The biggest lie has always been to keep quiet; and the best life-enhancer is to provoke, unsettle, rile – in short, to make people face the truth.
Gore Vidal
Mr. Erwin called Ms. Bricklemeyer. He had the mistaken assumption that she was ethical and would help him uncover the criminal behavior in the school system under Lennard. She took him to Tom Gonzalez, the legal Iago of the board.
I thought at first that Gonzalez would be an honorable officer of the court, but I have learned to think differently after watching him for two years. I have filed one ethics complaint against him with the bar association and can go there again if necessary. I did not get him rebuked by the bar, but I did manage to discomfit him considerably. And I had a good time correcting his grammar in my missives to the bar.
I have recommended to the board several times in public forum to fire Le Gonzalez. He got his job on a no-bid contract, and his firm has held on to the slot for 37 years by tailoring its opinions to the prejudice and the ignorance of the board and administration in my considered opinion.
Gonzalez promised me three times to write a pamphlet to give to teachers entering Professional Affairs with the witch Linda Kipley information to protect themselves. He did not do it, and he since maintained that he works for the board and will not do it. The board members, of course, not caring diddly about the teachers' mauling Professional Standards has not had Gonzalez produce the pamphlet since they don't want anything to come out in the open that makes them look as bad as they are. I asked the board to have Gonzalez produce the promised pamphlet, of course. They pretended they didn't hear me.
In the case of Professional Affairs, Mr. Gonzalez covers up for the board's studied ignorance of the vile conduct by Kipley in Professional Affairs; he as well claims that Hillsborough County's Professional Affairs enterprise is a model for the state. Be that true, the rest of the state's professional affairs offices must be worse than the Gestopo operations of the Third Reich.
Gonzalez, like the rest of the board and administrative parasite dead wood, is bent on milking the tax payers for as much money as possible by running things like a county version of a mafia enterprise.
Poor Mr. Erwin took several years to become convinced of this reality of his malignant situation. He was a romantic soul, imbued with the belief in the holiness of education and assuming the people associated with it at all levels were of his views. The ROSSAC crowd does not find schools romantic; they find them profitable and productive of power for them to wield.
We enter in medias res during his education over several years to show his progress toward the epiphany that the administration and board were out to dump him without his pension. Whistleblowers are not a comfortable fit for Mafia management.
FROM:
SCHOOL DISTRICT OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNfY
October 30, 2000
Mr. Tom Gonzalez
. General Director of Operations
I have come forward under the Whistle Blowers Act as per our discussion with Mrs.
Bricklemyer. This is my effort to assist in determining if there has been theft or mismanagement of Hillsborough District resources. Upon the insistence of my wife, Idid hire an attorney to review the documents that we have prepared. I have cancelled future appointments with my attorney and consulting attorneys. I can't afford them and it is my desire to work with the school system.
I do not want to drag this process out. The stress has created a serious health threat to me. I have received professional counseling and am under constant doctor's care taking prescription medication. Nothing bas worked to eliminate life threatening high blood pressure that I had not experienced before. I am also suffering financially.
My wife and son have been through many tough times in their lives. Nothing has had a more negative impact on their lives than what they see me going through at this time. Their health and happiness are being compromised. Many of my friends and colleagues are also suffering from stress as a result of their concern for my health and me.
It has been suggested to me many times that I should wear a bullet proof vest and never travel alone. I was offered such a vest by our Hillsborough District Security Department and I refused to wear it. I never had great fear until recently. I was given information that leads me to believe that bodily harm could come to my family and IDC.
As I have said before, I will be happy to take a lie detector test on any of the information that I have supplied. All I would ask is that any person whose name I've used be willing to do the same.
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It is plain and simple. Those board members (Kurdell, Lamb, and Olson) who were on the board when Erwin was crucified were just trying to cover their own asses. They don't care a whit about improving the system. They take a reactive stance instead of a proactive stance to problems. Being proactive means changing things. They want to keep the status quo and stay on good terms with district people. People do not make waves. People avoid confrontation, because confrontation means they have to expend energy to do something about a problem and have to risk aggravating people. The three of them should definitely retire. They have failed, absolutely failed the taxpayers by going along with the abuse of the Erwin crucifixion. By doing that they told us, "We don't care about abuse of taxpayer dollars! We don't want to get in trouble, so we want to just sweep this all under the rug and attack the guy who brought this to our attention." Everyone in the county should be asking them to step down. They are old and complete and utter failures in that role, so it is time for them to step down and let people who care about children and the school system step in and take over.
The picture is of one of the original members of Tampa NOW, Cathy Goodiwn, who is a lawyer. This was taken when we had a million women march for choice in Washington.
Some of the best times of my life have been spent on the picket line. To picket anything, you have to be immune to what the neighbors think. If you faint at being called crazy, do not indulge in picketing. But if you take joy in shouting back to a roadside bigot, "Same to you, fella!" you are born for the picket line.
I have sent the following comment from a reader to all the board and administration. They need to know how their behavior looks to people in the real world. lee
How can school board members be so unethical? Don't they care about the children? It is like insult to injury when we have board members who allow abuse of taxpayer dollars to go on and they don't stop it and then crucify someone who speaks up about the abuse. I wonder if Candy Olson, Jack Lamb, and Carol Kurdell go to church. If they sat mum while the district crucified Erwin, they probably aren't going to Heaven.
"I wonder if Candy Olson, Jack Lamb, and Carol Kurdell go to church. If they sat mum while the district crucified Erwin, they probably aren't going to Heaven."
Jack Davis is certainly NOT 32......he is probably retirement age, although I believe, like you, that he is probably retiring b/c he has to.....he was the main person that was over the buses, and Elia got a LOT of heat about the bus situation this Fall.
I know he's not 32: I was being satirical. If you didn't see it as such, I need to sharpen my satire. lee
These Erwin court files present the feudal psyche of the school board and administration.
Here's the situation's bare bones: the top of the hierarchy is the superintendent, the equivalent of a meld of Yahweh and Beelzebub. Yahweh-Beelzebub's word is law. If an administrator departs from it, Yahweh expels him or her but not before torture of the kind that Abu Ghraib's amateur practitioners would have envied.
Nobody disagrees with La Yahweh-Beelzebub; if he or she does, it's off with the wretch's head and out of a job after suitable humiliation and torture. If an administrator earns Yahweh's slightest disapprovel, it's curtains for the poor slob. That's the reason most ROSSAC personnel spend almost their entire working day in the prone position of the sort that the inhabitants of the Oriental emperors required in the Kingdom of the Sun.
I suspect a contretemps has impaled Mr. Jack Davis in this doomed category currently. He will slink away under the customary cover-up tale of retirement; but since he is a mere 32 years of age if he is not 67, this story has received widespread incredulity.
Since Davis was one of the three principals in the torture of Erwin (the others being Earl the Pearl and Hamilton), he should not attract much sympathy. He won't get the kid's here. Villains who come to an awkward end illustrate divine providence is my conclusion. May he get tired of golf and fishing in a trice and be bored out of his mind. May he miss the high drama of the skullduggery that goes on within the walls of ROSSAC and yearn for that adrenalin rush of entering the doors of ROSSAC, terrified of what mood Yahweh is in that day and whether he will escape her wrath if she is on a tear.
Board members' role in this Yahweh choreograph is to sit on the board dais (Candy is reputed to have a cushion for reasons we can only guess but which a proctologist could probably enlighten us with graphs in various hues of red). They hunker on the half-moon podium with their synapses turned off before the meeting begins. They present a flaccid potted-plant tableaux to the audience, which is usually a bunch of administrative Klingon slave pods with glassy eyes and frail resemblance to specimens of humanity. The only time the board members awaken is to punch the "yes' button to ratify anything Yahweh Elia says--even a burp. Yahweh didn't bother to inform them of the 30-million-dollar Spring geegaw she snapped up recently; but nobody complained that she bought it without checking in with the potted plants. Their flaccidity is matched only by their sycophancy. The board is as scared of Yahweh Elia as the administrative Klingon pods are.
The board lets the consent calender conveyor belt roll by it without a shred of curiosity's crossing members' potted-plant countenances. Board ciphers ran for the board to look like important people in the community, to be considered supporters of education by the voting innocents of the area. So far they have fooled the voters.
The voting innocents have only themselves to blame for the capture of the schools and the schools' money by the renegade Yahweh party. My impression is that few board members have educations themselves and that those that do have degrees in marginal subjects. I don't think they read anything but Pitifully Easy Crosswords and the Ladies Home Journal. It's worth speculating that Dr. Lamb may read Playboy in the john at 3 a.m. when his wife is safely asleep. I don't insist that he does, but this activity is a distinct possibility. If I thought it was a real possibility, I would inform his doctor so that he could warn Dr. Lamb about angina spasms, atrial fibrillation, Bundle of His irregularities etc. that come from such untoward stimulation to school board cowboys of his age and heft.
All board members think Elia can strike them dead if they even look at her crossways. Carol Kurdell, on the board for at least a hundred and sixteen years, warns that she has seen this happen more than once.
If teachers or staff utter a statement that contains even a whiff of criticism of the way things are going and if it gets back to Yahweh via her widespread network of bonus-rewarded agents promised jobs in ROSSAC at the next firing, the wretch gets called into Professional Standards for the attentions of La Linda Kipley, who got her graduate training at Aushwitz after she had received a degree in home ec from Saskatchewan Agricultural College and Beauty School. Yahweh Elia recently ordered Elia's husband hired for a job requiring an accounting degree according to the job description. There were a half dozen on the applicant list with this requirement. But La Linda's husband got the job although he has not finished junior high yet and cannot cut his meat himself.
Human Resources director Dan Valdez nodded solemnly when Susan Valdes asked if Kipley Junior was indeed qualified. Valdez turned down all the qualified applicants for fear that Elia Yahweh would snuff his life out. He has damned his soul to liars' hell by having in prominent letters on the Human Resources Web page this knee slapper:
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER -- School Board Policy 6.01 ensures equal opportunity for all in its personnel policies and practices and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, or age.
Kipley with Yahweh's instructions hauls those into Professional Standards for various cooked-up crimes they did not commit. These made-up charges doom the wretches to various punishments, the goal of which is to break down their psyches and scramble their brains. A special aim is to rearrange the order of the dura mater, pia, mater, and arachnoid mater. Kipley has gained world-wide fame in the torture racket by perfecting this stunt and bringing the time down to 33 nano seconds for its completion. She gives seminars on request to Professional Standards ghouls and concentration-camp-director wannabes worldwide on the feat.
Ms. Kipley preens her skill at mind games to run the framed truants nuts and will stir up a batch of bechamel sauce in a wash pot with the skull and bones adorning it to dip them into if they do not heel from less severe measures.
The board attorney, who got his job in a no-bid protocol and is not an ornament of the bar, has made noises about naming Ms. Kipley as a Nobel laureate in chemistry for her bechamel-torture concoctions.Widely known is that Le Gonzalez has a crush on Kipley and that she returns the sentiment.. Romance blooms at all seasons in ROSSAC's ding dong dell, and careers advance or fail on the status of the reproductive organs of the administrative goons. Illicit passion thrives when everything else wilts in the ROSSAC Auschwitz atmosphere. Hearts are broken. Divorces are filed. Promotions got by priapic means are stamped by Le Valdez as "Equal Opportunity Couplings."
Observers believe that when Master Linda Kipley gets wind of this mutual passion of attorney and torture dominatrix that he will drop out of junior high in a snit as payback to his unfaithful spouse, who wants a mate of academic distinction to make up for her home-ec bona fides. Certain is that Le Master Kipley will become a pot-smoking bum to aggravate his old lady for her defection to the legal y-chromosome dude.
Reputed is that the Ladies Home Journel will feature the pair in "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" soon and that Tom Gonzalez will be ordered to group therapy by a quorum of born-again Seffner ministers, the which group therapy to be communed with a bunch of the Bay Area's hordes of amorously inflamed attorneys on the brink of sex addiction. Le Tom is destined to flunk the course and have to repeat it. The fellow has always been slow witted whether it be in mental or group-therapy efforts.
I append the following from the Erwin court interrogatory, which cites the names of the school people who had information about the crucifixion of Erwin. They did did not do one thing to stop it. This list will innoculate you to the claim that ROSSAC habitues did not know about the Erwin passion play. That's a bare-faced lie if they claim ignorance. They knew everything about it. They doubtless passed the data around so that the entire school system knew chapter and book. One of the enduring blights on the school system of Hillsborough County is that the entire school system sat silent during the obscenity.
Those who knew about the Erwin case and looked away share the class with the Germans, other Europeans, and even the United States in letting atrocities go on against the Jews while they pretended not to know about what was unfolding before their eyes and in their hearing. That's how six million Jews--men, women, and children--died horrible deaths. I can't tell you how many times I have written rebukes to the publisher of the NYTimes for his making his Jewish reporters anglicize their bylines. The Shultzes are not only socially insecure but also sell-outs of their origins.
I don't think the world will ever top the holocaust obscenity, but the Erwin crucifixion while everybody twiddled thumbs, including the Board and the entire school system, and pretended not to be aware of what was unfolding is an echo of it.
The behavior of the world during the Jewish extermination and the board provided pattern for the school personnel's pretended ignorance of Erwin's crucifixion and show that the human psyche possesses a dark side that can kick in when people think there is the slightest bit of danger to their wellbeing. This is not the admirable demonstrations of humanity history too infrequently records that can emerge at crucial times. And those who protest evil get the label of "crazies" by the moral cowards.
It's no good pretending that such hideous behavior does not exist, as exist it did, at Hillsborough County's school board and administration in the early 90's, even extending to the ranks of teachers and staff who were aware of what was going on and chose not to admit knowledge or do anything such as beating down the doors of the press and raising hell at board meetings about the obscenities of which the human psyche is prone to if nobody speaks up.
Thr current behavior at ROSSAC follows the Erwin paradigm. The administration and board learned nothing from having their hideous deeds exposed to the world in court in the early 90's. The minute the jury and judge ruled in Erwin's favor, the unrepetent ROSSAC habitues assumed the same old same old model of Yahweh-slave behavior. They are slow learners; but once they master a pas de deux, they repeat it robotically ever afterward.
This court interrogatory from Irwin's finally filing a Whistle Blower retaliation law suit against the board and administration shows how widespread the knowledge was of what went on and what cowardice and complicity accompanied it.
Note the board members cited. They include the holdovers Kurdell, Lamb, and Olson who sit on the board dais now. They will swear that they are completely innocent of any knowledge of the Erwin outrage. These promised on the stump to oppose the very obscenities that the Erwin case precipitated. But they sat like stones and let the outrage play out while miming ignorance. They would join a new outrage if Yahweh Elia ever stops trying to retire with a cart load of money and starts in on some really bad behavior. I think she's got it in her. Just as soon as she becomes the first superintendent millionaire, my bet is that we will see new outrages in living technicolor.
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Please provide the name, address, telephone number, place of employment and
job title of any person who has, claims to have, or whom you believe may have
knowledge or information supporting or contradicting any fact alleged in the
pleadings filed in this action, or any fact underlying the subject matter of this action.
In responding to this interrogatory, please also include the specific nature and
substance of the knowledge that you believe the person(s) identified in your response
may have.
See Plaintiffs General Objections. Plaintiff objects to this Interrogatory in that, as worded, it is overbroad, vague, ambiguous, without a pertinent time frame, and
burdensome. Plaintiff fUliher objects to the extent that this Interrogatory seeks
information protected by the attorney-client privilege, and seeks mental impressions and opinions that are protected by the work product privilege. Without waiving these
objections, Plaintiff responds as follows:
The following individuals may have knowledge related to this action. Unless otherwise
noted, it is believed that they are known to Defendant as current or former employees, agents or officials.
1. The following may have knowledge regarding mismanagement, malfeasance,
misfeasance, waste of public funds, neglect of duty, and/or violations of law by
Defendant:
Carolyn Bricklemeyer Lee Martin Pat Russo
Carol Kurdell Joe Clark Jay Ballard
Jack Lamb Willie Campbell Henry Ballard
Candy Olson Glenn Lathers Judy Chapman
Carol Kurdell Greg Glock Tim Pettitt
JackLarnb Lee Martin Patricia Giles
Candy Olson Joe Clark Vickie Franklin
Doris Ross Reddick 'Willie Campbell Roland Morgado
Glenn Barrington Karen Strickland Fred Andrews
Joe Newsome David Friedberg Mike Phillips
Sharon Danaheur Julio Peralta Beverly Spano
Earl Lennard Steve Hough John Brungard
James Hamilton Fred Ferraiuolo Tom Gonzalez
Beth Shields Anthony Satchel Scott Cheney, FBI
Mike Bookman Vince Sussman Mark Flint, FDLE
David Binnie Sherry Estill Depty Durrance,
Sheriff s Dept
Marilyn Wittner Judy Chapman Capt. Soloman,
TPD
Gwen Schroeder Pat Reed Bill Gietzen
Lee Christensen Pat Erwin Oscar Westerfield
Tom Blackwell John Wamer Ray Stewart, 962-
0582
Evelyn Carlisle Wayne Dasinger Willard McGinnes
Pamela McGinnes
754-2112
Dianne Woodall Clay Ward Marilyn Brown,
Tribune
Lillian Messier George Olmo
Eddie Nix JoAnn DelRosal Danny DelRosal
Roger Canter Kirk Mattingly Brian Rush, Esquire
Interrogatory #2, page 4
Interrogatory #2, page 1
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Carol Kurdell Greg Glock Tim Pettitt
Jack Lamb Lee Martin Patricia Giles
Candy Olson Joe Clark Vickie Franklin
Doris Ross Reddi ck Willie Campbell Roland Morgado
Glenn Barrington Karen Strickland Fred Andrews
Joe Newsome David Friedberg Mike Phillips
Sharon Danaheur Julio Peralta Beverly Spano
Earl Lennard Steve Hough John Brungard
James Hamilton Fred Ferraiuolo Tom Gonzalez
Beth Shields Anthony Satchel Scott Cheney, FBI
Mike Bookman Vince Sussman Mark Flint, FDLE
David Binnie Sherry Estill Depty Durrance,
Sheriff's Dept
Marilyn Wittner Judy Chapman Capt. Soloman,
TPD
Gwen Schroeder Pat Reed Bill Gietzen
Lee Christensen Pat Erwin Oscar Westerfield
Tom Blackwell John Wamer Ray Stewart, 962-
0582
Evelyn Carlisle Wayne Dasinger Willard McGinnes
Pamela McGinnes
754-2112
Dianne Woodall Clay Ward Marilyn Brown,
Tribune
Lillian Messier George alma
Eddie Nix JoAnn DelRosal Danny DelRosal
Roger Canter Kirk Mattingly Brian Rush, Esquire
Interrogatory #2, page 4
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Carol Kurdell Greg Glock Tim Pettitt
Jack Lamb Lee Martin Patricia Giles
Candy Olson Joe Clark Vickie Franklin
Doris Ross Reddi ck Willie Campbell Roland Morgado
Glenn Barrington Karen Strickland Fred Andrews
Joe Newsome David Friedberg Mike Phillips
Sharon Danaheur Julio Peralta Beverly Spano
Earl Lennard Steve Hough John Brungard
James Hamilton Fred Ferraiuolo Tom Gonzalez
Beth Shields Anthony Satchel Scott Cheney, FBI
Mike Bookman Vince Sussman Mark Flint, FDLE
David Binnie Sherry Estill Depty Durrance,
Sheriff's Dept
Marilyn Wittner Judy Chapman Capt. Soloman,
TPD
Gwen Schroeder Pat Reed Bill Gietzen
Lee Christensen Pat Erwin Oscar Westerfield
Tom Blackwell John Wamer Ray Stewart, 962-
0582
Evelyn Carlisle Wayne Dasinger Willard McGinnes
Pamela McGinnes
754-2112
Dianne Woodall Clay Ward Marilyn Brown,
Tribune
Lillian Messier George alma
Eddie Nix JoAnn DelRosal Danny DelRosal
Roger Canter Kirk Mattingly Brian Rush, Esquire
Interrogatory #2, page 4
