Power Corrupts: Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
Why is Lynda Bell calling all over Miami Dade County raising an obscene amount of money for her husband's Mayoral campaign in Homestead? Between the ECO's and his account he has probably raised about $200,000 which is unheard of in a Homestead race. What is this obsession with power? Mark Bell has been a plumber's assistant a great part of his life. He wouldn't have the hotel if Vice Mayor of Palmetto Bay John Dubois' partner didn't write the mortgage. Bell was on/or was just getting off of disability. He would have had a hard time getting a mortgage. Lynda needed him not to be a plumber's assistant anymore, that is why the Hotel was bought. He had to do something.
I don't understand the Lynda power thing and why she is extending it to her husband who seemed to have little ambition before this race. I don't understand why her behavior isn't turning off more people. Maybe it is the combination of Eddie Borrego and her - bad mix.
Lynda doesn't lose friends. She makes enemies. When people break with Lynda they do it with extremely hard feelings. I know because dozens of them have found me and call me to bitch about her. Remember when Lynda tried to take over the Homestead CRA by going to Tallahassee? It died in the Senate. Who does that? Read my blog from February 10, 2012 to give you some idea why this race is so personal to her, it isn't just about her husband, it is about her powerlessness in Homestead, she just can't let it lie, she needs revenge:
2/10/2012: I don't like Homestead's government much, but why did District 8 County Commissioner Lynda Bell go to Tallahassee trying to make an end-run around the local government on the CRA? She wants to change the playing field and give the County power over the CRA instead of the City. That doesn't sound like a good Republican move does it, sending power to a bigger government instead of keeping it local? The League of Cities is against it.Funny, her husband just got a CRA grant for $25,000 on the hotel.
First she tried with her pal Erik Fresen in the State House. That failed. Now she is working with her former foe, Miguel Diaz de la Portilla trying to get the Senate to do her bidding.
Yes I know about the corrupt CRA. I had a copy of the audit by Kathy Jackson that was done years ago and reported on it in 2010.
The reason why this deserves a report, Lynda Bell is not doing this unholy alliance with these two State Legislators for good, it is out of vindictiveness against a City Government that doesn't acknowledge her at all. This isn't her first vindictive end-run. She also did it to the Department of Environmental Resource Management (DERM). When she couldn't get her way with them, she created a Wetlands' Task Force to punish DERM and help Rock Mining -- her biggest contributor. Dennis Moss saw through her charade telling her not to throw DERM under the bus.
Here is the Bill she was pushing with Fresen that died:
General Bill by Fresen Community Redevelopment Agencies: Provides reporting requirements for certain community redevelopment agencies; provides for termination of community redevelopment agencies by board of county commissioners of certain counties; provides public hearing & notice & termination plan requirements; provides that consent from certain entities is not required for such termination; provides additional redevelopment plan requirements for certain counties; provides requirements for expenditure of moneys from redevelopment trust funds in certain counties; exempts payment of debt service in such counties from certain approval; provides requirements for appropriation of certain trust fund moneys in such counties; requires forensic audit of agencies in such counties at least every 5 years for certain purposes. Effective Date: July 1, 2012
7 comments:
This is so good it should be a campaign flyer.
I am one of those people lynda decided she no longer had a need for. I never did anything or said anything negative to her; I kept her confidences even though some of them were strange and now she doesn't even acknowledge when she sees me. Makes me wonder what she did to me and my reputation that prevents her from looking me in the eye.
She is a user. Once she is done with you, you are gone, flushed like tp down the sewer.
I thought the grant was $25,000 about a year ago?
You are correct I made the correction. It was the same amount as Bell's down payment on the hotel.
guess you don't like women in power
she did lot of good here in homestead, people forget that and only talk about her being a b---t
and now attach her husband.
This town doesn't get a break!
So guess you want a good ole boy back.
Why not give Mr. Bell a chance and see if he falls flat on his face or if he does some good for this city.
Last anon you are a parody of an uninformed person in regard to Lynda Bell what's wrong with the GOP and politicians in general. The Homestead Mayor race has nothing to do with women in power it has everything to do with abuse of power which is a huge difference. It has to do with ballot tampering and being such a bad candidate needing so much money paying for negative attack ads instead of running on a real record of doing anything for the community in regard to Mark Bell.
Vote Porter because otherwise it will be a referendum that our democracy is for sale and the least qualified person in the room (taking a quote from Rush Limbaugh does amuse me) will be Mayor of Homestead and that least qualified person is the proxy for Lynda Bell, Mark Bell.
Nope, calling a spade a spade is not an attack, it's the unfortunate reality of this Banana Republic Rubio loving GOP in Florida. The Bell's are proud card carrying member of that group!
I love Katy Sorenson, Nan Rich, Kristen Jacobs, Cindy Lerner, Maria Anderson etc. in power, so there goes that theory. If Mark were not Bell's husband I would take him seriously. This election isn't about him.
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