Browsing: Trails In The Sand by Peter Traceit

Foganholi called Super Cartwright out on her big Pinocchio lies when she told him that Hopkins had embezzled funds from his job when working for the city of Pompano almost a decade ago. It was evident that Cartwright felt pressured to hire Hopkins after the interview committee made an error on his scoring sheet which placed him in second place when he should have been in first.

     The messiness around public records requests is keeping Traceit in the sand tunnels. Trying to decipher the 5Ws of the requests has The Street Detective in a sand tornado not created by Ian, but by the Broward Principals and Assistants Association (BPAA).

     Ol’ Peter has been combing through pages and pages of consultant agreements that do not meet the threshold of requiring Board approval. Consultant agreements under $50,000 can be executed without Board approval and in some instances, consultant agreements under $500,0000 can also be swept underneath the scrutiny of the watchful eye. 

     It is reported that there are now two Dr. Cartwrights working in the Dirty South, perhaps trying to create a Ponderosa, one in Broward and another in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Sources are telling Detective Traceit that Deputy Superintendent of School Operations, Judy Marte, called in a few favors in her old stomping ground to get Dr. Carl Cartwright hired as a Director in the School Operations division in Miami-Dade County as a favor to her boss, Dr. Vickie Cartwright. Carl Cartwright is the husband of Super Cartwright.

       The Street Detective has been trekking through the county as some are attempting to shovel pals of white beach sand on the head and reputation of Robert “Bob” McKinzie. Some are telling Traceit that dirty politics are at play after McKinzie buried Bob Dubose ten feet under in the recent County Commission race. Dubose and McKinzie once played extremely well in the sand with Dubose actually endorsing McKinzie when he ran for the city of Fort Lauderdale Commission seat. But fast forward a couple election cycles later, Dubose is reporting he regrets even getting in the sand pool with McKinzie and is throwing all kinds of mud on his name both publicly and privately.

      Ol’ Peter Traceit has been dredging through old police files to sort through some pretty interesting trails left in the sand for easy discovery. Seat 1 of the Broward School Board has quite the soiled past, sodded present and potential for quite the grimy future.

     Misfeasance is conduct that is lawful but harms another person financially or physically due to carelessness or an accident. In other words, the Grand Jury found that Board members had a duty to act but failed to act in the safety and wellbeing of others. Miriam and Webster explains that malfeasance is a much higher degree than misfeasance. Malfeasance is when a state official violates ethical laws pertaining to their duties in office which is cause for their removal. So, from what the Detective can deduce, the removal of the four Board members was due to malfeasance while in office.

  It doesn’t take, Peter Traceit, the Street Detective, to discover that people are not turning out to vote which is an indication that “things will remain the same”.

     Ol Street Detective, Peter Traceit, has been dragging through the sands of local politics and has stopped to examine the sandy dastard-liness of a few candidates in races at the state and local levels. Walking through the sands can be an arduous and slow process, but when you add water to the sand and get some sand slinging, things can get all the more interesting.

And we thought that the Broward County School Board  was in a mess. Ol Peter Traceit is finding out that gentrification comes in many ways, shapes, forms, colors, and fashions. People will do anything to land grab and take Black businesses. The streets are saying that Betty’s Restaurant, the old Bass Brothers Market and the old 6 street corner drug store and  Mr. Rooster AKA BGs, are engaged in some strange things happening that may be the down fall of some family owned businesses. The sands alone the corridor are changing faster that we know it, and you will never believe who’s behind it; stay tuned for more sand to fall through the hourglass.