Recall the Recall.
It has ended. Not to be left hanging the preps have one last message (read lie) to attempt to feed us. The recall is being withdrawn. Yes, that is what we are being asked to believe.
First, let’s really look at some of the facts of the petition withdrawal. We are being asked to view this petition process as one of benevolence. The process is being halted as it would cost Cooper City $110,000 to continue. The figure head leader of the effort had been the former commissioner Kleiman who had stated when he withdrew his support just a few weeks ago, that it appeared to him that the basis of the petition was in fact very weak and probably not founded on any real facts, only allegation or suggested supposition. This is after a resident of Cooper City, the Rev. Bob Sands took Mr. Kleimen to task on the concept of hypocrisy.
We have it on very good authority that he then received a blistering phone call from the originator of the petition action, the infamous if not notorious Lori Green, campaign manager for Mayor Debby Eisinger and companion while both were seen walking of the streets of Embassy Lakes knocking on doors to obtain signatures as the petition drive lost its steam.
With that in my mind we are being asked to believe that it is the cost that is the primary consideration for the withdrawal. (Cooper City has at least $22 million in liquid assets. Based upon the last 5 commission meetings, the Mayor has a dummy on either side, ready, willing and quite able to approve any expenditure that she may desire.)
Secondly, the time frame of this process was well known to all who can read (including the lawyers leading the pack) and some of the time line discussion by the backroom manager Lori Green is really just a subterfuge. It is simply verbal condiments added to the meal of a failed petition needed to feed the hunger mob at Embassy Lakes that so passionately drank the ‘Kool Aid’ of lies, half truths, slanderous and malicious attacks upon a Commissioner who did not follow in line as the previous group (Roper and Valenti, want another beer, brother) did in order to satisfy a political agenda of the power hunger and control freak Mayor of Cooper City, Debbie Eisinger.
Last, but by no means least, the truth that was being told by a few staunch supporters and ‘Thanks’ to a perceptive and thoughtful segment of the population of Cooper City who were able to see through the vitriolic rhetoric of the boisterous if not obnoxious Greg Ross, well known ambulance chaser of the more seedy Broward streets, the hypocritical commentary of (dismissed by the voters and discarded by the Mayor) commissioner Elliot Kleiman, and the tragically flawed arguments of the well meaning group of Embassy Lakes residents who had been sucked into the mob mentality without looking. They had accepted on faith, (ponder the pun) the allegations as truth based upon a false propositions of bigotry and anti-Semitism, propagated and perpetuated by the real source of this disgusting misuse and betrayal of Judaism, Lori Green.
We, the nonjudgemental and concerned citizens, hope the lesson here is ‘Look and think before you accuse‘.
P.S. It is particularly note worthy that many unsolicited comments were made by the residents of this embattled city that we live in a country in which the process is 'one is innocent until proven guilty'.
Kudos to the residents of Cooper City whose common sense and decency
brought this horrendous nightmare to end.
22 comments:
They did NOT get hardly any signatures!This is Bull! Elliot Klieman is a LIAR! They did this simply as payback to Sims for the Law & Disorder drinking debacle...and he wasn't even involved!
Former ousted Commissioner Kleiman told many people that this was 'payback' on many occassions. Too bad our Mayor Debby Eisinger got involved and was on the recall committee.
In regards to the Recall effort by The Recall Committee, Elliot Kleiman, Lori Green and Mayor Debby Eisinger,
The actions of the Recall Committee should be very troubling to everyone in Broward county. I don't agree with the tactics that were used against Sims by the Recall Committee, Elliot Kleiman, Lori Green, Greg Ross and Debby Eisinger among many others.
The recall effort was nothing short of frivolous and it was
deceitful just to get signatures. This was just one of many tactics designed to continue to discredit Sims through character assassination because the recall committee doesn't like what he has to say, nor do they like free speech outside of the commission chamber's walls, much less inside, and we all must admonish these political and morally reprehensible tactics. Yes, Judy Stern!
It was alright for the Mayor to allow ‘free speech’ and personal attacks against her opposition up until election time, and then afterwards it was again permitted by her cronies.
Sims was falsely accused of Anti-Semitism by the Mayor and Elliot Kleiman. He was slandered and defamed by them. They created this conspiracy. I hope Sims will seek justice and unfortunately, the citizens of Cooper City will have to pay dearly for that.
If reports in this piece of sh*it paper are to be believed, then we must all admonish those who created this debacle which has been nothing short of disgraceful.
This in and of itself is concerning. Although no crime was committed by Sims or by the actual perpetrators of the so-called 'hate blog' of which Sims was falsely accused of creating, one of the basic tenants of American law is that you have the right to know who your accuser is, and that you are indeed innocent until proven guilty.
These are all true statements. I know, I was part of the inside group that promoted the recall...
I don't know how many signatures they got, but I kept getting emails that asked people to please, please, take the petitions around....and that they'd be standing in this place or that on various days of the week, to get signatures. Doesn't sound like people were flocking to sign it, to me!
The petition was not legally sufficient to sustain the charges which were so vague and uncertain that Commissioner Sims could have no conception of the particular act or acts which substantially related to the alleged cause(s) of removal from office and would not have been able to ever formulate a response. Therefore, the baseless allegations contained in the Petition for Recall could not constitute malfeasance, misfeasance or neglect of duty. The legal requirements were not met where the statement(s) in the petition were nothing more than conclusions or opinions without any tangible basis of facts. There was absolutely no truth, factual allegations nor justification to any of the false charges levied against Commissioner Sims by the Recall Committee (Yes, that Committee includes EVERYONE who signed it) by an ex-Commissioner who rarely showed up sober for a Commission meeting.
I am glad the majority of voters showed support for Commissioner Sims' dedicated service to the community by not signing the ridiculous petition.
I denounce Elliot Kleiman and his use of the Kiwanis name to promote the fake Recall Petition at Founder's Day at the Kiwanis Booth. I saw it on Channel 7 (WSVN) news and was appalled that the Kiwanis would sponsor such hate, libel, slander and defamation of a sitting outstanding Commissioner. Demand that Elliot be removed from his office and copy the TV news stations and newspapers.
Let's get this straight!
There were NO anti-semitic comments on the blog that Lori Green created !
There was NO hate crime committed on the blog that Lori Green created !
There were only ALLEGATIONS of hate and anti-simitism against Comm. Sims !
There was no PROOF of Sims being involved per the BSO Police !
The lie told by the Green's and Esiinger's wasted alot of Elliot Kleiman's time and money...
Now Debby Eisinger wants to deny free speech at city hall. It was all a ploy for more control !
Elliot told me they didn't have even half of the signatures required as of last Saturday. There is no way in hell that they got over 1,000 signatures on Memorial Day weekend. You are a liar Recall Volunteer...So is Elliot. He told me that he did not have the signatures. Sounds like Judy Stern/Debby Eisinger spin to me to save face. Elliot also told me that more than half of the people said they didn't care about his stupid recall and the other half called him a sore loser (and a senile old drunk). Even people on the recall committee told me that they didn't get all of the signatures. If they did, prove it, don't shread them. You can't tell me they shredded all of the signatures...for what? I can assure you that if you did indeed get enought sigs, that you all would have pressed forward. Since when did Elliot care about spending money? You are all a bunch of liars. The recall was a big lie. The blog posting accusing Sims was not a hate crime, nor was it anti-semitism and was all a big lie.
I don't believe the recall committee got the required number of signatures. Shredding the list seems to be the best evidence that they didn't get the signatures. This mean-spirited group of peabrains would have moved forward had they had the signatures. Heck, only 2 weeks ago Eliott was up at the podium at a commission meeting doing his recall rant. If they had the signatures, they would have moved forward. What a bunch of losers.
Quote by Recall Volunteer on Topix said - "I saw the pages of signatures. They had not been approved by the elections dept, that I will give you all. Someone involved,told me in an election year, this effort would not be a priority to verify each signature which would take longer."
This is absolutely not true. The Clerk has merely a ministerial duty to either reject or accept the petition. If the petition was sufficient in regards to the number of signatures, the Supervisor of Elelctions MUST continue with the effort.
I read the Petition and as a matter of law that the grounds stated in the recall petition were insufficient to invoke the recall election. That is not for the Clerk to decide.
The reasons for recall whether true or false do not affect the proceeding. Their truth or sufficiency is not for determination by the Clerk.
The grounds for the action was contemplated to be something stronger than a belief or an idea; and the ones set out in the petition amounts to no more than either one of these.
The recall petition in no way apprised the Commissioner of the charges he would be expected to respond to were the recall election held, nor would any elector participating in such an election know what issues were intended to be drawn.
The recall petition constituted nothing more than the statement of a conclusion or opinion without any tangible basis in fact. No one reading it could tell what was in the recall committee's minds or, for that matter, whether they were of one mind or each had a different reason for setting the recall effort in motion.
The grounds in the petition did not sufficiently set forth a violation of some duty to the electorate which could be sufficiently identified for the electorate to determine the truth of falsity of the charges; nor did the grounds apprise the Commissioner of the charges he would be expected to meet were the recall election held. It constituted nothing more than a statement of conclusion or opinion. The ground stated in the petition drastically failed to form a foundation for a recall.
Let us assume that the motive of each signer was of the loftiest character; we still have only an opinion. Let us suppose any issue where the sentiment of the community has been sharply divided, one segment feeling sincerely that a certain course would be "to the best interests of the citizens," the other feeling as strongly that an opposite course would be. As soon as the Cpmmissioner became allied with one group and exerted himself in their behalf, the opposing group could, doubtless conscientiously, swear that the official had engaged in activities inimical to the best interests of the citizens simply because they entertained the belief that the wrong group had been chosen or elected.
Sims has a property right in the office to which the people had elected him and he could not be forced into a recall election to determine whether he should be ousted, but a few months after entering his term, in the absence of a substantial compliance with the law prescribing the procedure for such drastic actions.
Because the petition failed utterly to form a foundation for the recall, the petition would have been enjoined by a court of law.
The Supreme Court has pointed out on several occasions that an officeholder has a property right in his office and that this right may not be unlawfully taken away or illegally infringed upon.
The law states that the petition under consideration absolutely imposes upon the city clerk or some other appropriate officer the duty of ascertaining whether the recall petition has been signed by the requisite number of qualified voters, no more and no less. Upon the certificate of such officer that a sufficient petition has been filed, the duty of the municipal council to call a special election is purely ministerial.
Clearly the City and the Supervisor of Elections cannot pass upon the sufficiency of charges contained in a recall petition. The Clerk and Supervisor has an interest and indeed a legal responsibility to see that a recall committee follows the proper procedures when a public official is so challenged and sought to be removed from office and that responsibility is strictly a ministerial one without any room for decision-making on their part.
There should be a real foundation for such a harsh test as a recall election, that the charge against an official sought to be recalled is related to the performance of his or her duties of his office, and that the grounds of the action should be something stronger than a belief or an idea. The grounds as stated in the petition constituted nothing more than the statement of a conclusion or opinion without any tangible basis in fact.
To the petition gatherers and city leaders: I would like to go on record as objecting to the use of email addresses from members of the City's Education Advisory Board, along with those of other school parent leaders, as a recruiting tool in the recall effort. I most certainly did not give my email address to the city, to then be used by a particular group to further their own political agenda. That's wrong. And it was clear that we all got the emails asking us to please help collect signatures, because all the recipient email addresses were listed. In fact, two such emails went out to all of us. I guess that's because Elliott had access to the addresses as a former commissioner, but I found it very offensive.
Jackie Dougherty
To Commissioner Sims, if you read this, MAZEL TOV!
They did NOT get hardly any signatures! This is Bull S***! Elliot Klieman is a LIAR! They did this simply as payback to Sims for the Law & Disorder drinking debacle...and he wasn't even involved!
Former ousted Commissioner Kleiman told many people that this was 'payback' on many occassions. Too bad our Mayor Debby Eisinger got involved and was on the recall committee.
What do you expect from a senile old drunk (Kleiman) who never showed up at a commission meeting sober? And that Lori Green...They are the real Jew hatemongers!
Don't even get me started about Debby Eisinger and Judy Stern!!!!!! ARRGGHHHH!!!!
I denounce Elliot Kleiman and his use of the Kiwanis name to promote the fake Recall Petition at Founder's Day at the Kiwanis Booth. I saw it on Channel 7 (WSVN) news and was appalled that the Kiwanis would sponsor such hate, libel, slander and defamation of a sitting outstanding Commissioner. Demand that Elliot be removed from his office and copy the TV news stations and newspapers.
We will see how stupid Debby Eisinger, Elliot Kleiman, Greg Ross and Lori Green are when they are hauled off to jail for civil conspiracy. Commissioner Sims WILL prove the blog was not his in court. Just watch & wait. He will be a rich man at Cooper City taxpayer's expense when this is all over...
I have been a Cooper City resident for 37 years, when it really was some place special. When the police actually knew the children’s names and the Mayor had the concerns of the residents in mind. And homeless drug addicts didn’t live on the streets.
While writing articles, does it accrue to anyone that the mayor did not even get the majority of the resident’s votes to stay in office? So please do not reference the resident’s desires or concerns in future article. Say it like it is….. the MAYOR and her few supporters feel….. I can safely say – the majority of the resident’s are in support and thankful to John Sims. It angers me to read the ignorance of someone that should know better.
A resolution to the can’t afford it excuse…… maybe ask the previous city manager to leave a small chunk of cash he is taking away from the city or maybe even have the mayor put her perks she voted to herself back in the pot. Or could it be that it really is not a big deal if someone “supposedly” drew a mustache on her. I heard it had horns on it as well. The BSO resources used to “investigate” such a silly issue should have been used to keep our kids safe from the local drug dealers that are of no concern to local law enforcement. It was a concern when Cooper City was some place special?
Considering their past history, you really don't believe they shreaded anything do you? How naive can you be? Do you really think these people give a darn about you or your privacy, if you do then you have fallen for there deceptions hook line and sinker.
Regarding Sims, they know they can’t shut him up, but they want to make life a bit more difficult for him. Corruption and dirty politics is running Cooper City, and we have to deal with that problem. The Mayor and her ultra-liberal supporters have managed to squeeze down and squeeze out opinion of opposing views, thereby preventing residents from hearing the truthful side of public policy controversies.
I’ve never witnessed more hate, or more racist attacks and threats than during this time against Commissioner Sims.
Now Cooper City residents are being deprived of voicing their points of view!
As Voltaire said, and as I agree, “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
I hope the racists that voted Eisinger into office are happy...
Insults hurled at a political candidate???? It MUST be anti-semitism.
How Do You Piss Off A Whole City? Accuse People of Anti-Semitism!!
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_politics&Number=296292775&page=0&view=&sb=&o=&part=1&vc=1#Post296292775
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Effort to Recall Cooper City Commissioner Falls Flat
The effort to recall a popular commissioner in Cooper City has been abandoned due to lack of signatures and interest by residents.
Cooper City, Florida – The effort to recall a popular commissioner in Cooper City has been abandoned. The petition to recall Commissioner John Sims stemmed from a blog that Sims allegedly owned. At issue was a picture posted on the blog of the Mayor of Cooper City, Debby Eisinger, with a superimposed Hitler moustache on her upper lip. Sims denies any involvement or wrongdoing.
The Broward Sheriff’s office initiated a hate crime investigation into Sims’ involvement with the blog but suspended it when there wasn’t sufficient evidence to proceed. The recall effort was started by former Cooper City Commissioner Elliot Kleiman and the former campaign manager for Mayor Debby Eisinger, Lori Green. According to Kleiman’s website, the group obtained the necessary signatures to fulfill the first requirement but said the continued effort would be too costly and that “In these times of economic hardship it was felt that requiring Cooper City to spend approximately $110,000 at this time was not prudent and, therefore, it was decided not to pursue the petition drive beyond the current stage”.
However, inside sources to the recall effort said that the required number of signatures was never obtained. “I’m not sure why they started the petition in the first place other than to make a political statement. Had the governor chose to remove Commissioner Sims, we wouldn’t have a choice. We would have to pay for a special election anyway” said Renee Delotta, community activist and consultant on several local campaigns. Delotta said the die was cast right after Sims was swept into office just over a year and a half ago. “There is a group of people in this city that despise Commissioner Sims and would do almost anything to see him out of office”, Delotta continued.
When asked how he felt about the failed recall bid Sims responded, “It didn’t really bother me one way or the other. It was a politically motivated move by several sore losers who simply wanted me out of office and used spurious, misinformation to try to accomplish their purpose.”
Long time Cooper City resident Victoria Bikos agrees. “Commissioner Sims is edgy, forthright and has strong convictions. Because of that he has challenged the status quo. He has endured orchestrated and relentless attacks but still keeps on going. He’s the only one on the Commission dais that regularly votes his conscious.”
Sims said he’s glad the matter has been put to rest. “Now we can get back to the business of our great city. It’s time to put all of this behind us and move on.” When asked if he would run for reelection at the conclusion of his first term he responded, “The verdict is still out. Let’s just say I am weighing my options.” Commissioner Sims can be contacted via phone at (954) 439-5612 or email at johnsims@bellsouth.net.
Protected Political Speech or Treason?
“Never has the American political process been so corrupt. No office was too high to purchase, no man too pure to bribe, no principle too sacred to destroy, no law too fundamental to break.” Geo. Thayer
Democracy is a combination of vital principles including the freedoms of speech, religion, and the press; an independent judiciary; economic freedoms; a government with checks and balances; and free elections.
Through illegal means, the Recall Committee (consisting of Elliot Kleiman, Mayor Debby Eisinger, Lori Green and as a matter of law, all individuals who signed the recall petition), intended to incite civil unrest and to take control back, saying ‘we don’t care about you’ to the voters. These were tactics designed to discredit Commissioner Sims because they don't like what he has to say, and we all must admonish those despicable tactics.
The petition was baseless and unlawful, and the allegations were nothing more than a conclusion or opinion without any tangible basis in fact. The allegations were not legally sufficient in order to sustain the charges which were so vague and uncertain that the falsely accused Commissioner could have no conception of the particular act or acts which substantially related to the alleged causes of removal.
The popularity, veracity, or utility of the false beliefs in question regarding the alleged crime(s), transformed into actual commentary by the Recall Committee and its supporters, were not considered when determining whether or not the main issue and its true author(s) along with the associated speech was factual and/or protected by the Constitution.
Commissioner Sims was falsely accused of Anti-Semitism by Mayor Debby Eisinger and Elliot Kleiman. He was slandered and defamed by them, yet they are the individuals responsible for creating this conspiracy. There was absolutely no truth, factual allegations nor justification to any of the false and frivolous charges levied against Commissioner Sims.
While endeavors to decrease voter apathy and increase voter turnout are usually commended, the city has been under much criticism and scrutiny from the voters because it continues to support the past dissident regime through its facilitation of the attacks upon Commissioner Sims, along with the cabal like appointment by newly elected commissioners of vexatious ex-officials who were cast out by the voters, in order to garner ‘logrolling’.
The website’s main message was that the content on the website constituted political free speech, and was therefore protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
While the First Amendment does protect political speech, and the Supreme Court has deemed campaign speech to be constitutional, there are federal and state laws in every state in the nation that specifically prohibit hate crimes. The problem here is that there was no hate crimes committed by the conspirators, nor were any Anti-Semitic statements made by the perpetrators.
While the very core of the First Amendment is the protection of political speech, because the Recall Committee and those who supported it served to undermine the very principles of free and equal speech and political elections, it would not have been allowed to continue in order to broker the false opinion of a few dissidents against Commissioner Sims even if the process was deemed legitimate.
The governments of man, including municipal governments, are filled with lies, corruption, special interests, excessive taxation, bloated bureaucracy, oppression, red tape, favoritism, injustice, bickering, fighting, war mongering, selfishness, egotism, pride, thirst for money and power, and on it goes.
No one should condone this behavior and participation in it, even as a Commissioner. Commissioner Sims fights steadily against these tactics used right here in Cooper City, which is precisely why he is targeted by the cabal. He never committed acts of malfeasance, misfeasance or neglect of duty while serving as Commissioner.
Your support for Commissioner Sims’ dedicated service to the community by not signing the petition is appreciated, and it is proper to commend the residents of Cooper City for not falling into the trap of this dastardly civil conspiracy.
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