In the Miami Herald:
In October 2005, the transit agency promoted County Commissioner Carey-Shuler's son, Archibald Jr., from a system's programmer job to a higher-paying position as chief superintendent over rail traffic control.
Carey-Shuler resigned her commission seat in December 2005. Two months later, the agency reclassified all four chiefs, including Archibald Carey, to a higher-paying exempt status. The result: Between 2002 and 2007, his gross pay swelled 63 percent, from $70,761 to $115,427. Carey was a respected 15-year transit employee with top computer skills who resigned in February, transit officials said. He could not be reached for comment.
Bradley said Carey earned the promotion and that the reclassification put all chief rail superintendents on the same level as chiefs in other divisions.
Four distant cousins of Bradley by marriage -- bus operator Candace Jaghai, bus maintenance control clerk Daryl Jaghai, bus maintenance technician Delroy Jaghai and clerk Shaari Jaghai -- were brought into the agency via the temporary contract and eventually placed in full-time jobs. They did not respond to requests for comment.
An assistant county attorney ruled in 2006 that Bradley had not violated county nepotism rules because the Jaghais were related by marriage.
This Bradley stuff was interesting so I checked on names in county records on Data Sleuth (2008) to see what I could come up with. Very unscientific findings, especially since some use a married name, and remember, all from 2008 because the Herald refuses to update Data Sleuth:
When you take a common name like Smith (266 County Employees) or Diaz (246 County Employees) you realize how big the county’s staff is. I looked up the names of some county commissioner and managers. I also looked in the phone book to see how common some of these names are in the county. Obviously, if there are only 140 Rolle's in the phone book, some of the 34 working for the County are related to him.
There are 15 Bradley’s working for the county. How many are related to Roosevelt Bradley? Only he knows.
Rolle: 34 County Employees, 140 in the phone book.
Moss: 22 County Employees, 181 in the phone book. Moss' wife works for the County.
Sosa: 24 County Employees, couple of hundred in the phone book.
Barreiro: 4 County Employees.
Seijas: 2 County Employees. We all know both of Natacha's daughters work for the County. One, at least, uses her married name.
Jordan: 14 County Employees, maybe 240 in the phone book.
Souto: 3 County Employees.
Burgess: 14 County Employees, 42 in the phone book.
Hudak: 2 County Employees, 2 in the phone book.
Glazer Moon: 3 County Employees named Moon. And one other named Glazer.
I heard the former Mayor's sister-in-law worked in his office. If anyone does a real study of nepotism in all ranks of the County, I think we would be unpleasantly surprised.
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Check out some good info (with photos) on Roosevelt Bradley's MDT relatives here.
Glazer Moon's brother worked for Sorenson as a commission aide. Not sure where he is now. Her husband is a police sergeant over at the "Friends and Family" police training bureau.
Ask Bradley to spell nepotism.
County government and the school system are the two largest employers in this county. Unfortunately, our local economy has been gutted by a combination of greed and systematic pillaging.
Therefore, the real story is not how many relatives are on the payroll, but how their career paths have progressed in relation to their qualifications.
The blogger set up the shot, hopefully commenters will illuminate.
Many people don't have land lines. They have gone the way of the beeper. Older people tend to have them. If you have one, no one calls you on it, except people you don't know trying to sell you something. Friends will call on the cell phone. Even if they have a land line, many people don't list them because of the massive numbers of marketing calls. So the potential numbers are even greater than your research reveals.
Can someone create a spreadsheet that we can post to -- we can start creating a list of all the the nepotism going on; sometimes it is not a relative, but a friend or someone that used to be someone's aide or assistant, but stick around even when there is a power change. Like Tony Ojeda. He used to be an Assistant County Manager (not sure how he got there) hasn't been one for a long time, but they created a USELESS department (profiled in the Herald) just for him (and for the County Commissioners who like to travel and pretend that they are doing it for County business). Now they are trying to put positions in his department like Chief Economist just to give him some credibility. He is great pals with ex-Commissioner Seijas.
Jennifer Glazer-Moon's brother is working with Katy Sorenson at UM I heard.
People that were on the verge of being fired make a call to certain people and then end up just getting transferred ... usually no reductions in salary.
Kendall Coffey's daughter is somewhere too - either County Attorney's office or State attorney's office.
People at Department of Human Services used to be in the "in group" if they went to the same church as the Assistant County Manager over that department - can't remember her name...
Just goes on and on...
It was alverez's daughter in law who is married to his son mike... And she worked on the 29th floor when Alvarez went after Bradley on nepotism .... Go figure?
She quietly disappeared after the strong mayor election and Bradley... There were an incredible amount of people up there that had political ties or were friends... Multiples of relatives up there .... Brothers, mom/daughter combos, etc. lots of lobbyist connections.
Carlos Alvarez's son (not the child molester) also works for the county. He was working for the police training bureau but was transferred into another department when the training bureau was being investigated for nepotism.
Why is former commissioner Seijas giving money to Cutler Bay candidate
Sue Loyzelle under the name Natacha Millan?
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