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:

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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