Thursday, November 16, 2006
Cooper City Mayor Debby Eisinger and Commissioner Elliot Kleiman: Deceptive Pieces of Excrement
From Mayor Debby Eisinger's November 8, 2006 letter to Governor Bush:
However, according to a November 16, 2006 article in the Miami Herald:
Florida's Government-in-the-Sunshine law applies to any gathering of two or more members of the same board to discuss some matter which will foreseeably come before that board for action. Whether the matters discussed are actually scheduled to be brought up on an upcoming board agenda is irrelevant.
There can be no doubt that the issues of possible school sites to ease crowding in Cooper City elementary schools and the earmarking of Open Space Bond funds for Cooper City are issues that, in one form or another, could foreseeably come before the Cooper City Commission for action. Any gathering of two or more Cooper City Commissioners at which these issues were discussed, which was not open to the public, of which reasonable public notice was not given, and of which minutes were not taken, would constitute a violation of the Sunshine law.
The dinner described by County Commissioner Wexler, as reported in the November 16, 2006 Miami Herald article, demonstrates that, contrary to Mayor Eisinger's statement, there was at least one “unlawful discussion of City business” during at least one of “the dinners prior to Commission meetings,” and, contrary to Commissioner Kleiman's statement, there was at least one violation of the Sunshine law by members of the Cooper City Commission.
From these facts, it can only be concluded that Mayor Eisinger and Commissioner Kleiman were not telling the truth, which means that it is now established, in my opinion, that Mayor Eisinger and Commissioner Kleiman are deceptive pieces of excrement.
During my tenure as Mayor, and previously as a City Commissioner, I have neverFrom Commissioner Elliot Kleiman's website:
participated in and have never observed any unlawful discussion of City business
at any of the dinners prior to Commission meetings.
TRUTH: There has never been a violation of the Sunshine law by any member of
this Cooper City Commission at any time anywhere!
However, according to a November 16, 2006 article in the Miami Herald:
[A]t one dinner last year, the commissioners, in a group, discussed possible
school sites to ease crowding in Cooper City elementary schools and earmarked
county Open Space Bond funds for Cooper City, according to County Commissioner
Lois Wexler, who attended one March 2005 dinner.
Florida's Government-in-the-Sunshine law applies to any gathering of two or more members of the same board to discuss some matter which will foreseeably come before that board for action. Whether the matters discussed are actually scheduled to be brought up on an upcoming board agenda is irrelevant.
There can be no doubt that the issues of possible school sites to ease crowding in Cooper City elementary schools and the earmarking of Open Space Bond funds for Cooper City are issues that, in one form or another, could foreseeably come before the Cooper City Commission for action. Any gathering of two or more Cooper City Commissioners at which these issues were discussed, which was not open to the public, of which reasonable public notice was not given, and of which minutes were not taken, would constitute a violation of the Sunshine law.
The dinner described by County Commissioner Wexler, as reported in the November 16, 2006 Miami Herald article, demonstrates that, contrary to Mayor Eisinger's statement, there was at least one “unlawful discussion of City business” during at least one of “the dinners prior to Commission meetings,” and, contrary to Commissioner Kleiman's statement, there was at least one violation of the Sunshine law by members of the Cooper City Commission.
From these facts, it can only be concluded that Mayor Eisinger and Commissioner Kleiman were not telling the truth, which means that it is now established, in my opinion, that Mayor Eisinger and Commissioner Kleiman are deceptive pieces of excrement.
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