Sunday, November 15, 2009

How Do These Guys Pass the Bar?

My baby daughter and her son, Christophe, on their familty trip to Paris

Go to scribd.com/doc/2254717/kemp-settlement-ltr-3
for the Kemp settlement letter

Mark Harmon

Hardman & Sakellarides
29605 US Highway 19 North
Suite 110
Clearwater, FL 33761-1538
11/15/2009


Mr. Harmon:

You acted teacher Steve Kemp's attorney during his agon with the Hillsborough County school board and administration over his job because of the cooked-up child-abuse report to the Sheriff's office thrown out on the day Supervisor Smiley filed it.

It appears to me that if you had been any less active in the Kemp case, sirrah, you would have been motionless.

I don't know if you are aware of or care what has happened to Mr. Kemp while you pondered your cuticles or threw spit balls into the waste basket. Let me catch you up, counselor.

The August 24 Gonzalez letter to you from the $275,000-a-year-board attorney wunderkind. makes his timing suspect. The indulgence the board shovels out to Mr. Gonzalez encourages him to be slovenly.

Since Mr. Kemp didn't deliver his invidious-treatment oration to the board until November, I judge Mr. Gonzalez's August dating suspicious. But it's typical. Nobody ever rebukes the outrages perpetrated by the administration, board, and attorney, so the gaggle has grown slipshod in its cover-ups.

One thing is sure, however: This date-challenged letter records that the board and administration succeeded in gutting Mr. Kemp and hanging him out to dry for the crows to pick out his eyes in the usual Medieval torture routine that the board and administration have devised and augmented over the years of their sadistic hegemony.

The board-administration team is guarding the glory of mishandling the pile money the state sends the board based on student headcount. Its members have done, do, and will do vile deeds to keep control of that truckload of money.

This stash of cash and its reflected luster insures that they appear important people, guardians of students' learning, and bona fide paragons of civic virtue despite their being the C students academic products of higher-education, who rushed to administrations because that's where the money is and also because they can lord it over the A and B students who head for the classrooms, low pay, and coercion from the administration-board C students, satisfying jealousies that date back to the freshman years of both.

If you had bestirred yourself to get Tom Gonzalez to compose and insert the result of your negotiations the day you sat in your Clearwater office and chatted him up, then he would not be able to produce the post mortem that this August 24 letter to you lays out.

Even now, after the horse has fled the barn, you could make yourself useful to your abused client by writing a rebuttal this highly tendentious account by Le Gonzalez and insist that it go into Kemp's file.

The problem with flaccid lawyers such as you is that it never occurs to them to say, "Hey, wait a minute, fellow."

This damning file will follow Kemp the rest of his employment life. He is a fairly young man, and having examined the entrails of several Gulf Stream birds on the Madeira Beach barrier island where I live, I predict that Kemp will not keep his job long. The ROSSAC and board ghouls crave blood. This file will dog Kemp's footsteps in applying for jobs after the Usual Suspects manage to kick him out of Hillsborough County's school system..

So as his lawyer, you need to neutralize this file by our $275,000 wunderkind school-board mouthpiece. Sit down in front of your CRT screen and cook up a rebuttal. Insist that it go in Kemp's file.

Let me know if the ROSSAC rascals give you any trouble about putting this document in Kemp's child-abuse file. I will chime in and report them to everybody up and down the state education bureaucracy and amongst the public-servant coteries. Tattletale is my specialty.

Otherwise, I think I will have to report your feckless performance to the Bar Association or go higher and ring up Mother Herdman and let her know how her son has messed up big time. Don't expect any of your case essays to go on the refrigerator after I brief Mother Herdman.

I shall post this communication on my blog and invite you to rebut. Fun will be had by all.

Very respectfully,

Lee Drury De Cesare
15316 Gulf Boulevard 802
Madeira Beach, FL 33708
tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just because a lawyer passes the bar doesn't mean he knows what he's doing. The lawyer probably viewed the Kemp case as an annoyance. CTA probably provided the lawyer, and so the lawyer was getting very little money for the case and did not give it the time it deserved. He simply read that ROSSAC was gunning for Kemp's firing, so the minute Tom Gonzalez agreed to settle without firing, the CTA lawyer agreed to the settlement, when he should have asked for much more like no suspension days and a nice closing letter.

There is a special place in hell for people like Tom Gonzalez who play with people's lives. He'll get his in the long run. If you look at his face and body he is already suffering. He knows he has sold his soul to the devil torturing teachers. That chips away at a person over time. Of course, he probably doesn't think he has done anything wrong, but in the end it all catches up to you.

Vox Populi said...

dear lee, I can tell you things about the florida bar that might shock EVEN YOU. They're stealing florida. They're perfectly happy to sit half-dead while good folks litter the wayside. People just do NOT KNOW. They have florida under control almost. The cops work for them and the judges. The back door deals between criminal attorneys and cops are so filthy it curdles the ear canals to even hear it. A family member has retained one and when he let me read the letter it sent him I thought it was from the COP'S attorney. Honestly. I'm not sure that the average citizen has enough to match the funds available to the police benevolent(LOL) fund to pay off EVERY attorney ... state's, public pretenders and private who mostly come from the aforementioned troughs. If you look at the cover of the st pete times they are offering their OWN INSURANCE. Cops and firemen own THEIR OWN insurance company. Star and Shield. What you want to bet they offer discount rates to attorneys??? and judges????? How much you want to bet that as a privately held company it's records are SEALED??? BUT I bet that since public employees OWN IT FOR THEMSELVES we can still pry in.
I'm so freaking sick of them stealing, scamming and intimidating. It is ABSOLUTELY SICKENING to even know about it, never mind witness it.

Anonymous said...

anonymous, you are right. you can tell a person is tortured many times. He knows. His whole world is built around NOT GIVING A DAMN.
Just swatting away that annoying jiminy cricket voice in his head.

John__D said...

"it was not in good judgment to use a tool (coaxial cable) not designed and approved to restrain students."

Damn straight. "Not designed" is one thing. "Not approved" is another.

I hadn't realised that the CPI had found verified indicators of abuse, neglect or abandonment. Most posts on this subject say that nothing at all was found.

Thanks for posting the link. It certainly is good to have all the info.

Anonymous said...

lee i can't find this guy (the attorney) in the florida bar member search.

Goader said...

John_D, you make it seem like there was a concerted effort to hide facts about my case from readers like you. You are being disingenuous by promulgating—actually fabricating—the existence of a conspiracy where none existed. Perhaps you were not reading "Goader" when I first wrote about the case and subsequently revealed the facts, including the coaxial cable and the finding of abuse by the Child Protective Agency representative. Just because you are finding out about all the facts now does not mean a conspiracy existed.

Anonymous said...

Is John D. Candy Olson's gay husband?

John__D said...

>Most posts on this subject say that nothing at all was found.<

Okay, Goader. "Most" obviously didn't cut it for you. Try this:

Most posts I have read on this subject say that nothing was found at all.

Better? I ddn't say that there was an effort to hide facts. What it seems and what it is are two diferent things. Esse quam videri.

If I can find spare time, I'll sift through your older posts and try to find your writing that they found indicators of abuse. Or you could provide a link for me, if you like. I would like to know if there is a post on this blog that outlines that there were indicators of abuse. I'd welcome taht link also.

Goader, have you ever mentioned in a post that the CPI deemed that coaxial cable was not designed for restraining students? Click, click, click. Sorry, my ruby slippers ain't finding it. Could you please provide a link?

Anonymous said...

The facts remain--SK--
(1) The county is damn lucky you've chosen to stick around--seems like you are one of the good ones and
(2) The county is damn lucky you haven't countered sued. You were treated abominably.Seems like a lots of "stuff' was flying around.
YOu sound like you have more integrity than is good for you.

Good luck to you. I hope you're finding your joy back in the classroom.

ESE @ PCHS said...

Parents of student involved plan to sue the school district. Steve is not free from harrassment, yet.

John__D said...

http://antigrammargrinch.blogspot.com/2009/11/johnd-censored-yet-again.html

http://leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-do-these-guys-pass-bar.html

Vinegartits will publish comments about my being someone's gay husband so that everyone can have a laugh, but she wouldn't post my reply. Typical. First amendment, my queynte.

My reply:

>Most posts on this subject say that nothing at all was found.<

Okay, Goader. "Most" obviously didn't cut it for you. Try this:

Most posts I have read on this subject say that nothing was found at all.

Better? I ddn't say that there was an effort to hide facts. What it seems and what it is are two different things. Esse quam videri.

If I can find spare time, I'll sift through your older posts and try to find your writing that they found indicators of abuse. Or you could provide a link for me, if you like. I would like to know if there is a post on this blog [Casting Room Couch] that outlines that there were indicators of abuse. I'd welcome that link also.

Goader, have you ever mentioned in a post that the CPI deemed that coaxial cable was not designed for restraining students? Click, click, click. Sorry, my ruby slippers ain't finding it. Could you please provide a link?