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I'm happy to send you the original and revised copies. Your reader, who obviously doesn't know what he is talking about, could request copies in order to be fully informed and avoid further libelous charges against me. The sheriff's report and professional standards reports are 2 completely different things. I have never said the sheriff's report didn't say there were some indications. In fact, last time I wrote to you I clearly stated that it did say there were some indicators of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Please set Mr. Anonymous straight. I'll forward all of it to you on Tuesday.

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From: "lee"
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:37:45 -0400
To: ; Linda Cobbe
Subject: FW: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Filling in the Piec

Linda, I have had help from a reader on the redaction. I am going to have to ponder this further. Is there a totally new version that the schools published with their name at the top of the child-abuse original document in the toecracker case? I would be interested to see the two side by side. Please send me the redacted document and the original. I wrote to the sheriff and complained about this situation. I think he would like to see the two documents and compare them too. I shall send him copies when you send mine to me. I have been in communication with the sheriff on this matter.

Tom Gonzalez seemed awfully wroth at my use of the word "redaction." I couldn't tell if that were his real response or just legal theater. ldd

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From: Anonymous [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com]

Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 7:34 PM

To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Filling in the Pieces of the Puzzle; You Ask Ques....

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Filling in the Pieces of the Puzzle; You Ask Ques...":

Linda Cobbe is working with the district to cover up the changing of the document by Professional Standards. The original report by a Child Protective Investigator did say there were indicators of abuse and Professional Standards then took that and typed up the same thing but then after Tom Gonzalez lied, Professional Standards typed up a new "corrected" copy of the Professional Standards report of the same case. It changed it so that there were "no indicators of abuse"....this was reported in the St. Pete Times with links to the original documents, and Linda Cobbe is playing hanky panky with your mind. She knows what you mean. The general gist of what you are saying is correct, although the exact details of your version are wrong. Professional Standards should not be able to change the report it made about the case and lie about the CPI's findings in a "corrected" version. These people are criminals.

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Folks, be patient. I am writing to Bill and Melinda about the grant. It will be in the board's computer mail by Monday. I don't think most of them know how to turn on a computer yet.

I agree with the reader who observed that Tom Gonzalez got his job as reward for the Erwin case. I further suspect that old rascal Crosby Few passed him the case for that very purpose.

That's the way the good ol' boy network gets all the goodies.

Gonzalez lost the case. Go figure. lee


Linda, I have had help from a reader on the redaction. I am going to have to ponder this further.

Is there a totally new version that the schools published with their name at the top of the child-abuse original document in the toecracker case?

I would be interested to see the two side by side: the original and the redaction. So please send me the redacted document and the original.

I wrote to the sheriff and complained about this situation. I think he would like to see the two documents and compare them too. I shall send him copies when you send mine to me. I have been in communication with the sheriff on this matter.

Tom Gonzalez seemed awfully wroth at my use of the word "redaction." I couldn't tell if that were his real response or just legal theater. ldd

-----Original Message-----
From: Anonymous [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 7:34 PM
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
Subject: [Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Filling in the Pieces of the Puzzle; You Ask Ques....

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Filling in the Pieces of the Puzzle; You Ask Ques...":

Linda Cobbe is working with the district to cover up the changing of the document by Professional Standards. The original report by a Child Protective Investigator did say there were indicators of abuse and Professional Standards then took that and typed up the same thing but then after Tom Gonzalez lied, Professional Standards typed up a new "corrected" copy of the Professional Standards report of the same case. It changed it so that there were "no indicators of abuse"....this was reported in the St. Pete Times with links to the original documents, and Linda Cobbe is playing hanky panky with your mind. She knows what you mean. The general gist of what you are saying is correct, although the exact details of your version are wrong. Professional Standards should not be able to change the report it made about the case and lie about the CPI's findings in a "corrected" version. These people are criminals.

Publish this comment.

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Posted by Anonymous to Lee Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 4:34 PM

Filling in the Pieces of the Puzzle; You Ask Questions Until the Picture Emerges

I would love to live in Capri.

Thank you, Linda. I am sorry that I forget things. My grandchildren call me spacy. But maybe it's my Alzheimer's kicking in---the case Ms. Kurdell and your boss the twit have bequeathed me to excuse confiscating my public-comment requests and not allowing me to comment on the agenda. My old man, the former mayor of Madeira Beach for a zillion years who's conducted beaucoup Roberts Rules meetings, says not allowing citizens to comment on an agenda is not kosher.

So Ms. Falliero was just blowing political smoke when she said she was going to assemble such a list. I assume you asked her if she had it.

Also, the Gates application did not come through. At least I don't see it. Could you resend it? lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Linda Cobbe [mailto:lcobbe@sdhc.us]
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 3:19 PM
To: lee
Subject: Re: public information

Lee, Mr. Gonzalez was appointed school board attorney effective October 6, 2004. The Erwin case was in late 2001 through 2002.

Regarding Gonzalez's participation in the Erwin case, following is the explanation I sent to you on May 29, 2009 at 8:40 a.m.:

... Tom didn't have a contract with the school board at that time; Few was the board attorney. Mr. Few referred the case to the Gonzalez firm. There would not be a "contract" with the attorney who tried the case.

I sent you the Alege report on Aug. 17 at 8:44 a.m. It was attached to the original email I printed out and gave to you last night, in which I pointed out that the report that was amended was the Professional Standards report, not the CPI report. Also, Tom Gonzalez had no role in the changes made to that report; it was done by the investigator.

I mailed you the Kemp report in August. There is a difference between the results of the Alege investigation and the Kemp investigation. The CPI report for Alege said there were "some indicators of abuse, neglect, or abandonment." The Kemp report said there were "verified indicators of abuse, neglect, or abandonment."

There is no list related to anything Ms. Faliero said about a parent group.

The Gates Foundation grant application is attached.

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" <tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

Ms. Cobbe: Thank you for correcting my impression that Mr. Gonzalez's firm has held the board-attorney position for 40 years. You say that he took over from the Crosby Few firm, with offices in the same building as his, and that Mr. Gonzalez has been school board attorney for only six years. I have trouble with this math. He was in charge of the Erwin defense for the Whistleblower trial, and that occurred in the early nineties. Can you explain the discrepancy?

Can you send me a copy of the Gonzalez redaction that Ms. Kipley included in files on the Kemp and Toe Cracker danger to the students?

Also, I await the public information of the roster of parents Ms. Falliero said she had assembled whom she would communicate with to let them know what a good job the board and administration were doing to blunt the effect of the blogs. I think her opponent for the next election would like to have that list, and I will send it to him when you send it to me.

I would like to see a copy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant for a hundred million dollars. I assume people in the schools wrote it; if not was it written by a professional grant writer?

Thank you. ldd

This, That, and the Other

Ms. Kurdell is trying to shut me up. This afternoon at the board meeting after I spoke on my objection to the lawyer's serving as board attorney, she asked Mr. Gonzalez, in effect, if the chair could censor the speech of a citizen addressing the board.

To his credit, he, in effect said no. He knows that any lawyer who does not support the Constitution's First Amendment would be a pariah in the legal community.

Bart Birdsall arrived late because he gets out of school at 4:30. Ms. Kurdell had started citizens' comment time a half hour early, and she refused to let Bart speak.

The board would love to shut down public comment. Zeig heil.

When I came home, I asked my husband about Ms. Kurdell's not allowing me to comment on the agenda that has marked on citizens' sign up to comment. I wanted to comment on the administrators' salaries today. My husband, mayor of our little beach town for many years, said she couldn't do that, that it was wrong. I said she did it any way.

I guess I must plow through the state bureaucracy to get that problem fixed. But it's an election year, and those running for office are much more amenable to citizen requests.

Ms. Cobbe: Thank you for correcting my impression that Mr. Gonzalez's firm has held the board-attorney position for 40 years. You say that he took over from the Crosby Few firm, with offices in the same building as his, and that Mr. Gonzalez has been school board attorney for only six years. I have trouble with this math. He was in charge of the Erwin defense for the Whistleblower trial, and that occurred in the early nineties. The court papers clearly cite Mr. Gonzalez. Can you explain the discrepancy?

Can you send me a copy of the Gonzalez redaction that Ms. Kipley included in files on the Kemp and Toe Cracker danger to the students?

Also, I await the public information of the roster of parents Ms. Falliero said she had assembled whom she would communicate with to let them know what a good job the board and administration were doing to blunt the effect of the blogs. I think her opponent for the next election would like to have that list, and I will send it to him when you send it to me.

I would like to see a copy of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant for a hundred million dollars to the Hillsborough County schools. I assume people in the schools wrote it; if not, was it written by a professional grant writer?

Thank you. ldd

The Campaign for Free Speech at the School Board Meetings Resumes

ACLU of Florida Tampa Chapter
P. O. Box 1481
Tampa, FL 33601-1481.
9/3/2009

Dear ACLU:

The chair of the school board of Hillsborough County, Ms. Carol Kurdell, refuses to allow me to comment on items on the agenda because she does not like what I say. She gradually went from censorship when I went up to urge that the board put the candidates for jobs' names on the Board Web page and a hyperlink to their credentials to refusing to let me speak at all by having my requests to speak confiscated by the head of Public Affairs, Steve Hegarty. A few meetings ago, Ms Kurdell arrived at not even calling my name for comment.

The board and administration has a long and unfortunate tradition of hiring chums and sycophants and not the most qualified people. They plaster "We are an equal-employment-opportunity employer everywhere and then ignore it by hiring unqualified buddies and camp followers. They don't want anybody coming to the board comment time and protesting this practice.

Chair Kurdell has sent the head of Community Affairs, Steve Hegarty, to me each meeting for the last several to explain that I can't comment for obscure reasons that he has trouble articulating, but the hint is that I have Alzheimer's because I am elderly and don't know what I am talking about. This fellow got the job over better qualified candidates and can't punctuate to save his life. He used to be a reporter at the SPT and believed in free speech then because his bosses did. Now his bosses don't believe in free speech, so neither does he.

I petitioned the ACLU to come once before because the chair at that time, Jennifer Fallliero, conspired with the huge Jolly Green Giant Security to kick me out of a meeting because I had used a name at the podium. You came and lectured the board on free speech; then Mr. Gonzalez, who doesn't cotton to free speech for citizens and lets the board do outrageous things to suppress it did finally take Ms. Falliero aside and lecture to her on the rights of people to express themselves fully to elected officials after your visit.

She returned to chair duty with the observation that Mr. Gonzalez had educated her about the First Amendment and now she understood that citizens can come and address the board and say any "mean and unkind thing they want to." At last she understood that she couldn't gavel people down and throw them out of the board room because she didn't like what they said or how they said it.

I know it is probably too late for you to attend tomorrow's board meeting on the 3rd, but perhaps you can come to the meeting after that and comment on the situation. They don't like the ACLU, but they have a grudging respect for it. If you can't remedy Ms. Kurdell's depriving me of free speech in a public meeting, I will move up the bureaucratic chain to the secretary of education, a man who emerged from the administrative bureaucracy and thinks along the same lines as Ms. Kurdell is my intuition; after him there is the attorney general, who is running for governor and has discovered that he is in favor of the Constitution.

I have been an ACLU member for many years and do nothing but read the bulletins that national sends out and pay my dues. I know I or any citizen can always ask for such problems as I cite above.

I enclose the agenda for tomorrow's meeting. I want to address the administrators' salaries.

Sincerely,

lee drury de cesare
15316 Gulf Boulevard 802
Madeira Beach, FL 33598

It's the Money: Always the Money

Casting-room Couch Readers: See the money data at the end to get an idea what a rip-off the board subjects the taxpayers to in legal scamming.

Board Attorney Gonzalez was hip deep in the sadistic treatment of Mr. Erwin, who merely asked Dr. Lennard et al to do something about the rampant theft and ubiquitous crime in the schools.

The response of Le Lennard and his goons was to shut Lennard up, not investigate the crime he cited. Le Gonzalez was the lawyer for all the unethical and sometimes illegal acts the board and administration slipped by ignorant tax payers.

The board punished not one person for the Erwin outrage. It should have fired Lennard at a minimum. Taxpayers via the jury didn't believe a word of the administration-and-board lies to cover their asses and paid Mr. Erwin $165.000 to settle his lawsuit for the administration, board, and Mr. Gonzalez's unethical, illegal treatment of the man who outed them under the Whistleblower law.

One telling contribution Mr. Gonzalez made to this travesty of justice was to hire a firm to investigate the case and then cut short its investigation when it began to turn up evidence of the administration's attempt to frame Mr. Erwin so as to fire him and deprive him of his pension.

The governor just chose the head of the crucify-Erwin effort, Earl the Pearl Lennard, as the new supervisor of elections. What a swell pick: one that shows that crime in politics pays if citizens don't pay attention and rein the rascals in.

The board does everything it can to keep the public from wising up. For example, Chair Carol Kurdell, on the board during the Erwin crucifixion and deeply engaged in looking the other way, does not accept my sign-in requests to comment on agenda items.

Chair Kurdell dispatches that little former SPT twit Hagerty, who got his job sans credentials and struggles with punctuation, to try to propitiate me about trashing my Constitutional rights. The claim represents the old anybody-who-says-anything-against-the-board-and-administration-is-crazy folderol.

Were I a teacher, the hillbilly crooks would cook up a Professional Standards case against me and put me on suspension with Gonzalez's providing the pseudo stare-decisis-decision-manufactured rationale for doing so.

I told the Public Affairs twit at the last board meeting to stay away from me or that I would get the Black guy who is sergeant at arms who stands on the left-hand side of the audience and always wears those great Fifties blowzy pants to tell Master Twit to cease and desist from the harassment of helpless, frail, and defenseless little old ladies such as I.

The twit has stuttered out that Kurdell suspects me of having Alzheimer's. Even in the throes of a full-blown case, I could defeat these Amateurs of Evil. They have the impulses but not the brains to carry out sophisticated skullduggery.

I must throw myself on the mercy of the Attorney General in the matter of my Constitutional rights. He is running for office and, like Crist, who just appointed Erwin's chief torturer as Hillsborough supervisor of elections, claims to be a sturdy defendant of openness in government. We shall see.

What a world. Lee

Lee, Thompson, Sizemore & Gonzalez was paid $276,106.32 in 07/08. Neither Tom Gonzalez nor his firm referred any school district legal work to any other firms.

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" <tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

Ms. Cobbe: may I have as public information the amount that the board paid Mr. Gonzalez and his firm for legal services? I would also like the amount paid to lawyers and law firms last year as a result of referrals from Mr. Gonzalez and his firm.

Thank you,

lee drury de cesare

Minions of the Light: If we multiply the 38 no-bid, good-ol-boy handshake years during which Gonzalez's outfit has had a lockdown on the school-board job, taxpayers have shelled out $10,492,028 to this firm, the chief business of which is to rip off workers for their bosses.

Earl the Pearl Lennard handed the job to Tom Gonzalez on a good-ol-Hillsborough-county-boy handshake without obeying the Title VII requirement of equal opportunity and advertising it whilst plastering "We are an equal-employment opportunity" logos on everything not nailed down.

We must keep this example in mind with judging the school board's fairness, competence, and adherence to American law in the employment area.

Faites attention, my hearties. lee

c: All Members of the Board and All the Ships at Sea

Grammar, Toujours Le Grammaire

Hey, PC, Who Taught You to Fight Back? By DEVIN LEONARD

Published: NYT August 29, 2009

Mr. Leonard, somewhere in this
enjoyable article you have "...feel differently." "Differently" should be "different." "Feel" is a linking verb; a predicate adjective follows it, not an adverb. lee drury de cesare

To the person who challenged the plural of "cherubim" and "seraphim": "Cherubs" and "seraphs" are traditional plurals; but the Anglo public has put an "s" on both for the plural so long that the "seraphims" and "cherubims" are now creeping into the language as an acceptable alternative. The language reflects persistent usage.

This situation recalls the "time out" plural. So many sportscasters and sports fans have used "time outs" so doggedly that it has swamped the standard "times out."

I am always happy to hear from a reader with a lively interest in the English language. lee

Polegirl Has an Opponent! Thanks Be to the Gods and Goddesses of the Light

Candidate

2010 Election Cycle
School Board Member, Dist. 4

Name:	Stacy R. White
Address:	1706 Harmony Grove Trl Valrico, FL 33596
Current Incumbent:	No
Announced Date:	8/7/2009
Status:	Filed