Below, an email I sent tonight to South Florida blogger extraordinaireChaz Stevens of Deerfield Beach, http://www.myactsofsedition.com/ Saturday April 10th, 20109:55 p.m.
Dear Chaz:
While at Panera Breadlate this afternoon, while doing some reading and writing, I noticedthe ad on page 5B of the Herald -above- regarding an official Broward School meetingat Deerfield Beach Middle School Monday nightat 7 p.m.
I made a note to myself that when I got home, I'd go to the Herald'sonline advertising page, make a copy and send it along to you for you to post or mention to your readers, since your city has sadly become the Ground Zero for this contemptible behavior at schools.
But when I checked the Herald's advertising website as I have in the past, http://newspaperads.miami.com/ROP/Categories.aspx, the ad did NOT appear for some reason, so I've gone ahead and snapped a photo of it with my own camera -with predictable results.
Still, I think it's legible enough for you to make out okay.
So, guess who doesn't have anything about this meetingon their own website?
The same geniuses that have at their disposal,a Cable TV station with TV cameras that taxpayershave already paid for, http://www.becon.tv/ but which, somehow, over the course of the past few months, couldnever be used to televiseLIVE or tape any of the so-called Integritymeetings by Butterworth & Company, http://browardschoolsintegrity.org/ have now decided to run a paid advertisement in the newspaper whileneglecting to mentionit on their own website.
Geniuses, that is, if by geniuses you mean clueless, incompetent morons. Notter & Company are some kind ofrole models for the kids, huh?
Just more proof, as if needed, that all the Broward School Board incumbents running this Fall have to go buh-bye.
This is just more evidence that they're partof the problem, not part of the eventual solution. Adios!
----- So faithful readers, here's the current list of announced BrowardSchool Board candidates, which I'll bediscussing again by Monday night: http://www.browardsoe.org/electioncandidates.aspx?eid=89
Did you notice whose name is conspicuous byits absence? I did. Rhymes with brook. I actually saw her VERY SWEET decked-out 'campaign' bus rolling north upU.S.-1 past Gulfstream Parknine days ago, but I got my camera out too late toactually snap a shot of it and run it here.
Chaz Stevens' latest video is exactly what I wanted to do in 2008 with the City of Hallandale Beach's (COHB) curious purchase of Pastor/Commissioner Anthony A. Sanders personal property for much more than its appraised value, as if HB City Hall had more money than sense. LOL! Well, history has clearly borne me out on this.
COHB was in a rush to buy this property owned by the then-Pastor Anthony A. Sanders and his wife, so that the city could promptly... do nothing with it at all.
Now that they've put HB taxpayers on the hook for it, one of more than sixty-plus properties that COHB currently owns, they rent it out at $10 -yes $10- a month to a group the city wants to co-opt and stay on friendly terms with for completely political reasons.
But what was the actual rationale for the purchase in the first place, which was NEVER publicly advertised on the HB City Commission agenda, but instead, done under the stealthy rubric "Other," depriving HB citizen taxpayers of their opportunity to not only be publicly heard on this unseemly transaction, but ask for proof of what STILL remains the city's imaginary action plan?
They have a very vague idea but no actual overall written plan they can either point taxpayers to, or are willing to publicly share with them, IF it even exists on paper.
Meanwhile, COHB's financial situation goes from bad to worse -see http://changehallandale.com/, click Budget or Debt-and they STILL can't answer perfectly reasonable financial questions by residents about this absurd purchase, despite plenty of time and resources to do so.
In fact, this specific issue came up again this past week at a city Quadrant meeting held at the city's Cultural Center -more on that on Monday, along with video- and once again, the city's highly-paid staff could NOT point to something actually either written down (or approved by the City Commission) that justified a premium price bring paid for a mediocre piece of property in 2008.
Like it was a Ken Griffey, Jr. Rookie baseball card at the pinnacle of the baseball card craze in the early 1990's that disappeared once the actual merchandise had been sold to the gullible public. Caveat emptor, mes amis!
For those of you who are late to what Chaz Stevens has uncovered in his corner of Broward, you can see what larger point he is proving with 100% accuracy -and video- along with his latest muckraking adventures, here, http://www.myactsofsedition.com/ some of which the Broward Palm Beach NewTimes has written about quite well, while the Herald and Sun-Sentinel largely continue to play catch-up.
In today's Broward Beat, Angelo Castillo writes about a simple plan that results in Broward citizens taking back voting from bureaucrats, with the added dividends of increased participation and depriving anyone from their 15 Minutes by whining about voting sites or hours.
Personally, I still wish that Castillo would run this Fall against the longstanding, ethically-challenged and largely clueless Broward County Commissioner whose district includes a small part of HB, Diana Wasserman-Rubin, but for now, he seems to have decided to make his re-election in Pembroke Pines his first priority, which occurred this week with him getting 87.64% of vote.
(And what was DWR talking to Comm. Sanders and some of his acolytes about over at the city's Hepburn Center on Monday night? Some well-informed people hereabouts think that she's actually considering the possibility of supporting the out-of-scale Diplomat LAC next week at the County Commission, the 23rd, in exchange for Sanders vocal support and his acolytes' help, which likely won't come for free. But then you already knew that, right?)
Castillo has more practical ideas and common sense than 99% of the elected officials pols I run into in Broward and M-D, and would, I think, make a great county-wide ELECTED Mayor in the future if the circumstances ever presented themselves, and residents could ACTUALLY vote for that instead of the Broward County Commission crowning one of their members.
I feel this way in large part because he is someone who is not afraid of new ideas as a solution to resolving longstanding problems.
Problems that have made and will continue to make Broward less desirable than it could be with the proper leadership and hard work. Me, I'm for diversity -I want smart and honest people with common sense.
If you're hanging around the house for the next few hours, at 2 p.m.,Turner Classic Movies is showing one of the best political films ever made, All The King's Men, based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_King%27s_Men
No, not the Sean Penn & Jude Law's recent clone, which I intentionally skipped, but the powerful original that was so compelling that it won the Best Picture Oscar for 1949, as well as the Best Actor Oscar for Broderick Crawford.
