Remarks by Barry Mansfield
33 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“Mr. President, I move that Ordinance No. 2026-25 be adopted. as provided by the Charter of the City of Ocala, Florida, and based upon evidence presented to the City Council, except that the adoption by sections on the second reading be waived.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I would like to add something, if you don't mind. I was in another incident this week, too, about code enforcement. And the whole idea is you hit it right on the head. It should not be punitive. These guys are here to make sure that everything's in line. That's fine. Make a phone call. Reach out. If somebody's not getting back to you and intentionally not paying you any mind, then you go after them. But some of this stuff is we have to. All these agencies are here to help the citizens. It's not the other way around. Citizens aren't here to help these agencies. And that's one thing that's…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Mr. President, I move that ordinance number 2026-21 be adopted as provided by the Charter of the City of Ocala, Florida and based upon evidence presented to City Council. except that adoption by sections on the second reading be waived.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I have a couple questions. How old are you? Young man. Twenty-one. That's pretty bad. I mean, I have to admit, you know, my kids, I've got a son a little bit older than you now, but I mean, you go into a store and you look at this and say, hey, let's go have some fun. Whether I agree with, you know, it's like you're thinking you're going to buy something you can go out and have some fun with. I'm just going to kill you. So, I mean, I've heard the same things. I believe we should take a stance. I believe that I don't see why we can't just say, hey, or at least put, if we can't legally, and I…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah. You know, I talked to, so I went one step further. I actually talked to some guys that I know that are in the medical marijuana market, you might say. And they're not even for some of this stuff. You know, they just, because their market, because it's federal and it has, they've actually, they're regulated. They have to show exactly what they have, what kind of potency. They have to go through a lot of tests. And so they're even like, hey, this stuff is not regulated. It's not. There's no way to test it right now, and you don't know what you're buying. That's the whole idea. You just…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Well, we need to come up with an ordinance. That would be what we could do at our level.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“You know, the worst thing is they sell this thing that's like mint chocolate. Let's go buy some mint chocolate. How many people have traveled overseas? So we've traveled a lot. Have you ever bought a, I know you haven't bought it, but I'm just saying when you walk through the stores and you see the packs of the cigarettes, overseas in Europe, there's pictures of what a throat cancer looks like, and they're mandated on the packs of cartons of cigarettes.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“You should go look at that. And you pick it up and you go, ooh, that's pretty nasty. Instead of warning signs, they have a picture of what a throat cancer looked like. It's pretty interesting. We shouldn't do that in the United States. This one you could have put a picture of somebody in a stretcher maybe. Say, okay, you buy this stuff. This is what you're going to look like. Anyhow, I agree, okay?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026