So Farmer Buddy has been late or has not completely paid his property taxes for four years in a row. And this is the same Farmer Buddy who was looking for some exemptions on his property because he let someone else graze twelve cows there.
Farmer Buddy is hardly unique in Hillsborough County in being late or in working the rules to try to save a few bucks.
But Buddy Johnson is also the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections. Maybe we shouldn’t try to hold elected officials to higher standards or even as models of anything because we are so frequently disappointed . Buddy has a right to work the system as much as anyone else.
At the same time this is the same guy repsonsible for huge amounts of your tax dollars and for operating an elections department that needs to not only be efficient but squeaky clean. Historically this office has failed at both and something like this doesn’t do much to raise anybody’s confidence level in what’s going on down there.