Four millionaires among Pinellas elected officials

CLEARWATER -- In Pinellas, it's a better than one in three shot that an elected county officeholder is a millionaire, according to recently filed financial disclosure forms.

With the millionaire's club headlined by Commissioners Karen Seel and Susan Latvala, Clerk Ken Burke and Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark, here's the rundown on officials' net worth:

County Commission:

Seel, $3.36 million

Latvala, $2.26 million

Nancy Bostock, $468,000

Calvin Harris, $344,461

John Morroni, $276,888

Ken Welch, $265,662

Neil Brickfield, $164,000

Burke, $1.82 million

Clark, $1.06 million

Property Appraiser Pam Dubov, $743,904

Sheriff Jim Coats, $699,300

Tax Collector Diane Nelson, $585,559

David DeCamp, Times staff writer

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Comments

[Bostock's little stacks of cash with googlie eyes]

Bostock is worth nearly A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS!!!!???!!!

Is this the same Bostock who claimed she had to give up her kid because she could not afford to care for him?

A family with a half a million in net worth-scratch that-an individual (these forms are supposed to reflect the net worth of the individual candidate, not their entire family) worth a half a million dollars should be able to care for their child instead of letting tax payers foot the bill.

Raising teenagers is expensive. Maybe that is why Bostock decided the tax payers should foot the bill instead of taking responsibiliy herself.

[Zen Master]

Nancy Bostock.

Monetary Worth= 468k

Moral Worth= Bankrupt

[pops]

This is the reason we tax payers are getting the screws put to us. THE RICH DON'T GIVE A DARN ABOUT US. ABOUT TIME TO OUST THEM ALL FOR NEW BLOOD WITH US IN MIND.

[Alan]

Latvala got her millions from a divorce so I am not sure if that counts.

[!]

I imagine living with Jack was quite a job. I'm not sure she got enough out of the divorce.

[oi vey!]

Check out the County Commission budget session from 07/14/09 starting at 2:11 where Bostock and Brickfield show their true ignorance. Bostock attacks the homeless and decides single-handedly curbside recycling is not necessary. Perhaps Bostock and Brickfield do not know we are the most densely populated county in the state. Brickfield has no understanding of basic budgeting principles. Perhaps because he did not have two nickels to rub together before being elected to the county commission at nearly $100,000 a year. Keep in mind while you watch, Bostock and Brickfield voted NO to lowering their own salaries to meet budget necessities. They, of course find themselves important enough to keep. It is a shame these county employees have to endure such ignorance.

http://www.pinellascounty.org/media/archive-session.htm#budget

[awhitewolf]

...curbside recycling...few will use it...many will pay...nurse and his small gang should get up off their azzes and take the stuff to the many locations around the county...we should not have to pay for his lazyness and the lazyness of his minimal group of supporters...

[ablackwolf]

awhitewolf,
you are sooooo dumb. People realize that the land fill is filling up, and we might as well slow the trend, and make a little money back recycling.

[aredwolf]

These are the same “millionaire” politicians who refuse to take minimal pay cuts, cut waste, want to raise our taxes to cover their boondoggles, give raises to their management cronies while firing front-line employees, close parks but dump 15-million into a bike trail… and adjourn the public meeting only to re-convene in the back room out of the public’s eye… cause they knows what’s best for us, and feel our pain don’t ya know.

[aunemployedwolf]

Funny how the only people not negatively impacted by the crashing economy are the politicians and the lobbyists that own them… you know; the people who caused the economy to crash in the first place.

It’s time for the electorate to wake up, and help these Pinellas politicians gain a “real” perspective on unemployment by voting every last one of them out of office.

[The politics of envy is alive and well]

Yes, it's time again to hate those who have worked hard for a living. Certainly for the newcomers and probably true for most of the others is that they and their spouses acquired some wealth before running for office. I thought that was the American Dream?

[Think Zen, please!]

Zen Master = Fool

[Finaly, someone rational]

awhitewolf you are very wise indeed.