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Friday, March 15, 2019

Culture of Corruption & Incompetency by Feckless Broward School Board, General Counsel Barbara J. Myrick & Supt. Robert Runcie in a Nutshell

Culture of Corruption & Incompetency by Feckless Broward School Board, General Counsel Barbara J. Myrick & Supt. Robert Runcie in a Nutshell.

 re The special Grand Jury impaneled by the Florida Supreme Court via Gov. Ron DeSantis investigating feckless Broward County Schools & its School Board: 
Broward education activists & taxpayers want you to make sure that Broward Schools General Counsel Barbara J. Myrick is one of first persons grilled. 
She has a LOT to publicly account for, as does nearly every School Board member



"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
- Winston Churchill

 So, as to that part above about having "enemies"... For those of you who are newcomers to the blog, I've been writing fact-filled, analytical blog posts about the serial corruption, incompetency and fecklessness by the Broward School Board on a whole array of issues for the past twelve years.
And, I've also written about them with regularity as welll on my popular South Florida Twitter handle, @hbbtruth, since October of 2013. 
There I often buttress some other person's good point with facts they might not be aware of, or, necessarily throw some cold water and cold hard facts on someone saying something that's contrary to reality that can't be believed by anyone with common sense who knows anything about human behavior. 
There is an awfully LOT of that on Twitter from Broward County, especially among supporters of Supt. Runcie and the business Establishment who can't even do their own independent investigating, relying almost entirely for their numbers and talking points on the very people in charge and who've been elected who aren't getting the job done right.

Trust me, there's a good reason that so many activists, personalities, elected officials and members of the South Florida or Florida press corps, people that you know and trust, are Following me on Twitter and reading my latest post on this blog, which, depending upon the subjects du jour, can net anywhere between 30,000 and 90,000 page views a month.
(For the record, I'll be picking up the pace and be posting more posts per week now that I'll not be traveling quite as extensively as have since early last August.)

 That means not just accepting whole what is written in South Florida newspapers or on websites or seen on TV, but of my actually going to meetings all over Broward County -and especially in Hollywood and Hallandale Beach- and meeting other concerned and curious Broward citizens and taxpayers who wonder about the same things I do: ethics, accountability, public oversight, conflicts-of-interest and power plays by certain parties and groups within the Broward education Establishment and the people who support it in the Broward business community.
The latter being people who make extraordinary amounts of money on the Broward school system as contractors and vendors for projects, whether they're needed or completely wasteful.
So, all that said, I have seen, first-hand, the incriminating reports and the damning photos and the files that have been so much in the news since 2007 surrounding the culture of corruption.

Above and below, July 13, 2010 photo by South Beach Hoosier, looking south at the Broward County Schools HQ, 600 S.E. Third Avenue, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. 
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Above, Supt. Robert Runcie after a public meeting of his Listening Tour at the City of Hollywood's  Fred Lippman Multi-Purpose Center, which was the second time I'd heard him speak in-person, having previously heard him in March at Hollywood Hills High School, also in Hollywood. May 14, 2012 photo by South Beach Hoosier. 
©Hallandale Beach Blog, All Rights Reserved.

For more on the situation above with my friend Catherine, who has since moved to Las Vegas, please see parts 1 and 2 of my February 2012 blog post titled, 
Ann Murray -she's a phony, a bigot and a no-show. Consistently. That's what voters have seen of her tenure on Broward School Board so far -she needs to go!; update on projects at Hallandale High School

 https://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/part-1-of-2-ann-murray-shes-phony-bigot.html
https://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/part-2-of-2-ann-murray-shes-phony-bigot.html

 It speaks volumes about what has been allowed to go on in Broward County for YEARS without any of the know-it-all "geniuses" in the Broward business Establishment finally saying "Enough!"
It also says a lot about the bad reporting the past ten years in South Florida that with the exception of the Florida (Broward) Bulldog, no other media outlet in South Florida reported on this story that explains so much of what happens here.

As you might imagine, that sort of consistent public questioning of elected officials and administrators and a willingness to publicly challenge people personally to substantiate and back up what they say leads to lots of things.
On the one hand, it means that many people throughout Broward who make education one of their chief concerns -regular citizens, public officials as well as many local print/TV reporters and columnists- know from personal experience that when I say something, that I not only know of what I speak, but can also personally produce the incriminating evidence, or, know the very people who can produce it so that the public finds out the truth.

 That sort of effort over a dozen years also creates all sort of friction with people who are supposed to be working FOR the public, including numerous past and current elected Broward School Board members, administrators and their staffs who don't like seeing the truth being publicly discussed in a logical and reasonable way, and even worse, discussed in print where anyone can see the facts and not have to accept their own particular spin on things.
So that kind of effort is why I was on the Top Ten list of people whom the Broward School system has been BLOCKING on Twitter since 2016, as the Angela Greben tweet above makes clear.
Yes, I wear their BLOCKING of me like a gold medal, and proudly so.











In watching last week's important Broward County School Board meeting with an agenda item regarding the firing of Supt. Robert W. Runcie -whom I was an early fan of until two years later it was clear there was NOT going to any any of the required change in culture or direction- while I was traveling, I was so upset by what I saw and heard that despite promising myself that I would be calm and not LIVE TWEET responses to what I was seeing, I felt obliged to ignore that intuition and drop some knowledge on the Twitterverse, including some folks at the meeting or who were commenting upon it who didn't have the institutional knowledge that I had of many of the characters and charlatans who spoke on behalf of retaining Supt. Runcie.














































































































Proving yet again why = 4-letter word in : passive aggressive att'y makes deals WITHOUT knowledge of clients, elected officials, who are her BOSS, not the other way around. Another Barbara J. Myrick success story! 🤨


Hardly surprising that att'y Barbara J. Myrick, woman who thinks her clients work for her, wld decided that @ public meetings, she gets to make up rules to suit her moods

Of course, the public didn't vote 4 att'y Barbara J. Myrick, but she feels free to tell elected officials who ARE making policy what they shld do -ignore findings of past Grand Juries bec facts are a funny thing. WTF? 🤨

att'y Barbara J. Myrick, the runaway lawyer, continues to take advantage of her clients and use that to advance her own personal & professional interests. But nobody in voted for her! 🤨

att'y Barbara J. Myrick still acts like she's their boss: " was interrogated by Gen. Counsel Barbara Myrick last week on why she voted against new security chief & was told her reason was unacceptable." 🤨

“LoriAlhadeff has...helped us see that ’s is trending toward a rubber stamp... , that rules & laws need to be re-evaluated,... how Runcie and Myrick treat board members like subordinates, when they work for them.” 🙄🤨🤔

RT "Hasn’t Lori been through enough without having to put up with this? Myrick needs to be investigated by the grand jury not as an accessory but as a primary player and strategist for the BCSB Corruption Cartel. Florida Bar, are you listening?" 🤨🤔

When she says "they" she means "me." 🙄🤨🤔 MT att'y Barbara J. Myrick said SchoolBoard was not consulted before they took legal action to hold reporters in contempt of court. Said it was considered emergency decision.

Runaway lawyer's mea culpa, Aug 7, 2018 MT att'y Barbara J. Myrick said Supt. was not part of decision to hold reporters in contempt. "If you have anyone to blame, it's me. I take full responsibility for what occurred."

Suing reporters MT att'y Barbara J. Myrick compared the district’s actions to “leaving cars unlocked and someone comes and steals it and saying it’s not the thief’s problem that you left the door unlocked.” 🙄

MT Not meeting requirements of job description shld not disqualify 2 staffers fm high paid jobs, att'y Myrick said. But does disqualify candidate w/a PhD & MBA fm becoming a secretary, she previously said. 🤨

This is normal where, exactly? 🙄🤨🤔 MT member tried to vote against a job candidate over concerns w/process. att'y Barbara J. Myrick told her she’s not allowed.

Updated February 14, 2019 by Scott Travis of the South Florida Sun Sentinel

MT att'y Myrick makes Lori Alhadeff state reason why she was voting against Brian Katz. Alhadeff said bec some qualified applicants weren't interviewed/she had issues w/ process. Myrick said that's not an allowable reason. 🙄

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