The recall hearing is 1:30 today with Judge Donner. Will try to go. Here is video from her 2nd deposition. There is a fabulous article in the Miami Herald today on Natacha Seijas that got a tremendous response when it was first printed in El Nuevo Herald. I usually only link to an article, but this was so good (I have anxiously been awaiting the translation) I am reprinting it in full. Columnist Daniel Shoer Roth caught Seijas well and he writes so beautifully (even in translation it is captured):Under fire, Commissioner Seijas shows bad form in public arena
Video cameras have not been flattering lately to Commissioner Natacha Seijas. No, she wasn’t caught naked, but her personality has been disrobed.
A camera caught her silently walking out in the midst of a deposition, like a child upset for being scolded. She recently pushed a television reporter who tried to ask her a question. What would El Nuevo Herald’s etiquette columnist say?
Seijas’s arrogance and virulent temperament are out in the open, character flaws that have earned her the animosity of thousands of Miami-Dade residents despite years of community service.
Her puerile reactions, during public scrutiny, could become the pick and shovel that dig her political grave. (press read more)
Speaking from the dais last September, Seijas opined on the recall. She had previously survived a recall effort.
"Hey, been there. Done that. And I’m still here," she said. "So either way bring it on."
Seijas and her lawyers are now bringing you a myriad of legal loopholes to stop the recall referendum that lurks like a shark.
Her strategy has focused on questioning the validity of hundreds of petitions to oust her, reviewed and certified by the Office of the Clerk of the Courts, Harvey Ruvin.
On Feb. 8th she suffered a setback when Circuit Judge Amy Steele Donner dismissed her case without prejudice for not including Ruvin as a defendant. On the same day, Seijas’s lawyers filed paper work, before the judge’s decision, to include Ruvin as a defendant
If Seijas has the popular support she often brags about, why waste so much energy to block the citizens’ initiative? Why
not wait calmly for the March election and prove that she is "the people’s commissioner," as her supporters describe her.
Seijas has created a hostile cloud around the recall effort.
The voters, who signed the petitions as well as signature gatherers, are not only attacked legally but have to face private investigators -- including several former Miami-Dade police officers -- who knock on their doors, courtesy of the commissioner and Mayor Carlos Alvarez.
Seijas shoved Claudia DoCampo, political reporter for Noticias GENTV, during the opening ceremony of a clinic in Hialeah on Jan. 31. Seijas grabbed the microphone and repeatedly tried to dodge questions. DoCampo said that in 15 years as a journalist she has never pushed by an elected official.
"[Such conduct] says she is not very professional and does not set a good example to the community," DoCampo said.
‘‘She doesn’t seem to support press freedom."
I keep my fingers crossed that I don’t run into her at the supermarket.
A few weeks ago Seijas walked out of a deposition without answering questions because a Miami Herald reporter was there.
The following day a judge ruled that the media could sit in on the deposition.
During her testimony she repeatedly replied to questions with this childish statement: "I am not an attorney. I am not notary public. I am not an expert in documentation."
She is an expert, though, projecting an air of grandiosity and superiority, in her case, prompted by the insecurity of losing power. And power in the hands of a proud politician is harmful for citizens.
True leaders listen to their critics and dialogue with them, recognize their own flaws, try to amend them and have the ability to compromise with those who have other points of view. In contrast, politicians who treat their critics with disdain, believe they own the truth and push around reporters are seldom loved.
12 comments:
She acts like Gaddafi, without the robe or sunglasses.
I think she's more inline with Castro, to be honest. At least Libya was our ally, VNS is only out for VNS.
I'm glad to see the Spanish Herald in "better from"... I recall when Jose Cancela was a colummnist for "el nuevo" -- yeah! that's one hell of a joke, isn't it -- and he wrote a piece in defense of VNS, when she faced the first recall. And it was fierce defense too! He ended the piece saying "and, please, mind your own businesses and leave OUR GORDA* alone"... This community, including almost everyone, is a real hot air balloon!
*a term of endearment, meaning "our fat"
I wonder if her "generals" will soon start abandoning her, like Gaddafi's. There is already whispering...
It's too bad no one stops her from using the Commission meetings as a bully pulpit.
The Herald comments section has some great one's on this article! I wish I would have thought of them.
Good ridence to her, her nepotism, insider sweet heart deals, cronies and Terry Murphy! (well, mabye not, Martinez or Diaz may recycle him)!
PBA - are you following this? Do you have buyer's remorse? If not, look at what's happening in Ohio. It's not going to get better with you supporting her via your people & money!
The union leaders are completely conflicted out. They cast their fate with Seijas and it will be interesting to see how far they go to protect her.
Speaking of the union bosses, I found this very interesting video made by Dade County PBA Executive Vice President, the esteemed Mr. Steadman Stahl... Seems that Mr. Stahl has "grown" into his cushy position as a leader of the PBA. You see, these Union leaders are paid by taxpayers to do nothing but represent the membership. It gets worst, the deal that they have include a set base salary, and additional salary paid by the union members, and a cushy side security deal that has Mr. Stahl and whale of a man, John Mafioso Rivera more than $300K a year, most of which is paid by us, so they can continue stealing from us. Now, why is the attached video relevant? This man clearly could not even perform the duties of a police officer (remember, the union members and the union leadership are TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS, I respect the Membership, the LEADERSHIP, well, part of the problem). The Dade County PBA is supporting both Natasha, and their LEADER IN CHIEF, the Esteemed Mayor Carlos Alvarez. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Unions need to realize that the more they set themselves apart from the general public, the more public will move away from portecting them. They need to realize that fair wages should be paid, and they need to ensure that those wages are sustainable, not just in the short term, but in the long term. Why police officers are making over $150,000.00 is amazing to me. The market would never justify those salaries. Never... It is time to come back to Earth boys, and fast!! Unions are necessary, and can play a very productive and vital role in ensuring fairness and equity. However, just like everything else, if the system is manipulated by the folks at the top, it is everyone else that suffers!
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sorry, here is the Steadman Stahl video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na2_bHB8elw
how fitting that on the day VNS returns to court, there she is on the Miami Herald website, right alongside Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi both of whom seem to have vowed “to fight to the last drop of blood” -petty,brutal dictators, the both of them.
The union bosses bear much blame. Too bad not enuf union members are reading this blog.
That deposition testimony is painful. She doesn't know how to review documentation? Then why is she in public service?
Your readers should stop making ridiculous comparisons between this big, offesive, fat pig and the dictators. She didn't vote herself intto the County Commission, it was the voters who did. She's not a dictator because when her term is up, if the imbeciles don't vote for her, again, she'll be out. What the residents of this community have to do is get their political act together because I see that as time goes by, we get deeper and deeper into the hands of these professional crooks and the responsible parties are THE VOTERS!
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