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Boone-run newspaper Venice Gondolier is running scared and inventing scandals -- Venice Florida! dot com exposes and breaks down the Gondo's fabrications
-- John Patten, Venice Florida! dot com, 11/02/11 Patten's answers to platform questionairre from Venice United
A bit of self-serving self-promotion and political posing
"Vote for me and I'll set you free!!!" -- The Temptations, Ball Of Confusion
-- Venice Florida! dot com, republished 10/17/11 Non-partisanship questioned by dummies who don't understand campaign laws
Sherman, who wants to be a lawmaker, can't figure out how to obey or understand campaign laws, but he wants everyone to obey his invented laws
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 10/24/11
Sherman has permission to pad his resume from Circus Arts Foundation
Exec Director Bevington dances around question of whether Sherman was ever an actual board member
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 10/17/11
Sherman's campaign treasurer is CQG's blogger, Wick Headed Woman
Andrea Cooper, aka Wick Headed Woman, also maintained and edited Winston Wilmore's attack site
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 10/12/11
Lt. Rose gets a pass from Ethics Commission for going to second job while on duty at Venice Police station
Former interim-Chief Dave Dunaway falls on a very dull sword, Ethics Commission says everything looks good to them
--Venice Florida! dot com, 09/21/11 reprint from 2008, still true today:
Woodley should be dropped from consideration for city manager gig
Nancy Woodley consistently fails at giving straight answers, plus there's a conflict of interest in the Hans Behrens investigation. How much would you pay for all this? But wait, there's more: that pesky admission by the city last year that Woodley violated federal labor laws by engaging in discriminatory employment practices
-- Venice Florida! dot com, reprinted from 07/21/08 Police chief list down to 31 candidates
Police advisory selection board excludes citizens and their input into the process at this crucial stage
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 02/18/11 Awww jeez, ya gotta be kidding me
That crazy-assed Julie Williams wants to be Venice's police chief... again...
Dear Julie:
When someone is really and truly insane, that someone is usually the last to know. Ya gotta trust us on this one, kid: you are really and truly insane. Seriously. We're not kidding. You need help. Now please go away.
Sincerely yours,
The City of Venice, Florida
-- rejection letter dated 02/11/11, city hall document (1 page, PDF, pops in new window) Daniels' bogus separation agreement for Isaac Turner
Apparently operating under the assumption that he is God or better, councilman Bob Daniels dumped this document on City Manager Isaac Turner; Daniels offered $111,000 of city's money to Turner to go away and be quiet; sure nobody else on council knew in advance, that's totally believable
-- 4 pages, public record PDF, posted to the web on 01/25/11 FDLE drops Venice Florida! dot com taping case, states ex-Chief Williams had no expectation of privacy
Remember when we posted audio files (link to original story and audio) of then-Police Chief Julie Williams bragging that she had more power than the President of the United States? Yeah, well, turns out that Williams was exaggerating just a bit
-- buried Venice Police Department memo, dated 10/18/10, leaked and posted to the web 01/22/11 Gondo's Giles copies Herald-Trib article on police chief applicants... including the mistakes
Seven have expressed interest in police chief job -- gentlemen, start your Googles
-- Venice City Hall Hell (blog), 12/20/10
Officer formally accuses City Manager, interim Police Chief Dunaway of retaliatory actions and criminal acts for complaining about hostile work environment
In a nine-page document, beleaguered police Officer Demitri Serianni exhaustively documents how the department and City Manager Isaac Turner have violated city policies and the law in an effort to duct tape the mouths of officers who complained to Turner about former chief Julie Williams.
-- Venice City Hall Hell (blog), 12/10/10
Budway self-destructs, flies plane into Taxpayers League in attempt to avoid hostile takeover by former board members -- VTL re-births itself in spite of Budway's sabotage
After his entire Board of Directors resigned to protest Budway's idiotic mismanagement, a group of former board members, including the late Herb Levine, had engineered a hostile takeover by demanding Budway's resignation under threat of legal consequences -- Budway freaked out, called the former board "a bunch of flakes," then tried to destroy the League in act of political terrorism, ending his childish tirade by blaming the entire world for ganging up against him; unfazed, former board members start re-incorporation process
-- Venice City Hall Hell (blog), 12/08/10
Police chief's golden parachute contract -- city trades money for silence
-- PDF, 4 page unsigned public document, posted 11/10/10
City Attorney Bob Anderson loses... yet again for the umpteenth time
City's short-term rental ordinance is ruled unconstitutional
Judge Charles Roberts rules that the city's ban on weekly rentals amounts to an unconstitutional 'taking'
-- PDF, 9 page court ruling, posted 11/08/10 |
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