Social Climbing in South Tampa Takes Savvy That La Elia Lacks

James Agee Took a Picture of a Bunch of My Georgia Family for Now Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Its Members Will Be Moving to South Tampa Soon from Jeff Davis and Camden Counties into the House next to the One Elia Is Tackying up with a tin roof to the Annoyance of South Tampa neighbors of this Yankee Parvenu School Functionary.

Let's See If Elia Welcomes My James-Agee Kin to the Neighborhood despite their lack of couth. lee

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Lee--

live in Lutz and grew up here. We like it--the air's cleaner.
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Oh, lordy. Now I have stepped in a cow patty. I need another metaphor. I should have used one from my Georgia beginnings. I lived in an area so far back in the woods they had to pump daylight to us. lee

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Did you read the Times today? Elia hired another school board attorney, Gina Grimes, to represent her in a property zoning agenda.

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I did not read that, but my husband cut out a piece that says that Elia is in a big argument with the South Tampa neighbors about changes she wants to make on her house. A tin roof seems to be in controversy. The Elia tin roof sounds vulgar: just what you expect from a Yankee carpetbagger sans taste and sans social eclat.

The City Council said Eliea could mount the tin roof except for Saul Sena and Mary Mulhearn. Saul Sena is South Tampa Davis Islands and friend of Tom Gonzalez; Mulhearn, I would guess, is South Tampa too. My inference is that the rest of the City Council is not from the social mecca of South Tampa.

Saul Sena is doyenne of preservation and was in conflict with Elia when the latter sold an historic school for peanuts after which the buyer tore it down.

There was much rending of historic-

preservation hair after that escapade in anti-historical barbarian preservation bias on Elia's part. Everybody who had observed La Elia close range knew that she did not give a shit about historic-buildings' preservation. Money is her gig. She just wanted to be school superintendent and get the bloated $300,000 pay download that included $40,000 stolen from the teachers' work with board complicity for teachers' raising student scores.

We are talking shades of aristocricy in South Tampa's social badlands. Aristocracy ranks a big concern in South Tampa since the people there lack any real aristocrats past or present . But that lack does not mean that they dom't set standards for entrees for whom the South Tampa elite manque manufactures. Elia does not meet those standards. She is a Yankee barbarian trying to put a tin roof on her house in South Tampa's holy precincts.

Elia is not South Tampa material. She may be able to buy a house there, thanks to her bloated tax-supplied salary and get legal help to bully through her renovations, but she won't be one of the in-crowd. Not ever. The South Tampa people will consider her vulgar Yankee intruder from here to eternity, never mind that they themselves are three generations away from sharecropping. We are talking social relativism here.

I lived in South Tampa twenty years and pondered its extant folk ways. My intuitioan says that Elia has set herself up to be permanent white trash import that blights the neighborhood. She has played into bigotry's hands.

La Elia is used to getting her way in her small world of the schools. But the people in South Tampa have their own standards and possess a larger canvas. They are not admirable standards, but they think so. And South Tampans follow them. Otherwise, how can anybody get into Ye Mystic Krewe?

The South Tampa indigenous will shut Elia out and make her living in that area most unrewarding. She should have homesteaded in Lutz, where standards are less rigorous amongst the county estates filled with rusting hulks of cars.

If you want to social climb, you have to pay attention to the mores of the group you try to become part of. I never thought Elia was smart; this situation confirms my opinion.

To I'll see if I can get James Agee's photographer to take a picture of Elia's looking out of the second-floor bedroom window of her South Tampa digs with the weird tin roof. That should lift La Elia's spirit but make her a permanant pariah nonetheless for the neighbors.

Lee

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