The Bookstore People Are Safe; the Head Start Tots' Fate Unknown
Note to Board members: Please pass this missive on to Board Attorney Carraway. He has no email at the
Note to Mr. Bakas: You have some good press below, sir.
Note to Mr. Nesmith: Please make available to the
lee drury de cesare
Valley of the
Turn up your speakers to imagine you hear the theme song from “Spy Who Came in From the Cold.”
Message to Maida Bello after announcement that the GK Katzenjammer Kids won’t kick the bookstore employees out into the gutter of minimum wages, lost pensions and DROPs, and no health benefits. I don’t know from where this welcome news came.
I would have liked to be a fly on the wall to see whether the administration blinked, whether the Board cracked its whip, whether the governor exerted influence; whether the faculty-student-staff show committee on the change rose up and defied the administration.
Never mind. All’s well that ends well.
To be on the safe side, let us say thank you, Jesus, Mohammed, Brahma, the Goddesses of the Light, and the
The bookstore rescue wasn’t the result of a faculty’s uprising against tyranny. The tenured-faculty poltroons and the toothless faculty union sat on their glutei and did nothing to stop this move by the GK greedy guts. This flaccid faculty-union performance in the face of evil will not go down in these minions’ favor when fate decides which of Dante’s Circles of Hell they will inhabit. I vote 8th –hypocrites. Not one raised a finger to help the old bookstore employees with whom senior faculty had worked many years. Such behavior is shameful. May cow dung be rained on the cowardly pates of these gutless pedagogues and may Medicare mess up their paper work for eternity when they retire, as soon must be the case, given the state of their dotage in which they teach on even to the last syllable of recorded time when “The[ir] sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble.”
Email from me to Maida Bello, who became a Valkyrie during this fight to save her job
From Lee: Excellent (on the bookstore salvation). Nobody will bully you again, Maida. You have come through the fire and are now bully proof. This was the truth of which I never succeeded in convincing the GK scaredy cats. This administration of bullies picks off the weak members of a flock, not the ones who mount the barricades and broadcast their opposition to tyranny. Lee
Maida Bello <mbello1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
You mean what I just said? Sure I am not scared of them.
----- Original Message -----
From: lee decesare
To: Maida Bello
Sent:
Subject: Re: latest deep throat
In answer to my email for permission to print her email:
Maida Bello <mbello1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
There is not going to be any vendors the president confirm yesterday that we are staying in house. I am not afraid of any of them. Let them try anything with me I will not put up with that and they already know what I will do. I wrote letters to all the board members they will not touch me . Kay will get hers soon too if she doesn't watch out. and as for this mole from GK they are chicken as far as I am concerned she or he don't need to worry about me they don't have the guts to come out so I am not going to believe or do anything that they want cause they just want us to save them. If they have guts then come out and fight like we have.
You can tell them for me to get up some guts.
Maida
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From: lee decesare
Congratulations to the bookstore people from me. Can I use this email in my next school-wide one? I think you and I should join the French Foreign Legion. Our talents are wasted playing pattycake with those wussies at GK. lee
Maida can always file an age-discrimination suit and get as many as she can to join her in the bookstore. Unfortunately, I doubt she recruits many. She will have to go it alone. People who change the world or even the microcosm of
Maida has become a member of the Valkyrie Hall of Fame for Her Valor in Combating the GK Fellowship of Thuggery.
Sent:
Subject: latest deep throat
The latest letter from GK Deepthroats, which denizens have devolved into a kaffee klatch that meets in the GK basement to pass around frisson-inducing data about who is the latest putative target of the toothless GK Wermacht.
Lee De Cesare,
Please forward this letter immediately to appropriate authorities.
I have written to you on many occasions to expose internal corruption, but this one “takes the cake”
Little is officially documented at district, no embarrassing paper trails, so below if “deniable” if the law breakers are officially questioned
My friend who works in HR told me the other day that Kay Sanborn @
I feel really bad that Maida is taking the heat, since I am the internal district mole. Maida works at Thor, but the paranoid group here are so conspiratorial.
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Message from Dominique Gagnon re his crucifixion for writing a piece as editor of the Hawkeye which gave both sides of the bookstore outsourcing story. Gagnon’s giving balanced information was enough for the
Since nobody in the ethical badlands of
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Mr. Gagnon, I found this in my deleted files. I manage to screw up my email all the time, or I would have been back to you.
I have finally extracted the address via the Board attorney of my old buddy Professor Nancy White, who used to be Hawkeye faculty advisor and was fearless in defending its press freedom. It is below in Board Attorney Carraway’s letter. lee
Gagnon writes:
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Gagnon says:
The administration still isn't letting me back to school like they said. They are requiring me to get a note from a mental health professional before they let me register for classes. It is proving very hard to get this also. My Journalism advisor is very green and does not have tenure so she would not back me, she is going along with everything.
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You have my permission to access my records. I think they [GK Gestapo?] coerced her [his ex-girlfriend] into filing a restraining order against me in Dec. (which the judge laughed out of court). Please contact me and let me know what is going on.
Thanks,
Dominique Gagnon
P.S. The ACLU is reviewing my claim.
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Didn’t the Communists used to put people who wouldn’t knuckle under in prison in
I submit that all inmates of the
The students should defrock the journalism adviser for his or her cowardice. What a press poltroon! Now those young people who work on the Hawkeye and students who hear of this ugly press-suppression saga will think that it’s OK to buckle to bullies. Good old Nancy White, journalism adviser until she retired, would have never put up with this kicking out of the Hawkeye editor for writing a balanced article on the bookstore dust-up.
What’s the use of living in a democracy if you are too gutless to take advantage of it? The faculty—especially the senior faculty and tenured faculty and the faculty union fraidy cats—should go to hell and get assigned to the same fire-pit condo in which the GK folks will be sautéing. ldd
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To
I spoke to the
My former publisher, Patrick Manteiga, was able to convince the administration to open up my email.
Now the college administration continues to get away with kicking out student Gagnon as editor of the Hawkeye student newspaper because he wrote a balanced article giving both sides in the controversy between the administration and the bookstore employees.
The administration wanted to evict the long-serving bookstore employees and have a subcontractor take over the bookstore. The bookstore employees stood to lose their pensions and health care. And they would have been at the mercy of the minimum-wage ghetto.
The protest of a few on this move has managed to defeat it. I think the show faculty-staff committee may have also rose up in rebellion against this cruel GK maneuver against old-time
But the administration still wants to kick out the Head Start kids. At least that’s my impression.
A college administration should not be able to shut off a free student press on campus because its editor wrote a balanced article that exposed the administration's greedy policies. It shouldn't be able to kick him out of school and demand a mental-health certificate for him to get back in.
I urge the ACLU to take the Gagnon case in
lee drury de decesare, ACLU member
lee_decesare@yahoo.com
To refresh our memories of one of the many villains of this piece, here is but one of the evasions of Le/Dr./Mr. John Huerta; this is template Huerta when he thinks that Machiavelli is small time when compared to his glorious self. Updated and added requests appear in this updated Huerta email:
MEMORANDUM
To: Ms Lee De Cesare
From: John Huerta, Executive Director of Marketing and Public Relations
Re: Request for Public Records
Date:
In response to your email of
“A copy of all emails incoming and outgoing on the subject of my e-mail’s reception at Gordon Keller or from any of the branches of the college”
Copies of your emails and many responses went to the entire College community. Your request will result in thousands of copies of emails at a cost of $.10 per page. Please advise if you want copies of all these documents as stated or specify the documents you request. In addition, given the staff time involved, you will be charged an hourly service fee for the staff time required for the Office of Information Technology to produce this large volume of email.
Don’t be facetious, Mr. Huerta. The college made the mistake of leaving the addresses on the Web. So get serious about charging me for a bazillion copies to punish me for asking for public information about the administration’s shutting down my email. Any reasonable person would infer my request means only one copy of such emails. If you don’t fall into the reasonable category, pray pass the request to someone who does be there such a person at GK. To repeat: I want the email(s) that ordered the shutdown of my emails: 1. the email(s) ordering the shutdown; 2. any emails responding to or commenting on the order to shut down my email. I want any administrative emails in the chain of command regarding the shutdown of my email. I want to see the email on my shut down of email to and from the Board of Trustees. I want to know the person(s) responsible for ordering and carrying out the shutdown of my email to the college. I want one copy of each relevant document, email or paper.
I want a copy of the Board policy authorizing such shutdowns. I want the law the Board uses to justify it. Don’t refer me to the statutes; send me the copy of the law that the administration has on hand to justify shutting down a person’s email.
“The Board’s policy statement on any questions of free speech and academic freedom”
The College’s Administrative Rules, which include Academic Freedom, are available on line on the College web site at http://www.hccfl.edu/dao/admrules/index.html.
Google response:
Your search - http://www.hccfl.edu/dao/adm rules/index.html. - did not match any documents.
The
“The
The Florida Statutes are available on the State of
Very helpful. I can see why you are in public relations.
“Any opinion that the college obtains from the Attorney General of the state on this issue as it applies to public institution
Let me see if I can infer what you mean with this laconic Joe-Friday taciturnity below: You have never asked for an opinion because no citizen has ever challenged your lackadaisical practice before. Let me change that request to one in which the Board of Trustees asks the Attorney General if a college can shut down a citizen’s email to the college as the administration has done in my case and in which sequel the administration now thinks to put a public-relations whiz manqué to the task of thwarting the email-shut-down-victim’s getting solid data on it.
Dream on, sir. I mean to get answers to my questions on the shutdown emails.
No documentation.
“The name of the person who is the head of the Technology Department”
The Vice President for Information Technology is Dr. Bruce Judd. If Dr. Judd is one of the culprits in my email shutdown, he should step forth and admit his culpability right now.
“I would like to review the folder of the profiles of the current
“A copy of the email addresses of all Board members”
The email address for the Board of Trustees is available on the
A person of average intelligence such as I cannot discover this datum at the URL you cited. I found it out by calling the president’s office and getting it from the secretary. If you want to improve public relations, make the Web page user friendly.
“All data on the outsourcing of the college book stores.”
Information is available on the review of bookstore operations at the College’s Purchasing web site http://www.hccfl.edu./purchasing/purchasing.asp?template=visitor.
“The name of the attorney who attended the meeting at GK with the bookstore employees and his complete notes”
The College has had no meeting that included our attorney with the bookstore employees.
This excerpt comes from an employee who said she attended the meeting with several others from the Bookstores. Is she hallucinating? And will you start a retaliation campaign for these people as seems to be administration protocol according to Ms. Larsen’s apocryphal comments at an open committee meeting. I wish you would start a retaliation campaign against me. I think it would be highly entertaining.
Excerpt from M. Bellow: There cronies have been there so long that they have started believing what they say. Leeann and I and Faye Doyle went to a meeting with are union for the staff in front of Sue Flaig and Donna Miller and they had there lawyer who knows they are breaking the law but at 400 dollars and hour ( I believe that's what they get what can we expect.
Employment files review
Employment files can be viewed at the
“Data referring to the rumored use of an office computer by a GK administrator 8 to 10 years ago”
No record.
How odd and convenient. I could swear that my memory tells me that the rumor involved an administrator that Dr. Stephenson brought in with her, and that administrator was you. I believe your name is the one I remember the rumors swirling around. Is my memory mistaken? If so, answer this question to put the question to rest: Did your ever surf the Web on your administration office computer for pornography and suffer no consequences from Dr. Stephenson, Mr. Huerta, or was this one of those
From: Huerta, John [mailto:jhuerta@hccfl.edu]
Sent:
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
Cc: Flaig, Sue; Koehler, Martha Kaye
Subject: Request for Public Records
Attached please find a memorandum responding to your request for public records.
John Huerta
Executive Director for Marketing and Public Relations
John Huerta
Executive Director for Marketing and Public Relations
Update on Monkey Biz at GK
This is the one I sent to the governor and attorney general:
To: State of Florida State Attorney
DISTRICT
ADMINISTRATIVE
Mrs. Lee Drury DeCesare
WETS (
Attorney General of
Re: Fraud and Abuse Complaint
Retired
Please contact Lee Dc Cesare at
Find out what public records she has requested from
Fraud and abuse and disregard of
Several
In addition
would be outsourced to a private vendor. Larson made that statement before RFP was issued and months before bid process was completed. Bookstore Review Team (Elizabeth Johnson, Steve
MacDill AFB Shields, Anthony Murphy, Cindy Hewett, Steve Wall, Dr... Susan Miletta, Michele Martinez, Dr. Emery Afford, Joanne Heald, Sandra Strobel, Mary,Carter and Carol Afford) rendered their evaluation between in-house bookstore and two private vendors only this month.
Before you dismiss my comments as just one disgruntled employee whose job is to stir the pot, please know that many
Sincerely,
A State Employee
H LLS BOROUGH
Community College
DISTRICT
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
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Date;
To: State of Florida State Attorney
Florida Office of Open Government
Florida Division of Community Colleges Board of Trustees
Mrs. Lee Drury DeCesare
(
Re: Fraud and Abuse Complaint
I work at
I along with my departmental co-workers, are terrified to come forward for fear of losing our positions.
The only individual to my knowledge who has come out in the OPEN to expose
This is hearsay, but a
Please contact Dc Cesare (727-398-4212/ to find out what public records she has requested from John Huerta.
My observations working at district is that administrators IGNORE requests for information when it might implicate them in problematic actions.
Before you dismiss my comments as those of just one disgruntled employee whose job is to stir the pot, please know that many
Sincerely,
A State Employee
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To: John Huerta
From: Lee Drury De Cesare
Subject: Monkey Business
Date:
Mr. Huerta: I understand you told Ms. Flaig in a hall conference that, if the
Don’t count on that forlorn prediction’s being accurate, sirrah.
I still want your employment file and that of Dr. Stephenson to clear up what punishment you got for your widely rumored porn-surfing on taxpayer-paid-for computer and on taxpayer-paid-for time.
We need solid information on the evolution of this unlovely incident, which caused much mirth college wide but is not funny in that it exposes the lack of ethics of President Stephenson in her double standard for an administrative pet. She is more coldly rigorous in her treatment of Bookstore employees, Head Start children, and any employee who lets out a peep of opposition to the administration pile-driving protocols.
I retired at approximately the time when the persistent rumor making the rounds reported that somebody at GK had caught you surfing the Web for pornography or that your hard drive revealed that you spent college time viewing Internet pornography. Maybe both these rumors were involved; but I am sure that rampant rumor said you surfed the Web for porn sites on college time in your office.
Secretly surfing the Web in your office is not an employment-related activity, so I suggest that it is way past time to set the record straight by seeing if this incident appears in your personnel file and what punishment you got for it if any.
The print press also picked up on it too. Apparently, GK spinners hushed up the affair, and no public record emerged that Dr. Stephenson had dealt you any punishment. The press is always prissy about reporting sexually related peccadilloes and backed away; the faculty contented itself with laughing at business as usual amongst the ethical deficients who run GK.
I wondered what that lack of punishment for you for an act that would have sunk a faculty or staff member and even most GK denizens revealed about Dr. Stephenson’s incoherent management style and favoritism to you.
I also speculated about what kind of relationship you enjoyed with Dr. Stephenson that made you invulnerable to firing for this dirty-old-man violation of ethics.
I was curious because of the circumstance in which you came to the college, arriving at the same time as Dr. Stephenson and, as I recall, her inventing you a job. GK is never slow to invent boutique positions for buddies, and the Board of Trustees is curiously willing to agree to them.
I wondered if your professional connection might have relevance to Dr. Stephenson’s allowing you to get away with surfing for pornography on school time with not even a tap on the wrist.
So I want to see your file and Dr. Stephenson’s file to confirm that you two arrived at the college at the same time. I want to determine that the record of your personnel file includes porn-surfing notation or whether you have scrubbed it with, one infers, Dr. Stephenson’s benediction for the cover-up by altering records.
In addition, I intend also pick up where I left off my pursuit of the evolution of your degree claims.
I recall that you claimed a doctorate when you came to
Knowing there was no such thing, I contacted
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Hi Lee!
I have a transcript on John Huerta indicating he was in the Doctor of Public Administration program. It doesn't say when he began, because it is so old, but it does have a notation that he left the program 7/79. I don't know what he had left to do as I am not an advisor. I am guessing, but it looks like he attended 3 or 4 years. Does this info help? Help? Let me know.
Thanks,
Barbara Hicks
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent:
To: bhicks@nova.edu
Subject: Re: Degree information for John L. Huerta
Barbara, did your microfiche search yield any results on this fellow? Thanks. Lee
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From: Lee
To: bhicks@nova.edu
Sent:
Subject: Degree information for John L. Huerta
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When I emerged at Board recent meetings to put in a good word for retaining the faithful Bookstore employees and to plead that the administration not dump them sans pension, DROP, and health benefits into the minimum-wage ghetto of Banes & Noble and also to protest kicking out the Head Start kids as victims of the mysterious force of Dr. Stephenson’s “business plan” to turn a college into a for-profit corporation with multiple subcontracts and contracts to invite graft as the latest Deepthroat Number 2 says is occurring (see his communication ) and that Deepthroat 1 had already alluded to (see also communication ).
I discover that you now claim plain “Mr.,” no doctorate.
Did you and Dr. Stephenson agree to quietly drop your doctorate claim and substitute the truthful “Mr” when you heard I had asked for your degree information?
Forging degree claims ranks serious charge in most colleges and universities that want to keep their reputations and accreditation. Key into Google the phrase “college officials’ false degree claims” to show you how the result of such claims is dismissal at legitimate educational institutions run by people of integrity who respect the values of the academic world, especially the validity of its employees’ degree claims. These data may not be as priapic as porn, but they speak to your evolving degree-claims situation.
Not only does it appear that you got no punishment for Web-porn surfing on college time and equipment but that you also claimed a doctorate and then dropped this claim but suffered no penalty for the lie.
I infer that the GK personnel person whom I called about your degree tipped you off to my inquiry, that you bethought yourself, and that, in consultation with your protector Dr. Stephenson, you dropped your doctorate claim and glided back into plain John Huerta, where you now boast in hall conferences with Ms. Flaig of not doing your job of sending citizens public-information requests data in obedience to the Florida public-records law. In other words, you defy the law and brag about it in hall scenarios of outlaw swagger, and you engage in these activities on tax-paid time.
So I want to see your employment file to ascertain what information it yields on this issue or what evidence it reveals that you have scrubbed relevant data.
Hence,
Ø I renew my request for your and Dr. Stephenson’s personnel files. Where do I go to review them? 4th request; I have the lawyer’s instruction to go to the administration building for these to Ms. Sue Flaig, your hall-conference buddy. I will say boo! and surprise y’all any day now. Add Dominique Ganion’s file to Stephenson’s and yours. He has me given permission above.
Ø For the mailing address of Nancy White, former
Ø A copy of the administration “business plan” that Dr. Stephenson cited in her letter to the Tribune’s protesting its editorial condemnation of her administration’s kicking the Head Start kids out of
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The Press Looks at the Situation:
THE STORYTELLER La Gaceta
by Andrea Brunais
Would
Maida Bello is disabled. She walks with a cane. She is in her early 60s but still needs a few years to reach retirement age and qualify for Medicare. Her employment may be in jeopardy, with
Maida Bello, who works at the bookstore on the Ybor City campus, fears for her job.
Her husband, retired math professor and prolific textbook author Ignacio Bello, fears for students. It doesn’t take a math whiz to determine that when the private sector takes over, students can get shafted.
The math department at USF formerly ordered 3,000 books to have on hand for students enrolling in the university’s math classes. Barnes & Noble orders only 1,000. “They don’t want to have an oversupply of books,” he explains, acknowledging the priority of any business’s bottom line. But students who can’t get the textbooks they need are “devastated,” he says. “At USF, the bookstore now runs out of textbooks on the first day.”
If Maida Bello sees herself as a future casualty (along with her Ybor colleagues and bookstore employees on the Dale Mabry,
-- Or should have -- about how the Barnes & Noble experience at USF affected students and employees.
Gagnon says of meetings with administrators, “they didn’t seem interested in my side of the story regarding my ex-girlfriend’s statements, and they wouldn’t let me say what I wanted to say. They had their minds made up.” Gagnon says he is forbidden from so much as writing a story for the paper in the future. The bookstore exposé may have been his last hurrah.
How does professor
-- are they going to hire you? No, because they can get young people who don’t care what the minimum wage is.”
College administrator John Huerta, who heads public relations and marketing for the college, says part of the review process will be to find out more about the USF experience and also that of other colleges and universities.
If you would like to send your thoughts or opinions to college administrators, you can write to Barbara Larson, CFO and vice president for administration,
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Pray, Mr. Huerta, do not hide behind FERPA again; that dog won’t hunt.
FERPA is for problems of parents and students with educational institutions, not for adult school-publication-editor students who live on their own and are legal adults whom an runaway administration fires for publishing a piece that disputes the administration’s propaganda for covering up the dumping the Book Store employees. 4th request
Ø The formal or informal administration policy of discouraging college-family input to Board members, including the widely believed disincentives of surveillance to cook up a case for firing. 1st request; Upgraded to 2nd request
Ø Citation of the Board’s ethical duty to encourage input from the entire college family, not to serve as mere passive vessels for the administration’s sanitized spin. 1st request; upgraded to second request
Ø A copy of the committee report that recommended retaining the Book Store employees which rumor says Dr. Stephenson plans nonetheless to ignore in favor of outside vendors as she planned to do no matter the decision of this for-show-only committee. This request ranks particularly urgent since one of my Deepthroats alleges administration payoffs endemic in outside vendor arrangements. 1st request;
Ø Copies of any news articles that discuss
Ø Copies of any Board inquiries as to the integrity of the bidding process as practiced by this administration. 1st request 2nd request upgrade asking for the account of Board member Watson’s inquiry into the bid process.
I expect you to fulfill these public-records requests and not to dither on the fantasy hope that I will disappear. I encourage you to do your job and get these data to me instead of wasting time in hall-area swashbuckling to impress young Ms. Flaig about your macho mastery of psyching out a citizen’s stick-to-it stamina. Also, cite your extant degree records that support your academic bona fides. I will check them out.
lee drury de cesare
Retired
H I LLBOROUGI
Community Siege
DISTRICT
ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
Lee Drury De Cesare
I give you permission to post my remarks on your blog (http://hccdeepthroat.blogspot.com), and to provide photocopies to media outlets and appropriate local, state and federal authorities.
In my first letter to you, I wrote: I have witnessed numerous illegal acts - Sunshine Law - no such thing at GK.
Why should
I can tell you that a lot of meetings held at district do not abide by the Sunshine Law. There MUST be recorded notes regarding below meeting you posted on your blog.
According to an email I received from
Relevant authorities might find it highly questionable that such a meeting would occur prior to announcement of the winning bidder.
Bid rigging?
Frankly,
I can tell what
Outsourced employees will have to cast their lot with the winning private vendor, who most likely will not guarantee existing salary and benefits package.
GK Insider
Dear Governor Crist:
Your campaign promises included oversight of education. For this function at community colleges, you deputize a Board of Trustees to carry out your oversight.
I was professor of English at
I also resist the administration’s eviction of Head Start’s children from their long on-campus accommodation that is a fine use of college support. This college sponsorship of Head Start children buttresses a program that complements the college’s mission of serving as example to the community by fostering Head Start as the most effective program devised by Congress in assisting poor families in getting off welfare and into the economically able mainstream.
Dr. Stephenson, president of the college, cited the administration “business plan” that necessitates her dumping older Book Store employees and Head Start children. The Tampa Tribune editorialized against the Head Start eviction by
Any person familiar with the role that a college plays in a community’s life knows that such cruel maneuvers do not serve the purpose of an educational institution’s duty to model the best ethics for the community it serves.
My most recent Deepthroat letter suggests another reason for this unlovely activity by Dr. Stephenson and her administration minions: it is the suggestion that her “business plan” offers tempting situations for graft among the administration, vendors, and subcontractors involved in the “business” activities cited in Dr. Stephenson’s “business plan.”
Yet another arrived just today cites chapter and book for the on-going administration graft. I attach it.
When I taught at
When Dr. Stephenson first arrived at
And this suggestion by my Deep Throat 2 communicant outlines the possible reason why this college-family hope that Dr. Stephenson would rescue it was sadly misplaced.
As overseer of tax dollars that go to legitimate college enterprises and not to forming a set-up for administration graft that my informer cites, you, I suggest, should send an accounting team to conduct forensic analysis of Deepthroat 2’s outlining that graft and kickbacks afflict the administration’s “business plan” for the college.
I am not aware that the Board of Trustees has ever asked for any rationale for the highest bidder’s always getting the contract. Now I find out that Trustee Watkins may have done so. She is an accountant and former student of
My impression had been that Dr. Stephenson has neutralized this Board of Trustee member with the usual administration seduction protocol that GK employs to neutralize Board members vulnerable to flattery and administration cozening.
I would be happy to be wrong.
One would think that a governor of the party that has produced such a trail of corruption in
Pray investigate the claim of corruption at
Respectfully,
Lee Drury De Cesare
www/leedrurydecesaresccasting-roomcouch.blogspot.com;
www/grammargrinch.com;www/HCCDeepthroat.blogspot.com
www/Grammargrinch.blogspot.com
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Hillsborough
Community College
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES-- Les Deepthroats’ Locus
Date;
To: State of
Mrs. Lee Drury DeCesare
(
Re: Fraud and Abuse Complaint
I work at
I along with my departmental co-workers, are terrified to come forward for fear of losing our positions.
The only individual to my knowledge who has come out in the OPEN to expose
This is hearsay, but a
Please contact Dc Cesare (727-398-4212/ to find out what public records she has requested from John Huerta.
My observations working at district is that administrators IGNORE requests for information when it might implicate them in problematic actions.
Before you dismiss my comments as those of just one disgruntled employee whose job is to stir the pot, please know that many
Sincerely,
A State Employee
H I LLBOROUGI
DISTRICT
ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
Lee Drury De Cesare
I give you permission to post my remarks on your blog (http://hccdeepthroat.blogspot.coml), and to provide photocopies to media outlets and appropriate local, state and federal authorities.
In my first letter to you, I wrote: I have witnessed numerous illegal acts - Sunshine Law - no such thing at GK.
Why should
I can tell you that a lot of meetings held at district do not abide by the Sunshine Law. There MUST be recorded notes regarding below meeting you posted on your blog.
According to an email I received from
Relevant authorities might find it highly questionable that such a meeting would occur prior to announcement of the winning bidder.
Bid rigging?
Frankly,
I can tell what
Outsourced employees will have to cast their lot with the winning private vendor, who most likely will not guarantee existing salary and benefits package.
GK Insider
Hillsborough
Community College
DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
----- Original Message -----
From: lee decesare
Sent:
Subject: latest deep throat
Lee De Cesare,
Please forward this letter immediately to appropriate authorities.
I have written to you on many occasions to expose internal corruption, but this one “takes the cake”
Little is officially documented at district, no embarrassing paper trails, so below if “deniable” if the law breakers are officially questioned.
My friend who works in HR told me the other day that Kay Sanborn @
I feel really bad that Maida is taking the heat, since I am the internal district mole. Maida works at Thor, but the paranoid group here are so conspiratorial.
GK INSIDER
Dr. /Mr. John Huerta has repaired to the Board attorney in his thwarting the public-records law in not answering my emails and giving me a partial crumb of information occasionally. This old popinjay Huerta considers himself a master tactician. The scary thing is that the rest of the GK C- and D- student brigade thinks he is too.
I infer that his sudden attention to my public-records requests come from my unearthing my old files on his evolving degree claims and his porn-surfing adventures, neither of which got any punishment apparently from Dr. Stephenson, although she sanctions siccing the surveillance teams on bookstore employees who have the effrontery to come and plead for the jobs to the BOT.
It’s only fair that Le/Dr. /Mr. Huerta suffer a little surveillance of his conduct since he has participated in GK’s surveillance of
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This list finally got past Huerta’s claim that FERPA made these names a GK state secret. I infer the
I got Mr. Nesmith’s address from his secretary. So much for Le Huerta’s hallway claim to Sue Flaig that, if GK just ignored me, I’d go away. ldd
Alumni Leadership Group
William Nesmith
Fire Chief, Hillsborough County Fire Rescue
Tampa, 33610
nesmithw@hillsboroughcounty.org
Randy Sears
General Manager II
Plans and Operations
Hillsborough County Water Resource Services
925 F. Twiggs St.
Nancy H. Watkins, CPA
610 S Boulevard # 100
Larry Wilder,
Partner Wilder Architecture
1517 Seventh Aye, Suite C
Major William Davis
District 11
Cheryl Johnson
P0
Irene Guy
External Affairs Director
Fax
DISTRICT Lee Drury De Cesare,
From one of De Cesare’s GK Deepthroats:
ADMINISTRATIVE
OFFICES
Tampa, FL 33631 -3127
2537000 (TDD) 2537174
This past year, the administration has subtly pushed to eliminate hard-earned employees’
rights and benefits.
This past November, (If I gave you exact date/time/location my identity would be revealed;
Tampa, FL336197856 I would face immediate dismissal.)
—, said the following, quote: I can see those two bookstore
workers who spoke up at the board meeting are going to be a big problem. Start
documenting things against them. then said the following, quote: I’m already
on it.
Barbara Larson was most likely referring to the two
Muller and Leann Horwood) who spoke up against outsourcing
I’ve been with
eager and willing department heads punish those who speak a differing voice. I fear that
those two courageous bookstore supervisors will be punished for speaking out.
Tampa, FL 336755096 Back in 1999, Gwendolyn Stephenson, Sue Flaig and a bevy of managers, made up false
charges against a
later dropped —hired attorney John W. Bakas, Jr.), but she was deliberately harassed and eventually had to file a claim with the EEOC. I enclosed for you copies of internal
The lengths to which
human decency.
Please post this letter on your blog for others to see.
GK Insider
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HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES
WEDNESDAY,
BOARD MEETING
BRANDONCAMPUS
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
MINUTES
1.0 GENERAL FUNCTIONS
1 .01 Call to Order
Ms. Watkins called the meeting to order at 5:15 p.m.
1.02 Pledge of Allegiance
1.03 Invocation
Ms. Watkins requested that during the moment of silence staff remember Kenie Freeman, an
1.04 Roll Call
The following Trustees were in attendance:
Mr. Daniel Coton [
Mrs. Nancy Watkins
Dr. W. Edward Gonzalez
Mrs. Chappella Hill
Mr. Thomas Huggins, Ill
1.05 Welcome to Guests and Staff Members
Ms. Watkins welcomed all guests and staff members
Here’s the grubby saga of GK cooked –up charges dropped against employee Del Rio with back pay but no apology for pain and suffering after she got an aggressive lawyer—John Bakas—to beard GK bullies fold when confronted. Hoorah for Ms. Del Rio. Score one for justice and one against GK vicious behavior. Ldd
-‘ — — OF DISR1M1
is1fif;cted by the Privacy Act of 1974; See Privacy Act Statement beforef 1151A00461
NAME (Indicate Mr., Ms.. Mrs.,1 HDWE TELEFIE C
Mrs. Miriam N. Del Rio
STREET ADDRESS DITY, srr-:
501 Raoid Falls Dr..
NAMED IS THE EMPLOYER, LABOR ORGANIZAIDS, EMPLDVUET AGECV APPE:DESH:P CCWWITTEE,
STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY WHO DIScIMINAED A3AINST E ufc,- ;:
NAME ..-..-.. NUMBER CF EWP_CYEES, EWSERS TEEPdD:_ Area Cde)
Hilisborough Community College Ca D 5D (3) 253—7:39
STREET ADDRESS
39 Columbia Drive, Tampa, FL 33606 057
NAME TELEPHONE NUMBER (:rc;ude .4rea Code,
STREET ADDRESS
CAUSE OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON (Check appropriate box (es)) DATE DISCRIMINATION TOOK PLACE
EARLIEST LATEST
LZRACE LCOLOR 11SEX LIRELIGION JNATIONAL ORIGIN
RETALIATION LJAQE I:IDISABILITY EJOTHERfSpecify)
CONTINUING ACTION
THE PARTICULARS
I. Personal Harm
On
II. Respondent’s Reason for Adverse Action
No reason has been given.
III, Discrimination Statement
I believe I have been discriminated against on the basis nionT origin, Hispanic (Puerto Rican), my sex, Female, and retaltd affls’. for having filed Charge No. 151A00216, in violation of TitlIIft&. Civil Rights Pct of 1964, as amended
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EEOC FORM 5 (ReV. 06/99)
RESPONDENT’S
| want this charge tiled with both the EEOC and the state ci local Agency, if any. I will advise the agencies if I change my address or telephone number and cooperate fully with them in the processing of my charge in accordance with their procedures. | NOTARY - (When necessary for State and Local Requirements) | ||
| I swear or affirm that I have read the above charge and | that | ||
| I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true | | SIGNATURE OF COMPLAINANT | |
| and correct. | | | |
| | SUBSCRIBED | DATE | |
| Date Charging Party (Signature) | | | |
JOflfl W. Bakas, Jr. Ta dah! Big John to the rescue!
Attorney and Counselor at Law
201 E. KENNEDY BouLEvARD. SUTrE 400
TAMPA. FLORIDA 33602-5823
TE1EPHoE 813-2284015
FAX 813-228-8208
E-mail jbakasgaol.can Our Hero: Big John Bakas, Legal Paladin Extraordinaire, bien sur
November 8, 1999
Maria N. Sorolis
Allen, Norton & Blue
Hyde Park Plaza, Suite 350
324 South Hyde Park Avenue
Tampa, Florida 33606
BY FAX TO 813-253-2006
Re: Miriam Nelly Del Rio
Dear Ms. Sorolis:
The College has ignored Del Rio’s requests regarding the name clearing
hearing and has sought to build a false record concerning the nature of the hearing. Del Rio again rejects such attempts and renews her previous requests.
Sincerely yours,
(John’W. Bakas, Jr.
OFFICE OF TH PRESIDENT
Gwendolyn W Stephenson, Ph.D.
PD. Bx 3 27 P
•
December 10, 1999
Mrs. Miriam N. Del Rio
501 Rapid Falls Drive
Brandon, Florida 33511
Dear Mrs. Del Rio:
I have determined that the most recent investigation into the missing funds at the Plant City Campus is not yet complete.
As a result, I have withdrawn my recommendation for your termination from the December Board agenda. I am reimbursing your back pay from October 1, 1999 to the present, with interest.
Effective Monday, December 13, 1999, you are to report to the Dale Mabry Campus Bookstore and Sarah Emerson for your assignment. In the event you do not report to work on Monday, you need to contact Ms. Emerson accordingly.
/hg
Enclosure (check) cc: Delores Sanford
Marc Gordon
Sarah Emerson.
Suzanne Flaig
Sincerely, We bet.
President What, m’am, no apology for the crucifixion of this employee by you ghouls at GK? Shame!
Ms. Miriam Nelly Del Rio joins Maida Bello in the Valkyrie Hall of Fame for Besting the GK Bullies
Drum roll ~thunder~lightening
Tootle de toot toot!
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Board Legal Gun Carraway, Briefcase Containing the Magna Carta and a Spare Pair of Socks Swinging from Pistol Hand, Robert’s Rules in Other, Strides onto the Scene at the GK OK Corral Bunker in the Davis Islands Badlands
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SOUTHTRUST PLAZA
SAXON GILMORE 201 F. KENNED BLVD
TAMPA FLORIDA M602
Attorneys and Counselors at Law -
Lee DeCesare
RE: Request for Public Records
Dear Ms. DeCesare:
At the recent Board meeting in April, you asked the Board to provide you with additional information under Florida’s Public Records Laws. Hillsborough Community College (
You have made several requests for public records, which have been provided by the administration. However, in some cases you asked for verification or an explanation of a statement or record, which is outside of the scope of Florida’s Public Records Law. In particular at the Board meeting, you asked for verification of comments made in LaGaceta. This is not a public record request. Redundant comma errors: Don’t cut off restrictive adjective clauses with a comma.
With regard to your request for alumni association contact information, you may review and copy
You asked for contact information for Ms. Nancy White. The last known contact information for Ms. Nancy White is as follows:
5105 Homer Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33629.
Should you have any further requests for public records at
Sincerely,
J. Frazier Carraway
/td
cc: District Head of Trustees
Dr. Gwendolyn W. Stephenson
Martha K. Koehler, Esq.
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Mr. Carraway, sir:
My main problem with the
Mr. Huerta is delusional. I stick to a task like a cockle-burr. I never got up from my desk as an undergraduate until I had mastered the last French irregular verb in my assignment right down to the pluperfect in a pear tree.
One wonders that Mr. Huerta has the job of supplying public records if he is not capable of--or is resistant to-- doing job. If his non-performance on my requests represents his usual shucking and jiving, the citizens who pay his no-doubt bloated salary get a bad deal.
This recalcitrance made me revisit Mr. Huerta’a qualifications for his job. When I retired, the scandal of the rumors of Mr. Huerta’s porn-surfing on public equipment and public time had just burst forth. The print press knew of the rumors as well as the whole
I wondered how Mr. Huerta got away with such behavior without being fired. Then I recalled that his arrival at
My first step at that porn-surfing time was to check Mr. Huerta’s academic credentials since, as I recall, he claimed a doctorate. When I called the
Knowing there was no such thing, I contacted
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Huerta, John L
Ms. Hicks: Does this individual have a degree from Nova? Does he have a doctorate ABD in 1997? Does he have any degree from Nova at any time? Thank you. Ms. Levitz says she finds no record of a degree for him but that you are expert in past records. I would appreciate your help in receiving this information today if possible. Thank you.
Lee Drury De Cesare
15316 Gulf Boulevard 802
727-398-4142
Hi Lee!
I have a transcript on John Huerta indicating he was in the Doctor of Public Administration program. It doesn't say when he began, because it is so old, but it does have a notation that he left the program 7/79. I don't know what he had left to do as I am not an advisor. I am guessing, but it looks like he attended 3 or 4 years. Does this info help? Help? Let me know.
Thanks,
Barbara Hicks
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 3:30 PM
To: bhicks@nova.edu
Subject: Re: Degree information for John L. Huerta
Barbara, did your microfiche search yield any results on this fellow? Thanks. Lee
----- Original Message -----
From: Lee
To: bhicks@nova.edu
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003
Subject: Degree information for John L. Huerta
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I noted when I returned recently after my retirement to a Board meeting and plead with the Board not to jettison the bookstore employees and the Head Start children that Dr. Huerta had morphed into Mr. Huerta. I inferred that he revised his degree claim downward after he discovered that I had made inquiry to the personnel department about its authenticity.
Degree faking ranks a serious infraction in the legitimate academic world that is analogous, I infer, to a person’s claiming a law degree and licensing to practice law. In the legitimate academic world, faking a degree is a firing offense. It remains to be seen whether the GK administration cares a tittle about its reputation in the legitimate academic world. Its ambitions appear to me to trend in the direction of the commercial world with lots of contracts, subcontracts, and vendor relationships with their interesting possibilities for graft.
If GK cared about academics, it would require that its practitioners there learn to punctuate.
I wondered how Mr. or Dr. Huerta--who got away with porn surfing on school time, claiming a doctorate that he did not have, and having a job opened for him without advertising--had transitioned from a Dr. to a Mr. after I retired.
My inference says that he retreated from his doctoral-degree claim because the
I also wonder at what role Dr. Stephenson played in these dramas that fly in the face of maintaining a reputation in legitimate academic world. She apparently gave her protégée unusual latitude athwart academic degree claims.
If I discover in examining the personnel records of Dr. Stephenson and Mr. /Dr. Huerta that it appears that someone has tampered with the files so that the doctorate claim is no longer on record and neither is the porn-surfing infraction, I will return to you and the Board to find out how this serious offense occurred and what the Board with your assistance will do about it.
Mr. Huerta’s incompetence with responding to this citizen’s public-records request shows up in his attempt to claim that FERPA covered my request for the contact information with the Alumni Association. Thank you for correcting that error, which a public-relations officer should not have made if he knew a job that he has long held.
I respectfully request that you revisit your statement that
Student and former Hawkeye editor Gagnon has given me email permission (above) to examine his ouster from
Mr. Gagnon says that the college required him to provide a mental-health certificate to re-enter the college. I want to see that request and would appreciate your passing it on to Mr. Huerta to send to me as public information since Mr. Gagnon says I can have such data; I would also like you to cite the authority of the college and whether there be a psychiatrist on the staff to evaluate a student’s mental health and to demand that it be ratified before the college authorities allow him to return to school. I would like a history of the use of this stratagem of student harassment.
This
I thank you for your help in my public-records project. I return the favor by giving you some assistance in my field of expertise: the English language. The commas redlined in your letter to me are redundant, the most frequent error in punctuation. One does not cut off restrictive adjective clauses with a comma as you twice do.
I am agog at the florid panache of your signature. It bespeaks either overweening confidence or the opposite—Freudian forensics must decide. I am a registered nurse and worked in hospitals for fifteen years including a psychiatric hospital. Such signatures thus interest me.
Thoracic surgeons, the top of the hospital-prestige food chain, have the most elaborate, most illegible signatures in the surgical pecking order. Yours beats out any thoracic-surgeon stars’ hand-written signature and orders that we nurses struggled to decipher. We could never make out whether the star surgeon wanted the patient to get morphine ¼ or morphine ½ so labyrinthinely illegible was the surgical orders’ writing.
The surgeon was always indignant when we nurses chased him down in the hall trailed by a half dozen obsequious residents to read what he had written for us.
These incidents occasioned levity in the nurses’ lounge, where the nurse who chased down the thoracic wunderkind to have him decipher his orders was hero for the day. We nurses tend to be an irreverent breed.
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Alas, I can’t figure out how to get Yahoo email to accept the scanned-in replica of Mr. Carraway’s signature. You have to trust me that Jackson Pollock would be jealous.
Lee
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Lee Drury De Cesare
Former
- At the recent Board meeting in April, you asked the Board to provide you with additional information under Florida’s Public Records Laws. Hillsborough Community College (
You have made several requests administration. However, in some statement or record, which is outside at the Board meeting, you asked for public record request.
for public records, which have been provided by the cases you asked for verification or an explanation of the scope of Florida’s Public Records Law. In particular verification of comments made in LaGaceta. This is not a
With regard to your request for alumni association contact information, you may review and copy 11CC alumni contact information at your convenience. The protections afforded to students under FERPA, however, do not stop once they graduate or leave a post-secondary institution. Directory information such as name and address can be provided unless a student has specifically directed
You asked for contact information for Ms. Nancy White. The last known contact information for Ms. Nancy White is as follows: 5105 Homer Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33629.
SAXON GILMORE
Attorneys arid Counselors at late
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Lee DeCesare
RE: Request for Public Records Dear Ms. DeCesare:
5105 1-lomer Avenue,
May 11, 2007 Page 2
Should you have any further requests for public records at
Sincerely, —
J/Fr&-Carraway
//td
/florid signature of Mr. Carraway
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cc: District Board of Trustees
Dr. Gwendolyn W. Stephenson
/ Martha Kaye Koehier, Esq.
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SAXON GILMORE
Attorneys and Counselors
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