Learned Counselor Will Speak for Board Members Who Lost Their Vocal Chords When They Won Election

Lives in South Tampa on the Windward Side of Elia's
Beverly Hillbillies Digs: He Is Scion of One of Tampa's Old Families That Migrated from South Carolina with the Family Sharecropper Plantation Mounted on a Moving Platform Behind the Family 1937 Packard Sedan and All the Slaves Riding in the Open Back of a Pick-up Truck in the Rear of the Caravan; Asked at a Filling Station Where He Was Going, the Patriarch said, "To Tampa, Florida, To Live in South Tampa and Become a Bona Fide Noveau Aristocrat."

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Elia and the board must spend a ton on lawyers every year.

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Board members and the superintendent lose the art of negotiating life's ups and downs by themselves. They resort to lawyers to speak for them. I once heard Candy Olson grandly say from the podium, "We speak through lawyers."

In her civilian life post divorce by her out-of-the-closet-never-been-happier-after-the split bankruptcy judge husband, Candy perforce moved to a condo on the other side of the tracks. South Tampa sticks up its nose at poor-white-trash condo dwellers.

The divorce settlement must have sold the house and its South Tampa prestige out from under Candy. The trauma of living in a declasse condo may force La Candy to learn to speak for herself again. She'll have to talk to the riffraff in the condo elevator to argue about pool privileges.

That divorce may have been good news for her husband but bad news for the school because Candy will probably hang onto her board job for dear life henceforth because it pays $41,000 a year, eight thousand more than beginning teachers make.

I think it would do her a world of good to clerk in Burdines to readjust her psyche to that of us common folks. Burdines is where you will find all South Tampa dumped wives. They used to clerk in Lily Rubin's, but that store went out of business. lee


Meanwhile, at ROSSAC taxpayers pay Tom Gonzalez a bloated $275,000 a year--more than any other school attorney in Florida-- to speak for board members who decline to use their vocal chords after election, so special do they think themselves as to be exempt from vulgar conversation. Next, they will demand tax-supported rickshaws to ferry them around town to their government-financed political hog-trough luncheons and banquets.

I assume Ms. Elia is paying this private attorney to bully neighbors into accepting her Tennessee Williams hot tin roof. They should file a community bullying counter lawsuit against her. She has bullied the employees at ROSSAC and in the schools for two years and has rapidly got the habit of coercion in dealing with people from her exalted perch.

La Elia will find that the South Tampa natives think themselves equal to or above Zeus and his gang much less a school superintendent and may be sorry she stepped into a faux pas to get the gaudy tin roof she wants on her house. I saw her once when she was in her ambassadorial mode at Plant trying to charm the parents. She was a flop. They treated her like the hired help.

If Ms. Community Decorator intends to live there post-superintendency dictatorship into retirement after she has vacated the dictatorial post and the behavioral gaucheries that her superintendency affords her because people who gainsay her fear losing their jobs, she may find that this tin-roof breach of community aesthetic will not endear her to South Tampans, all of whom consider themselves to the manor born. lee