By Jodie Tillman, Times Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
NEW PORT RICHEY — Jed Pittman seemed almost to disappear from public life after retiring two years ago after 32 years as Pasco clerk of the court.
But on Tuesday, he showed up at a Pasco commission meeting and spared few words in his opposition to a 499-unit recreational vehicle park near his home in the rural Hudson neighborhood of the Highlands.
"The property behind me is beautiful. I haven't seen an RV park that's beautiful. To me, they're repugnant," he told commissioners.
That wasn't all he said: He brought up recent political contributions made by the Miller family, the owners of Ja-Mar Travel Parks, and made an unexplained reference to "gypsies" who once inhabited one of the family's parks.
He added that he wasn't saying the Millers were "gypsies" but then said, "There's ...
