When the Cat's Away, the Mice Will Play

Thomas's Parrot, Fernanda, Who Loves Him Madly

Ms. Cobbe:

Please send me a copy of the Olayinka Toe-Cracking Professional Standards file. I will pay for the copying. Thank you. Also can you tell me where to find on the school's Web site a description of the required knowledge base of people who administer Special Standards? I think that would be the principals and the area directors.

Lee Drury De Cesare, 15316 Gulf Boulevard, Madeira Beach, FL 33708.

Gentle Readers: I have received and reviewed the Steve Kemp file that catalogues his alleged offenses. There is no way that the investigation described should have taken over a year in which Mr. Kemp remained suspended from teaching. I will mount this file on the Web when I get my scanner up and running. Then you can make your own judgment. Mine is that administrative lies are ubiquitous and that Supervisor Smiley and Principal Morris are liable to undergo the liar-liar-pants-on-fire test.

Ms. Kipley, with uncharacteristic generosity, also included in my Kemp packet five disciplinary letters to teachers. One mentions the letters' appearing in the malefactors' files, but I have never seen such letters in any of the many employment files I have examined in the Public Affairs office. Those files are scrubbed clean of any but the most innocuous information.

This maneuver suggests to me that, although the public is entitled to see these Professional Standards disciplinary files, it does not. This situation suggests that the administration maintains two sets of files on employees: one for show scrubbed clean in the Public Affairs office and one with these disciplinary files secreted someplace in the ROSSAC dungeon.

Adolescent Poltroon Attacks the Potency of the Husband of a Granny of Ten

Response to Too-Gutless-to-Sign-His-Name Below:

Since when does a 77-year old man need to certify his potency status, Sugarbritches? Don't you know a thing about anatomy and physiology? Probably not.

I am sure you thought the toe-cracking inflicted on male students by the psychosexually aberrant administrator was innocuous. You are doubtless a flatliner as well.

Accept my condolences.

Stupidity is always sad. So is gutlessness that keeps a creepette from signing his name. I predict you will be on IV Viagra by the time you become 21. I understand that you are now thirteen. This information will appear in powder-room posts across the country along with the prediction of your succumbing to ejaculatio praecox post puberty, poor boy. I wish you all the luck in the world with the amused sisterhood. They are not kind to fellows with your incipient disabilities.

Use a comma after "Lee" for direct address. And clean your fingernails.

lee drury de cesare

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Lee Darling, I'm so sorry to learn of your husbands impotence. Although, given his situation, I can understand the cause of his condition. I wish him all the luck in the world. He needs it.





Mr. Hegarty:

My husband cut out the 7/27 article "Barefoot Penalty Draws Scrutiny" on the activities of the foot-fetishist assistant principal Guy Olayinka, Hillsborough County Schools.

You pooh-poohed its significance to the press despite foot fetishism's having long history in the annals of psychological pathology about which professional educators should know, Your response to the press illustrated either your ignorance of an area in which you should be knowledgeable or your complicity in the administration's and the board's tolerating administrative pathological behavior involving students. Had this been a teacher playing with students' toes, the board would have fired him or her on the spot.

Did the school board have a psychological examination of foot-fetishist Olayinka before issuing its public stance of "his actions are harmless"? Evidently not. This situation illustrates why the ROSSAC know-nothings need degrees of more sophistication than home ec and early childhood.

A teacher called me about this problem about two months ago. A parent had complained to him about Olayinka's odd fetish. I told him to take it to Secretary of Education Smith because the local school board has a default policy of never punishing administrative employee, no matter how vile the offense. Board members collude in this cover-up of an administrative person's bizarre derelictions or any other dereliction to the detriment of the students who are victims of such a weird administrative obsessions as foot fetishism. The board does not protect students by pretending its members do not know what is going on. Its members come off as stupid and indifferent to administrative misbehavior.

c: all board members
Superintendent Elia

007-06-08.
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_fetishism#cite_ref-3 ]^ Scorolli C, Ghirlanda S, Enquist M, Zattoni S, Jannini E A (2007). Relative prevalence of different fetishes. International Journal of Impotence Researchadvance online publication 15 February 2007; doi: 10.1038/sj.ijir.3901547. [ http://www.nature.com/ijir/journal/v19/n4/abs/3901547a.html ]http://www.nature.com/ijir/journal/v19/n4/abs/3901547a.html retrieved March 2007.


[ http://www.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online/ ]World Health Organization, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, (2007), Chapter V, F65 Disorders of sexual preference.


Lee Drury DeCesare\15316 Gulf Boulevard 802/Madeira Beach, FL /leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouchblogspot.com

Now Is the Time to Step up to the Plate

Linda Cobbe, Public Affairs office, is mailing me Steven Kemp's file (Goader) after redaction. I hope Kipley hasn't altered the information. That would violate the law.

I paid $73.00 for the redaction and asked that the school system not charge anybody else for the file's redaction since it's been done.

Anybody can now ask for the file and challenge any charges for redaction because the redaction has been paid for.

If you are afraid to ask for it from the Public Affairs office in your own name, then have a friend ask for it. It is public information, and anybody is entitled to a copy.

Steve Kemp has announced on his blog that he is going to ask for a review of the Professional Standards office's treatment of teachers. Now is the time to join him and go to the board meetings to join your voice to his in demanding this review of an office that serves as a front for cooking up cases against teachers to keep them terrified of losing their jobs.

If teachers can't summon the courage to go to board meetings and join Kemp in demanding a clean-up of the Professional Standards Office, then it's a sad day for democracy.

To keep the ghouls from taking over operations like the school system, people have to have the courage to challenge the wrongdoers. Otherwise, they shouldn't complain. They can only hover in terror and let the thugs continue to rule. Lee

Mr. Tabor:

The Office of Professional Standards has sent me word that the redacted copy of Steve Kemp's case is in the mail for me. I paid $73 for the redaction of names, so the file should now be free to people who want a copy of it.

I hope you will take an interest in this file. It's the Waterloo, I forecast, of the Professional Standards office's use of that office to coerce teachers with threatened cases against them or against some show-and-tell candidate like Steve as an ominous example.

Steve's blog says he intends to mount a board-appearance campaign demanding that the board appoint a committee to review the conduct of Professional Standards.

I doubt that you will pay any attention to this effort. It's part of the relentlessly innocuous coverage of guys like you in the business of pseudo reporting on school systems to produce a porridge of running drivel.

Your blather simply delays reform by condoning status quo without analysis. You do it for a buck, not for the good of the schools, teachers, and students.

If you are a business consultant on education as your site says you are, you should use standard commas: items in a series retain the final comma in Standard English. Its omission betrays your protocol's coming from the popular press, a rat's nest of grammar-and-punctuation errors.

lee drury de cesare

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More Toe Cracking

Hillsborough County School Board Council of Trent's Foot Fetishism and Toe Cracking Supporters

The summer I took my psychiatric nurses' training at Seton Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, I encountered fetishism big time.

Much of the patient population was former nuns and priests, groups liable to all kinds of substitutes for sex. Fetishism is a handy side ride.

When I was not on duty or playing tennis with a former priest who called me "sissy" and who was as mad as as hatter, I was in the hospital library boning up on fetishism. It was Freud's discovery, of course; he was a clever guy.

The long and the short of fetishism is that it is a mechanism in men for warding off a castration complex. I finished reading all that Freud ever wrote when I went back to my home hospital. The sister in charge said to me, "Miss Drury, you spend far too much time in the library. Such studiousness at your age is unhealthy."

When sister wasn't warning against reading too much, she was warning us against the boys in the neighboring college of Belmont Abby. Sister said we should avoid them for they were "interested in only one thing."

Sister did not waste too much time on me, however; I was Episcopal in a student body of Catholics. She naturally wanted to save them more than me from reading too much and socializing with the randy Belmont Abbey boys.

I met a former Belmont Abby boy on the elevator in my beach condo recently. He had a suitcase. I said, "Going home??

He said, "Yeah."

I said, "Where 'bouts?"

He replied, "North Carolina."

"I went to school in Charlotte," I said.

"No kidding?" quoth he. "Where?"

"Mercy Hospital School of Nursing," I answered.

"We used to date the Mercy girls," he said.

"You didn't date as many as you could have had Sister Mercy and Mother Benignus not warned us girls against you," I offered.

"Why did they warn you against us Belmont boys?" asked he as the elevator settled on the lobby floor.

"They said you were interested in only one thing," I said.

This comment made the fellow let out a whoop of delight that redounded up and down the elevator shaft. He dragged his suitcase through the door of the lobby, laughing like a hyena.

I am sure when this old Belmont Abbey graduate got back to North Carolina that he called every Belmont Abbey alumnus he could think of to chortle over what slashing sexual characters they had been fifty years ago.

All hoopla, of course. Every Mercy girl could testify to the feeble erotic performance of the Belmont Abbey boys. We brought to the assessment clinical criteria learned in anatomy and physiology classes.

The following clinical data on foot fetishism suggests that the guy in the vice-principal's job in the schools who cracks every boy's toes who enters his office suffers from foot fetishism, ergo fear of castration. That he preys on boys, not girls. says much about the administration's ignorance thus strange tolerance of this practice in their midst. Abuse of boys is more palatable in society than abuse of girls. I disagree with this discrimination because I have seven grandsons as well as three granddaughters.

This we can posit with confidence: One: the vice-principal's fear is not of castration by a vagina; two, it's hence more likely homoerotic displacement from male genitalia to feet, hence the cracking of the boys' toes.

Were I the parents of these boys, I would sue. In the first place, when is leaping to crack a boy's toes not assault? I am confidant that an intelligent lawyer could make the jury see how pathological and malignantly allusive this toe-cracking behavior is.

There is something innately repulsive about this male assistant principal's behavior. And a skillful attorney could open a jury's eyes to Freud's theory on fetishism in plain English to explain why it is so repulsive.

The vice-principal's involuntary toecracking has little to do with innocent fun and everything to do with sexual pathology. The jurors would also discern how careless of pathological behavior and how marginally educated the board and administration are and how incompetent they are to be the guardians of the community's children.

This is an instance of why the administration needs more sophisticated people in administrative positions in ROSSAC. And it shows why smarter people should run for the board. When it comes to stuff like fetishism and Freud's gloss on it, Kipley's home-ec certificate that yields her a hundred and fifty thousand tax dollars yearly does not cut the mustard. lee




Freud’s rather meandering and strangely-structured argument in the (1927) paper on fetishism contains a number of quasi-assertions which could be recast in probabilistic language and made the basis of empirical study of the peculiar conditioning history implied for fetishists.The first clinical example, simply cited in passing, concerns an English-German male’s basing a fetish on the expression ‘Glanz auf der Nase’/ (‘glance at the nose’) (p. 152).

It is not true that, after the child has made his observation of the woman, he has preserved unaltered his belief that women have a phallus. He has retained that belief, but he has also given it up. In the conflict between the weight of the unwelcome perception and the force of his counter-wish, a compromise has been reached, as is only possible under the dominance of the unconscious laws of thought—the primary processes. Yes, in his mind, the woman has got a penis, in spite of everything; but this penis is no longer the same as it was before. Something else has taken its place, has been appointed its substitute, as it were, and now inherits the interest which was formerly directed to its predecessor.

But this interest suffer an extraordinary increase as well, because the horror of castration has set up a memorial to itself in the creation of this substitute. Furthermore, an aversion, which is never absent in any fetishist, to the real female genitals remains a stigma indelible of the repression that has taken place. We can now see what the fetish achieves and what it is that maintains it. It remains as a token of triumph over the threat of castration and a protection against it. It also saves the fetishist from becoming a homosexual, by endowing women with the characteristic which makes them tolerable as sexual objects.

In later life, the fetishist feels that he enjoys yet another advantage from his substitute for a genital. The meaning of the fetish is not known to other people, so the fetish is not withheld from him: it is easily accessible and he can readily obtain the sexual satisfaction attached to it. What other men have to woo and make exertions for can be had by the fetishist with no trouble at all.

Dark fetishes: foot fetishes
By Ali the Sexpert
October 31, 2007

A foot fetish is also referred to as foot partialism, or the formal term for foot fetish which is pedophilia, because fetishes are usually a sexual focus on an inanimate object. Since the foot is a body part, it is more correct to call it pedophilia, however, it is most commonly known as foot fetishism. The fetish itself involves a sexual interest in feet, shoes, boots or any accessories that may be associated with the feet. Even nail polish, panty hose or anklets can be part of this foot fetish.

About Foot Fetishes

In 1887, Sigmund Freud was the first person to define and discuss foot fetishism. Freud defined fetishism as the displacement of sexual desire onto inanimate objects or body parts which was caused be the person’s struggle with the confrontation of the castration complex (when a child’s sexual activities are stopped by his father who he fears castration from because the young male child is considered to be in love with his mother). Freud also described the fetish as occurring through exposure over time to an object (feet) while being sexually aroused. This form of conditioning is still theorized as the reason why people have foot fetishes today.

Foot fetishism in the modern world is understood to be on a continuum where a person may be aroused by the sight of feet, to more extreme forms of sexual arousal such as the desire to use the feet for sexual gratification. What is arousing for a person with this fetish is the shape and size of the foot, toes, toe nails, the texture of the skin, the cleanliness or dirtiness of the foot, if the foot is clothed or not, and the odor. People who enjoy feet may also enjoy touching, kissing, licking, sucking, smelling, massaging and/or lovemaking with feet or their accessories. However, if a person is attracted to feet and enjoys these activities but can still get aroused by other forms of sexual contact (kissing, hugging, fondling etc), then the person is not considered to have a clinical condition that needs treatment.

The treatment of neurosis consists of making conscious some of the unconscious until "we transform the pathogenic conflict into a normal one for which it must be possible somehow to find a solution" (Introductory Lectures 16.435). However, simply stating the "truth" of a patient's neurosis is often not enough, since the work of repression is such that the patient may hear the analyst's words but not believe them or perhaps allow the "truth" to stand alongside a continuing illness.

A good example of this tendency for the truth to stand alongside the symptom is in fetishism, the displacement of sexual desire onto alternative objects or body parts (eg. a foot fetish or a shoe fetish), caused by the subject's confrontation with the castration complex. Freud came to realize in his essay on "Fetishism" that the fetishist is able at one and the same time to believe in his fantasy and to recognize that it is nothing but a fantasy. And yet, the fact of recognizing the fantasy as fantasy in no way reduces its power over the individual.


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Toe Sucking and Popping at the Administrative Loony Bin

Council of Trent/Hillsborough County School Board Toe Suckers and Crackers

Mr. Heggarty, you pooh-poohed its significance to the press despite foot fetishism's long history in the annals of psychiatry about which professional educators should know.

Your response to the press illustrated either your ignorance of an area in which you should be knowledgeable or your far-gone complicity in the administration's and the board's tolerating administrative pathological behavior involving students.

Had this been a teacher playing with students' toes, the board would have fired him or her on the spot.

Did the school board have a psychological examination of foot-fetishist Olayinka before issuing its public stance of "his actions are harmless"? Evidently not.

A teacher called me about this problem about two months ago. A parent had complained to him about Olayinka's odd fetish. I told him to take it to Secretary of Education Smith because the local school board has a default policy of never punishing administrative employee, no matter how vile the offense. Board members automatically collude in this cover-up of an administrative person's bizarre derelictions or any other dereliction to the detriment of the students who are victims of such a weird administrative obsessions as foot fetishism.

The board does not protect students by pretending its members do not know what is going on. Its members come off as stupid and indifferent to administrative misbehavior.

c: all board members

Superintendent Elia

007-06-08.

^ Scorolli C, Ghirlanda S, Enquist M, Zattoni S, Jannini E A (2007). Relative prevalence of different fetishes. International Journal of Impotence Researchadvance online publication 15 February 2007; doi: 10.1038/sj.ijir.3901547. http://www.nature.com/ijir/journal/v19/n4/abs/3901547a.html retrieved March 2007.

World Health Organization, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, (2007), Chapter V, F65 Disorders of sexual preference.

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Never Doubt Corruption in Public Officials: Corruption at ROSSAC and the Board was what the Erwin case was about

44 Charged by U.S. in New Jersey Corruption Sweep

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Agents led suspects from F.B.I. headquarters in Newark on Thursday. The inquiry began with questions on money laundering.


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A two-year corruption and international money-laundering investigation stretching from the Jersey Shore to Brooklyn to Israel and Switzerland culminated in charges against 44 people on Thursday, including three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen and five rabbis, the authorities said.

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The case began with bank fraud charges against a member of an insular Syrian Jewish enclave centered in a seaside town. But when that man became a federal informant and posed as a crooked real estate developer offering cash bribes to obtain government approvals, it mushroomed into a political scandal that could rival any of the most explosive and sleazy episodes in New Jersey’s recent past.

It was replete with tales of the illegal sales of body parts; of furtive negotiations in diners, parking lots and boiler rooms; of nervous jokes about “patting down” a man who turned out to indeed be an informant; and, again and again, of the passing of cash — once in a box of Apple Jacks cereal stuffed with $97,000.

“For these defendants, corruption was a way of life,” Ralph J. Marra Jr., the acting United States attorney in New Jersey, said at a news conference. “They existed in an ethics-free zone.”

Mr. Marra said that average citizens “don’t have a chance” against the culture of influence peddling the investigation had unearthed.

Even veteran political observers were taken aback by the scope of the investigation. The mayors of Hoboken, Secaucus and Ridgefield were among those arrested.

“This is so massive,” said Joseph Marbach, a political scientist at Seton Hall University. “It’s going to just reinforce the stereotype of New Jersey politics and corruption.”

The arrests had immediate reverberations in the governor’s race, and a member of Gov. Jon S. Corzine’s administration was forced to resign after federal agents raided his home.

The authorities laid out two separate schemes, one involving money laundering that led to rabbis and members of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn and in the Jersey Shore town of Deal, where many of them have summer homes. The other dealt with political corruption and bribery and involved public officials mostly in Jersey City and Hoboken, where the pace of development has been particularly intense in recent years.

Linking the two schemes was the federal informant who was not named in court papers but whom people involved with the investigation identified as Solomon Dwek, a failed real estate developer and philanthropist who was arrested in May 2006 on charges of passing a bad $25 million check at a bank in Monmouth County, N.J.

Early on, Mr. Dwek helped investigators penetrate an extensive network of money laundering that involved rabbis in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, where the Syrian Jewish community is based, and in Deal and Elberon, towns on the Jersey Shore.

Mr. Dwek, a well-known member of the Syrian Jewish community whose parents founded the Deal Yeshiva, never concealed that he was facing bank fraud charges, instead telling targets, who included three rabbis in Brooklyn and two in New Jersey, that he was bankrupt and trying to conceal his assets, according to people involved in the case. The targets, in turn, accepted bank checks Mr. Dwek made out to charities that they oversaw, deducted a fee, and returned the rest to him in cash.

Much of the cash they provided him came from Israel, and some of that in turn came from a Swiss banker, prosecutors said. All told, some $3 million was laundered for Mr. Dwek since June 2007, prosecutors said.

The case shifted to focus on public corruption, prosecutors say, after one of the men accused of money laundering, Moshe Altman of Monsey, N.Y., a Hudson County developer, introduced Mr. Zwek to a politically connected building inspector in Jersey City, who then steered him to another city official, Maher Khalil.

Mr. Khalil, who is accused of accepting $30,000 in bribes from Mr. Dwek, made a series of referrals to what he called “players,” helping Mr. Dwek to branch out to a web of public officials, mayoral and council candidates, and their confidants.

Mr. Dwek — now operating under an assumed identity, according to people involved in the case — honed an approach: introduced to a local influence-peddler, he would say he was looking to build high-rises or other projects in their city or county.




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He would offer $5,000 in cash for an upcoming campaign, or as a straight-up bribe, with the promise of more to come, and with earnest pleas that his official requests be “taken care of.” And he would pull the money out of the trunk of his car.


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He also came up with a lingo: corrupt payments were “invitations,” approvals for development projects were “opportunities.” The communities where his pitch appears to have worked included Jersey City, Hoboken, Bayonne, Ridgefield and parts of Ocean County.

Among the public officials arrested were Mayor Peter J. Cammarano III of Hoboken, who was a City Council member before he took office as mayor on July 1, and Mayor Dennis Elwell of Secaucus, both Democrats; Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith of Jersey City, also a Democrat; and Assemblyman Daniel M. Van Pelt, a Republican from Ocean County.

Like some of the others arrested, Mr. Smith, a former teacher, ran for office on an anticorruption platform, telling The New York Times: “I don’t take cash. I don’t let people give me things.” He is charged with taking $15,000 in bribes.

Mr. Van Pelt, who sits on an assembly committee that oversees the Department of Environmental Protection, was accused of accepting money to help the informant obtain environmental permits. In a meeting in Atlantic City in February, prosecutors charged, Mr. Van Pelt assured Mr. Dwek that the environmental agency “worked for” him, then took $10,000 in cash and told the informant to call him “any time.”

The bulk of the corruption charges arose in Hudson County. The president of the City Council in Jersey City, Mariano Vega Jr., and the city’s deputy mayor, Leona Beldini, were also arrested. Mr. Vega took three $10,000 payments before and after the municipal elections in May, prosecutors said. Anthony R. Suarez, the mayor of Ridgefield, in Bergen County, was charged with accepting $10,000 in bribes.

The court papers suggest the ease, and the relatively modest payments, with which local officials seemed willing to be part of the scheme.

In Hoboken, prosecutors charge in their complaint, Mr. Cammarano, then a councilman running for mayor, eagerly agreed in a meeting at the Malibu Diner this year to help Mr. Dwek with his projects in exchange for cash. Prosecutors said that when Mr. Dwek asked for assurances that his requests would be expedited by the Hoboken City Council, Mr. Cammarano replied, “I promise you,” adding, “You’re going to be, you’re going to be treated like a friend.”

Mr. Dwek responded that he would give a middleman $5,000 in cash for Mr. Cammarano and another $5,000 after his election as mayor.

“O.K.,” Mr. Cammarano replied, according to the complaint. “Beautiful.”

And Mr. Cammarano expressed confidence that he would be elected no matter what, according to the complaint. “Right now, the Italians, the Hispanics, the seniors are locked down,” he is quoted as saying. “Nothing can change that now.”

“I could be, uh, indicted,” he continued, “and I’m still going to win 85 to 95 percent of those populations.”

It is not clear from the federal documents whether Mr. Dwek indeed owned any properties or whether any of the developments he proposed were ever built.

In the money laundering scheme, the rabbis arrested included Saul J. Kassin, 87, a leader of the Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn and New Jersey; Mordchai Fish and Lavel Schwartz, both rabbis in Brooklyn; and Eliahu Ben Haim and Edmund Nahum, who lead congregations in Deal.

Rabbi Nahum, prosecutors said, told Mr. Dwek that he should spread his money through a number of rabbis. “The more it’s spread the better,” Rabbi Nahum said, according to the complaint.

Another man in Brooklyn, Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, was accused of enticing vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 and then selling the organ for $160,000. Mr. Dwek pretended to be soliciting a kidney on behalf of someone and Mr. Rosenbaum said that he had been in business of buying organs for years, according to the complaint.

Weysan Dun, the special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Newark office, emphasized that the case was motivated by neither religion nor politics. That is an important point since New Jersey governor’s race pits a former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, a Republican, under whom the investigation began, against the Democratic incumbent, Mr. Corzine, whose administration was caught up in the arrests Thursday.

Agents raided the home of Joseph V. Doria Jr., commissioner of the state’s Department of Community Affairs. Mr. Doria, who is also the former mayor of Bayonne, resigned hours later at Governor Corzine’s request, officials said.

“Any corruption is unacceptable — anywhere, anytime, by anybody,” the governor said in a statement. “The scale of corruption we’re seeing as this unfolds is simply outrageous and cannot be tolerated.” He also called for the resignations of Mr. Smith and Mr. Van Pelt.

Mr. Christie called it a “really tragic day,” and said that he had worked “extraordinarily hard” to combat corruption in his seven years as a prosecutor, but that, “unfortunately, today is another example that there is much work still to be done.”

Outside Hoboken’s City Hall on Thursday, where a sign still had Mr. Cammarano’s predecessor’s name on it, residents chatted about the news. Some said they had come to expect as much from their politicians.

Others retained the capacity for shock. Carlos Ochoa, 63, a city street sweeper, said he had volunteered for the new mayor’s campaign. “I’m very disappointed,” he said. “I had a lot of expectations of him.”
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Just the Facts, Ma'am

Ms. Kurdell: I would like copies of board protocol in the matter of banning or allowing citizens to comment on agenda items. In fact, I would like a copy of all protocols that govern the board's treatment of citizens' First Amendment rights and their ability to approach elected officials in a public forum for redress of grievances.

I was kicked out of the board room by Jennifer Faliero when she was board chair ostensibly because I used a name. The real reason was that Faliero was afraid I was going to reveal her adultery with the then head of Community Relations, Marc Hart, and had cooked up an eviction of me with the head of the campus police, that big Green Giant guy, who threatened to have the police come and arrest me in the lobby if I didn't leave the taxpayers' premises.

Now you and Steve Hegarty and perhaps others of the board and administration have apparently plotted to prevent my signing up for comment on agenda items because as Mr. Hegarty says, "they" think I am "confused" and don't know what I am talking about. Pray tell me if a licesensed physician especially a psychiatrist has made this judgment and provide his or her name and also whether any of the people responsible for banning me from commenting on public issues marked with citizen-comment privilege on the Web-site agenda are licensed physicians, or are you and they practicing medicine without a license?

And has the level of the board's public civility to citizens who wish to comment on issues of government decisions by the board descended to trying to denigrate a citizen who is elderly such as I with slurs of mental incompetence to deprive of her right to her First Amendment rights to free speech? And how would you, Mr. Hegarty, and in others in on this vile procedure to deprive a citizen of free speech answer the above questions in a court of law when under oath?

Lee Drury De Cesare

15316 Gulf Boulevard

Madeira Beach, FL 33708

tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com

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The Council of Trent aka as the Hillsborough County School Board is in perpetual session to squelch free speech.

Ms. Cobbe: I don't think it would be fair for you to charge another citizen who wants the Kemp files for redaction once you have charged me. I mailed the check for $72; you should have it by now.

Send me a copy of the protocol that you use to charge citizens for copying. I want to send it to the First Amendment Foundation for analysis.

There is extant now a committee with a member of the First Amendment Foundation on it that has voted to do away with charges to citizens for copying public-information documents. The majority has voted to do away with the charges. That's a step for citizens against the tyranny of rules made to discourage their asking for public information. That $72 I sent you would be too much for many people to consider. So the charge is discrimination against poor people who want public information.

Lee Drury De Cesare

Will they allow you the privilege to speak to an agenda item in the future or have they taken that privilege away from you? If it is the former, we can take a wait-and-see attitude and see what happens. If it is the latter, we need to address it post haste.

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Ms. Kurdell: I would like copies of board protocol in the matter of banning or allowing citizens to comment on agenda items. In fact, I would like a copy of all protocols that govern the board's treatment of citizens' First Amendment rights and their ability to approach elected officials in a public forum for redress of grievances.

I was kicked out of the board room by Jennifer Faliero when she was board chair ostensibly because I used a name. The real reason was that Faliero was afraid I was going to reveal her adultery with the then head of Community Relations, Marc Hart, and had cooked up an eviction of me with the head of the campus police, that big Green Giant guy, who threatened to have the police come and arrest me in the lobby if I didn't leave the taxpayers' premises.

Now you and Steve Hegarty and perhaps others of the board and administration have apparently plotted to prevent my signing up for comment on agenda items because as Mr. Hegarty says, "they" think I am "confused" and don't know what I am talking about. Pray tell me if a licensed physician especially a psychiatrist has made this judgment and provide his or her name and also whether any of the people responsible for banning me from commenting on public issues marked with citizen-comment privilege on the Web-site agenda are licensed physicians, or are you and they practicing medicine without a license?

And has the level of the board's public civility to citizens who wish to comment on issues of government decisions by the board descended to trying to denigrate a citizen who is elderly such as I with slurs of mental incompetence to deprive of her right to her First-Amendment rights to free speech? And how would you, Mr. Hegarty, and in others in on this vile procedure to deprive a citizen of free speech answer the above questions in a court of law when under oath?

Lee Drury De Cesare

15316 Gulf Boulevard

Madeira Beach, FL 33708

tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com

Ectomorphic Grasshopper Clone Picks on Old People for the School Board

Age Discrimination in the Hillsborough County Board Room

At the July 14 board meeting, a young woman sat beside me new to board meetings. She asked me about the people on the podium.

"Know, first of all, that the people sitting as officials on the board rotunda are first quartile of the Stanford Binet. The lawyer, Gonzalez, may be in second quartile, but I would need to see test-results proof.

"See that fellow the size of an emaciated grasshopper scampering about the board room stooping with abject obeisance at the shoulders of one then another of the board members?" I asked. "That's Steve Hegarty. He's head of Community Affairs. I examined the file of applicants for his job. He was least qualified of the finalists. Ms. Elia hired him because she is dumb enough to have thought that a guy who was a former reporter for the SPTimes could get her the good publicity for which she is so avid."

Ms. Elia made a bad guess. Reporters hate Hegarty for jumping ship and making more money than they do--over a hundred thousand a year and climbing--for a cushy tax-paid job that involves nothing but bowing and scraping and laundering board and administration skullduggery with duplicitous messages sent out to regale the public on how wonderful the board and Ms. Elia are.

Le Hegarty presides over an office that produces public-relations lies to the public, which pays to be lied to. The Public-affairs office of the School Board is another rip-off of the taxpayers by the government.

Ms. Elia's lust for good publicity explains her sacrifice of five percent of her salary--about $13,000 her recent bit of drama to get good press. She gave her "bonus money," about $38,000, to charity last year. She should abandon that is ill-gotten "bonus money" altogether. It comes from teachers' work to boost student performance. The "bonus" emerged from the sly head of Earl the Pearl Lennard, who tried to fire Doug Erwin and deprive him of his pension because the latter discovered crime and graft in ROSSAC and wanted the board and administration to do something about it. They didn't because, logic says, they were benefiting from the crime and graft.

Mr. Hegarty upheld the First Amendment when he was a reporter. The First Amendment keeps newspapers in business. The first thing a dictator does is shut down free speech and free press. The board and ROSSAC thugs try to shut down free speech in the School Board environs and the free-speech blogs that some teachers such as Steve Kemp have been intrepid enough to mount. His blog explains Kemp's one-year-plus suspension after the sheriff threw out the charge of child abuse lodged by the school board against him.

Now the board, the administration, and the attorney want everybody to forget that the whole thing happened. They created such a mess of obvious teacher oppression that anyone can see why they want it swept under the rug.

However, I will do my best to see that this outrage is kept on the front burner to remind people how the board savages teachers and uses the Professional Standards office to fake charges against them as blackmail to keep them quiet and to serve as examples to keep other teachers afraid to let out a peep about the board's and administration's malfeasance for fear that a Professional Standards Scarlet Letter will be their fate.

Teacher blogs represent an island of democracy in the dictatorship of the board and Ms. Elia.

After Hegarty became a ROSSAC factotum, he squelched free speech without demur for his new un-American ROSSAC bosses.

Hegarty and Carol Kurdell, board chair, have cooked up a routine to keep me from commenting on hiring decisions made in secret. I want the board to put the names of the candidates for jobs on the Web with hyperlinks to their resumes. That's what Attorney General McCollum suggests in his recent press release about using technology to ensure citizens' knowing about what is going on behind closed doors of government. McCollum is ahead of Sink in the polls. He may well be our next governor.

To keep me from targeting the questionable hiring practices of the board at the mike, Hegarty won't allow me to submit a board-appearance request when hiring comes up. He had to have gotten that order from Kurdell and other board anti-free speech thugs.

Ms. Kurdell took an oath office to protect the Constitution. She violates it every time she refuses a citizen the legitimate right to comment on items on the agenda with a public-comment marker beside them. She has no right to try to monitor a citizen's right to comment. It is the American privilege to free speech that should deter her bullying people who come to the mike.

Steve's oath is not to the Constitution; it's to do whatever it takes to keep his job.

I asked why Hegarty denied me the right to comment on a board-agenda item. The little anti-free speech sneak said that "they" had noticed that I didn't always know what I was talking about and "got mixed up": the template Alzheimer's slur against the elderly, even if it were Einstein, who worked on nuclear projects until his death at Princeton.

Hegarty could have been frank and not dumped on the elderly by telling the truth: "We don't want you to mention equal employment opportunity because we don't practice it. We just put that 'We are in equal employment opportunity employer' logo everywhere to make people think we practice fair hiring. I wouldn't have got my job if the board and administration practiced equal-employment opportunity."

Steve is so skinny that he looks like an ectomorphic grasshopper. I weigh more than he. Everybody does. I am stronger. Everybody is.

I can waylay Steve in the parking lot to slap him silly for insulting helpless, sweet, Alzheimer's-afflicted little old ladies such as I.

Called before the court for assault and, I hope, battery, I will plead temporary Alzheimer's and say I don't remember a thing.

The accusations against the elderly that they are "confused" and "don't know what they are talking about" represent a way of saying they are in the throes of Alzheimer's, a crude excuse to discriminate against them and diminish their humanity.

Steve Hegarty's telling me that "they," meaning the members of the board, said I "didn't know what I was talking about" and was "confused" is use of elderly-abuse accusations to deprive me of free speech so that I cannot get a place on the agenda to comment on the shoddy hiring practices of the board and administration.

The Florida Elderly Abuse Council may need a heads up on this despicable practice of the Hillsborough County School Board's discrimination against old people.

I have company at the national level: The Obama administration has disappointed me by firing the inspector-general guy Walpin, in his late seventies as I am, who had unearthed the stealing of government money by a supporter of Obama, a Mr. Johnson, who stole grant money from AmeriCorps.

Mr. Walpin became inspector general for CNCS in 2007.

Washington Times: Fired inspector general files lawsuit

To read the whole article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/18/fired-inspector-general-files-lawsuit/?source=newsletter_politics-government_headlines

Earlier this year Mr. Walpin issued reports that found that St. Hope Academy, founded by Mr. Johnson, had misused some of the nearly $850,000 in grant money it received from the federal AmeriCorps program. The academy has agreed to pay back about half the money.

But his actions [ inspector General Walpin] in the investigation were criticized by the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, Lawrence G. Brown, who said the inspector general was out of bounds in pushing his case against the mayor [Johnson] and hindered the prosecutor's own investigation [my read: the prosecutor wants to curry faver with President Obama].

Days after the firing [of Walpin], a White House lawyer wrote a letter to a small group of senators explaining that Mr. Walpin at a May 20 meeting was "confused, disoriented, unable to answer questions and exhibited other behavior" that led the board of the corporation to question his ability to serve as inspector general.

Though it's not part of the suit, Mr. Walpin's lawyers said in their legal brief that the case "raises serious questions of age discrimination" because of the accusations that Mr. Walpin, who is in his late 70s, seemed unable to function.

The suit was filed in federal district court in Washington, D.C.

My comment: Hurrah for Mr. Walpin for fighting back against ageist slander.

7/20/2009

Dear Ms. Obama:

I am disappointed in the President for firing Inspector General Walpin on what is, in effect, the rationale of age discrimination to keep him from punishing a man who stole government money who happens to be an Obama supporter.

The "confused" accusation is a cover for contempt for elderly people. The president was remiss in applying it to Mr. Walpin in his press conference.

I too am elderly and face similar discrimination by the Hillsborough County School board, which won't let me comment in board meetings on their jobs racket in which they award jobs not on merit but on being buddies with the board and administration. They award jobs behind closed doors to hide their practice of flouting equal-employment opportunity that would give citizens the most skilled employees, not the buddies and sycophants and relatives of the board and the administration.

We elderly form a large and powerful voting block, and we won't forget President Obama's cooperation in the abuse of the elderly inspector general whom he fired for doing his job.

I ask that you talk to your husband about the implications of this case and have him review his actions. I supported Mr. Obama in the election and sent him what for a poor retired teacher was a generous donation early on.

I won't repeat that support if he is going to protect his supporters by firing people who to expose their crimes and beat up on us elderly in the process. Other elderly won't support President Obama either.

Lee Drury De Cesare

15316 Gulf Boulevard 802

Madeira Beach, FL 33708

tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

leedrurydecesarescasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com

c: All members of School Board; all senior administrators