Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu owner speaks out

My name is George C. Joseph. I am the sole owner of Sunshine Dodge-Isuzu, a family owned and operated business in Melbourne, Florida. My family bought and paid for this automobile franchise 35 years ago in 1974. I am the second generation to manage this business.

We currently employ 50+ people and before the economic slowdown we employed over 70 local people. We are active in the community and the local chamber of commerce. We deal with several dozen local vendors on a day to day basis and many more during a month. All depend on our business for part of their livelihood. We are financially strong with great respect in the market place and community. We have strong local presence and stability.
Read more

Brevard Republicans pass resolution condemning primary endorsements

Local party just says ‘no’ to primary endorsements

In a move bound to shock some party officials, the Brevard County Republican leadership voted May 14, on a resolution condemning the actions of the state and national organizations for interfering with state and local decisions.

The resolution comes on the heels of the announcement that the NRSC has already taken sides in the primary election to nominate a candidate to replace outgoing Republican U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez. The NRSC, National Republican Senatorial Committee, and arm of the Republican National Committee, has announced it will support Gov. Charlie Crist as Martinez’s replacement. There are at least two other Republicans announced in the primary election, including conservative former Speaker of the Florida House, Marco Rubio.
Read more

Location secured for Independence Day Tea Party

I have just signed a contract that will allow us to have the Tea Party at the Space Coast Stadium from 4-6pm on Saturday, July 4th at a cost of $5 per head. The $5 ticket price will include admission to the Tea Party, as well as the ballgame and fireworks afterwards.

There is nothing more American than baseball and fireworks, so bring the whole family and celebrate the founding of our country at the Independence Day Brevard Tea Party. The stadium seats 8,000, and our goal is to fill it!
Read more

Ellis responds to DiPatri; facts trump emotion – again

‘Public Education Enemy Number One’ still can’t find the missing $100 million

“Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again;
Th’ eternal years of God are hers;
But Error, wounded, writhes in pain,
And dies among his worshippers.”

The School Board has claimed consistently there has been a $100 million revenue cut over the last two years. My great sin was to ask for the state revenue numbers for the monies received by the BPS from the State over those two years. The property tax information was easily available from the Tax Collector as well as the School Board’s legal advertisement in July, and property tax revenue is up.
Read more

DiPatri weighs in on e-mail exchange; blasts Ellis

The public e-mail exchange between Amy Kneesey and Scott Ellis just got ratcheted up a notch with the following response from Brevard Superintendent of Schools Dr. Richard DiPatri:

< --begin e-mail-->
Subject: Public Education Enemy Number ONE!

Amy,

I am writing to you after just having read the most recent e-mail from our esteemed Clerk of the Court, Scott Ellis. I am amazed and astonished by his one-sided, negative of course, assertions about our budget and spending. This from a man who maintains the second highest budget deficit (more than $3 million) of 67 counties in Florida and a public official who criticizes every other public official, local and county, yet refuses to share his financial information and audits with the public (see Judy Preston’s e-mail of 4/2/09)! Does he actually believe that we have only been reduced by $7 million during the past two years rather than almost $100 million? Read more

Tea Party movement comes to the Space Coast

Brevard Tea Party will celebrate beginning of American Revolutionary War, protest out of control government spending.

Melbourne, FL – The Tea Party movement comes to the Space Coast on Sunday, April 19th from 1-4pm at the Wickham Park Event Pavilion next to Brevard Community College. Details are available at http://www.brevardteaparty.com

Matt Nye, Chair of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Central East Florida, has organized the Brevard Tea Party to celebrate the 234th anniversary of the first military engagements in the American Revolutionary War and to peacefully protest out of control government spending.
Read more

Palm Bay City Council to discuss resolution to audit Clerk’s Office at April 2nd meeting

City officials rip a page from Obama’s playbook

Evidently on cue from the Chief Judge, the City of Palm Bay has prepared a bizarrely worded resolution on the Brevard County Clerk’s Office. While the Clerk’s Office is currently down 50 full time equivalent employees we are working to maintain the branch service offices in Palm Bay and Merritt Island. It is quite true, and should be apparent to anyone, that if we lose another 20 to 30 employees to layoff and another 50 to 60 employees to furlough (out of an original 350) we will be unable to continue operating the branch service offices.
Read more

Judge orders Clerk to spend non-existent funds

The Chief Judge of the 18th Circuit Court, after accusing me of failing to provide requested financial information and failing to discuss staff and operational changes with the Judges, is issuing an order forbidding the Brevard County Clerk of Courts from implementing cost saving changes in light of a $1.5 million shortfall, 20 layoffs, and the loss of 25 more full-time equivalent employees (out of 330) while we work on reduced work schedules of 36 hour weeks.
Read more

Hundreds Show For “We Surround Them” Viewing

Glenn Beck’s Event Proves The Silent Majority Will Be Silent No Longer

If you wanted to see proof that average Americans are sick and tired of lying politicians, big government and out of control spending, all you had to do was go to the Mighty Mushroom on Dairy Road in Melbourne on Friday night.

Hundreds of people turned out for the event, which was organized by Tim Wooley utilizing the meetup.com web site and promoted by local talk show host Bill Mick of WMMB AM.

The Mighty Mushroom, the host for he event, was packed inside and out, with folks sitting in lawn chairs and standing in the parking lot to watch Beck’s show on Fox on two big screen LCD TVs. Bill Mick emceed, and there were tables set up to sell T-Shirts, food and other merchandise.

There were at least four locations hosting the events across the county.

Brevard Clerk questions Tallahassee math on new bill

This article from the Hearald Tribune shows the outright lies being fought out in Tallahassee over the Judicial Pearl Harboring of the Clerks. The 33% increase in budgets is a joke. Our revenue this year is LESS than it was five years ago. Before we would use Recording Fees to help cover the courts, now those are greatly decreased.

Total Clerk Revenue (all functions) 2003/04: $22,214,701
Total Clerk Revenue (projected) 2008/09: $21,136,587
Read more

« Previous Page — Next Page »