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--> Godzilla named to interim city manager job
--> Airport board asked to shoot self
--> City now wants your pocket as well as what's in it

Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now
-- various sources, 07/23/08

Un-freaking-believable:
MEA/Hanson airport consultant price tag so far: $1.5 million
And we have what to show for it? So much for that number of $350 thousand that VABA keeps spitting out. Hey, here's an idea -- let's toss more good money after bad
-- contract summary sheet from City of Venice,  Finance Department

Herald-Trib urges council not to shoot airport advisory board
Spot on and rightio, good chaps: why waste the bullets when we have a perfectly good pier that we can march them off of?
-- editorial, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 07/22/08

A young person's guide to the Venice airport
The planes go up, the planes go down, the wheels on the planes go round and round -- oh, and those crack dealers that stiffed us for $1.5 million in consultant fees are back with a new drug... no, it's just more crack
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 07/22/08

Hizzoner nominates Godzilla for sainthood, Mothra unavailable for comment
"I have a high regard for Nancy Woodley. She is intelligent, experienced and has the ability to choose good staff. I think she will do an excellent job as Interim Manager" -- Well yer honor, we're sure Hans Behrens will agree
-- Ed Martin's blog, 07/19/08

Council wants to close the airport, the sky is falling, there's a monster under your bed, and the check is in the mail
Modern myths are fun, fun, fun for the whole community, especially when they benefit Dan Boone's airport clients
-- editorial, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 07/18/08

Hizzoner to Gondo publisher Vedder: Oh, piss off, ya poncy fart
Facts -- are they really important when discussing the airport? Apparently not if you are an embittered publisher of a small town newspaper
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 07/16/08

Godzilla to be named interim city manager
From the land of exploding sewers and power lines comes the one person who can make it worse -- natch
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 07/19/08

MIke Miller wants you to know that he's perfectly fine and A-OK... and that he wants Venice to grow strong and tall
Council to be asked in August to eat more vegetables
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 07/17/08

Mogensen to Hizzoner: You forget about something there, bub?
Motion filed in court accuses mayor of ignoring the court's orders; Ground Control to Major Ed, your circuit's dead, there's something wrong, can you hear me Major Ed? Can you hear me, Major Ed? Can you...
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 07/16/08

Waterford foreclosure: Mike Miller blames the banks for lending him money
"This occurred after overly generous lending practices and large demand from investment bankers to obtain mortgage paper fueled overbuilding and eliminated the demand for quality housing;" TRANSLATION: "It's their fault I stole the car, the idiots left the keys in the ignition"
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 07/16/08

WCI implodes
Initial attempt by homebuilder to discuss restructuring ends in food fight; CEO Carl Icahn focuses instead on hostile takeover of Yahoo! ... wait ... what?
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 07/16/08

Landlords want out of blue collar rental properties
Rising taxes
+ shrinking pool of renters
= "
I can't wait to get out of Sarasota"
-- Pelican Press, 07/14/08

VABA waves blood-stained peace flag while reloading turret guns
With no apologies for its own stealth war on council, the latest Boone PR campaign now wants city council to suck up... or else
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 07/11/08

Comcast sanctioned by FCC for deliberately blocking web traffic
Peer-to-peer and web utilities deliberately slowed or stopped; cable giant hired street people to fill seats at public hearing to prevent complaining customers from attending
-- Wired, 07/12/08

It's official: Mike Miller is going down
Regions Bank is going after Miller's Waterford Co. for defaulting on $23 million worth of loans, has started foreclosure on occupied Waterford condo project... this isn't just a condo or three, the bank is foreclosing on a whole condo complex -- land, parking lot, buildings, and all!!!
-- Bradenton Herald, 07/08/08

VABA wants to be taken seriously... seriously... no, we're not joking... we really mean it this time, honest
Gondo story | Herald-Trib story

Nevermind that plan to discredit council, now let's see if we can't discredit council
-- both, 07/09/08

Robinson to step down as local GOP chair
Wants to spend more time with family... and the state GOP
-- Sarasota Herald-Trinbune, 07/08/08

Ernie Z invokes Godwin's Law on proposed code enforcement changes
The new Venice mindset in Venice: anyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi; Zavodnyik cites Godwin, automatically wins
BACKGROUND INFO: GODWIN'S LAW
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 07/04/08

Judge Bennett's order is a good order, a fantastic order, an amazing piece of judicial wonderment and fairness
Wait, what? What order?
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 07/03/08

Boone blinks
Faced with an affidavit accusing him of having an over active imagination, Boone decides not to push the hacking envelope
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 07/02/08

Allied forces close in on Black's bunker
Simmonds calls for Panzer movement, more ammunition
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 06/29/08

Public records requests inundate city hall
City clerk Lori Stelzer can't find her desk, several staffers feared missing in mountains of paper
-- Venice Gondolier Sun, 06/29/08

Sheriff settles with Mogensen for $15,000 in SSO Sunshine Law case
Balkwill gets smart, negotiates way out of suit early; meanwhile, Venice attorneys have already skyrocketed taxpayer legal bill into six figures with their FOAD stance against Mogensen
-- Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 06/25/08

Simmonds, Boone get Farked!
"The Sunshine State triumphs yet again;"
"This interwebbie thing is a useful device for outing local government corruption;"
"Hey, I saw this on Law and Order once"

-- Fark, 06/26/08

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Woodley should be dropped from consideration for interim city manager gig
Nancy Woodley consistently fails at giving straight answers, plus there's a conflict of interest in the Hans Behrens investigation. How much would you pay for all this? But wait, there's more: that pesky admission by the city last year that Woodley violated federal labor laws by engaging in discriminatory employment practices
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 07/21/08

Attorney Peter Baranowicz slammed by Bar Association for stiffing clients
Baranowicz admits to totally failing to represent his clients after being accused by Venice Florida! dot com and Kim Foust, sister of imprisoned DUI manslaughter offender Dabney Young; Florida Bar Association recommends fines, psych evaluation, possible drug counseling, and a three-year probation term
-- Florida Supreme Court plea agreement, 14 pages, posted 07/12/08


Patten's affidavit accuses Simmonds, Dan Boone of perjury
They lied, just to try to get their hands on Simmonds' computer before the forensic examination
-- filed in court, post to the web on 06/30/08

Patten to Simmonds: "You are a coward;" Patten to Boone: "Blow me!"
Jeff Boone, acting as attorney for Councilman John Simmonds, drags Venice Florida! dot com's Patten into court to reveal source of public records emails that Simmonds has admitted to criminally destroying; Boone accuses this web site of hacking to obtain emails
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/26/08

Black quits!
-- posted to the web, 06/25/08

Oh Mr. Simmonds, can you explain this one, too?
Simmonds types an email -- one more from the lost episodes
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/23/08

Oh Mr. Simmonds: What's this, then?
Emails uncovered by Venice Florida! dot com between Councilman John Simmonds and Venice Jet Center's CEO Art Nadel reveal that Simmonds was in attendance at least once in private airport planning meetings -- you know, the same meetings that the Herald-Trib falsely accused the mayor of attending
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/15/08

We rate the city manager
Council gets to do it, so we thought we'd throw in our official evaluation as well. You can join the fun, too: just download the form, print it out, grab a crayon, and send it in to city hall, attn: Ed Martin -- BONUS: if you send it in, it'll automatically become a public record
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/17/08

Mogensen to add laptops owned by Bartanowicz, Carlucci to her growing collection
"I regret that I am unable to comply with your request as I routinely delete my e-mails" -- well, we'll just fix that little problem for ya
-- Attorney Andrea Mogensen's court filing for injunction, 06/17/08

Carlucci pulls a Simmonds; Moore gets lawyered up; Hizzoner looks for a bus to lie down in front of
Lorenzo v. Venice plods on, body count expected to rise; Moore hires Preiksat, Martin goes commando
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/16/08

Bennett's signed court order
Judge Bennett's written order becomes a compromise of what he originally verbally ordered in court on June 11 and what attorney Mogensen originally wanted; Martin and Moore now actually do have to turn in their computers for evidentiary freezing purposes, this in case the court later orders a forensic analysis
-- court order signed by Judge Bennett, 06/13/08, 4-page PDF file

Judge Bennett did not order that Moore's and Martin's computers be forensically analyzed
Herald-Trib's crack reporting written under the influence of crack?
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/12/08

Venice is officially out of clean underwear
That earth tremor you felt yesterday? That was no tremor... everyone even remotely connected with the CQG simultaneously exploded at both ends with attorney Mogensen's latest public records request (and we'll have fun, fun, fun, 'til daddy takes the T-Bird away...)
-- letter to city hall, PDF file, dated 06/09/08

Bobbo talks!
City Attorney Bob Anderson finally comes out of hiding, says some stuff about the Sunshine Law and the Herald-Trib that makes it look like he's done some real lawyering
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/10/08

Judge Bennett kills Bella Citta rezone: City did not afford due process
City Attorney Bob Anderson already has a black eye from the due process issues in the short-term rental case, now he's 0-2 as a result of another "denial of due process"
-- 9-page court ruling, posted to the web on 06/08/08

Herald-Trib's Hackett and the Sunshine Law: An exercise in utter legal crappery
The newspaper again goes after Mayor Ed Martin for attending yet another meeting that he never actually attended... and then there is the newspaper's highly creative interpretation of Florida's Government in the Sunshine Law
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/07/08

The Vellucci Papers
Part 9: Vellucci walks again
City's attorney Wayne Hall usurps Code Enforcement Board Chair Diana Mier, acts as defense attorney for Vellucci; Code Enforcement Board backs down, blames society, pats Vellucci on the fanny and sends him on his way
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/06/08

How things change as time goes by
It was only a year ago that the city manager was openly encouraging Tacy and Simmonds to violate the Sunshine Law

In April of 2007, this web site caught council sending secret messages right in the middle of an open council charrette; strangely, the Herald-Trib commented at the time that the behavior by CQG-sponsored pols was merely "sophomoric"
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 06/04/08

Venice makes another top ten list: top ten biggest carbon footprints in the country
Sarasota/Venice is 5th biggest emitter of carbon from autos in the country (rank of 96 where 1 is good and 100 is bad), this according to a new report commissioned by The Brookings Institute
-- posted 05/30/08

Sunshine: Emergency motion for injunction filed
Lorenzo claims he has the goods on Moore, Lang, and Martin, asks judge for immediate cease and desist order
-- Sarasota court records filed 05/23/08 (8 pages, PDF)

Patterson on beach parking fees: We need the money
Same water, same sunset, new low, low price
-- Venice Florida! dot com, 05/27/08

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