I’m speaking about the outrageous revelations you have uncovered about Scott Maddox and Gary Yordan, as well as the malfeasance of the city council attorney , Lew Shelley, whose basic responsibility is to be the legal watchdog against shoddy ethics and violations of state law by its members. The city manager, Anita Favors, through your revelation of her putting the arm on lobbyist, city vendors and city employees for the Ziffer event should be fired and prevented from ever holding a government office again.

These financial predators have long feasted at the public trough and show an absolute disregard and arrogant contempt for the citizens. As part of the ongoing and conniving good ol’ boys/girl network these predators continue to pillage the public funds at their will.
It’s time for the able citizens of the city to attend the public meetings en masse and demand the ouster and prosecution of those city council members and manager involved in the scandals.

Petitions should be formed by those concerned citizens with the abilities to do so and present them to the state attorney general.

Read how the growing numbers of readers have no confidence in the Tallahassee Democrat’s editor, Bob Gabordi. Even Bob’s employees are expressing their disdain for their editor.

http://randompixels.blogspot.com/2014/01/dear-rick-and-mindyi-take-back-almost.html

http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/democrats-bob-gabordi-hes-fighting-way-above-his-weight-class

Jon, according to state law he is not allowed that luxury. He must, by law, either: A) vote or B) declare his conflict of interest, then file a form detailing it. He was under the allusion that no one would know that his actions were illegal. That the City Attorney is providing cover is another issue that is deeply troubling.

Here are the major flaws in Ben Poitevent’s response:

Commissioner Scott Maddox declined to vote because of a conflict that he previously stated was not a conflict. If Mr. Maddox was truly genuine and ethical he would have declared publicly a long time ago that there was a conflict and filed the proper paperwork.

Instead Commissioner Maddox:

1) Had the city attorney state publicly that here was no conflict when of course there most certainly was a conflict.

2) Rather than declare publicly that he will not be voting due to a conflict Commissioner Maddox slithers out of the commission chamber when the item comes up for the discussion and the vote.

These actions are reprehensible and unconscionable not to mention illegal and unethical.

Perhaps Mr. Poitevent may want to reconsider his laughable response.

Mr. Poitevent you need to read the article more closely. First, the law states if you have a conflict you announce a conflict and identify why the conflict exists. Commissioner Maddox failed to do this for almost a year while this issue was before the Commission. Second, this is the law because politicians would simply get up and leave on a vote instead of revealing an improper relationship that might affect other votes and other sources of income. There is a lot to this story…stay tuned Ben!

It’s so disgusting!! I know some of this personally – what can we do??

All this sleaze could be avoided had we a responsible electorate. The voters know this yet continue to vote into office or allow such appointments.