AND A BIG P.S.!

A comment posted just too good to be buried in the back pages. Ah yes, the Treasure Coast Wine Festival, y'all were wonderin why we didn't mention it right? Well hunnies we couldn't have said it better ourselves...



Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "ROAD TRIP AND MORE!": Got a kick out of your *Snark Alert* about the exclusionary Treasure Coast Wine Festival. Even the folks on Rodeo Drive these days put their goodies put into label-less bags to avoid the appearance of extravagance. And yet Susi and his pals think nothing about throwing themselves a lavish party where they can show off by paying more for single bottles of wine than most of us pay for a case or two or three.... Does anyone actually drink them or do they just recycle them as tax write-offs? And what’s up with bringing in a florist from Miami? How does that support our local economy? Actually, a good part of the festival’s expenses went to out of towners. There’s just something truly wrong when you spend as much money on a fundraiser as you make. OK, they now throw a couple of bones to one or two smaller charities to make it appear that it’s not a completely selfish, exclusive, affair, but are they really fooling anyone? And speaking of exclusive, Vero Beach Magazine apparently bought the rights to exclusive magazine coverage. This despite the knuckle rapping they received from Milt Benjamin’s “Devil’s Bargain” editorial. Please, unless it’s their own, who remembers what photos were in which publication? Only in Vero...