I spoke with a former Escambia County Commissioner about he dealt with complaints from residents regarding yard debris in the street and right-a-way.
He said he would ask the county administrator to have the road department check it out. If the debris on private property, he would get a phone call notifying them that the road crew couldn’t do anything. The commissioner or his aide would call the constituent.
Why was Commissioner May’s request treated differently? The Grand Jury report states he didn’t tell Wes Moreno that it was his property. In fact, the Grand Jury chastised him for not doing so. See GrandJury report.
I asked his attorney, Eric Stevenson, why the commissioner did tell the county administrator the debris involved his lot. He said, “Rick, Lumon didn’t want special treatment. He want the call to be treated like any other resident’s request.”
This is shaping up as political hit job, especially when other commissioners have their requests treated differently. Someone saw an oportunity to indict Commissioner Lumon May and have him removed from office.
What was Pam Childers’ role? Maybe the anonymous caller knew of the clerk’s animus for the commissioner and took advantage of her prejudice.
I would just point out, Laura Dortch Edler did an outstanding job as the School Board member for District 3. She really gave her all to the job. She cared about the kids.
I want people to think about Laura Dortch Edler, her service on the school board, and remember, I endorse the proposal of Commissioner May for cameras for Montclair.
Don’t forget about Mike Kohler, Rick. He’s Pam’s lap dog on the BCC, which is why he was of course the one shooting bullets through his sunken insomniac gavage eyes at Robert Bender on his legal fees, after he and his Building Meaningful Cults lackeys have been orchestrating hit jobs with Pam for nearly the entirety of his time on the commission.
When Jonathan Owens orchestrated it with a couple of employees from Roads and two CO’s to bring an inmate road crew out to Navy Point, off paper, to chop the “husband” tree down off the set of our pet twin shoreline pines directly across from our house in the park (we now know most of the players involved in that), Wes Moreno was the head of Public Works, but he knew nothing about it.
I still feel badly at the time we thought he did, because at that point I was still new enough to Escambia politics that I didn’t understand there are bad apples in every department willing to work around their division heads to get nasty business done for rotten commissioners. It never occurred to me how much bad actors on various levels of employ at the County can get accomplished around their directors and supervisors, when they have the weight of a commissioner behind them.
Having learned way more about what a dirty commissioner–which is what Kohler is, make no mistake–can get done through these types than I ever would have wished to know, we now take it as par for the course that in nearly every department in the County, there are boots on the ground who are quite happy to do whatever for the attaboy and back slap–and don’t forget the added entertainment value and padded hours–of a commissioner conniving against his peers, their supporters, and any detractors. (Under the previous administrator, this became a a downright science of middle management moles throughout the County to do her bidding while politicking against the commission for Downtown and Doug.)
No Whataburger or football games that day in Navy Point, just a stop off at Verizon for their burner phones and a pow wow at the Navy Point boat ramp to kill their real morning work orders so they could take a red herring drive around the neighborhood and then pretend to see an “emergency” situation from the road as an excuse to enter the park–keep in mind road crews are just that, and are not supposed to work *in* the park any more than they are supposed to be on private property–with inmates and chainsaws, completely off paper. Then when we turned in a report calling for an investigation, the Corrections “investigator” churned out a bunch of fake garbage in a 100+ page document, and a now retired higher up in the HR department coached the inmates on how to go down with the same false story on paper, with the same errors and lies, down to a T.
Kohler directly interferes with the Public Works and Code Departments all the time; he once took a call on another phone while we were talking–I no longer communicate with him verbally–and directed someone in Roads of the tasks he still had left to accomplish for him, ticking off a list to him verbally while I listened. Kohler also runs code ragged, and when Steve was still his “Chief of Staff,” they had a field day running code on people and dragging everybody from directors to maintenance people out on piddling code calls.
In fact, this situation is so bad with his office that the County is now under threat of lawsuit because his past aide who replaced Stroberger and was coached up by him–she has since resigned–was running Code wars on her next door neighbor, and Stroberger actually showed up at the magistrate hearing. That’s why Kohler has an interim aide right now, and didn’t have one at all for a while. That, and nobody in their right mind would go to work for him, with his track record of continuing in Doug’s practice of harassment and fabrications against his fellow commissioners.
Remember, Steve Stroberger texted Jeff Bergosh telling him that if the redistricting went through, it would send him into Doug’s camp. Does anybody really think Kohler and Stroberger are smart enough to implement this stuff? It was Owens who handed Doug the playbook for dirty business on the West Side, and those maneuvers worked quite nicely for them when translated into the County at large. Pam was calling around trying to drum up support for Jonathan Owens to run for the D1 office prior to him running into all his legal troubles for the crimes and breeches of ethics he has committed.
The transmission on this stuff, in my opinion, is
–Pam Childers with the goods she obtains from having access to everything as Clerk, including the County server, to
–Team Magic Mike Kohler and Angry Man Stroberger , with
–Jonathan Owens as consultant and
–Doug Underhill as somtime outside counsel.
That’s the reason all of this looks so familiar. Because it never stopped; Kohler just took the baton and trusses himself up as a caring and weepy nurse who just wants what’s best for the people. He’s every bit the liar, obstructionist, status seeker, and disgrace to the uniform Doug was. He just cries better crocodile tears than Doug could ever manage, while Pam sits there smugly, proud of her creation.
They all need to be investigated. It wouldn’t be difficult; it’s not exactly a brain trust in operation there. Just dirty players handed a play book to run from people who were much better at the game.