Lying and corruption in the name of the almighty buck
Two interesting stories in today's Miami Herald. Stories that we first talked about here.
One, the Mercy 300 Bay Residence project and how favors were sought. From the Herald:
"In March 2007, [Barbara] Hardemon [a confidant and former campaign worker] landed a $45,000 job as a community-outreach consultant with another developer, The Related Group, weeks before a crucial commission vote on the company's plan for condos near Mercy Hospital.
"Related executives said they hired Hardemon and another Spence-Jones ally, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Barbara Carey Shuler, to muster support in the black community -- in an effort to gain Spence-Jones' vote. They said Hardemon was recommended by Arriola.
"Related also bought ads on Spanish-language radio in an effort to sway Commissioner Joe Sanchez, who, like Spence-Jones, was considered a swing vote."
It goes on to say: "Related officials say they were not trying to conceal the payments. But the hospital's public-relations consultant, Israel Kreps, told investigators the arrangement made him 'very uncomfortable.' "
The whole story is here.
On May 4, 2009, demolition crews took a sledge hammer to the original 1912 cross and bell at St. Stephen's Episcopal.
CLUELESS WILIFRED ALLEN-FAIELLA
And in another story, regarding the old 1912 church demolition at St. Stephen's, the clueless rector, the Rev. Wilifred Allen-Faiella, goes on to explain how they hid the fact about the demolition, because they weren't required by law to tell people. I call this LYING BY OMISSION. This is a a woman of God?
She says in the Herald: "Had there been different rules in place at the time, I'm sure we would have complied."
Guess she feels that morals don't matter if the law doesn't require it. We are just glad that it's not legal to kill small children and dogs.
From the Herald: "She blamed the city: 'They didn't do their homework. So the city has learned something from this.' City officials concede the old church fell through bureaucratic cracks."
The story goes on to say that new laws are in place and hopefully this desecration will not happen again. Whole Herald story here.
All of our coverage and photos are here.
One, the Mercy 300 Bay Residence project and how favors were sought. From the Herald:
"In March 2007, [Barbara] Hardemon [a confidant and former campaign worker] landed a $45,000 job as a community-outreach consultant with another developer, The Related Group, weeks before a crucial commission vote on the company's plan for condos near Mercy Hospital.
"Related executives said they hired Hardemon and another Spence-Jones ally, former Miami-Dade Commissioner Barbara Carey Shuler, to muster support in the black community -- in an effort to gain Spence-Jones' vote. They said Hardemon was recommended by Arriola.
"Related also bought ads on Spanish-language radio in an effort to sway Commissioner Joe Sanchez, who, like Spence-Jones, was considered a swing vote."
It goes on to say: "Related officials say they were not trying to conceal the payments. But the hospital's public-relations consultant, Israel Kreps, told investigators the arrangement made him 'very uncomfortable.' "
The whole story is here.
On May 4, 2009, demolition crews took a sledge hammer to the original 1912 cross and bell at St. Stephen's Episcopal.
CLUELESS WILIFRED ALLEN-FAIELLA
And in another story, regarding the old 1912 church demolition at St. Stephen's, the clueless rector, the Rev. Wilifred Allen-Faiella, goes on to explain how they hid the fact about the demolition, because they weren't required by law to tell people. I call this LYING BY OMISSION. This is a a woman of God?
She says in the Herald: "Had there been different rules in place at the time, I'm sure we would have complied."
Guess she feels that morals don't matter if the law doesn't require it. We are just glad that it's not legal to kill small children and dogs.
From the Herald: "She blamed the city: 'They didn't do their homework. So the city has learned something from this.' City officials concede the old church fell through bureaucratic cracks."
The story goes on to say that new laws are in place and hopefully this desecration will not happen again. Whole Herald story here.
All of our coverage and photos are here.
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11 Comments:
These two Herald columns are most revealing and should be of great interest and concern to most Miami citizens and especially to all Grovites.
Probe reveals how contracts are won; http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/v-fullstory/story/1117523.html
Miami officials criticize St. Stephen's demolition of church; http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/1117531.html
Please keep these columns in mind when you next enter the election booth and vote for Commissioner and especially when you vote for the next Mayor.
Harry Emilio Gottlieb
Grape:
Congratulations once again you scooped everyone well in advance with all these lies. How many times are developers able to dupe The City? Who do we have working at the City? I think City employees all of them should live in City limits and understand how what they approve effects the City.
With so many highly qualified people looking for work it's time to clean house and HIRE knowledgeable people that uncover all of these types of schemes before it's too late!
CITY only hire people that live within the City limits.
Put Grape and Harry on retainer to uncover illegal, deceitful, unethical, and immoral behavior before we lose more buildings or other items!
With regards to this comment... "Related also bought ads on Spanish-language radio in an effort to sway Commissioner Joe Sanchez, who, like Spence-Jones, was considered a swing vote."
I am sorry but this way off base. First of all, if they were trying to impress Sanchez, it would not be through the radio. Moreover, this sounds like an attempt to impress someone like Regalado.
"Please keep these columns in mind when you next enter the election booth and vote for Commissioner and especially when you vote for the next Mayor."
Harry Emilio Gottlieb
What Harry is saying is since it is printed in the Miami-Herald it must be true. You articles basically says, as Harry points out, is that Spence-Jones and Sanchez are guilty because the Miami-Herald said so. I, like Harry, say this is good enough me. Kick the bastards out of office. Let's not even wait for an election. Harry, thank you so much for bringing this to the attention of the voters and let's get Regalado and Mayor and Sarnoff as Chairman then we will get what we want and need. Thank you.
I don't understand about the ads on Spanish radio??? to sway Sanchez??? for sure they meant Regalado. Anyways shouldn't it be a requiremnent that all candidates for a mayoral race speak English?
Regalado as our future mayor and Sarnoff the future chair of the city of miami commission... What a scary thought indeed. I foresee the city going into a tailspin. Not good. Can you imagine what will happen when Regalado and Sarnoff lock horns for the first time? Oy!! I can just see the city commission meetings making it to youtube...
It's wrong to call these stories "columns". A column is an opinion piece by the writer. These are news stories that I'm sure are as accurate as the writers could make them. I know many people distrust anything newspapers write, but they usually do try to separate opinion from fact.
Regalado was the biggest NO vote on this. He was not the swing vote at the least.
He was very vocal on this issue, he does not rule Spanish radio. Just tune in and here all the anti-Regalado fueled by the Marlins money machine.
To Anon at 2:33pm
President Reagan and Clinton both thought Regalado spoke English pretty well. That's why he was on the White Press Corp serving them.
The article in the Herald would have been very good reporting were it not for the line, "Related also bought ads on Spanish-language radio in an effort to sway Commissioner Joe Sanchez..."
Is this fact or opinion? How does the Herald reporter know that these ads in Spanish language radio were purchased by Related to target the interest of Joe Sanchez in particular? Did someone from Related verify this to the reporter? Did the ads start off with "Este mensaje es para Joe Sanchez..."
The sentence ends with "who, like Spence-Jones, was considered a swing vote."
Sanchez has always been a supporter of Mercy Hospital.
It's kind of interesting that while this is a follow up to the Spence-Jones story, the reporter just had to toss that one line in there, which gives me pause to think that perhaps this was done so as to try and associate Sanchez with the Spence-Jones/ Hardemon/Carey Schuler issue.
The Mercy issue was about re-zoning. Two Commissioners and several courts found the majority of the City commission and the Mayor acted improperly in granting the re-zoning. Many people thought Joe Sanchez and Spence and Gonzalez were anti-neighborhoods because they voted to put 3 massive high rises in the middle of three single family neighborhoods. Regalado was always opposed.
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