Thursday, November 20, 2008

To Date on the Goader Caper


Minions of the Light: I have asked Goader for the number of his arrest file. The person who ratted him out is on that file. The police left that datum on the file it gave to Goader by mistake. So Goader knows who the squealer is.

Ms. Cobbe: That I would appreciate. This confidentiality rule until the files are closed makes possible withholding all the information until the investigators are ready to release it. So it’s cover-up until the ones filing the charges and their investigators are good and ready to release them.

See what is in the sunshine and send me that, please.

Give me an estimate of how much it would cost to copy all the Erwin files. I see a book there. ldd


From: Linda Cobbe [mailto:lcobbe@sdhc.us]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 9:30 AM
To: lee de cesare
Subject: Re: Public Information request

I need to let you know that investigative files are confidential until 10 days after the investigation is closed. I should have mentioned that to you yesterday. I will check on the status and try to give you an idea of when records will be available.

Linda E. Cobbe
External Communications Manager
Hillsborough County Public Schools
901 E. Kennedy Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33602
813-272-4602 (O)
813-493-6964 (C)
813-272-4510 (F)

Our mission is to provide an education that enables each student to excel as a successful and responsible citizen.


"lee de cesare" writes:

Thank you, Jesus. Now I would like to know what Ms. Kipley has in her file on him. ldd




From: Linda Cobbe [mailto:lcobbe@sdhc.us]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 8:15 AM
To: lee de cesare
Subject: Re: Public Information request





Lee, there was nothing related to Mr. Kemp on any agenda item at the board meeting.


Linda E. Cobbe

External Communications Manager

Hillsborough County Public Schools

901 E. Kennedy Blvd.

Tampa, FL 33602

813-272-4602 (O)

813-493-6964 (C)

813-272-4510 (F)


Our mission is to provide an education that enables each student to excel as a successful and responsible citizen.




"lee de cesare" writes:

Ms. Elia, Mr. Gonzalez, Board Members, Board Attorney, and administrative staff: I want to supply the lack of administration-board open government in the attempt to fire Mr. Steven Kemp, so I ask for the data cited in comments following.

The board and administration put everything on the consent calendar—including Mr. Kemp’s prospective firing for what may well be a trumped-up charge, and the data whiz by on the consent-calender conveyor belt unexamined, a situation that does not let citizens know what is going on in the schools.

Ms. Elia and Ms. Falliero have both expressed strong opinions about the schools’ not getting the positive publicity the two desire. I am suspicious that Mr. Kemp’s having a blog has a good deal to this charge’s being laid to him because he analyzes the superintendent’s and board’s conduct on the blog and not always in a laudatory manner.

I request as public information that all people with names on this email’s send slots above make available to Ms. Linda Cobbe of the Public Affairs Office any emails that mention the Kemp case. She can then send them to me. I will put them on my blog leedrurydecesarescasting-room couch.blogspot to lend a modicum of public transparency to the Professional Standards office’s procedure in prosecuting charges against teachers.

Everybody knows that Hillsborough County teachers fear the Professional Standards office’s real purpose, which is to keep files on teachers so as to make them fearful of making complaints about the negative way they are treated by the superintendent, administration, and board. These complaints would dilute the power of the board and the administration to run roughshod over teachers, especially the behavior of the superintendent.

Mr. Gonzalez promised me three times that he would author a pamphlet for people entering the Professional Standards’ gauntlet but weaseled out of the multiple pledges, saying he worked for the board, not Ms. De Cesare. Indeed he does not work for me. I would fire him pronto because he is not a gentleman and not an ornament to the legal profession. I have asked the board to fire him several times since he got his job on a no-bid contract and that the board give the other area lawyers a chance to replace him.

The way I got involved in the board and superintendent’s behavior toward teachers was Ms. Elia’s and Ms. Kipley’s clumsy attempt to mount a false case against my friend media specialist Bart Birdsall. Since then, when I see another teacher summoned to Professional Standards, I utter a qui vive and home in on the process.


Please send any emails regarding this Kemp case to Ms. Cobbe so that she can pass them on to me in the Sunshine Law’s public’s-right-to-know dispensation.





Lee Drury De Cesare


15316 Gulf Boulevard 802


Madeira Beach, FL 33708


727 398 4142


Tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com


Leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot

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