Kent Harrison Robbins, Attorney for an arrested Notary, calls Petition drive arrests a `witch hunt'. Apparently 2 people were arrested in the petition drive to unseat the hefty Natacha Seijas from her County Commission seat last year. Guilty or not guilty is not the point.
What is really wrong with this story? Of course, it is Natacha Seijas:
"The commissioner said she gave investigators about 200 affidavits from voters who said they were misled during the recall petition drive."
Over and over, if you want someone investigated, you have to hand the case over on a silver platter in this town, and even then it is usually botched pretty badly. As you can see, by the above quote from the Miami Herald: Natacha handed the investigators their case. Usually investigators are afraid of their own shadow: "Air tight" is their motto. What is taking so long with Spence Jones and Rolle by the way? Oh, that's right, Natacha has all the silver platters.
How did the ever vile Natacha Seijas get 200 affidavits? Who notarized them? Did she go to one of her FREE breakfasts to lean on seniors? That is the piece of the story that troubles me. When one has a complaint they should lodge the complaint not do the investigation. How many times have I sent complaints to ethics or the State Attorney that are not followed up? Too many.
By the way Kent Harrison Robbins: It was the witch that was doing the hunting.
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Seijas announced from the dais at a commission meeting, even before the petitions were submitted, that there would be an investigation by the State Attorney and the petitioners were going to jail. She was pretty sure she could get the SA to do her bidding and she was right. Presumably all the signatures were scrutinized and judged by the Elections Office. No invalid signatures should have been approved, if not, our elections department is a sham. So after her county cohort, Harvey Ruvin, could not get signatures thrown out for "bad printing", the State Attorney investigated for almost 2 years a "fraud" that did not harm anyone, steal public money or inflict any harm to the voters. Meanwhile the SA lets high profile criminals plea to misdeamors so they can keep their benefits from the public coffers. How much did this petition witch hunt cost taxpayers and why are public officials treated with kid gloves while feeding from the public trough? Guess the SA needs the campaign money that Seijas' buddies will clearly deliver this year.
Meanwhile, mostly poor, Hispanics who tried to earn a few extra dollars by collecting sigantures have been under a microscope for almost 2 years. Has any other petition campaign faced such scrutiny? Or is this one different because Seijas called the shots?
Of course, the SA had to follow Natacha's orders and she herself announced with great fanfare the launching of an investigation against members of the recall. It turns out, though, that both the notary and the signature collector are not members of the recall. What a flop! If that's the best Fernandez-Rundle can produce against a group of fed-up citizens, she should resign from her job.
But, forgive me, I forgot she's there to protect the crooked politicians that steal and wrong in many ways the taxpayers of Dade County.
Ahhh... good thing that justice is finally served. Now we know that there are guilty individuals on both sides of any issue, like Barry Kuehne and Raul Martinez of Hialeah. And that such crimes are identified and investigated to prevent the accused from obtaining positions that could threaten our way of life or remove those that protect us like our great Comm. Seijas. Now if we only still had such astute civic minded business leaders like Sergio Pino at the airport such fiasco like its poor construction would have never happened.
Ick.
How did vile Natacha obtain the 200 affidavits that she claims she provided to the SA? Did Terry Murphy and the rest of her staff collect them? I don't believe for a moment that she did the work herself. If I'm correct in my assumption, there's a violation of the county's rules. A county employee cannot perform any political or private work during regular office hours. Obviously this would be connected with Natacha's political campaign to defeat the referendum against her.
Maybe the State Atty should investigate if Seijas used her office for political purposes. I do remember Seijas making a plea on Spanish media for people to "call her office" if they had been abused by petitioners or wanted to remove their names; clearly an illegal use of her office. So where is the investigation complete with press release?
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