Lynda Bell has to be replaced by Daniella Levine Cava. By Gimleteye

Lynda Bell, County Commissioner, Has To Go ... by gimleteye
County Commissioner District 8 Lynda Bell really deserves a challenger.

Eye On Miami has been tracking the Bell dealings from city hall in Homestead to county hall.

There is, apparently, a backlash against Bell on the county commission -- even among the unreformable majority. The latest, last week, was the rejection of a resolution that would have set a miserable precedent of individual commissioners intervening to carve out exceptions to the law for individual citizens. As amazing as this sounds, the following resolution was actually offered: seeking to exempt certain people from enforcement actions.

What voters in County Commission District 8 need to understand about the economic crisis is this: instead of a turn toward accountability, the entire apparatus of government shifted even further away from accountability.

The Bell resolution is a fine example. Bell -- and the unreformable majority -- have ignored decades of history in the western region of Miami-Dade County known as the 8.5 Square Mile Area. The area is susceptible to flooding. To enable the possibility of re-watering the east Everglades, including within the boundaries of the national park, in the 1980's, plans were crafted to protect the area from development. It didn't stop the worst anti-federal, anti-environmental jihad west of the Rockies from taking place, right in Miami-Dade's backyard.

Over the years, special interests -- mainly big farmers, big developers, and other components of the Growth Machine -- chipped away at every structure built from compromise, political dialogue, and negotiation. At the very end of the line you get exactly what appears: County Commissioner Lynda Bell.

Bell's first initiative, after being elected to office in 2010, was to attack the county environmental resources department. The department is still known as DERM, as if the simple act of articulating the phrase is defiance against the serial assaults against environmental budgets and agency mission. DERM had no defenders -- Mayor Carlos Gimenez gave the whittled down agency a broom closet to work in -- , despite the fact that Miami-Dade County borders some of the most sensitive environmental lands in the nation. That is what we have come to.

That is what we came to, until Lynda Bell.

Today Bell has tried to bully fellow commissioners, as if to channel the spirit and role of Natacha Seijas, the long-serving county commissioner from Hialeah who was recently recalled by voters. But the unreformable majority may not be so willing to simply roll over, the way it did in the boom years when the money, the champagne, the dinners out, the condos and platted subdivisions were flowing as fast as mortgages out of US Century Bank to insiders.

It is all in the record.


RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE MAYOR OR MAYOR’S DESIGNEE TO REFRAIN FROM FURTHER ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT IN THE FEW REMAINING CASES AGAINST PROPERTY OWNERS FOR MULCHED HURRICANE DEBRIS DEPOSITED DURING THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANE WILMA

WHEREAS, in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma in 2005, Miami-Dade County was in a state of emergency, there was a great deal of property destruction, and circumstances may have been chaotic; and (BOO HOO on that one, we all went through it we don't get laws sponsored on our behalf) WHEREAS, in this aftermath of Hurricane Wilma, some property owners in the 8.5 square mile area and in the C-9 basin accepted deposits of mulched or shredded hurricane debris onto their properties; and

WHEREAS, in 2012, the Miami-Dade County Wetlands Advisory Task Force recommended that Miami-Dade County provide a one-time resolution for property owners who accepted mulched hurricane debris associated with the 2005 Hurricane Wilma storm season; and (NOTE: THIS WAS A LYNDA BELL ORCHESTRATED TASK FORCE EXCLUDING REPRESENTATIVES FROM ANY ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP). WHEREAS, much of this mulched hurricane debris contained plastics and other trash, along with vegetative debris; and WHEREAS, some of these deposits of mulched hurricane debris constituted environmental violations of Chapter 24 of the Code of Miami-Dade County, including filling wetlands without a permit and improper disposal of solid waste onto properties, and some property owners may not have known that they were violating the law; and

WHEREAS, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office criminally prosecuted contractors who were directly linked to these deposits of mulched hurricane debris onto private property in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma, and those unscrupulous contractors were forced to pay to clean up the environmental violations linked to them; and WHEREAS, if the contractors who dumped mulched hurricane debris on particular properties could not be found, or if the property owners could not identify which contractor brought them the mulch, Miami-Dade County brought civil environmental enforcement actions in order to clean up those properties and bring them into compliance with Chapter 24 of the Code of Miami-Dade County; and

WHEREAS, now, more than seven years after Hurricane Wilma, there are less than 10 open civil enforcement cases involving property owners who accepted this mulched hurricane debris onto their properties in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma; and

WHEREAS, recognizing that these particular environmental violations arose during a unique time of emergency and crisis, and in the interest of efficiency, including limited enforcement resources, this Board may wish to direct the Mayor or Mayor’s designee to refrain from further enforcement against the property owners in the few remaining enforcement cases involving said mulched hurricane debris;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that the Mayor or Mayor’s designee is hereby directed to refrain from further enforcement against the property owners in the few remaining environmental enforcement actions for deposits of mulched hurricane debris that took place in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma in 2005. The folio numbers for those nine remaining enforcement actions are listed as follows: 30-5821-000-0153; 30-5815-000-0140; 30-5815-000-1150; 30-5815-000-1610; 30-5828-000-3831; 30-5822-000-0050; 30-5822-000-0112; 30-2911-001-0301; and 30-2913-001-0490. This resolution, however, shall not relieve those property owners from otherwise complying with the Code of Miami-Dade County, including but not limited to the provisions of Chapter 24 and storm water retention regulations.

The Prime Sponsor of the foregoing resolution is Commissioner Lynda Bell.

Metrorail Fare Increase: Setting it straight in District 8. By Guest Blogger Stephen Cody

Deomocratic Fundraiser Brian Goldmeier has questionable scruples raising money for Tea Party Candidates Like Lynda Bell. By Geniusofdespair

Sometimes you have to stand for something bigger than a paycheck. How does it feel to align yourself with the Koch brothers Brian - helping them?

Broward Bulldog on Democratic Fundraiser Brian Goldmeier (written by Frank Alvarado, Brian Goldmeier is the guy who can't say NO to disgusting politicians (sometimes you have to have some integrity Brian - He raised $28,655 from Lynda Bell):

With Gimenez, it was tough at the beginning for Brian,” (Brian) May says. “By the time Gimenez made the runoff, Brian had refined his approach, using a softer touch with donors.”

Goldmeier continued dialing for dollars immediately after Gimenez beat Robaina in the June 2011 run-off. The mayor had a short window to amass another war chest before the next election in August 2012. Common Sense Now collected close to $2 million in a one-year span, mostly due to Goldmeier’s relentless soliciting of campaign donations from people doing business at County Hall.

For his efforts, Gimenez’s political action committee paid Goldmeier’s firm, BYG Strategies, $220,076 in consulting fees, plus a $20,000 bonus. In addition, Goldmeier got another $44,919 from Gimenez’s re-election campaign.

One lobbyist, who asked to remain anonymous, says he disliked Goldmeier from the moment he met him. “I promised Gimenez I would raise a few bucks for him,” the lobbyist says. “That led to Brian calling me every half-hour. The guy’s a jerk, but he is effective.”

Goldmeier has parlayed Gimenez’s victories into more fundraising jobs. Building for Tomorrow, a political action committee organized to promote a successful $1.2 billion bond issue for Miami-Dade Public Schools in 2012, paid BYG $74,507.

During the same election cycle, he pocketed $9,000 in fees from another political action committee that pushed a referendum to expand the Key Biscayne Tennis Center. Goldmeier made $154,046 in fees raising money for last year’s Jackson Memorial Hospital campaign for an extra half penny sales tax. The Miami Dolphins also retained him, doling out $9,000 in consulting fees for a referendum that never happened because the Legislature rejected owner Stephen Ross’ attempt to put public financing of Sun Life Stadium improvements on the ballot.

RACKING UP CONSULTING FEES

Today, Goldmeier is working the phones on behalf of the re-election campaigns of incumbent Miami-Dade county commissioners, Lynda Bell, Jean Monestime and Jose “Pepe” Diaz. So far, Diaz is running unopposed.

Commissioners’ campaign finance reports show that Goldmeier’s firm to date has racked up $43,451 in consulting fees. Political action committees supporting the commissioners have paid BYG another $52,360. He’s mainly been tasked with corralling prominent donors for events featuring Gimenez and politically connected hosts.

For instance, Goldmeier set up an April 2013 fundraiser for Bell hosted by the mayor at the house of Rafael and Vicky Garcia-Toledo. Rafael Garcia-Toledo was Gimenez’s campaign finance chairman and chauffeured the mayor to events during the 2011 special election and the 2012 re-election campaigns. Garcia-Toledo’s wife is a high-powered lobbyist whose clients include Genting Group, the Malaysian casino giant and owner of the old Miami Herald headquarters.

The host committee included some prominent Democrats, such as attorney Alex Heckler, who has raised tens of thousands for the Clintons, and Freddie Balsera, a political consultant who is President Obama’s main pitchman to Hispanics in Florida. Interestingly, Bell is one of the most conservative Republicans on the county commission.

Lynda Bell: Compendium of Articles on Lynda Bell, County Commissioner District 8 vs. Daniella Levine Cava. By Geniusofdespair

Articles on County Commissioner Lynda Bell. Read a whole pile of them.  My favorite is the Pink Slime Article.

Send this link to your friends in district 8:
http://eyeonmiami.blogspot.com/search?q=lynda+bell

Don't Reelect County Commissioner Lynda Bell in District 8: The difference between a real Commissioner, Dennis Moss and Lynda Bell in the same situation. By Geniusofdespair

YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS FIRST VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND THE POST.  County Commissioner Dennis Moss is addressing Lynda Bell directly about her request to form a wetlands advisory task force.  She first formed a town hall meeting (see videos below) this is it.  Remember DERM protects our drinking water from things like arsenic contamination.

Dennis Moss said he had a meeting the same meeting Lynda Bell is proposing at this Commission meeting. When the 8 1/2 square mile people acted up, as they always do, Moss said he shut down the meeting. When they acted up against staff at Lynda Bell's meeting SHE WAS SILENT (see her meeting below, there are more than 7 parts I only posted 2). She even disobeyed her own rule of 3 minutes only. And she did throw DERM under the bus as Dennis Moss warned her not to.

You only need to watch the first 3 minutes of this first one. Alice Pena (who ran against Moss) is speaking (of course more than 3 minute).



By the way, County Commissioner Lynda Bell mentions 3 minutes to speak and let her friend John DuBois talk for over 20 minutes (she had her victory party for her last election at his home). He is being sued by DERM, unfairly he says, that is why he is at this meeting to talk about DERM's predatory practices - His words I believe. Some of the people from the 8 1/2 square mile district have illegal fill (some with arsenic in it) and they are up and arms because DERM wants it removed. The Army Corps wanted all of the people removed because they are illegally living on the other side of the UDB in a flow area for the Everglades. They are blocking the flow. The Army Corps removed about 1/2 the people at great expense after years of fighting with them. The ones left are very vocal. As you can see. They shouldn't even be living in that area. I would watch this whole video.


John Dubois, vice mayor of Palmetto Bay is speaking to Derm staff members.

If you vote in District 8  you should watch these videos. The third one is awfully rude.  Listen at 3 minutes of this third one. Lynda Bell should have shut it down just like Moss did.  All the clapping is against DERM by the way, try to listen to the end. I would not submit my staff to such rude behavior. That is, if I had a staff. Daniella Levine Cava would never let staff be bullied and abused.

You don't throw your staff UNDER THE BUS.  The head of DERM quit a couple of weeks after this Lynda Bell meeting.  I beg you to watch the videos folks in District 8.

People watching videos I post are very important. Don't take my word for it, see what happened. Make your own conclusions.

Arsenic Contamination: Did Lynda Bell do anything about it in District 8? By Geniusofdespair

on youtube

Lynda Bell does not address environmental concerns unless they benefit the farmers or her friends like John DuBois. And then she is on the wrong side of the issue - less regulation not more. She is always in favor of loosening Environmental regulation. She tried with wetland protection and mangrove protection. She tried to stop removal of illegal fill (some with arsenic in it) for the 8 1/2 square mile people (they didn't know any better that the fill they accepted illegally, was dangerous) and she tried to skirt arsenic removal while she was mayor, for a school yet. She didn't address arsenic at all as County Commissioner even though she knows it is there: She said you can stick a spoon in the ground and find it. Now that arsenic is being found all over the place (Chapman Field and  Hammocks Community Park, for example) what has she done? Silence. Only for Donald Trump's mythical movie studio idea near the airport did she enthusiastically talk about the ease of removing it by digging down to the bedrock -- not so for the school. For the children she argued against a complete cleanup.

Anyway, I wonder if people in her district with wells are safe? The second video is about arsenic's harm in very small amounts.  Watch the 2 video's damn it!!!



Whether arsenic is ingested from water or from soil, it can be absorbed into the body. Once in the body, the arsenic (regardless of where it came from) poses an increased risk for arsenic-related health effects. Many different factors (for example, the form and amount of arsenic, the characteristics of the soil, the presence of other contaminants, the age of the person ingesting the soil, and whether or not their stomach contains food) can influence how much arsenic is absorbed into the body when soil is ingested. How these factors influence arsenic absorption is difficult to quantify. In light of these uncertainties, the agencies consider the absorption of arsenic from soil to be the same as that from water.

Dust on fields,  stirred up, while children play soccer and baseball is contaminated with arsenic. The County in their report (link below) called Arsenic "the most significant contaminant".

Miami Dade Study - Take into account...
1) it's done by an engineer and they have a very different way of looking at these things than do the scientific and/or public health communities
2) at least some of his statistical tests are wrong -- not necessarily wrongly conducted but certainly wrongly interpreted as to their technical meaning

"If you swallow arsenic in water, soil, or food, most of the arsenic may quickly enter into your body. The amount that enters your body will depend on how much you swallow and the kind of arsenic that you swallow. This is the most likely way for you to be exposed near a waste site. If you breathe air that contains arsenic dusts, many of the dust particles settle onto the lining of the lungs. Most of the arsenic in these particles is then taken up from the lungs into the body. You might be exposed in this way near waste sites where arsenic-contaminated soils are allowed to blow into the air, or if you work with arsenic-containing soil or products. If you get arsenic-contaminated soil or water on your skin, only a small amount will go through your skin into your body, so this is usually not of concern."
Agency for Toxic Substances

Miami Herald's Fred Grimm Takes District 8 County Commissioner Lynda Bell to Task For Her Fence Legislation. By Geniusofdespair

 BLAST FROM THE PAST:

Not often do I take a WHOLE Article from the Miami Herald. But I know how lazy some of you are with taking the leap to press a link. This column by Fred Grimm is JUST TOO GOOD and FUNNY for you to miss. Forgive me Miami Herald, I know not what I do.

Lynda Bell Supports the Beauty of the Chain Link Fence and not her Daughter's Fence Company - she didn't even mention it.

Thank you Fred Grimm for making me LMAO with "The Subtle Beauty of Chain-link Fencing":

Before Lynda Bell, few elected officials were willing to stand up for my kind of aesthetic. You know the look. Lowdown Americana, set off with an old sofa on the porch and a rusted-out ‘75 T-Bird in the front yard, windows busted out, hood missing, shreds of vinyl roof flapping in the wind. The whole tableau framed behind a sagging chain-link fence.

Oh, a few politicians understand some constituents harbor a deep-seeded need to surround themselves with pit bulls named after their ex-wives, neon Budweiser signs, the kind of big-haired women who frequent Indian casinos. But their appreciation of anti-urbane culture hasn’t extended to zoning matters. Not before Lynda.

The vice chairman of the Miami-Dade Commission has championed the very beauty of chain-link fencing.

Sure, other pols argue that chain-link fences ought to be tolerated in struggling, crime-infested residential neighborhoods because they’re cheap, effective and keep crackheads out of the yard. But they worry that chain-link lends an area a ghetto look. “Like a jail,” Commissioner Javier Souto said.

But Commissioner Bell fought to rescind the decade-old ban on front-yard chain-link fences in unincorporated Miami-Dade neighborhoods because they’re just plain pretty. “A lot of people don’t want a wooden fence in their front yard,” Commissioner Bell argued last February, as she pushed through an ordinance designed to nurture a chain-link renaissance. “It’s clear. It looks nicer. You can’t graffiti it. . . . It actually looks nice to me because the wood gets warn and weathered and the planks warp. I mean I’ve seen fences when I’m driving down the turnpike, one’s brown and one’s red and one’s blue. This is why I think a chain link presents a much cleaner look.”

Exactly. If we banned wood fences instead of chain-link fences, there’d be none of those rainbow spectrums mucking up the panorama. Instead we have these clean, uniform views framed by gray metal barriers made of oh so lovely wire grids. All we’d need is for Lynda to tweak the county ordinance and allow her chain link to be topped off with shiny curlicues of concertina to reflect the evening sun.

I feel like Lynda did this for me. Me and Jenna. But mostly Jenna. “I’ve been hearing from a lot of different contractors,” Bell told her fellow commissioners. By “a lot,” she meant daughter Jenna Mendez and her hubby. We’ve now learned that the couple were so enraptured by the charms of chain link that in March 2012, they started their own fence company. Bell forgot to mention this back during the February meeting, an odd oversight, given that the address of the fence company is also Commissioner Bell’s home address.

Some critics claim that Bell only pushed the ordinance to benefit her daughter’s business. But those are the very people who could never understand that a chain-link fence can set off a neighborhood as exquisitely as a barbed wire tattoo can adorn a woman’s bicep.

(See yesterday's post on this subject. 2 months later the address of Fence Assured was changed)

If you want to see a before and after fenced house BY LYNDA'S DAUGHTER'S COMPANY go to this blog AT THIS LINK and scroll to the end.

Lynda Bell took credit for Frank Nero's work on this project while he was head of the Beacon Council! By Geniusofdespair

Lie in the Beacon Council Newsletter: This gives me the trots and makes me want to barf.

I wrote about this November 21st. This part deserves repeating:

I spoke to someone with close ties to Nero and Beacon:

The woman told me, he (FRANK NERO) had proposed this for years as a necessary tool to identify development areas especially in the urban core but also for areas in south Dade. This recommendation went back as far as when Penelas created "urban task force" and this was one of his recommendations. Frank repeatedly made this recommendation to the commission over the years as he needed the county to participate. It fell on deaf ears.  When Bell attacked Beacon He again reiterated this proposal. He even wrote her a lengthy memo on this concept. She waited until Nero left and then introduced the resolution saying at the time that her attack on Nero/Beacon was NOT personal. It was reported in Miami today when Nero recommended to her that this GIS program be adopted. There are numerous memos from Nero over the years to the commission recommending this program. It is disingenuous for Bell to accept credit. He sent reams of proposals to the commission on how to revitalize urban areas even, even drafting legislation to revise enterprise zones.

 I think:

 The Beacon council had become a tool of the commission and the mayor .. The new CEO is weak and will not open his mouth. The seminars are a joke, they are commission promotion events, not part of The Beacon mission.

 Bell and the Mayor wanted Nero out on gambling primarily but also they wanted credit for what he was doing. The Mayor once told a source of mine, "I'm the mayor not Nero." 

In his last year according to the Miami Herald:

In the last year, he presided over a year-long study called One Community One Goal, which ended with a lengthy report that seeks to map a blueprint for the county’s economic growth. And in the group’s annual report, the Beacon Council touted a year in which the group said it assisted businesses in adding 2,000 jobs in Miami-Dade, including an incentive package for Univision’s new cable network with ABC in Doral.

County Commissioner Lynda Bell Fights for her Own not Us! Vote for Daniella Levine Cava. By Geniusofdespair

Watch the video it is less than a minute. 

Okay, I hope this is not your daughter Jenna we are talking about County Commissioner Lynda Bell. You said your daughter couldn't find a house. I wrote about this subject October 16th. Why do you Lynda Bell, think it is okay for your daughter to be profiting from the loss and heartache of others -- their homes in foreclosure?

You said your daughter made 7 offers and could not get a house. When you said this Oct. 3, 2012, Jenna had $6,000 in her savings account and $200 in her checking account. Her Husband had a job for 4 months and Jenna had her job for a year.  He was making $1,600 a month and she was making $1,554.80 bi-monthly. Jenna had two jobs listed on the form that she worked one month at. This  is according to a Fannie Mae HUD form she filled out February 17, 2012. Jenna also filled out the same form October 21, 2011 and was rejected November 21, 2012.

No one is going to sell you a house with those numbers and those salaries Lynda. She could have made 1,000 offers, she wasn't getting a house. You need 20% down now. Adding inventory is not going to make it easier for her. Saving her money would. Where is this $80,000 subordinate financing coming from? It wasn't on the form.

So you voted to lift a 30 year deed restriction because your daughter could not get a house because her credit just wasn't good enough? Or as they say in the trade, it was trash. You didn't even give a hoot about the thousands of us out here who considered this 30 year Covenant a solemn oath between us and our County Commission. Not one word.

Both Commissioners Sally Heyman and Dennis Moss said the 30 year Covenant that promised NO RESIDENTIAL was important to them. At the time of the vote less than 5 years ago, many said they were voting to move the UDB line for the office complex BECAUSE of the 30 year Covenant. But here you are lifting it because your daughter did not do any planning to purchase a house including saving and keeping a job. This covenant was important to all of us. The urban development boundary was MOVED because of it. But heck, maybe it will help your daughter, and that is all that matters to you isn't it?

Second you said on the video that you went to a school for urban design planning. You didn't say you took a course (which is probably more accurate). Exactly what school was that? Did you go for a weekend retreat or something? You just can't say anything you want on the dais. You have to be honest with us folks. We don't like to be mislead and we check what you say.

WATCH THE DAMN VIDEO!!! I mean it.

Lynda Bell's Carrot Juice Caper Did not Have Legs. Wrong Resolution for Pepe Diaz. By Geniusofdespair

Lynda Bell, Prime Sponsor
	RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR MAYOR’S DESIGNEE TO ORDER THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TO DRAFT LEGISLATION TO BAN THE SALE OF FIBER IN MIAMI DADE COUNTY.

It was a hot cold morning in Homestead, 72 degrees. Lynda Bell was sweatered-up sitting alone in the Whistle Stop Restaurant having her fiber supplement. All the pink slime she had been eating in her loose meat sandwiches had done a number on her elimination.

Her husband  Mark, for an added treat, mixed Lynda's fiber with carrot juice. Lynda Bell was alarmed because the carrot juice made the fiber clump up. She tried to drink it but it was vile. She mixed it furiously with a spoon but it clumped more and got thicker. Never one to shy against self-serving legislation, Lynda Bell gave the carrot juice and fiber a lot of thought as she, in her usual manner, wanted revenge against them. If she banned carrot juice a lot people in her district would be mad at her,  especially the farmers, but who could get mad at banning fiber, it is so gritty and unlikable. She decided her target would be the fiber and not the carrot juice. She came out fighting.

She brought her resolution against fiber to committee but couldn't get a second. Pepe Diaz, another self serving politician, said he needed the fiber to keep his weight down as his colon was operating at half speed and he admitted he was plugged up big-time, he suggested Lynda just drink her fiber with water. (Note to readers: don't stand downwind of Pepe). Lynda Bell could not garner a second on her resolution no matter how she pleaded. She was angry at Pepe and put him in her mental pocket of people to get back at (big pocket).

Lynda Bell was not defeated by any means, she then scheduled a trip to Tallahassee to do an end run around the County Commission. She heard that Rep. Erik Fresen also has a hate for fiber and carrot juice and Bell has decided to work through him because he is another self-serving politician. Meanwhile, Mark Bell has stopped serving carrot juice and can be found cowering in the corner of the Whistlestop when Lynda stops in for breakfast. It is rumored that Lynda has resorted to bran flakes with prunes for now and is off the pink slime additive in her meat (she was the only commissioner to vote for it to be served) until after the election August 26th.

(Lynda has done most of  the maneuvers described in this fable, except it wasn't fiber that took the hit).

Parody of Lynda Bell Campaign's Attack Ad. By geniusofdespair

Is this an example of a Quid Pro Quo for Lynda Bell, Or Does He Just Like Her...a lot. By Geniusofdespair

Lynda Bell arguing on the luggage protection (shrink wrap) contract award...March 5, 2013. The Mayor was recommending the other firm. Procurement the source of all evil in County Government. The shrink wrap contract is one of the biggies.Watch the damn video it is only 1 minute.



Donations to Lynda Bell's ECO from the luggage protection people, coincidence? Lynda Bell's Campaign Manager (for both campaigns) Jose Luis Castillo, was a lobbyist for this company.

Also see Blog April 2nd for more details.

Is that money in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?  Mae West (sort of)

Jose Luis Castillo's lobbying history: