‘Atwater now Florida’s 83rd Senate president’

‘Sen. Jeff Atwater, who represents most of coastal Broward and Palm Beach counties, today became Florida’s 83rd Senate president, a role that for the next two years makes him one of the three most influential figures at the capitol.’

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politic

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Psst…Senator Atwater…your “BFF” Vice Mayor McIntee is using you and the Republican party as “collateral” damage in his attack on LBTS Mayor Minnet….

HMMM…let’s see…The new 83rd President of the Florida Senate…who graciously came for McIntee driven-BTSTimes P.R. and the 4th of July CIC- led Town event…is now being “scorched”along with the Republicans for being part of a non- McIntee- CIC Town Greenfest event…in what is really an attempt to derail the ongoing inquiries into the VFD……..

BCbythesea….This writer was in receipt of a copy of an e-mail sent by a faithful reader to BTSTimes…after the reader forwarded a copy to me as well…advising the Editor at the time MacMillan …(pre-Furth takeover)…that Sen Atwater was having a “walking event” for his campaign at Coral Ridge mall….deciding I better see if this was a go…and on the up and up…I called Sen. Atwater’s office…and the Aid whose name appeared on the e-mail. The Aid commented that they had decided to add a quick stop by the Greenfest before their own event…a last minute addition.

When another Commissioner called to comment on the “robo” call received with the Mayor speaking of Greenfest event and Republicans …saying a few citizens had called to complain…that the Greenfest event was now a Republican event….I related my above conversation…

Surprise…surprise when weeks after the fact…angered about his take of a “personal attack” …(most agreed it was no personal attack on the Vice Mayor) from a resident…McIntee took aim at the Mayor for what he decided was lack of her brandishing the “perpetrator” for the alleged personal attack…with the Greenfest “spitball”…calling her on her costs…well aware of the “robo” calls…and preparing to do battle…Republican BFFs…be damned!…

As previously posted….for McIntee the heavens opened.up…big time……after the first volley at that commission meeting……and after he already placed the item on the agenda….when the Town Manager’s Nov. 7th e-mail was put in his Town Hall box……(if he was not already informed personally by Madam Manager…in their daily meetings)…and he zoned in on the name of names included at the top……Terry Arthur…the Mayor’s former campaign manager… being front and center in the Greenfest mix…

HOLY INVESTIGATIONS…CALL THE FEDS….TEFLON MAN HIT PAYDIRT…ON THE MAYOR…THE MAYOR’S FORMER CAMPAIGN MANAGER….AND COLLATERALLY….THE 83rd PRESIDENT OF THE FLORIDA SENATE…

LBTS residents…should take note…so far it all adds up to “ZILCH!”…except…for the “black eye” LBTS might have when we need to call upon the 83rd President of the Florida Senate…the next time….YIKES!

more to come…

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The Time line as we now know it…

The Vice Mayor put the Greenfest event on the agenda for the Nov. 10, 2008 meeting…approximately Nov. 1st…..presumably to go after the Mayor for making it a “political” event…because of “robo-calls” that went out on behalf of th Republican party…and Senator Atwater

On the 6th of November …the Mayor had a meeting with the Town Manager…and informed her there had been donations made to the event…with funds being held in a local bank account.

The next day on the 7th…the Mayor’s former Campaign Manager sent faxes into the Manager of the donated checks…invoices…etc…and the Manager did indeed send a memo to all of the Commissioners with the information.

Some Commissioners not going in to see the Manager each day…were not in receipt of the memo until the night of the meeting.

Also some Commissioners did not “zero” in on the name of the “faxer” …the Mayor’s former campaign manager…therefore…they did not pick up on it…did not leap into attack mode…making a full throttle…”investigation”…to be all ready to pounce with an over the top… interrogation into presumptive “GOTCHA” wrongdoings…deeming them “criminal” as the Vice Mayor did!…

He must have jumped for joy upon getting that memo from the Town Manager….it was a gift from the heavens…to divert attention away from him…the VFD…an oversite committee…the Oct. 25th water rescue incident…the lack of responding to public information requests…letting him wear his “Teflon” coat for yet another commission meeting…WOW!…

BCbythesea…without legal input…from counsel…it does appear that the account was opened…the checks were made out to the Greenfest event…all were accounted for…and all were in order…including a very generous donation from the Mayor herself.

While it was not the way the Town has dealt with donations in the past…unless counsel informs the Commission…it was illegal for the former campaign manager to use the town’s tax exempt I.D. number to open the account…there was nothing nefarious..

Now back to the VFD….and answers for…all of the above…including the Town’s continued mute stance on a contracted vendor ignoring state statutes on providing public information requests….

more to come….

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