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What do they think this is? Rent-A-Center?

Commissioner Sylvia Poitier, once one of the richest politicians in Broward County, who's recent networth was $666,737, appears to be putting shit for sale up on eBay (not really, but you get the idea) to settle her lawsuit with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.  For those unfamiliar with the case, here's a quick primer.

And how do I know this?  I just got an update from the State of Florida (click here and here to read their email).  Seems that the Poitier's want a payment plan.  They already had a payment plan and made zero payments.  What do they think this is?  Rent-A-Center?

Re-elect Judge Hurley? I THINK NOT...

As they say, politics is the art of the possible, so let's see how far that saying goes...

To wit.

Attached is a complaint that I filed today with the JQC and Florida Elections Commission asserting the following:

Dear Sir or Madam:

I hereby file a complaint with your office alleging the campaign of Judge John “Jay” Hurley of Broward County has willfully violated Florida Statute 106.143(5) Political advertisements circulated prior to election requirements which states:

No political advertisement of a candidate who is not an incumbent of the office for which the candidate is running shall use the word "re-elect." Additionally, such advertisement must include the word "for" between the candidate's name and the office for which the candidate is running, in order that incumbency is not implied. This subsection does not apply to bumper stickers or items designed to be worn by a person.

Judge Hurley was appointed to his office and not elected.

It's your move...

To those who thought I carried his water, consider the following...

Andrew Maurodis;
Deerfield Beach City Attorney;

Dear Sir;

Enclosed to this email is a formal ethics complaint I am filing against former city manager Mike Mahaney for violating Article IX Sec. 2-502 Required and Prohibited Conduct of our city charter:

(j) For a period of two years after the termination of his/her serving as a regulated officer, the regulated officer shall not appear before or practice before any city department, agency, board or commission except on his or her own behalf, or on behalf of the city serving on a volunteer basis or a civic group serving on a volunteer basis. For the same period a regulated officer may not receive compensation for working on, or have associates working on, any matter before any city department, agency, board or commission.

Kindly investigate my allegations and if found with merit, I ask that you take appropriate measures.

Regards

Chaz Stevens

CC:
Robert "Bob" O'Neill, Jr.
Executive Director
The International City/County Management Association
777 North Capitol Street, NE
Suite 500
Washington, DC   20002-4201

Did you think I was going to blink?

Alexandra Rieman, Attorney At All Things Difficult, Problematic, and Pendantic
17th Circuit

Madam Attorney;

Today, I will be filing a complaint with the JQC and FEC regarding Judge Seidman's use of taxpayer equipment for his campaign.  My complaint will be overnighted to both organizations.

I ask that you secure all of the backup tapes in question as they will most likely be evidence in any investigation performed to validate the veracity of my claims.

Good day.

C

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We all get to use Poitier as a piñata for an hour.

Folks;

Arlington Park Family update here.

Andy's at an impasse...   I sent a PRR  to review their records...  The City is legally bound to provide them to me within a "limited reasonable delay".  Either way, you best hurry up and get off the dime.

Two suggestions:

1. Someone ask Commissioner Felonious Poitier to bring them with her to work.
2. Take Arlington to court.

Party Planning Suggestions:

1. Chaz gets gold plated handcuffs and a key to the city.
2. We all get to use Poitier as a piñata for an hour.

Seidman's emails are worth $2,068.00

Those of you paying attention will recall that Broward County Judge Lee Seidman admitted to using his taxpayer provided computer to send out campaign emails.  So, wanting to learn more, I fired a PRR into the Circuit Court asking for the following:

All emails, for the last 3 months, sent to Judge Seidman's JA, Ms. Gonzale (whose email address is, I believe, lgonzale@17th.FLcourts.org ), on behalf of the Judge, that contain any of the following words:

• invitation
• invite
• democratic club
• re-election
• campaign
• Chaz Stevens
• MyActsOfSedition 

And shortly thereafter, my life was dumped on shit upon graced with the introduction of a very arrogant personable lawyer by the name of Alexander V. Rieman.

Sidebar:
The V is Rieman's name is <cough cough> "German" and pronounced See You Next Tuesday.

Rieman's response to my inquiry was the following:

A special surcharge for restoration is $2,068.00 with an estimated time of one (1) week to complete.

Holy crap right?  $2,068 to find out just how bad Seidman jobbed the system?  So, blinking furiously and dumb founded by such chicanery, I ask if there was another less costly option:

Can the entire contents of your colleagues email account, in electronic form, be provided to me?  If so, I can do my own slicing and dicing of the data.  $2,000+ to examine some emails seems... Well, it seems a bit over the top.

Which resulted in this painfully non-friendly response;

The Circuit is unable to provide an electronic copy of the restored e-mail account  or e-mail accounts, dependent on the option chosen pursuant to the March 3, 2010 letter, for the following reasons:

• the restored account or accounts will contain e-mails in addition to the last three months; 
• the e-mails for each restored account or accounts need to be reviewed for the dates set forth in your request to determine:
  • is it a judicial branch record subject to public access and consistent with your requested search terms;
  • is it a judicial branch record for which an exemption to public access may be asserted and consistent with your requested search terms;
  • is it a judicial branch record for which an exemption to only a portion of the record may be asserted, that portion redacted, the remainder of the record subject to public access and consistent with your requested search terms; or
  • it is not a judicial branch record and not subject to public access.   

Each e-mail for each restored account, that meets your requested search terms, must be reviewed prior to disclosure.

Please advise which option set forth in the letter of March 3, 2010 you are choosing with regard to the requested records so that the Circuit may proceed accordingly.  I want to reiterate that if you are requesting restoration of the daily back up tapes,  that must be done prior to 5:00 p.m. on March 8, 2010 or the daily tapes will be placed back into circulation. 

Man.  This woman and I just don't see eye to eye.  I'd hate to battle her for the remote control.  So not sure where to proceed from here, I took a timeout.

Madam Attorney;

As I am meeting with my legal team to advise me of my options, I ask that you secure all of the tapes in question and do not put them back into rotation.   My answer will be forthcoming. 

So I guess Rieman assumed I "lawyered up" and fired back this little gem:

Please have your legal team contact with regard to this matter.

Alexandra V. Rieman
General Counsel
17th Judicial Circuit
Broward County Courthouse
201 S.E. Sixth Street
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
954-831-7560

Come on See You Next Tuesday.  Really?  I just want some emails.  $2,068 + legal fees?  What's next?  I gotta get you laid?

Anyway, I told Rieman I was examining my options and to hang tight.  Tight <ahem>, in her case, was until 3pm today when I got found this in the Inbox:

Mr. Stevens

Based upon your failure to select option 2 as set forth in the letter of March 3, 2010 or to provide me with the name of your legal team or for your legal team to contact me you are hereby notified the Circuit, effective tomorrow, will be placing the daily operational back up tapes into circulation.  Due to fiscal constraints the Circuit is unable to take daily operational back up tapes out of circulation.

The Circuit will continue to hold the daily tapes, if and only if, a money order in the amount of $75.00 is received for each day you do not want a tape placed into circulation. The money order should be made payable to the Broward County Board of County Commissioners and received no later than 11:30 a.m. on March 11, 2010 and 11:30 a.m. of each court business day thereafter you want the Circuit to maintain a daily operational back up tape.  The money order should be delivered to Room 880A, 201 S.E. Sixth Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 with instructions as to the daily operational back up tape to be preserved.

The Circuit stands ready to review the requested e-mails based upon the option you select and to produce the judicial branch records subject to public access as soon as possible subject to the conditions set forth in the March 3, 2010 letter and this e-mail.  A copy of the March 3, 2010 letter is attached for your reference.

Okay.  I am bored already...  Barely enough energy to get this out the door:

Dear Madam Attorney;

My apologies for the delay.  

I've been hard at work trying to figure out the basis for your surcharge.  I'm unable to find support within Florida Statutes that allows for such a surcharge.  Perhaps you'd be good enough to provide me with the citation...

Also, I've also spent a good bit of time trying to explain to my legal team, I'll go with, that this "is all part of the game played by those in Rieman's building" with the game being you want to charge me $2,000 or so to find out just how ethically challenged the Judge is...

Answer = probably a lot.

Or how it's part of your game to be...  And here I will go with "professionally problematic".  It's part of your game to be professionally problematic in dealing with pesky citizens like myself.   Heck, I told my folks, she's might well be a good lawyer and if I ever need someone to take care of a speeding ticket, Attorney Rieman is the man gal for the job.

Look.  Let's cut to the chase.  Judge Seidman probably used taxpayer gear for campaign purposes.  You want me to cough up $2,000+ to find out how many times the he used the gear improperly...

Rhetorical question:  Have you no shame and/or decency?
Rhetorical answer:  Duh and/or hello?

So given all of this, it's hard for me to ever take you serious, so I decided to go with Plan B.   Which includes NOT paying you $2,000 and filing a complaint with the JQC and FEC.  I'll let them write you a check.

I've also will include copies of our correspondence...

It's been a pleasure dealing with you.

Sheesh.

Download March 3_ Chaz Stevens_Special Surcharge Estimates

Battle's Fog Of War

Watch former commissioner Gloria Battle learn the inner workings on how ethics is supposed to work.

Save on toilet chemicals - free 2-day shitting, I mean shipping

Who would have ever guessed, well besides me that is, that the word "chamber" in the title Deerfield Beach Chamber of Commerce actually implied "chamber pot". 

Seems that the slow paying of the utility bill finally caught up to those folks.  Rumor has it water was turned off not once, but twice.

Not believing such good news, I had to see for myself...  Seems that the proof is in the pudding, or in their case, maybe the chemical toilet.

Poitier: Won't 'beg white people' to help fund Convention Center use.

From the gawds at Lexis-Nexis, I acquired some old newspaper articles detailing one time millionaire Sylvia Poitier. 

Enjoy.

Download the articles.