The New Times blog Nov. 9th (http://www.miaminewtimes.com/blogs/) took issue with Curtis Morgan's puff piece in the Herald on Rodney Barreto, accusing the Herald of leaving out the critical stuff. It reminded me of my similar complaint to Haggman on his Lennar/Miller love fest article a few weeks ago. What's up Herald?
In the Blog the New Times mentions that "Barreto was partnering with former Latin Builders Association President Sergio Pino to circumvent laws that restrict building near the Kendall Tamiami Executive Airport." In the Herald today Scott Hiaasen reported that story in his article: "Airport Zoning Waived for Home Project." I loved the sentence: "...developer Pino agreed to reduce the number of homes...in the runway path -- the area where planes are most likely to crash." And, then Scott said: "two pilots spoke out against the development saying it made for riskier takeoffs and landings at the airport." Well plunk my money down! It is just where I want to live.
Didn't they have to pay to relocate lots of people in Hollywood's airport flight path? This will cost us taxpayers money in the long haul. Another boondoggle in the making. But I know at least two people who are getting rich (might be more under that table). LetÂ’s guess how the County Commission voted: Sorenson was the only one in attendance who voted no.
To add to the zillion cases of our county taxpayer money being used, abused, stolen and wasted: It was reported today in the Herald that Inspector General Christopher Mazzella uncovered yet another scandal with county tuition reimbursements. It is early in the investigation but we the taxpayers are already in the hole for $183,000. Four county employees have been indicted according to the article by Charles Rabin. This is a program that has spent $9.3 million dollars so I expect a lot more of our money went down the drain. Stay tuned. Mazzella ain't bad!
My mother-in-law turned 99 yesterday. She said: "I have seen a lot of Presidents, but Bush is by far the worst." Women finally got the vote when my mother-in-law was 13 years old. At that time she had no electricity, used an outhouse and remembers her father's horse - it wouldn't move half the time. Hell, she has seen MANY, MANY presidents. I only hope she lives to see one she can be proud of again. By the way, her drivers license will expire in 2010. She was not required to take a test for the 10 year renewal.
She still votes.
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Excerpt of Criminal Investigation dated 1/12/2004 Subject: Natacha Seijas
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Interesting. Seijas made an excuse that it was late, late at night and that's why she made the inexcusable comment. But it is exactly late at night, when your defenses are down, that true character emerges. And that's her true character: Vile. And the true character of the M-D ethics commission: Useless.
Miami Dade ethics commission is useless. They can't seem to nail anything down. I have turned to the State Attorney's office - giving up totally on Robert Myers' ability to get anything done. His hands are tied by really stupid rules. Politicians are now waving the narrow Ethics Opinions in the air at meetings as a badge of honor, I would prefer to disband the Ethics Dept. so this does not happen anymore.
In the City of Miami we have the appointed Interim Commissioner Linda Haskins using a taxpayer paid SUV and a taxpayer paid driver 24/7. She uses the car and driver while she campaigns. This new appointed commissioner has the Herald's endorsement vs the populist grass root candidate Marc Sarnoff. For some reason the Herald refuses to write about Haskins being driven to campaign events by a taxpayer paid car and driver. She even has her staff and husband driven around. Vote for Sarnoff Nov 21st.
Seijas is vile, Pepe Diaz is vile, Javier Souto is vile, Rodney Baretto is vile, Dorin Rolle is vile, Sergio Pino is vile, Joe Martinez is vile and right up at the top is Kathryn Fernandez Rundle. Why? Because she protects the vile ones. She has launched a public corruption investigation of the citizens who signed the Seijas recall petition and the people who circulated the petitions.These people exercising their right to petition their government are being intimidated by teams of public corruption officers who come banging on their doors, unannounced and at all hours. The interrogation is a page from Joe McCarthy's playbook. Seijas couldn't stop the recall with the help of Harvey Ruvin's "block letters", she couldn't stop it with an affadavit from Jimmy Morales saying he intended block letters when he wrote the ordinance, so Rundle interviened with "a fraud investigation" 7 months after the petitions were submitted and one month before the election on Dec 19 (a date seijas picked).So while the vile ones are left alone, Rundle has chosen to go after the people. That's vile!
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