Court of Law Gone Awry as Court of Feeling

Brevard County is following the lead of certain other Counties in the State of Florida in ordering mediation between the parties in a foreclosure. Normally mediation is ordered when one has parties in a DISPUTE. In the foreclosure, there is no dispute, it is a fact the house payments have not been made. Since there is no dispute of fact, we can only have a court ordered mediation out of a FEELING it is a ‘good thing’ to allow those who owe to stay in their house even if they are not paying.
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Judiciary in Full Court Press to Obliterate Clerk’s Offices

The Florida Association of Court Clerks held a meeting Wednesday in Tallahassee to discuss the current movement by the Judiciary through the Legislature to take over the Clerk’s Courts employees. Although I rarely go to Tallahassee I drove up very early Wednesday morning, got the scoop, and got back to the Viera Courthouse Wednesday evening.

There is no rumor, there is fact, and the fact is the Office of the State Court Administrator (OSCA), Judge Quince of the Supreme Court, and the current Chief Judges of all Florida Circuits are working overtime on the Legislators to strip the employees and their funding from the Clerk’s Office.
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So Many Errors, So Little Time

The following missive was sent to the brevardpoliticaljournal.com in response to an article I had written identifying the latest Palm Bay tax-borrow-and-spend ‘job creation’ program to the New Deal of President Franklin Roosevelt and his Brain Trusters. I have always said once an individual moves off the track of facts and moves onto the tracks of personalities, it is a sure fire way of knowing they realize they have lost their argument on its merits. The author below clearly recognizes his cause is lost on the factual debate. So, let me respond to as many comments below as I can in one night.
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What is Seen, and What is Not Seen in Palm Bay

More than 150 years ago Frederic Bastiat wrote his famous essay, “What is seen, and what is not seen”. As the City of Palm Bay moves to put their Mini-Me New Deal to the ballot, what is seen is money will be spent by the city ($13 million) to allegedly create jobs.

What is not seen is how many jobs may have been created had the citizens been permitted to spend their own money as they saw fit. The entire thought of of a city taxing people (a job destroying mechanism) to create other jobs is a scene straight from the Michael Moore film of years ago, Roger and Me, where the city of Flint, Michigan, bedeviled by thousands of laid off autoworkers, builds a tourist attraction called Auto World to ‘stimulate’ tourism and ‘create’ jobs. I expect Palm Bay will be as successful as Flint.
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Brevard foreclosures continue at record pace

The numbers may change by a few as we get finals next month, but not much. 864 and rising. I still believe the defaults are racing ahead of the filings and the bank’s legal staffs are trying to catch up.Numerous foreclosures are running better than 12 months from filing to sale, so the urge to default may be getting stronger when one can scrap the payments on a house $100,000 or so upside down and live rent-free for 12 to 18 months while the legal wheels slowly grind.
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The Palm Bay New Deal: Palm Bay Works 2009

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It’s 1933 again in Palm Bay 

Palm Bay, following the leads of Franklin Roosevelt, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, is planning to go to referendum to get Palm Bay working again! I understand paving roads and although I do not trust the numbers being given by the City of Palm Bay , I really do understand asphalt.

 That said, embedded in a referendum which should be about major road improvement we find:

• Provide $8M for a job creation grant program, $2M for infrastructure improvements related to job creation, and $3M for existing local business expansion and job retention grants.

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Florida Today Wins, Brevard Taxpayers Lose

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The Brevard County Commission failed to support Commissioner Trudie Infantini’s request for a change in the County Manager, instead voting to ‘discuss’ the issue again in two months on January 27th, as if waiting an extra two months will enable the worm-ridden issues of Brevard County to metamorphosize into butterflies.
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Conspiracy Theory?

Glisch alleges non-existent ethics violation against Infantini; Florida Today moves from reporting on campaigns to working for them

Not unexpectedly, the Florida Today calmly endorsed Mr. Geier and Mr. Fisher for the County Commission earlier this month (read Florida Today endorsements here).

From this point there are three paths generally taken by the Florida Today: Slam the living tar out of the opponent, pat the opponent on the back while you dismiss them, or simply state briefly the opponent is unprepared and move on.
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‘Third Audit Protocol’ derails as election nears

Needelman campaign throws caution to the wind

I can tell the disgraced and disenfrocked former Palm Bay lobbyist is back in town as the negative attacks have moved from the (Florida Today) BLOG to the radio, TV, and the nebulous website, mitchforclerk.com.
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Another Error and Lecture on Clerk’s DHSMV Hearings Report

Needelman ‘Third Audit Protocol’ Fails Again

Contrary to Mr. Needelman’s comments  below on the DHSMV report conducted by the Clerk’s Office, the number of officers mentioned by name in the report is ZERO.  

The entire report is pasted below, as well as the rules for Third Audit Protocol fact checking allegedly implemented after the “Scott Ellis signed the check for the Sarno Landfill” tale was exposed by the simple fact I was not the Clerk at the time of the sale.
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