RESIGN-----RESIGN----RESIGN
YOU HAVE NOW BEEN CAUGHT MULTIPLE TIMES IN LIES & MALFEASANCE OF CITY USE OF FUNDS AND PROTECTING THOSE IN POWER vs THE CITIZENS. ........YOU HAVE TO GO......RESIGN AND SAVE OUR CITY THE EMBARRASSMENT BY CITIZEN REMOVAL OR UNETHICAL/ILLEGAL USE OF CITY ASSETS.
POLICE OVERSIGHT MULTIPLE TIMES: YOU HAVE GOT CAUGHT AGAIN AND THIS TIME THERE ARE MULTIPLE WITNESSES TO YOUR COVER-UP. NUMEROUS DEPOSITIONS THAT SAY YOU ARE CORRUPT. AND YOU HAVE NOW GOT SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE IN TROUBLE FOR IGNORING THIS MALFEASANCE. STOP THREATENING THE PEOPLE OR REPORTERS WHO HAVE DISCOVERED YOUR CORRUPT ACTIONS . YOU BLAME THE PEOPLE WHO TELL ON YOU.
SEWAGE DUMPING: MILLIONS OF GALLONS WITH NO PLAN. JUST STOP FLUSHING .
GIVING AWAY PUBLIC PARKS, GOVERNMENT ASSETS FOR DEVELOPMENT WAIVING IMPACT FEES. WHEN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IS A DISASTER .
NOW BEGGING STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BAIL YOU OUT FOR YOUR INCOMPETENT DECISIONS
THE CITY COULD POTENTIALLY BE IN A FINANCIAL CRISIS . I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AN EXTERNAL AUDIT SELECTED BY THE CITIZENS . A FORENSIC AUDIT.
Although I am sure she is a good person, I don't like the idea of my County representative and my State representative being in the same family. They will be advising each other, they will be influenced by the same friends and relationships. Surely we have enough good people so that we don't need all of our representation living in the same household.
Is it me or do we really only have male Latinos as illegal immigrants in this country? It’s getting to the point that I can’t believe we don’t have illegals from other countries other than Hispanic? No women?
Thank you for voicing some of the many concerns on my mind, these last few months. He is potentially affecting the US as the international monetary standard, as well as the United States standing as a world partner. He has broken a number of agreements with our allies, which is not terribly shocking, given his history... and "business style."
https://youtu.be/St-aJifgiDc This link will take you to April 17, 2025 presentation done byJulia Herbst, Solar United Neighbors. This was mentioned in the presentation and SUN is a non-profit that can arrange and do the anaysis to facilitate the help people in the Gulf Coast of Florida install solar as well as help non-profits. In the presentation she shared multiple programs including one for non-profits and some for homeowners, and you need to hop onto quickly because some of these incentives may go away next year and it must be installed by year end. Be part of these ecological and cost saving programs.
Thank you for this information. Bradenton's Senator is Jim Boyd, who just voted in support of the bill that protects Mosaic from lawsuits related to the waste they produce and leave behind after destroying the land. Please let him know we are paying attention. His office number is (941) 742-6445
Add to his political and personal details:
Gruters is the accountant who is handling the lucrative business of "managing" all of the dark money being hidden from public knowledge and IRS knowledge while it is given to Trump to do what Trump pleases with it or as Gruters is directed to do with it — no records of any of it outside of the secret files held by Gruters after taking his cuts. He gave up the appearance of respectability when he moved in with Eric Robinson (the reportedly "prince" of Dark Money and nasty political campaigns in the state) once Trump decided to funnel all of his dark money receipts through Gruters after Gruters featured Trump as a "statesman of the year" — twice — at political events. Few have remained longer in such good graces with Trump, perhaps Stephen Miller. The folks in Florida keep electing him to advance in offices, too.
FL state government officials chose to expand a college that does not have sufficient land to expand upon. They are now in an embarrassing situation. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ruled that New College can’t buy the airport land, nor can they do new construction on SRQ airport land while retaining their advantageous lease. New College is now scrambling to find some other land and financial resources by getting the state of FL to give them the Ringling Museum and USF-SM. Getting FL state government officials out of their embarrassing situation will result in plenty of collateral damage to the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority (SMAA), the FSU’s Ringling Museums and to USF-SM. Some details follow.
Much activity now in Tallahassee regarding New College, SRQ airport, Ringling Museum, FSU and USF-SM. As the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority Director of Properties from 2005-2018, now retired, I have some personal knowledge and insights. I was the whistleblower to the FAA who stopped the sale of 34 acres of airport land to New College by FAA letter dated April 10, 2024. Buying airport land was New College’s Plan A. New College wants more land to expand upon but the FAA will not let the SMAA sell the airport land that New College now leases. The SMAA appealed the FAA decision on May 8, 2024 but then withdrew their appeal on August 20, 2024 to avoid getting a second rejection letter. So Plan A is dead.
New College’s Plan B is/was to construct mostly new athletic fields on the airport land they lease from the SMAA. On December 18, 2024, I filed a 14 CFR Part 13 Complaint about the SMAA’s special relationship with New College. That complaint resulted in the FAA Review Report dated February 12, 2025 that restricts the ability of New College to develop the airport land they lease. The FAA put many new conditions upon any new construction by New College on airport leased land. New College/the State of Florida may not want to build on airport land under those new FAA conditions. New College may not want to renegotiate the lease with the SMAA as the FAA is requiring for any new construction, including the Beruff baseball field. The FAA will not allow the lease to be extended beyond its 2056 expiration date. New College, the State of Florida and the SMAA have not informed the public of their bad situation or what they plan to do about it. So New College's Plan B has probably also failed. I have all the referenced documents.
The governor’s recently announced Plan C is to give the Ringling Museums and land and the USF-SM campus to New College. If the governor thinks that Plan C makes sense, why did he not propose it one year ago, or two years ago? Because until April 10, 2024 he thought that the SRQ airport would sell 34 acres of airport land to New College (Plan A). And because, until February 12, 2025 he thought New College could develop the airport land until the airport leases expire in 2056 and maybe get those leases extended before they expired (Plan B). Plans A and B failed, so now comes Plan C. If New College takes over the Ringling Museum to their south and USF-SM to their north they will have more land to develop. The 3 streets of the Uplands residential area lie between the two campuses and could provide even more land for both colleges to expand upon. Merging New College, USF-SM and the Ringling Museum would reduce New College’s need for the airport land it now leases. That might be good for the SRQ airport, which could then recover its land and convert it to airport uses.
There may also be a Plan D. Although they failed with both the state and regional levels of the FAA, it is not in politicians nature to give up if they see a possible political fix. With the recent change of national government, Florida state government officials may ask the newly appointed FAA administrators in Washington to reverse the recent FAA decisions as a political favor to Governor DeSantis. Assuming this is their Plan D (to run concurrently with their Plan C) I must continue to bring public attention to this abuse of one-party state government.
The usual liars, cheaters and money grabbers. Since the first idea of Florida, people have come here to make a quick buck on the back of natural resources and gullible citizens. Will we ever learn?
With the issues our Manatee River and Tampa Bay area waters are having, this news sickens me. As for Senator Boyd, I've emailed him on other issues and never received so much as an acknowledgement. The only way to chastise politicians like Boyd is at the ballot box.
Lisa let us see if you are truthful
This lift station is in front of my house and 5 doors down to yours. This project was approved June of 2020. Why did it not get fixed?
Why did the 2 million dollars I had earmarked for this and another 2 million for 2nd ave street project to improve water flow and community amenities get stopped???
And now it appears your campaign donors and Likewise Browns want this lift station on private property with a fee after 2 years to the taxpayers. Perhaps you will answer this as many others are watching!!!
I am hoping that last year's upset Republican primary was a true wakeup call to Manatee County. I've only moved here about 2 years ago, to join family already here; developers have been wreaking harm every place I see (along 64 particularly) and did so by purchasing their own members of the county commission.
The havoc displayed is evidence of the havoc displayed in our larger state and country, Thanks, Judge Roberts, for saying that corporations are people, and thereby opening the floodgates of money to buy influence, power, and the imminent destruction of our democracy by cruel, venal and greedy people who would crucify Christ again.
I am all for affordable housing but question a County that worries about beach sand and ignores senior citizens whose homes have been condemned or are being told to raise their home in the next 5 years. I understand the rationale of raising homes and having them meet new flood standards. But what about senior citizens in their 80s who rely on social security. They do not have the ability to build up or lose the homes they or their families have lived in for over 50 years or more. Consider the small community of Rubonia. Flooding was never an issue. Hwy 41 was raised blocking the release of stormwater from Rubonia. Then the County in their infinite wisdom decides many years later that a stormwater system will improve stormwater issues. In fact the stormwater system the county installed now exacerbates flooding allowing flood and tidal flow from McMullen Creek to inundate the entire community by way of the stormwater drains. A county engineered system doomed to fail as tidal gates are too much for the county engineers to deal with. Imagine yourself as an 80+ year old widow or widower or even senior citizens with handicaps and mobility issues who has nowhere to live because you have been banned from your own home. Rubonia is a small but mighty community overlooked by the County for real solutions for real people. County social workers have worked hard for this community but in reality this is a community whose historic significance is being ignored and will be forgotten. But money for beach sand - no problem.
It is inconceivable that the current government of the USA has become a pro Putin government bent on finding an end to the Ukraine war that will benefit the aggressors. And the Republican party aka MAGA is silent as these negotiations go on. And what is even more surprising is that the lead negotiator is a property developer with no prior foreign or diplomatic relations experience. I imagine that Mr Witkoff is actively thinking about how many properties could he develop in Russia after his diplomacy days are over.
When it comes to Marco Rubio, if I am not mistaken, during his entire political days in congress, he was a staunch enemy of communism. His family comes from Cuba, a country changed by Castro’s regime that forced his family to emigrate to the USA. Suddenly, since he was appointed Secretary of State, Russia and communism are not as repugnant to him as in the past. What happened? Did he look into Putin’s soul? Did he think that Putin changed his beliefs? Well, he is wrong. Putin knows that he is dealing with a weak government that is bent on changing the dynamics of this world and inadvertently giving the upper hand to our other vicious rival, China.
The current president has said it many times: he loves to make the headlines and he does not care whether it is for good or bad decisions as long as he is the headliner. He is in the process of deconstructing the entire world order. All the enemies in the James Bond movies had the same goal. However, what we are experiencing right now is happening in real time and in a real world and this president is the real Dr NO. How could this be happening?
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