You Can Stop Corruption in Daytona Beach - Join the Floodthelines Campaign
Capone would have drooled over the power that today's "capos" have over the local politicians in Daytona Beach; a product of good ol' boy networks, campaign contributions and undue influences that propel unqualified individuals with a nasty predisposition for corruption into power. Their patrons exert total and absolute control over a city as if it was their private ranch and much to the detriment of its citizens.
Their control extends to the institutions that are tasked with the checks and balances to protect the public, and as a result they act with impunity.
They have reaped untold riches by getting their captive public officials plunder the public trust and finance everything from overpriced sales of real estate, privileged zoning deals, selective retaliatory zoning actions against their enemies, virtual immunity against criminal state laws, and, most galling, the funding of their personal pet projects and private indulgences. All courtesy of the taxpayers, which are unknowingly funding the largesse and who now must bear a gigantic burden that will take generations to pay off.
The worst kind of organized crime is organized crime under Color of Law.The Daytona Post
Please contact Governor Charlie Crist and urge him to instigate a corruption investigation of Daytona Beach City Government.
Phone:(850) 488-7146 [Office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time]
Fax: (850) 487-0801
email to: Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com
or Mail to:
Office of Governor Charlie Crist
State of Florida
The Capitol
400 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
Sample of What to say:
Honorable Governor Crist:
Daytona Beach has been besieged by an unprecedented wave of local government corruption that has thrown this formerly bustling beach town into anarchy, poverty, crime and despair.
Under near absolute control of a few multimillionaire special interests, corrupt officials have literally raped and pillaged a formerly bustling beach city into the poster boy of Florida Corruption. In no other place is the "Good 'ol Boy Gang-of -Thugs" mode of government more evident and acts with more impunity.
Their control extends to the institutions that are tasked with the checks and balances to protect the public, and as a result they act with impunity with the knowledge of having literal immunity in front of the law no matter the malfeasance.
They have reaped untold riches by getting their captive public officials plunder the public trust and finance everything from overpriced sales of real estate, privileged zoning deals, selective retaliatory zoning actions against their enemies, virtual immunity against criminal state laws, constitutional violations of property and personal civil rights and, most galling, the funding of their personal pet projects and private indulgences
As a result, in Daytona Beach, corruption has reached a level that is overt and in-your-face yet it remains uninvestigated and unpunished.
Your urgent intervention is needed.
9 comments:
Daytona Beach Government has unfortunately been infected by corrupt scumbags.
Only State or Federal involvement will get our city back to normal. Perhaps a couple of these corrupt people will finally get prosecuted once we all make our voice heard.
We must not forget the underlyin cause of this decay: This is the way the local capos want it - just look at the campaign funding reports - follow the money and you'll find who really controls and benefits from the malfeasance.
A formal investigation into corruption in Daytona Beach has been long overdue.