Here's our current political cluster, of which I can only comment on in a limited manner as my department has been involved with the investigation:
Our county has a commission, the PTC, which manages cabs licenses and other forms of paid public transportation. It's been well known to be a serious cesspool for reasons too numerous to go into here. Suffice to say when Uber and Lyft came onto the scene a year ago, the PTC and its "buddies", the local cab companies, were in a major uproar over it and did everything they could to keep them out of the County. The guy who headed the PTC and his right hand thug were former sheriff's investigators, to give you some context. While both ridesharing companies attempted to negotiate ways of working in the County, the PTC threatened them with all sorts of nasty tickets, citations, etc., etc. to try and discourage them from operating. So dumb and dumber cook up this idea where they get cabbies to volunteer to be customers for the ridesharing companies and hire them out. The punch line is that when they take the "rider" to their destination, someone from the PTC is waiting there with a citation for $700. Surprise! The County administrator got wind of this while it was going on due to the complaints and put the head of the PTC on suspension and ordered an investigation. This only pissed the doofus off, so it appears that in the interim he gathered up many of the commission employees' County issued cell phones and took them to an outside data forensics place to have them wiped. So much for public records! So now a citizen has filed suit for public records disclosure and doofus is pleading the Fifth. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has, as one might expect, opened an investigation, as destruction of public records is a crime. The best part? Some of his texts between he and his minion (who has since resigned as well) have been made public, and they're not at all complimentary they used to be online but have since been taken down. Here's an op-ed piece on them: http://www.tbo.com/news/carlton-could-salty-talk-be-the-final-straw-for-the-ptc-20170208/ It just keeps getting better... http://www.tbo.com/news/former-ptc-chief-cockream-pleads-the-fifth-amendment-over-missing-public-records-20170214/ -D Sent from my iPad > On Feb 14, 2017, at 2:49 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I like my wine to be a bit insouciant, jejune but not particularly banal. > > On a related note, after the County Council meeting last week, at which I > once again gently pointed out what fools the majority of them are, the former > Chairman, whom we got deposed after exposing his lies in 2 meetings I set up > with him, chased me down as I was leaving the CC meeting and presented me > with a thesaurus, saying that my schtick on our FB page was getting a little > stale and I needed to find some more words to use (I think he was referring > to my characterization of him as duplicitous and mendacious, so I guess I > will have to start using two-faced liar). I thanked him, then kindly > suggested he could polish his stand-up routine and we would have him come to > another meeting sometime soon, it would be great entertainment, we might even > make a vid of it so everyone could see it. That took him aback a bit, he > tried to recover but failed. The funny thing is, I bet he was thinking about > this for a whole week, and made a special trip to a bookstore to buy the > thing, and was all excited about it. What a little d*ck this guy is. He > knows we basically killed his political future so this is how he acts now. I > think it is awesome, yet pathetic. > > --FT > > >> On 2/13/17 11:33 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes wrote: >> OT offering >> >> When your brain knows just the right word, you can be more concise. And >> sometimes you can slip in the verbal dagger without the victim understanding >> what you’ve done. >> >> >> *Insouciant* >> >> When you want to say the defendants in the medical malpractice case just >> don’t give a damn, you can label their procedures insouciant. Insouciant >> translates from French as “uncaring.” Insouciance encapsulates the essence >> of negligence. >> >> >> Specious >> >> The law is a learned profession, right? So you would never call your >> opponent a liar. But you might assert that their arguments are specious. >> >> >> Banal >> >> You (and the judge) have heard this (specious?) argument a hundred times. >> It’s trite. It’s boring. You could say, “Counsel’s banal assertion does not >> justify the position set forth in this case.” This word is correctly >> pronounced as many as three ways, though the preferred pronunc _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
