Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Le USF Solis and I Are Engaged in Combat. Put Your Money on the Kid Here

The Council of Trent Convenes to Determine Whether USF Counselor Solis Be Burned at the Stake or Given a Wrist Slap for Insulting a Taxpayer's Intelligence


From: lee de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:23 PM
To: 'Solis, Gerard D.'
Subject: RE: public information



Counselor Solis: If you say--as is ritually but disingenuously claimed by publicly paid bureaucrats--that USF is an "equal-employment-opportunity" employer, where in Title VII or in relevant laws do you get this exception when universities employ law firms?



I continue to await the answer to my question about how much the taxpayers via USF paid the Gonzalez firm in the last fiscal year. As a separate item, I wanted to know the dollar value of the work Gonzalez did for the university.


I recall that Le Gonzalez gutted the First Amendment in the Sami AlArian case even though the faculty and students opposed the anti-Constitutional First Amendment wipe-out implemented by Gonzalez for the rednecks on the board and administration to make void free speech at the university.


I see from your recent riposte that with a lawyer of the USF legal bullpen, one must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo the innocent. So I couch my inquiries with care and in fear and trembling.


I would like to know in dollar amounts a. How much USF via taxpayers paid the Gonzalez firm last year in total and b. how much of that work Tom Gonzalez did and c. what percentage of the total in dollar amount his take was for the firm's coffers.


If the linguistics of this question is not coincident with your rhetorical preciosity, pray say so and be specific. I am an amateur at this game, so go easy on me. I see from our exchanges that taxpayers get the shaft from language smartaleks whom they subsidize comme vous. Plus c'est pitie. bien sur.


The which said, I would as well like to know as a taxpayer the caliber of USF legal help we taxpayers subsidize malgre moismemes. Please tell me a. what university you got your law degree from; b. whether you were a member of Law Review; and c. whether you have argued a case before the Supreme Court. If so, pray cite it so that I may review your performance to admire its subtlety.



I am not y-chromosome rather x-chromosome. sirrah. I am sure that this datum will ratchet up your condescension, but whatever, let 'er rip. Sexism is ubiquitous, especially in universities. The only difference is that the grammar is better in the so-called citadels of learning.


Lee Drury De Cesare


c: Dr. Roy Weatherford


From: Solis, Gerard D. [mailto:GSolis@usf.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:09 PM
To: 'lee de cesare'
Cc: Mohn, Lori
Subject: RE: public information

Dear Lee Drury de Cesare:

If you will review your request, which appears below, you will see that you asked for Mr. Gonzalez's "salary". This word choice is consistent with your question as to whether Mr. Gonzalez is employed by USF:

I would like to know if Tom Gonzalez is the attorney the university uses in its legal business with the workers and faculty, and if those are not areas of his employment at USF, is he at all employed by the university at all, in what area, and what was his salary last year?

We answered that question for you in our response (see below). We can only respond to what you specifically ask for and not what you may have meant or intended.


I interpret your email below as a new public records request because it’s asking something different than your original request seeking salary information. In response to your latest request, I can inform you as of the date of this email there are no records responsive to your request because we have not received a bill for Mr. Gonzalez’s services. This concludes USF’s response to your request of 01/26/10.

Gerard D. Solis

Senior Associate General Counsel

University of South Florida

Office of the General Counsel

4202 E. Fowler Ave., ADM 250

Tampa, 33620

Tel: (813) 974-2131

Fax: (813) 974-5236

gsolis@admin.usf.edu

lee drury de cesre

From: Mohn, Lori [mailto:lmohn@usf.edu] On Behalf Of Solis, Gerard D.
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:10 PM
To: 'tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com'
Cc: Mohn, Lori
Subject: FW: public information

Dear Mr. Drury de Cesare:

In response to your request below, the University hires outside counsel by reputation or by prior service to the University. We do not advertise for this type of service.

Sincerely,

Lori Mohn McNenney

Legal Administrative Specialist

for Megan L. Pritts

Associate General Counsel

and Gerard D. Solis

Senior Associate General Counsel

Office of the General Counsel

University of South Florida

4202 E. Fowler Avenue, ADM250

Tampa, Florida 33620-6250

(813) 974-1679 Telephone

(813) 974-5236 Facsimile

CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be legally privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If the reader of this electronic mail transmission is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this electronic transmission is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please immediately notify us by telephone (813) 974-2131 and destroy the original. Thank you.

From: lee de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:05 AM
To: Solis, Gerard D.
Subject: RE: public information

Mr. Solis: One more query: How did USF hire this firm? Did it advertise? ldd


From: Mohn, Lori [mailto:lmohn@usf.edu] On Behalf Of Solis, Gerard D.
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:10 PM
To: 'tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com'
Cc: Mohn, Lori
Subject: FW: public information

Dear Mr. Drury de Cesare:

In response to your request below, the University hires outside counsel by reputation or by prior service to the University. We do not advertise for this type of service.

Sincerely,

Lori Mohn McNenney

Legal Administrative Specialist

for Megan L. Pritts

Associate General Counsel

and Gerard D. Solis

Senior Associate General Counsel

Office of the General Counsel

University of South Florida

4202 E. Fowler Avenue, ADM250

Tampa, Florida 33620-6250

(813) 974-1679 Telephone

(813) 974-5236 Facsimile

CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be legally privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above. If the reader of this electronic mail transmission is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this electronic transmission is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please immediately notify us by telephone (813) 974-2131 and destroy the original. Thank you.

From: lee de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:05 AM
To: Solis, Gerard D.
Subject: RE: public information

Mr. Solis: One more query: How did USF hire this firm? Did it advertise? ldd


cc: Dr. Roy Weatherford, USF



Lee Drury De Cesare

LeeDruryDeCesaresCasting-roomCouch.blogspot.com




Monday, January 25, 2010

Plugging Away in the ROSSAC Humbug Environs


Mr. Valdez's Cat, Ms. Mendacity Pussywillow


In response to the first reader below, I have learned to be suspicious of the data I get from the school board and from ROSSAC minions. Often what they tell you is at complete variance with what is going on and what they have done. Then it's time to get your your Ouija Board and contact the genies of doubt to suggest what is really happening behind the scenes.

I asked Ms. Cobbe maybe two weeks ago for the job description of the Ms. Smith principal person whom the parents refused to tolerate any more. It Smith had been a teacher, Ms. Elia and the ROSSAC thugs would have kicked her clear to the Alaskan tundra while the board ninnies cheered.

But she's an administrator. So Ms. Elia created her another job out of thin air. I quickly got the salary from Ms. Cobbe: $60,000, same as she made as principal of Alafia. But I still await the job description.

Here's what I think happened. The superintendent has been accustomed to creating and handing out such jobs to free-floating administrators who landed in a pickle with no other formalities: just put Administrative Culprit on the payroll and let those fools the taxpayers subsidize this rape of tax money.

Nobody ever asked for a job description until the kid here came along and started doing so. Now the long wait for the job description of Smith's new paper-shuffling at $60,000 per annum tucked away in some cozy administrative office somewhere is due to Mr. Valdez's not having the time or the inclination to manufacture one. The old rascal will eventually get around to it, and Linda Cobbe will dutifully forward it.

That's the kind of razzmatazz this administration of lies, fun, and videotapes that the administration conducts.

Notice that Mr. Solis's-- from the university's legal gaggle-- diction. He doesn't employ the one-syllable word "use"; he shovels up the four-syllable "utilizes."

That feint is a dead giveaway that you are dealing with an attorney who probably had to take the bar exam twice--three times in the ethics section.

A parent told me that the pschology exam of the toe cracker revealed no pathology. That means he or the adminstration slipped the examining psychologist with a degree from Saskatchawan Psychological Department of Fun and Games money under the table.

lee
From: Anonymous [mailto:noreply-comment@blogger.com]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 4:15 PM
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
Subject: [Lee
Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch] New comment on Under-the-radar Toecracker Psychological Evaluatio....

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Under-the-radar
Toecracker Psychological Evaluatio...":

Lee,

If they do give you the Toe-Cracker
phych report, my guess is they will doctor-it-up to protect him like they did before.

If I recall correctly,
Kipley & Co. somehow ammended what the DCF investigator said. Isn't that grand! They get to interpret what the investigator reported for their benefit (that was after the SDHC attorney made some incorrect statements).

Is there any way of knowing whether or not the document you get is legitimate and original?

Keep up the great work.

Publish this comment.

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Moderate comments for this blog.

Posted by Anonymous to Lee
Drury De Cesare's Casting-Room Couch at 1:15 PM


From: lee
de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:40 AM
To: 'gsolis@admin.usf.edu'
Subject:
FW: public information

Mr. Solis: The A
ttorney General has said that 48 hours is a reasonable turnaround time for a public-information request. Mine has languished longer than that by far. I ask again to know how much money the university paid the Gonzalez firm last year for its services.

Lee
Drury De Cesare

From:
Mohn, Lori [mailto:lmohn@usf.edu] On Behalf Of Solis, Gerard D.
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:35 PM
To: 'tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com'
Cc:
Mohn, Lori
Subject:
FW: public information

Dear Lee
Drury de Cesare:

The University
utilizes the law firm of Thompson, Sizemore & Hearing, P.A. on various legal issues. In response to your request, attached please find a copy the agreement between Mr. Gonzalez’s law firm and the University of South Florida. Mr. Gonzalez is not employed by the University of South Florida.

Sincerely,

Gerard D. Solis
Senior Associate General Counsel
University of South Florida
Office of the General Counsel
4202 E. Fowler Ave., ADM 250
Tampa, 33620
Tel: (813) 974-2131
Fax: (813) 974-5236
gsolis@admin.usf.edu


From: lee
de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 9:13 PM
To:
Visot, Cynthia
Subject: public information

Dr.
Visot:

I cannot find where to send a request for public information. Therefore, pray send this to the right person for a response to my request:

I would like to know if Tom Gonzalez is the attorney the university uses in its legal business with the workers and faculty, and if those are not areas of his employment at
USF, is he at all employed by the university at all, in what area, and what was his salary last year?

Thank you.

lee
drury de cesare
15316 Gulf Blvd. 802
Madeira Beach, FL 33709
tdecesar@Tampabay.rr.com
From: lee
de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:40 AM
To: 'gsolis@admin.usf.edu'
Subject:
FW: public information

Mr. Solis: The A
ttorney General has said that 48 hours is a reasonable turnaround time for a public-information request. Mine has languished longer than that by far. I ask again to know how much money the university paid the Gonzalez firm last year for its servcices.

Lee
Drury De Cesare

From:
Mohn, Lori [mailto:lmohn@usf.edu] On Behalf Of Solis, Gerard D.
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:35 PM
To: 'tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com'
Cc:
Mohn, Lori
Subject:
FW: public information

Dear Lee
Drury de Cesare:

The University utilizes the law firm of Thompson,
Sizemore & Hearing, P.A. on various legal issues. In response to your request, attached please find a copy the agreement between Mr. Gonzalez’s law firm and the University of South Florida. Mr. Gonzalez is not employed by the University of South Florida.

Sincerely,

Gerard D. Solis
Senior Associate General Counsel
University of South Florida
Office of the General Counsel
4202 E. Fowler Ave., ADM 250
Tampa, 33620
Tel: (813) 974-2131
Fax: (813) 974-5236
gsolis@admin.usf.edu

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Under-the-radar Toecracker Psychological Evaluation

Ms Elia's Dog, Tiny


Linda, I learned that the administration had the toe-cracker guy see a psychologist for evaluation after a parent complained. I would like to see a copy of that evaluation. It should be part of his employment file and thus part of the public record. ldd