Saturday, January 18, 2020
As I See It, It's Checkmate.
Tracy Truppman avoided having a Commission meeting occur this past Tuesday. Another one is not scheduled until the regular meeting in February, and I'm told that special Commission meetings can only be scheduled at regular Commission meetings, unless they're about qualifying emergencies. So, since there won't be a regular Commission meeting until February, then there won't be any Commission meeting until then, barring one of those qualifying emergencies.
So, the question is, what does Tracy think she has to gain by avoiding or delaying having the Commission meet?
One thought was that she could somehow stall off, or somehow even prevent, the installation of two new Commissioners. Well, that happened on Thursday, January 16. Tracy did not accomplish that imagined goal. And if it hadn't happened on Thursday, it would have happened at whatever would be the next regular Commission meeting Tracy would agree to attend. And we'd have to have some Village meetings in the next several months. There's important Village business that has to happen. "Budget season" is coming soon, and we have to make arrangements for elections at the end of this year. All of this requires the Commission to meet. Even if the new Commissioners hadn't been installed this past Thursday, they'd be installed at some point. This possible effort of Tracy's is a dead end.
Another idea is that Tracy, and her Rebecca, are stalling for time, so they can get Dan Samaria thrown out of his house, and, they tell themselves, even thrown out of the Village (because of the imagined possibility that he could no longer live in his house). But Dan has already made arrangements to move into another house in the Village, if Tracy and her Rebecca get him thrown out of his own house. So, that won't work for Tracy. And even if Tracy and her Rebecca could somehow get Dan to have to leave active residence in the Village, there happens to be case law, and a precedent, from as nearby as Miami Shores. In that situation, a Commissioner was able to remain on the Commission, even though he temporarily no longer lived in Miami Shores, on the basis of his assertion that he intended to re-establish residence in the Shores, which he did. All Dan would have to do, if the girls could somehow pry him out of his house, and out of the Village, is say he intends to re-establish residence here. So that scheme won't work.
But what if Tracy and her Rebecca could somehow get Dan out of his house, and out of the Village, and he decided, for some reason, that he no longer wanted to live here? What if he resigned from the Commission? Tracy's last shot would be to get elected someone who would be the third stooge. Well, she already tried that. And Rafael lost handily. He lost to one person Tracy might or might not have thought she could manipulate, and another person she treats as an arch enemy. Tracy simply does not have significant juice in Biscayne Park any more.
Anything Tracy can try, or has tried, is doomed to fail, or has failed already.
Is Tracy trying to hang onto that extra stipend for an extra month or so? Is she that hard up? Janey Anderson used to say a funny thing about Commissioners who implied that the meager stipend was so important to their livelihoods. She would ask "what were they going to do if they didn't win the election?"
It's clear Tracy has not the slightest regard for Village finances, or for the taxpayers and, you know, "constituents," who live here. Does she simply take a really short view of things, and want to hang on to the title for a very little bit more time?
Whatever is Tracy's intention, it seems clear she's not going to accomplish anything. And every effort she makes turns more and more Village residents against her. Maybe she just doesn't get it. It's painfully clear that she doesn't care.
You think through every possible move, and you realize that anything you do leads to the same place: you lose.
"Checkmate." Usually, the graceful loser lays down his or her king at this point, and concedes the match. The graceful ones do that.
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I speculate that Tracy and Krishan thought their little scheme to remove Dan would work. However, now they are in damage control mode and I would guess Krishan is playing "cleanup" at Village Hall. Let's hope records and communications are left unaltered before the commission hands him a cardboard box and sends him down the road. Tracy will most likely resign before she's removed and my guess is that she and Krishan will try to sue the city.
ReplyDeleteWhat happy little imagery.
DeleteI know you and I don't fully agree on this, but I don't put any of this on Krishan. He does what his Mama tells him to do, because he wants to please her, and keep that job with the good pay and the impressive title. As was pointed out to me lately by two people (one of them today), Krishan hasn't even gotten his municipal manager training and certification. His Mama didn't tell him to do it, so he didn't do it. If he can't even take that kind of initiative, to make himself a better, and frankly more marketable, manager, what's the chance he bothers to work up schemes and mechanisms to assassinate Dan Samaria? No, this is 100% Tracy and her Rebecca.
By the way, Brad, sue the Village for what? We, Tracy Truppman and Krishan Manners, are filing suit in the 11th Circuit, because the Village of Biscayne Park, Florida,______________________. Please fill in the blank.
DeleteFred, just a possibility and let's hope it doesn't happen. I totally disagree with you regarding Krishan and feel his enabling Tracy to play puppeteer on the commission and with village employees shows he is not just naive but IMO equally corrupt. The best we can hope for is that they all disappear into the sunset.... "happy little imagery".
ReplyDeleteBrad, I said you and I don't fully agree, but I'm not going to argue with you. You're not wrong. I think of Krishan the same way I think of Sarah Sanders. I don't fault either of them for lying or manipulating. They work directly for bosses who lie and manipulate, and as representatives of those bosses, they, the employees, also have to lie and manipulate. What I fault both of them for is agreeing to take the job. Or for not quitting.
DeleteI'm sure you'll say that the BP Village manager works for the Village, not for the Commission. But that's only technically true. It is only the Commission that hires and fires the Village manager. The manager is directly answerable only to the Commission. And since we elected this Commission, then we indirectly endorse what the Commission does.
The peculiarity with this particular Commission is that one person dominates it, because too many of the others have neither spines nor brains. But we elected them, too, and we knew what they were when we did.
So, the bottom line is that I agree that Krishan has some culpability here, but the vast majority of it goes to the Commission, which, by agreement of the Commission (a majority of it), is Tracy Truppman. And ultimately, it's our fault for electing them. As I said, we knew in advance more or less what we were electing, but we did it anyway. Janey Anderson says she didn't realize in advance that it would be quite THIS bad, but she's only talking quantitatively. We knew what we were doing. We knew this would be bad. We just thought the available alternative would be (even) worse. That was our call. Frankly, considering the damage our chosen representatives have done, I hope we still think we were right. It would seem to add insult to injury, as they say, if we also had to conclude we ourselves were careless, reckless, shortsighted, unthinking, capricious, and unappreciative.