The longer debris remains, the fewer votes officials will get

What an incredible disservice is being done to the residents of Bradenton/Manatee. One month after being struck by Hurricane Irma, most yards are still littered by piles of debris, for which the powers-that-be chose to send inspectors out to assure that all the debris is “hurricane related.”

This could have been done by a person on a truck picking the debris up!

Now, the downed branches have died and all the leaves have fallen off, which they are not picking up. I assure you, every bit of debris at my curb is Irma-related, but the crew has chosen to pick up about one-third of it. Everyone now has areas of dead lawn where the debris was, if it has been picked up at all.

I assure our elected officials, this will not be forgotten come Election Day.

This story was originally published October 21, 2017 at 1:32 PM with the headline "The longer debris remains, the fewer votes officials will get."