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July 20, 2010 By David Arthur Walters MIAMI MIRROR MIAMI BEACHI was extraordinarily happy when I arose Friday morning on the 16th of July 2010. Little did I expect to be crestfallen by the end of the day and find myself bemoaning the meeting I had attended, at the Las Olas Caf in my neighborhood, between the Miami Beach City Managers Office, the Miami Beach Police Department and its Code Compliance Division, the Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association and Miami Beach Community Development Corporation, and myself, the only member of the public, which had supposedly been invited. I dont know if I can write about the meeting, I told an acquaintance of mine from the Flamingo Park neighborhood. The Gonzalez Administration attitude was so ugly. There was no beauty in it at all. I started out with all good intentions, thinking there really was going to be a discussion about the needs of my neighborhood, but all they wanted to do was slap each other on the back, talk about how long theyd worked with each other in the government, and brag about what a great job they were doing in my neighborhood. Whenever I tried to point out what was really going on, or to make a constructive suggestion, they tried to shut me up. Thats the way it is, she said, when we go to the meetings of the Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association. It doesnt have any by laws to speak of, and the rules it does have conflict. I know how you feel. When we try to make suggestions or to correct false statements, we are shushed. The mentality of these actors is so bad, I wailed on the phone, they arent worthy of my critical art. I hate to say this because of our age, but I was thinking after the meeting that death is a good thing. Now I know why seekers after the ugly truth tend to be suicidal. These people have been in charge too long and are not accountable. This city needs to be taken over by young people, but that wont happen until the old city clique dies. Good grief, the Gonzalez
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