tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4776173831497771520.post6007744585066089925..comments2023-10-15T05:14:57.959-07:00Comments on FLORIDA TERM LIMITS BLOG: An open letter from John C. MinderPhilip Blumelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10492586206980130012noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4776173831497771520.post-71539939472890155052011-11-24T08:08:18.415-08:002011-11-24T08:08:18.415-08:00More on-the-money commentary from John Minder, who...More on-the-money commentary from John Minder, who attended the Nov. 21 emergency hearing where a judge struck down the county commission's misleading ballot language to ditch Sarasota's voter-approved 8-year term limits.<br /><br />+++++<br /><br />Commmissioners,<br /><br />I attended the Term Limits Hearing today in Judge Jack Schoonover’s Court Room and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Sarasota County Government had not only one but three attorney’s expending the tax payers dollars representing Sarasota County in defense of a request for a Declaratory Judgment filed by one attorney. One of the attorney’s was defending the eight year term limits passed by the Sarasota Voters in 1998 when the same Attorney representing Sarasota County’s on the eight year term limits was the same Attorney that recommended in 2005 not to appeal the Circuit Judge’s decision that eight year term limits was unconstitutional. The other Sarasota County Government Attorney was representing Sarasota County stating that if the State of Florida Supreme County ruled that the eight year term limits were constitutional then a referendum should be held on January 31, 2012 on the same day as the Republican Primary when the 57% of the Republican voters in Sarasota County would vote but the 43% of the Democrats in Sarasota County probably wouldn’t vote in or on the day of the Republican Primary or on a Referendum by Sarasota County to change the eight year term limits to twelve year term limits and make the 12 year term limits start on January 31, 2012 so all of the incumbent commissioners would start all over on the term limits.<br /><br />The other Attorney was the Sarasota County Attorney, who the tax payers are paying $205,000 a year plus benefits and he just sat there after he had selected two private Attorneys to represent Sarasota County. Do you think the tax payers of Sarasota County can really afford all of this expense so the incumbent County Commissioners will not be bound by eight year term limits and each of them can remain County Commissioners for at least 12 more years?<br /><br />Minder & Associates Engineering Corporation<br />John C. Minder, PE, PSMPhilip Blumelhttp://www.flatermlimits.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4776173831497771520.post-61783852305528627302011-11-02T11:55:34.287-07:002011-11-02T11:55:34.287-07:00Interesting reading from the Sarasota County Bar A...Interesting reading from the Sarasota County Bar Association website, per John Minder:<br /><br />STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONALISM<br /><br />J. TRANSACTIONAL<br /><br />4. An attorney should not prepare a document that is intended to circumvent or violate applicable laws or rules.Philip Blumelhttp://www.sarasotatermlimits.orgnoreply@blogger.com