Thanks to the efforts of a local patriot, the following urls are to the emails produced by the City of Marco Island due to a Freedom of info Act (Florida Statute 119) demand.

The over-600 pages of emails are fairly revealing and raise some questions. Here is an incomplete synopsis from a quick perusal:

• There are many instances where city employees and councilpersons are being told what to do, what to say, and before they say anything, they run it by a one John Arceri as quoted “to prepare certain it looks good”.
• This same individual is requesting reviews/studies/visits from companies on behalf of the city. Where precisely did that authorization come from?
• This individual is communicating on behalf of the city with vendors, contractors and other organizations as the intermediary amoung them and city employees and councilpersons. Where precisely did that authorization come from?
• City employees and councilpersons are being bombarded by “information” by that individual.
• This individual reviews and comments on public performances and public declarations by city employees.
• Even the wives of the councilpersons are communicating with that individual on city issues.
• There are some pictures/postcards of waterfalls.
• There are fairly a number of lunch meetings, and a plethora of requests for lunch meetings amoung city employees and that individual.
• There are several expanded ago debunked FDEP environmental “studies”.
• The city penchant to owning its own utility and underground potential lines is well underway - notice that the “citizens” advisory group assembly has yet to occur.
• There is fairly a lot of duplication in the emails. The order is random, as whether intentionally shuffled by the city when producing the documents. The attachments to some emails were not provided - keeping up with past practices
  and in clear violation of Florida law.
• The GOD BLESS AMERICA line in one e mail (the councilperson did not write it, just copied-pasted from somewhere else) is a refreshing read given that it is buried within so much evil … apart from that the ACLU would have a field day with that one - you know, using public facilities (email) to even mention GOD.

The Highlight (so far):
And the most sickeningly revealing mail found to term: a person in a law firm that is tied with the governing elite from Marco to Crist writes an e mail to syndicate operatives, councilors, wives thereof and the other usual suspects quoting an scoop about the state of education in Florida and
writes: “I was not aware the education system in the state was so poor”.

What???? Can anyone be that silly? Where have they been? And these are the pols that run Marco. Forget GOD BLESS AMERICA - how about GOD HELP US.

Suggestion/Opinion:
Since it is obvious from that produced batch of emails that one non-elected, non-city employee individual is directing efforts, here is an efficiency and money saving notion: fire every city employee and every councilperson (and their wives) and hire that individual. that way we cut out the puppetted middle persons and save a fortune.

Here are the urls to the batched emails. Enjoy (if you can stomach them).

Original post by Mario R. Sanchez, Ph.D.