Showing posts with label Annabelle Lima-Taub. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Last minute Election Day thoughts about voting in Hallandale Beach, and the frustrating things I've seen there recently; Vote for common sense and experience: Maggie Ivanovski in Seat 3 Commission race

For you newcomers to the blog, a little recent history about the normal laws about political campaigning were routinely ignored, with photos that show it for all to see: 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">2/ See the contemporaneous Twitter thread of the time connecting-the-dots to then-<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HallandaleBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HallandaleBeach</a> Comm. Sanders via photos + letters: <a href="https://t.co/jazEfak8bB">https://t.co/jazEfak8bB</a>,<br>and, the self-evident proof that both the <a href="https://twitter.com/MYHBeach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MYHBeach</a> City Mgr. and <a href="https://twitter.com/BrowardIG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BrowardIG</a> ignored. 😒🙄🤨😠<a href="https://t.co/HGegEwgNBX">https://t.co/HGegEwgNBX</a> <a href="https://t.co/4d6zIxcWLU">pic.twitter.com/4d6zIxcWLU</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1322202177159503873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>




<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/politicofl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@politicofl</a> The spot-on <a href="https://twitter.com/NickNehamas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NickNehamas</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/Blaskey_S?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Blaskey_S</a> followup re fake website: Prof. Hill <a href="https://twitter.com/MiamiLawSchool?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MiamiLawSchool</a>: &quot;the website appeared to violate state election laws that require political communications to disclose who paid for them...“ <br><br>Time to investigate! 🔍🔍<a href="https://t.co/IQsziAheeE">https://t.co/IQsziAheeE</a> <a href="https://t.co/8w7LdcwSG5">pic.twitter.com/8w7LdcwSG5</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1322022500042182659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>





<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The tumult of a nation divided by politics is spilling into the voting lines <a href="https://t.co/yoxmwvs550">https://t.co/yoxmwvs550</a></p>&mdash; Susannah Bryan (@Susannah_Bryan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Susannah_Bryan/status/1322972424921645057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>




<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yakubovich has been INVISIBLE in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HallandaleBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HallandaleBeach</a> public policy but aims to use being President of 1 of 3 BeachClub condo towers on beach to his advantage. My nickname for him = Boris BadEnough, since his bellicose threats @ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EarlyVoting?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EarlyVoting</a> is both clownish yet VERY off-putting.</p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1322995262781071361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When ppl said Yakubovich = a bully, I thought maybe he was just... headstrong. Nope! Late Sat. afternoon I heard him &#39;joking&#39; w/pals that bec he has support of HBPD union, he wld have ppl who disagreed w/him or called him a liar arrested. Who&#39;d be dumb enough to say that ALOUD?🤨 <a href="https://t.co/g8CJD2Ffjl">pic.twitter.com/g8CJD2Ffjl</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1323006641931980804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/MYHBeach?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MYHBeach</a> Do you think that for once, on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ElectionDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ElectionDay</a> night, bec polls close @ 7 pm, city cld actually make sure the street lights near <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HallandaleBeach?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HallandaleBeach</a> Cultural Center, as well as HBCC&#39;s parking lot lights, are WORKING B4 it gets dark? Always been pitch black conditions in past!</p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1323011174397562883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/EdMorrissey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EdMorrissey</a> Your multiple criticisms of ineffective <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dem?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Dem</a> efforts in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MiamiDade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MiamiDade</a> = 100% correct. <br>Which suggests this <a href="https://twitter.com/NewYorker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NewYorker</a> article shld have come out 1 yr ago, no?<br><br>How Latino Grassroots Organizers Are Fighting to Lift <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Biden?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Biden</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Florida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Florida</a> <a href="https://t.co/WLZyy05xkg">https://t.co/WLZyy05xkg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/kausmickey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kausmickey</a></p>&mdash; HallandaleBeach/Hollywood Blog (@hbbtruth) <a href="https://twitter.com/hbbtruth/status/1323015435571396611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Another short reminder why I'm endorsing civic activist Maggie Ivanovski and encouraging you to vote for her for the Hallandale Beach City Commission, Seat 4.

Over a few visits to the Hallandale Beach Cultural Center last week where Early Voting was taking place, I saw for myself that the level of discord, animosity + PERSONAL THREATS was FAR WORSE than anything I've seen there in 15 years of being there for several hours a day.
Which supported all the things that i was hearing from people via emails and phone calls, that, to be fair, were anecdotal.
But when everyone keeps saying the samer thing, almost verbatim, maybe it's what's really happening, no?

Unfortunately, what I saw on the ground last week only confirmed what I'd been hearing -very egregious boarish behavior was the norm once you got anywhere near the HB Cultural Center parking lot or the one nearby at the closed Broward County Library, and the antagonists, well, again, no surprise.
Supporters of Joy Cooper, Annabelle Lima-Taub, and her her bellicose and boarish puppet, Dmitriy Yakubovich. He's got HUGE sense of entitlement!

Yakubovich has been an INVISIBLE presence in Hallandale Beach public policy at HB City Hall or in the larger community since he has been here, but it's very clear that he aims to use being President of one of the 3 BeachClub condo towers on beach to his advantage. 
My nickname for him after reading his material, what's been written abioyt him by others and then seeing him prowl the road between the Library and Cultural Center is Boris BadEnough, since his bellicose, loud-mouthed threats at Early Voting were both clownish yet VERY off-putting.

To be honest, I put all the early negative comments I heard by people I respect in Hallandale Beach re Yakubovich's bellicosity and preening sense of entitlement as, well, smoke. 
But then I saw him in action twice last week.
It's fair to say that when it comes to him, where there's smoke, there's a real fire.

When people said Yakubovich acted like a Russian bully, I thought maybe he was just... headstrong. Nope! 

Late Saturday afternoon I was near enough to Yakubovich to hear him 'joking' with some of his friends and supporters and some name personalities that because he had the support of the Hallandale Beach Police, i.e. their union, he would have people who disagreed with him or who called him a liar arrested. 
Honestly, who would be dumb enough to say that ALOUD in public?
And would you vote for them?

It takes all kinds, but Yakubovich is clearly someone who would not be the sort of positive change agent that HB City Hall desperately needs right now.

In the Group 3 Hallandale Beach City Commission race, you don't need to choose between the lesser of two evils... you can vote for the candidate with the experience of being a common sense, pro-citizen advocate at Hallandale Beach for longer than all of her opponents combined: Maggie Ivanovski.




Or, as I wrote last week:
https://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/hallandale-beachs-sleazy-unethical.html  




Dave

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Monday, July 30, 2018

Why does Miami Herald write so much about eruv story in Hallandale Beach, 6 weeks later -and drop hints of anti-Semitism- but for YEARS completely ignored a more compelling story re city's CRA wasting TENS of MILLIONS of DOLLARS over several years?

I know this may sound like one of the million-and-one rhetorical questions that almost every civic-minded resident of South Florida asks him or herself every day a new edition of the Miami Herald sees the light of day but...
Why DOES the Miami Herald write so much about one story in Hallandale Beach, 6 weeks after-the-fact, but completely ignore a more important, self-evident story re the city and its CRA -composed of the elected City Commission- wasting TENS of MILLIONS of DOLLARS over several years? Public dollars.

And, just as importantly, why for years has the Miami Herald IGNORED the stark reality that would have been staring any of their reporters in the face IF they had bothered to do some basic investigating of the story I've been writing about here on this blog for years:
EVERY single African-American state Senator & state Representative and Hallandale Beach City Commissioner whose Majority-Minority district includes Hallandale Beach either looked the other way as TENS OF MILLIONS of CRA dollars were wasted, actively fought AGAINST efforts in Broward County and in Tallahassee to ensure that an accurate public audit was performed so that residents would know where that money went, or, were themselves the beneficiary of the CRA funds.
Why? Why indeed?

The four guilty parties of whom I speak:
1. former City of Hallandale Beach City Commissioner and then state Rep. Joseph Gibbons

2. current Florida state Senator Oscar Braynon II







3. current Florida state Rep. Shevrin Jones


4. former City of Hallandale Beach City Commissioner Anthony A. Sanders, who resigned one year ago following a Broward Inspector General investigation that detailed how over $900,000 in CRA funds was directed by him and his family to... well, his very own version of a friends-and-family plan.
The same Anthony A. Sanders whose resignation from office was NEVER ever mentioned in a Miami Herald story, much less, the reasons for it, and what might've happened to him if he had not done so.



Not mentioned but just as curious: Where was Broward County Commissioner Barbara Sharief whose district also included the affected area?

Yeah, that's a good question, if I do say so myself. 
#confounding

In case you forgot or never knew, the folks at the South Broward Chabad, who are one of the two mentioned in this Miami Herald story are the same ones that have asked for some very curious special hometown deals from the City of Hallandale Beach over the years, including a few years ago when they asked for some very extraordinary consideration -a loan with different terms than usual-
and then awarded former HB Comm. Alexander Lewy, i.e. "Lewy the Liar" to you longtime regular blog readers, an award after receiving it.
Which was both convenient and curious and... mortifying.

My original plan for today was to be posting something to my blog about the very-curious and stealthy lobbying taking place re the Sky Island redevelopment matter at Hollywood's Young Circle/ArtsPark and what I'd learned the past three weeks,since letting some of you know the basics of that deal that has completely shocked many of the area's usually well-informed residents.
But once I heard about this Miami Herald article last Wednesday appearing out-of-the-blue, I decided that Sky Island would have to wait another few days.




By the way, I note for the record that this story contains 5 photos, more than any other Herald story involving Hallandale Beach in the past 15 years. 
A story that appeared SIX WEEKS  after the motion by Comm. Annabelle Lima-Taub to bring it up on the City Commission agenda in the future failed to get even a second vote on the dais out of the five elected City Commissioners.

Why so many inches in the newspaper about an issue affecting so few, and who, clearly, did such a remarkably poor job of engaging and persuading their neighbors to support them, even while persuading the Miami Herald it was a worthwhile story?
And as you read along, ask yourself why the article never states when the City Commission meeting with all the fireworks took place.
It wasn't in April, it was in June, and the public spoke in June not on an actual agenda item but under Public Comments. Seems kind of relevant, don't you think?
As does the fact that threatening public officials with lawsuits during public meetings if they don't do what you want tends not to work out so well, no matter what kind of success you've had elsewhere.

These observant Jews need a lifeline to leave their homes — but the city is ‘stonewalling’
BY REBECCA ELLIS
rellis@miamiherald.com
July 25, 2018 02:34 PM
Updated July 25, 2018 09:32 PM
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article215358415.html 




For you newcomers to the blog who may've never seen some of those earlier blog posts of mine laying out the case or the predicate for better understanding Gibbons, Braynon, Jones and Sanders behavior, that is, completely ignoring the public's desire to find out what was happening with the millions wasted at the HB CRA, here are four posts that should effectively help connect-the-dots:

Nov. 2, 2013:  http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/latest-news-re-hallandale-beach-cra.html





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