon.

In fact, the TSA will also protect the president from water bottles, finger nail clippers and after shave in bottles over 3 oz. It only makes sense since the federal government is prone to knee-jerk policies whereby the previous attack sets future security theater policy.

If the shoe bomber has made it so that millions of travelers have to shuffle through security with no shoes, I want to see Helen Thomas in the White House Briefing Room, front and center, with no shoes.

SHAMUS MCCONOMY

Riverview

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