This 40-year-old picture depicts a group of us women who went to meet with Mayor Dick
Greco (whom I had graduated from HHS with--he was a jerk then and remains a jerk to this day, when the city is putting a statue of him downtown). The city discriminated against women--wouldn't let them be police officers, for example--so we women wanted to protest this unfairness. Our mission puzzled Dick because he was familiar with women only as objects to hit on, but we preached our equality sermon anyway. Gwen Cherry and Elaine Gordon both came from Miami at their own expense to help out. They were state legislators later on and are now both dead. I filed EEOC charges for a young black woman supporting three children on a nurses' aide pittance. The city personnel jerk, Marshall Jessee, had "lost" her application for police officer three times. We won the charge, and Thelma (her name) got the police job. My husband and I went to her graduation ceremony from the Police Academy. The city had to file an affirmative-action plan. Dick runs around the state 40 years later claiming his was the first city in Florida to have an affirmative-action plan. He doesn't mention that a bunch of women made him file it via the EEOC and the Justice Department.
PS: I have sent Stephen Gorham some more money and encouragement to fight Kurdell. He did well. It's entirely possible for him to win in the November general election. If you have any extra cash, send him a donation and encouragement. If you don't have cash, send encouragement and offer to hand out flyers. lee
The Bart of the second message below is the reason I became interested in the schools'
skullduggery.
Elia and
Kipley cooked up a case against Bart because Elia's county buddy Pat Bean sent her emails that Bart had sent from his home computer to Joe
Stines, head of the county library, who cooperated with Rhonda Storms in depriving gays of library privileges. Bart and Stines are both gay. Elia is terrified of bad publicity and didn't want a gay agitator for gay rights associated with her schools, hence her recourse to pots-and-pans Kipley's services.
The two fiends and the technology department--headed by one of Erwin's chief torturers, Jack Davis, couldn't find anything significant in Bart's emails to show he was using school emails for personal reasons, so
Kipley called Bart in for mind games as a culmination of the charge and tried to mess up his synapses with her veiled threats--the kind a pots-and-pans-
degreed person is expert in. But they didn't fire him because they could not discover a reason to.
Bart went to counseling because he was rattled by the experience. I told him never to back down ever: to face the
ROSSAC torture crew and call their bluff. I guaranteed him that if he faced the cowardly crew and threatened to go public, he would have a Teflon shield. He has learned to protect himself. Such people prey on the weak to provide a cautionary example to anybody who may see wrongdoing and have the urge to oppose it. By standing his ground, Bart freed himself from the dirty sadism practiced via pots-and-pans
Kipley at Elia's behest. Their power rests on fear just as the board's incumbency rests on the voters' ignorance of their behavior on the board. lee
From: lee [tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:29 PM
To: doretha.edgecomb@sdhc.k12.fl.us; candy.olson@sdhc.k12.fl.us; jennifer.falliero@sdhc.k12.fl.us; jack.lamb@sdhc.k12.fl.us; carol.kurdell@sdhc.k12.fl.us; susan.valdes@sdhc.k12.fl.us; april.griffin@sdhc.k12.fl.us
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Subject: FW: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Wisdom from Grass Roots.
The latest below from the ranks of teachers giving their opinion of Ms. Elia, the candidate whom you chose for her being an insider and no threat to your incumbency and your lazy acquiescence to the criminal comportment of the ROSSAC crew.
You lowered the academic credentials for Elia to qualify and pissed away $35,000 in tax money for a faux “nation-wide” ad to cover your tracks. You should have hired the professional from New Orleans who had been a superintendent in three venues. Now you are stuck with a character in the superintendent chair who is money and power mad and who fills ROSSAC vacancies with her D-student cronies with deficient academic and professional backgrounds who are too dumb to do the jobs with the result that the schools are going to hell while these poseurs posture as big and important people in ROSSACm, and you sit as potted plants on the board dais or gad about town posturing as patrons of education. The guy who wrote Springtime for Hitler should use this crew of board and ROSSAC as principals in a satire on dumbasses in the outback bungling the running of the schools even though they are equipped with no brains, no ethics, and no class.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves; and Olson, Lamb, and Kurdell should be doubly ashamed for their sitting through the torture of Erwin and pretending they didn’t know what was going on. The court papers tell a different story.
People with such low morals should not be on school boards. School boards above all places should demonstrate impeccable ethics. But how would a bunch of peripatetic sightseeing cheats with bloated trip expenses know anything about ethics? Their travel exploits show they are devoid of a sense of responsibility to the tax payers, yet they begged voters to put them in office because they would guard taxpayers’ monies.
lee drury de cesare
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Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:56 PM
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Wisdom from Grass Roots.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Wisdom from Grass Roots":
Overheard in a voting line on Tuesday:
"I hate that fucking bitch Elia! I hated her when she was my Reading Supervisor and I still do. If she were a candidate for something I would vote NO!"
Everyone you meet hates her. She has made lots of enemies in the district. All of them are people who worked under her. She knows how to schmooze with peers or people above her. She squashes the little people and goes out of her way to make them feel terrible.
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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 8:55 PM
From: William Birdsall [montolino@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:06 AM
To: lee de cesare
Cc: doretha.edgecomb@sdhc.k12.fl.us; jennifer.faliero@sdhc.k12.fl.us; susan.valdes@sdhc.k12.fl.us; april.griffin@sdhc.k12.fl.us; carol.kurdell@sdhc.k12.fl.us; jack.lamb@sdhc.k12.fl.us; candy.olson@sdhc.k12.fl.us; tash@sptimes.com; rosemarygoudreau@tampatribune.com; Marilynbrown@tampatrib.com; Letitia; Angie Manteiga; Gene Siudut
Subject: Re: Broken acs and no help for the classes suffering from the incompetence of ROSSAC
Dear Board Members:
I believe there are a/c problems at some schools. Have compassion and go to to the schools in your district that have had their a/c redone over the summer and take inventory of which schools have problems. It would show teachers that you have compassion for their plight.
I hope the board and Elia will put employees' and students' health first in this issue and possibly go back to how the a/c systems were working last year (much better).
Molds can make human beings sick. There are even life threatening molds. I know this, b/c I learned about molds in one of my library science classes which said whole library collections can be decimated by mold. Ideally, the libraries would have a/c even in the summer when not in use to protect the collections.
When you visit schools, look at the outside of buildings (if mold is growing), look at carpet that might be bubbling up, any wetness on walls, the general humidity in the rooms. It is important to do this to protect employees and students from illness.
On Sep 29, 2008, at 11:52 PM, lee de cesare wrote:
More from the classrooms: the board doesn’t give hooey about classroom problems but which citizens expect you to see to the needs of the teachers and students. One major problem in teachers’ being as importunate as they should be about these conditions is they know Elia will sic the ROSSAC pots and pans sadist on them, Linda Kipley, to set them up for punishment of some kind or even firing.
After all, that’s what happened to Erwin when he reported problems: Lennard, Hamilton, and Davis crucified him with the whole of ROSSAC’s populace cooperating and the board pretending not to know what was going on. Olson, Kurdell, and Lamb were on the board then and turned a blind eye. But the Erwin court papers show they knew the score. Those board members who have joined them since will turn a blind eye too.
I bet not one of you has the courage to call Elia and demand that she deal with this problem. You show no care for the students and the teachers. All your board life is lived in ROSSAC, and you refuse to give teachers and students a slot on the board agenda and a promise of protection from retaliation to come and report problems that deter them from teaching effectively such as these.
Shame on you all. I hope Gorham beats Kurdell. There is a chance he will be more forthcoming in helping teachers since his wife is a teacher.
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:15 PM
Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Wisdom from Grass Roots.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Wisdom from Grass Roots":
The thermostat is set at 76, but the humidity is horrible. We sweat and sweat and sweat. Elia probably has her office nice and cool. When they redid the a/c in our school something was messed up with the humidity and papers and posters are falling off the wall. Papers on my desk literally feel damp. It is unbearable.
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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 8:14 PM
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Wisdom from Grass Roots":
At my school one teacher has been teaching his class in the media center for weeks, b/c district people can't fix his ac. It goes back to what Lee says about the ROSSAC officials not knowing how to do their jobs, so they hire consultants, etc. This time they aren't hiring consultants, so the ac does not work.
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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 8:12 PM
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