"It's evil......It's diabolical.......It's lemon-scented......This Plan Z can't possibly fail!"
Posted on 10/15/2015 12:15:37 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
Members of the Homestead City Council put their final stamp of approval on a controversial proposal to sell a city-owned bowling alley to a car dealer planning to build a Hyundai outlet.
Or so they thought.
The following day, some elected officials were unsure of what they had done.
City administrators, including City Manager George Gretsas, could not say exactly what provisions council members had directed him and the city attorney to put in the contract with Jay Rivchin, operator of Dadeland Dodge.
Mayor Jeff Porter, who ran the meeting, said he was as confused as staffers.
The project has generated controversy since the Herald revealed that the deal’s most vocal proponent, Councilman Jimmy Williams, had carried on a series of undisclosed contacts with Rivchin over Williams city-issued mobile device in the time leading up to a vote. Williams and Rivchin had more than 400 interactions, none of them made public until the Herald reported on them.
Less than two weeks after the council voted in favor of the project, the councilman’s god-daughter bought a car from Rivchin’s dealership after the three engaged in a late-evening conference call. Both Rivchin and Williams said there were no special considerations, although neither would produce a sales invoice. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
“We have to pass it to know what’s in it.”
What’s a little graft among friends?.....................
“Homestead, Home of the Confused”
This article is SO like what I see more frequently ... proposals made that sound good ... usually made by one of the administration, (WHO wouldn't want a policy on suicide prevention ?) ... until you read that there will be an info gatherer at the class level, building level, school level and district level ... which all include (as I read between the lines) favored additional 'team members'
There's never been a suicide in our school
People on boards are not paying attention, or are functional illiterates, can't read, or perhaps do not understand WHAT they read
"Mayor Jeff Porter, who ran the meeting, said he was as confused as staffers."
I believe this democrat is demonstrating that he is ready for a run at a national office.
Go to law school, get elected, get rich......... plan Z for me .....
"It's evil......It's diabolical.......It's lemon-scented......This Plan Z can't possibly fail!"
LMAO....
What’s the point of being on city council if I can’t get a nice ride now and then.
Isn't also your experience that the professional superintendent (equivalent to a city or a county manager, I guess, though usually paid better) exercises an inordinate amount of raw power, using a kind of apparently passive control over the chair and the agenda? Team him or her up with a board attorney and the pressure to adhere to "best practices," etc. etc., ad infinitum, and any resemblance to democracy turns out to be less than skin deep.
It's terrifying, sometimes, to realize how institutional bureaucrats hide their tyranny behind a mask of democracy.
I guess we'd have to define "stupid" as deliberate, rather than accidental, ignorance.
BTW anyone with Netflix should check out Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season two, episode 8, The Gang Runs for Office.
Synopsis:
At Paddy’s, Mac whines about the alcohol sales taxes and how there is nothing they can do about it. Dee suggest voting, but Frank tells them that all politicians are dirty, and that only scumbags enter politics due to the high frequency of bribes. The gang decides to have Dennis run for an office so they can earn money from bribes.
delphi technique
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