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Oh, sorry wrong game. We are playing the Blame Game not the "name game".
The Miami Herald reported that the County Commission blames Burgess over biotech deal. Yes, he should have researched Stackhouse as I said in a previous post. Just a Google away was the information that would have nixed the whole deal. But I bet Burgess was under pressure...as always...to get it through. He more than anything, is obedient. Obedient to a fault!
Under fire from the Commission Thursday, Burgess did what any Manager would do: He passed the blame on. He blamed the non-profit Miami Dade Empowerment Trust, Inc. Hmmm. There seems to be a lot of blame to go around.
I looked up the Trust. Aundra Wallace was the Registering Agent and is/was the CEO and President. He also has another corporation with Irby McKnight. Willard T. Fair is on the Empowerment Trust corporate papers as is Dean Goldsby, Sr. and Willie Carpenter. Some are big powerful names in the Black Community.
Affordable Housing Cynthia Curry was the registering agent in 2000 when the Trust did their first annual report. At that time, Alex Penelas, Joe Carollo, Steve Shiver and Otis Wallace were the officers. What a crew! Red flag, red flag!
It is fair to say that Commissioner Dorrin Rolle should take some of the blame, after all didn't Rolle say in a Poinciana press release (I found on Black PR Wire) put out by the trust Feb. 26, 2007:
“This little project that couldn’t has turned doubters into believers.” A joke Dorrin?
And, the Herald said:
They “found that Rolle -- one of the driving forces behind the project -- received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions and a $10,000 donation to a social services agency (the troubled JESCA I presume) he heads from Stackhouse -- the money drawn from project funds, records show.”
And if we are looking for people to blame let us return to that Poinciana press release to see who the Trust thanks because that is who should get the blame, the people thanked:
“It was a vision we gave birth to, fought hard for, and planned out over many long days and nights,” states Aundra Wallace, 39, president and chief executive officer of the Miami-Dade Empowerment Trust. “The great works of many people, including County Manager George Burgess, Senior Advisor Cynthia Curry, Commissioner Dorrin Rolle, Vice President and CFO Rodney Carey, the GSA department, our elected officials and the Miami Dade Empowerment Trust Board, have helped greatly...”
There you have it in the blame game: we now have a list.
Commissioner Sally Heyman summed it up best at the Commission Meeting:
''We're past the point of bruising. We're bleeding. We've lost credibility''
Ya think? Credibility was lost long ago girl. The affordable housing scandal - House of Lies - was just the icing on the Commission's credibility cake. You are bleeding.
You share the blame for this one Sally, as the Herald said:
“While commissioners blamed the manager's office and the trust, records show the County Commission was responsible for making the trust the master developer of Poinciana.
Under a 2001 agreement, the county was to receive annual financial statements about Poinciana and quarterly progress reports. But that never happened -- and commissioners never questioned why they weren't receiving the updates.”
Feh! Yiddish for Ick.
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George Burgess takes the taxpayers to the cleaners each year to the tune of $410,000 or so. What do we get for our money? If it was not for the Miami Herald reporters I doubt George Burgess could find his way to the mens room.
Time to show Burgess the door... Before he allows another disaster.
The meeting is a must watch. I could not quit watching last night. Go to the county webcast and watch it. Thursday June 28th BCC meeting currently at http://www.miamidade.gov/webcast/sch_thursday.asp. It will move to http://www.miamidade.gov/webcast/archive.asp when the next Thursday comes around.
Update to previous post: It starts at about 1hour and 48 minutes into the webcast.
not working for me....
G.O.D
Try:
Go to http://www.miamidade.gov/webcast/sch_thursday.asp.
Click on 9:30 am Board of County Commissioners
while holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard.
It works this way for me.
How can Carlos Alvarez keep George Burgess as County Manager? Either Burgess is incomptetent or they both are incompetent.
Maybe Mayor Alvarez needs someone who knows how to run the county?
How is Aundra Wallace? Head of Empowerment Trust? 16 employees? What idiots. Are they all too stupid to do basic google searches? How could they ask the Miami-Dade Commissioners to give money to Dennis Stackhouse when Stackhouse was already a year behind on a previously provided $2.2 Mil loan? Idiots. Or were they just involved in stealing from the taxpayers? And apparently staff deceived the Commissioners by not disclosing the loan. And they never disclosed it was in default. They should be in jail.
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