Katherine Fernandez Rundle Mum on Barbara Carey-Shuler's Reversal

• Elected officials should have experience and accomplishments that instill confidence. Neighborhood people want to know their leaders have hired and fired employees. Met payrolls. Made intelligent decisions. Spence-Jones has no background. Want proof? What has been Spence-Jones doing for the past ten months? Is she in Florida? Who pays her bills?

• Im agreed with JIM: jm says: The US Dept of Justice should investigate this officE. I WAS LOOKING FOR HELP IN YOUR OFFICE BUT YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT DID'T WANT TO UNDERSTAND IN ENGLISH NEITHER IN SPANISH..THEY SAID THEY SPOKE SPANISH BUT THE ONLY THING THEY DO IS TO SAY NO...YOU CAN NOT?? I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU EMAIL TO SEND MY PETITION.

• Spence-Jones voted Yes to bail out the Marlins. That vote will cost the taxpayers of Miami over $3 Bil. That means $3 Bil that will not be invested in neighborhood businesses. Spence-Jones got played by the slick Marlins salesman named David Samson. She ruined Overtown.

• I think Paul Robeson, the most popular African American American of his time, said it best when dealing with this issue: "The Negro (African Americans) have a direct and firsthand understanding...of imperialist exploitation and opression. In his daily life, he experiences the same system of discrimination, segregation, and denial of Democratic rights whereby the imperialist overloards keep hundred of millions of people in colonial sbjection throughout the world." Let's get real here. This isn't even about Spence-Jones. This is about money, opression, and control. Spence-Jones fought for millions of dollars for her district via the new Marlin's stadium AND was preparing to handle millions more in Federal stimulus funds from the government. Money that was going to improve the condition of her primarilly African American district. Has anyone asked if those funds are still going to be used in her district? Since that time, have those funds been "redirected" somewhere else?? You can't have it both ways. You can't prevent funds from coming into the community and then point fingers at the conditions of the community! This is opression at it's core... We live in a great country. I have fulfilled all of my dreams right here in the United States. I have lived to see a great African American become the President of the United States. However, at the same time, we have to wake up and realize the wrong around us and call it what it is. This is wrong to destroy the career and reputation of Micelle Spence Jones for the love of money. A mother, wife, daughter...this is an autrocity on many different levels. Rundle needs to admit her wrong doing, even though I believe she's just a patsy, apologize to the Jones family, and reinstate her in her rightful place as Commissioner. They will probably wait until all the millions are allocated where they want them to be before that happens...

• Katherine Fernandez-Rundle is a great example of why we need term limits around the state. This woman campaigns on pure crap. She has too much power and no one should serve longer than the President at this type of level. Vote her out!

• HEY ANONYMOUS"YOU HAVE BLOG'D 11 TIMES WHAT IS YOUR MAIN PROBLEM THAT YOU ARE SO ANGERY AT RUNDLE YOU CAN'T HELP YOURSELF. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.FIND A LIFE IT IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH YOU.WE ALL KNOW THE PROBLEMS WITH RUNDLE BUT NOBODY RESPONDS 11 TIMES.

• Why? Because Spence-Jones is dumb and greedy. Everytime Spence-Jones met someone she hit them up for "a bribe" or a "campaign contribution" or money to hire a "friend". She hated to work and she rarely bothered to show up at her office. Spence-Jones always looked out for Spence-Jones and she got greedy. I bet you want the $3.3 Bil back she gave the Marlins, right?

• I'm curious about this, if money was misspent shouldn't the County had brought charges and not the SAO. It's County money. Can we say those other people were taken when in fact they had no request so obviously they couldn't have expecting anything. If a bank puts money in your account by mistake does it mean it belongs to you? and if they correct their mistake and give it to the person it belong to would you claim the rightful owner had stolen from you. This case is not about justice,or corruption its politics and whoever it is wanted Spence-Jones out the picture but why?

• Who is paying for Spence-Jones's many attorneys? Who is paying her mortgage?

• Don't forget that the Carey-Shuler letter isn't the only one that the state alleges was forged, if I remember correctly it was one of three forged letters. Let's not forget that the bulk of the $80k++ wasn't spent on making her district a better place for her constituents but was instead spent on herself. Read the indictment, there's much more than just the Carey-Shuler letter.

• The State Attorney's Office stated earlier that they had a key witness - Barbara Carey-Shuler - on the stealing charge. Carey-Shuler was not shown their evidence and "could not remember signing the papers." Last month, I gather they were getting her ready for trial and showed her the paper with her witing on it and after seeing her handwriting, she remembered. Now, the SAO does not have their key witness why won't they drop the charge? Is this about keeping Spence-Jones out of office?

• What ever happened to, " He who labors here only seeks the truth". You found the evidence clearing Spence-Jones so why did the state with hold the letter hiding the truth.

• SAO needs to look into Sarnoff's best buddy, Steve Marin how many city deals has he made millions from while running Sarnoff's campaign secretly and raising funds for him at the same time. This is the same person that has been under countless investigations. I guess its easy for him to throw stones at Spence-Jones to take the attention off of his back room deals

• Shuler was Chairperson at the County budget hearing in Sep 04, but stepped down as Chair in Nov 04. So when the letter was written in Jan 05 she was not Chairperson therefore the letterhead is correct.

• Miami Dade County did an audit on MMAP during the time of (House Of Lies)and based on MMAP audit report money wasn't the issue on the report. However I understand that what SAO put it out there, the Herald wrote and people believe it. In your opinion does that make Spence-Jones guity of grand theft because the SAO said it or the Herald wrote?

• I'm curious about this, if money was misspent shouldn't the County had brought charges and not the SAO. It's County money. Can we say those other people were taken when in fact they had no request so obviously they couldn't have expecting anything. If a bank puts money in your account by mistake does it mean it belongs to you? and if they correct their mistake and give it to the person it belong to would you claim the rightful owner had stolen from you. This case is not about justice,or corruption its politics and whoever it is wanted Spence-Jones out the picture but why?

• Who is paying the legal fees for Spence-Jones? Follow the money...

• LET ME MAKE THE FOLLOWING LEGIT COMMENTS.RUNDLE HERSELF IS A POLITICAL HOG,WHY?BECAUSE IF ANY OF HAVE A GOOD MEMORY YOU WILL REMBER THAT HER TWO SONS GOT INTO SERIOUS TROUBLE WITH THE LAW SEVERAL YEARS AGO.HER OLDEST WASCHARGED RESISTING ARREST WITH VIOLENCE VANDALISM,BURGULARY OF A OCCUPIED DWELLING.AND WHILE IN JAIL OVERNIGHT WAS ADDITIONAL CHARGED WITH BATTERY.ASK YOUR SELF WHAT EVER HAPPEND TO THE CASES AGANIST HER SON AND THE OTHER KIS HAD SOME ADDITIONAL PROBLEMS.IT IS VERY IMPORTANT HER OFFICE MAKES BIG SPLASHES,THEN NOTHING.THE PUBLIC CORRUPTION UNIT. OF JOE CENTURNO IS A DO NOTHING UNIT WHEN IT COMES TO PUBLIC CORRUPTION THAT OFFICE NEEDS TO BE FUMAGATED THEN RE-STOCKED.

• Carey-Schuler changing her mind about that letter doesn't let Spence-Jones off the hook, there's other evidence that casts her in a not so favorable light. She'll have her day in court, this is nothing more than an attempt by her defense attorneys to try her case in the court of public opinion. This revelation by Carey-Shuler regarding that letter would have had far more impact if it were saved for trial.

• Now I know why I constantly get turned down when I go to the SBA, Beacon Counsel or the County for a small business loan, after giving money to Spence-Jones and he cronies, they have none left for legit businesses!

• There's no excuse for what's happened here. There shouldn't have been a single stone left unturned before the decided to charge Spence Jones. The question that remains to be asked is whether or not the prosecutor knew that this document existed or not. If he knew it existed and chose to ignore it then he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. If he simply didn't know it existed then what did you expect him to do when his witness stated under oath that she didn't sign the document and furthermore even the letter head was a forgery? Regardless, this still doesn't explain how Spence Jones misspent the money that was intended to better her community.

• Stupid bitch, Katherine Rundle. You will pay one of these days by being elected out of your corrupt position.

• Wow, it's amazing that certain people post negative comments without ever reviewing the evidence. it's truly amazing to see how these blogs play out with all the hatred people have toward Spence-Jones when it fact the justice system is supposed to be we are innocent until proven guilty. Unfortunately that's not the way it's done in Miami political scene, to all the people that seek the truth you can actually find Shuler's handwritten letter at http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/07/barbara_carey-shuler_admits_sh.php this way you'll see for youself what the SAO has kept from Shuler, the public in order to get an arrest warrant. It is against the law to withhold evidence and for that reason the SAO needs to be investigated by U.S. Department of Justice

• Case is far from over people. This is an attempt by the defense to try the case in the court of public opinion in order to strong arm the state to drop the charges. Domt lose sight of the fact that she misspent the grant money regardless of whether the Carey-Shuller letter was real or fake. The problem is that the state attorneys office is so inept, so incompetent, so corrupt that they can't put together a good that will stick in court, why do you think almost all their cases end up being pled out?

• Who is paying Spence-Jones's bills? Did she finaly get a legit job? Apply for welfare?

• Is Charlie Crist going to reinstate Commissioner Spence-Jones? Do the right thing Charlie!

• The US Dept of Justice should investigate this office. Where is the rest of the media on this story?

• The US Dept of Justice should investigate this office. Where is the rest of the media on this story?

• Rundle has lost with what's going on in her office. The people running things are dinosaurs from the Reno era that are just counting the days before they retire, once these asshats are gone, then and only then can this office get their shit together.

• Is Mr Griffith possibly the quietest spokesman on the planet? Can he comment on anything? Ask him what the Rundle thinks about the weather and see if they can comment.

• Ask Ed about Asa Bill Kostrzweski then!

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