First we have the letter by former Commissioner Maurice Ferre where he says about the impending HUD takeover of the corruption ridden Miami-Dade Affordable Housing Dept:
"...but the April 25 story "Feds give county ultimatum on housing takeover says": ''Miami-Dade housing is overseen by county government, the commission, which has had the same 13 members since 2005; county manager Burgess was appointed in 2002.''
Ferre says: "That is, during the coming together of this perfect storm. Has this County Commission mended its ways or is it still ''helping'' to administer Miami-Dade County? How can we question HUD's conclusion?" And:
“The county is not heading into a gunfight with a knife, but rather with its hands tied behind its back. HUD is facing today's reality of Miami-Dade. Don't blame HUD, blame our single-member commission-district system.”
The Herald reports on YET ANOTHER example of the County wasting our money, reported by Chuck Rabin: Scam to defraud Miami-Dade County alleged. So far investigators have found $300,000 in stolen funds. Don’t they ever check to see if work is done before paying? I will work as a checker for them. Note, the State Attorney is investigating. You would think this could have been uncovered internally. JUST GO LOOK!
Third article in the Herald: There are millions of dollars tucked into the budget for Miami-Dade . And tucked into that funding list are two surprises. Yes, I was there when Hialeah annexed the land on the other side of the UDB and when they moved the UDB for that land at another meeting. I heard the Mayor of Hialeah, Raul Martinez, boast to County Commissioners that his city was going to build a desalination plant. He said WE (not us) are building it. We in the audience, all supposed that "WE", besides Hialeah, could be with the financial help of the developers, like the Codina group, who would profit by it (they were there at the meeting).
Well, look who is paying for the desalination plant? US! It is on the list: The Construction of a Water Treatment Plant in Hialeah: $5.3 million. And to add insult to injury: Hialeah Construction of Water Mains for the Annexation Areas: $800,000. I told you, we all pay for the infrastructure outside the UDB. A lot of good programs were cut out of money because of these projects that were SUPPOSED to be paid for by Hialeah. The UDB was moved on the promises made by Hialeah at the meeting. There was no mention that State monies would be used.
And last but not least let’s skip to the SunPost, read about the Jorge Perez, Yellow Shirt fiasco by Rebecca Wakefield. All That Glitters Is Green:The Related Group’s Crack Team Exposed. One Yellow shirt person (those in favor of the development wore yellow shirts) said:
“There were a few people like myself,” he related. “But did you see the people there? 95 percent of them were crack heads. Half of them were asleep.”
The people hired for $100 to wear the yellow shirts in support of Jorge's 3 Coconut Grove Towers at the Commission Meeting, are so confused, now they are calling Mark Sarnoff’s office looking for the money: They are calling the Commissioner who was most opposed to the development!
Darn it Jorge, give those people their hundred dollars. They wore your crummy yellow shirts.
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More proof that Related is a criminal enterprise.
Related hires crackheads and then stiffs them out of their $100.
Related writes many campaign checks and...
When the dust settles from the “All that Glitters is Green” article written by Rebecca Wakefield we all must remember that reinforcing stereotypes is not biting commentary. Vulgarity really has no place, except perhaps in extremity of circumstance. And purposely increasing the magnitude of the false dichotomy between conservative and liberal for personal gain is doing humankind injustice. Is this a desire for knowledge, or are we merely playing the role of another jester of sensationalism? The reality is that we all know that Related paid $85,000 to the West Grove for capital projects. It was something that all of us took issue with and made our opinions heard. To equate the West Grove to a “crack team” is racist and outrageous. Why, because we are predominately black in the West Grove? Yes, the $85,000 was given in exchange for support and the West Grove was required to go to the City meetings as part of the “pay-off”. Might the 85k settlement have turned into a community rumor that Related was giving out money? What ever the case, being poor, old, and dressing disheveled, does not make us, the West Grove community, druggies.
We were quoting from a yellow shirt person who said the people in the audience were druggies. I have no clue who was wearing the shirts. But usually shirt wearers are paid to wear shirts.
But the $85,000 settlement stinks anyway. Taking money to pit neighbor against neighbor is crappy. I don't care what the money was for. Money does humankind an injustice.
Someone from Hialeah told me tonight that students in schools in Hialeah are not allowed to take books home because they don't have enough books for all the students, so they share them from class to class. Could this be true? If so, why are they gearing up for more people if they can't even take care of the people they have properly.
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