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Letter: City nickeling and diming us to deathPosted on Wed, Nov. 04, 2009Just when I thought that I could not find another thing that Coral Gables has done to make us look foolish, read on!
The last edict was to ticket worshipers at their place of worship for improper parking (parking on the swale, and other such places). Taking too long to fire the city manager (or have him quit when the heat was really on). Letting the lessee of the Coral Gables Country Club go for as long as it did without paying rent. Repairing DeSoto Fountain at a cost of $850,000. Allowing the former fire station to be used as a museum. I am aware of the fact that most of the money has been obtained from donations but we need a museum like Custer needed more Indians. In Europe museums have articles that are at least 500 years old not 84 years old. Am I naive to think that the workings of the fire department are financed by our ad valorum taxes? If that is so why the $50 charge which will never go away. It seems like the city is nickeling and diming us to death and will continue on into the future. Now here's the really good one. My friend Paul now has to pay $20 per year to park his car on the street in front of his house. A decal is put on his rear bumper. That really is not a lot of money but I bet that next year it will be $40 and the next year $80 and so on. The Arabs have a saying that once the camel gets his nose under the tent he will be in the tent shortly there after and will not get out willingly. I guess I could go on but I am beating a dead horse and the city will not change, undoubtly they will buy more live horses. When will it end? I think never and the worst is yet to come. Nick De Martino Coral Gables Comments
The worst is truly yet to come!
City Manager Salerno and the current City Commission will pilfer away as much of your and my hard earned money as they can. For all of their bravado, The Coral Gables PAC, Gonzalo Sanabria, Robert Burr, et al., will do nothing and sit on their wat wallets and resources, instead of really dong something like a RECALL. i would finance a RECALL, however, the City Commission already picked my pocket dry this year.
said Where's the PAC RECALL? at 04-Nov-09 01:17 PM
Camels and horses, Custer and Indians what the heck is this "Night at the Museum II"?
said Circus at 04-Nov-09 10:03 PM
"For all of their bravado, The Coral Gables PAC, Gonzalo Sanabria, Robert Burr, et al., will do nothing and sit on their wat wallets and resources, instead of really dong something like a RECALL."
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Recall, the one that criticizes prominent people who have done a great deal of good in making us aware or the Gables issues, have run hard and almost won a commission seat and were successful in working together to get term limits is an insult to those that have done so much. Why don't you lead a recall? Go ahead and start the wheels in motion, you don't need to rely on others. We need fresh blood, new faces, people who will step forward and finish off the work still to be done to clean up this horrible lack of leadership under Slesnick, Withers and Anderson whose three votes control us and have driven us to financial and moral disaster. Go for it, people will join you
said Don't criticize those that have helped us at 05-Nov-09 05:55 PM
I love this letter, but it forgets a few things:
1) $25,000 that the former convict city manager David Brown improperly stole as part of his retirement package and which the city attorney says it would take more to litigate than get back. Why won't the city simply hire a collection agency? 2) The huge $120,000 salary paid for over a year while under suspension to the former disgraced B&Z director Margaret Pass after her department went to hell when her administrative assistant was arrested for corruption. Her firing, of course, han't affected her retirement. 3) The huge settlement given to that crook former director of purchasing Carmen Lizama Gaspa after she quit over the insurance scam egged on by little ms. goodie toes shoes Commissioner Ralph Cabrera. 4) The embarrassing settlement given to that bimbo lover of David Brown, Olga Alfonso; one of the least qualified employees to be promoted to mayor's assistant. Oh yes, the mayor was the only one who didn't know of the affair. 5) Let's not forget the public support given by Commissioners Anderson and Cabrera to Margaret Pass for a possible settlement-- this one is still a mystery since Pass hastily withdrew her Trial Board public circus show. 6) And then there's Liz Hernandez, one of the most inept and highly paid employees at City Hall. Recently she was found not guilty of a huge ethics violation, but that doesnt mean she's innocent; it only means she's got friends in high places... There's so much corruption in City Hall that it is a true disgrace how they can get away with murder and how they continue to do their little kickback schemes with friends and cronies in full public view. But, where does one turn to? The State Attorney Office takes a lukewarm interest in City Hall, often relegating whistleblowers to being disgruntled employees with a beef to grind. The Ethics Committe is a joke controlled by Liz herself. It's a big fking joke!
said Corruption at 08-Nov-09 05:08 PM
The only problem is that during election time people elect the same people. Why is that?
said Election at 09-Nov-09 08:30 AM
Why??? It's called - obfuscation - it's what Maria did to cover the 10 million shortfall. When you lie, and get away with it in CG politics, you win elections. That is why that is...simple.
BTW - Did Maria find a new lawyer yet?
said Maria lied at 10-Nov-09 09:47 AM
Yes everybody, there is one more wrongdoing on the part of Maria Anderson. This time the documents cannot disappear nor be tampered and the facts are quite clear and unequivocal. Easy paper trail of corruption. Who would have thought? Even her attorneys are dropping off her case as they see the dark clouds of countersuits building up in the horizon. Her donors who forked her lawyers are fleeing and not paying one more cent. Maria is so stupid that she has stepped into a slippery slope of mierda all by herself. Its coming to your local newspaper very soon. Congrats to all those idiots that voted for Maria.
said Anderson again will be in hot water at 12-Nov-09 04:40 PM
Maria in trouble and lost her legal? No way, say it isn't so?!?!? With Gilford, or whoever was paying Wasson, not seeing any gain in the legal case(s) as Maria already lied her way into office, it's not suprising that this little game ended for her. I guess she thought that Gonzalo would just go away... HA HA HA dummy...you've got a world of sh*t coming your way Maria....;-)
said True dat? at 13-Nov-09 11:29 AM
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
said Maria Anderson at 13-Nov-09 04:04 PM
Get Rid of Anderson and you will change the entire vote bloc of the 3 headed monsters of Sleazenick, Withers and Anderson. Its not that hard
said Recall the Witch!!!! NOW at 27-Nov-09 10:27 AM
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