The Miami Herald Makes Some Moves. By Geniusofdespair

Martha Brannigan is gone from County reporting and is now doing Real Estate. Kathleen McGrory is reporting City of Miami news, previously reported by Chuck Rabin. Chuck has moved to county reporting joining Patricia Mazzei on that beat.  It sucks when they move reporters around, they don't have the history we  would want.  History is important, at least I think so. You are lucky we at Eye on Miami are still covering the under-belly of the County to keep your stomach turned.

Not so funny video. By Geniusofdespair

Video found on Ebaum's World.

Dog Etiquette: is it OK to cook your dog food? ... by gimleteye

I tasted the chicken livers fried with BBQ rub. Terrible. As a general matter I am the only person in the household who loves chicken livers. Cassius does, too. Cassius is my 90 lb., male Chesapeake Bay retriever.

Today we address a timeless question: should you cook food for your dog? The short answer is, there are some things you can't cook for anyone else. Dogs habituated from the wild hovering around the fire fighting over leftovers for tens of thousands of years. This conditioned behavior to eat cooked food predated my cooking chicken livers to share  -- wondering if he would also like them spiced with BBQ rub from Austin, Texas.

Cassius likes spicy foods. Who knew. The BBQ rub was a failed experiment for everyone except him. Anyhow, once this question is breached, there is a further question: is it proper dog etiquette to cut this food into smaller pieces. My children do not like chicken livers and they do not let me cut their food any more. Cassius won't eat vegetables, but he never talks back. For that I cut his spicy chicken livers into his food.

HBO "Girls": another glowing shout-out ... by gimleteye

Even before HBO's "True Blood" restarted last summer I felt the network was caught in a lull. I was OK with "Hung". Loved "Bored to Death". But there was nothing to TIVO from HBO! Anyhow the cable network is back big-time. Loved "Luck". Sad to see it go. Big fan of "Eastbound and Down" and the short season of "Life's Too Short", then "Girls" arrived in time to rescue my scheduled recordings list from oblivion.

Boy am I a fan of what Lena Dunham has done.

This 26 year old writer and actor has stripped every bit of contrived, false modesty of young adulthood from both the girls and boys at the edge of full blown maturity (whatever!). She's also managed to take the stuffings of the Culture Wars (abortion, pre-marital sex, smoking pot, personal responsibility) and sacked them like a piñata. What a joy to see the bits and pieces scattered on the floor! (The acting is phenomenal and there is one girl -- the Perpetual Virgin -- who I swear must have been raised in Miami.) Part of me cringes when a writer this good emerges at such a young age. What to advise, to protect her talent? I want Dunham for the long haul. In the meantime, Don't Miss "Girls"!

Do You Ever Fantasize About Making Things Right? By Geniusofdespair

People's Art Museum (aka Perez, MAM) partially built in Bicentennial Park on public land.

Marco Rubio: US Senator will not meet with climate change scientists ... by gimleteye

In a New York Times editorial yesterday, James Hansen wrote, "President Obama speaks of a “planet in peril,” but he does not provide the leadership needed to change the world’s course. Our leaders must speak candidly to the public — which yearns for open, honest discussion — explaining that our continued technological leadership and economic well-being demand a reasoned change of our energy course. History has shown that the American public can rise to the challenge, but leadership is essential."

So where is that leadership in Florida? Especially, with a US Senator, Marco Rubio, who will not even meet with climate change scientists? Who will Rubio meet with "urgently"? IKEA. The furniture maker. Apparently Senator Rubio is concerned that in the 1980's, IKEA may have contracted for furniture made in Cuba by prison labor. Rubio, with other Cuban American legislators in Congress, "demanded an urgent meeting" with IKEA. 

In 2010 the chair of the Department of Geologic Sciences Dr. Harold Wanless offered to arrange a meeting between then candidate Rubio and climate change scientists. Rubio took the letter Wanless hand delivered and said that he would be in touch. Nearly two years later, and Dr. Wanless has still had no response. It is inconceivable that a potential vice presidential choice of Mitt Romney would decline to meet with scientists. More so, given how much the state of Florida has at stake.

Why is Marco Rubio hiding? From what? (In the image, below, "TP" means Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant operated by FPL based on LIDAR mapping of sea level rise under a four foot rise scenario. For the full NY Times editorial, click 'read more')

That TP over on the right: It is Turkey Point

Congressman David Rivera. By Geniusofdespair

I requested David Rivera's financial disclosure forms with the State of Florida. I never saw a letter quite like this on ANY financial disclosure by ANYONE.  I guess maybe they wanted to remove references to the numerous contracts he said he had funded by the federal government's U.S. Agency for International Development (they never heard of him).

Cire Andino

Guess who notarized David Rivera's financial disclosures? None other than former wife of Steve Shiver (former County Manager), girlfriend of a previous County Manager and she is current Aide to County Commissioner Steve Bovo: Cirenia Andino. She sure gets around. Speaking of getting around, this Coates Law Firm gets paid by quite a few of the Political Action Committee's. I wrote about Coates before. It figures David Rivera would pick Coates to try and dig out of his mess.

Dogs Take Over: Where Does It Stop? Guestblog by Parksforpeople

South Pointe Park

Pet pooches in Miami Beach, Aventura and Coconut Grove all have one thing in common WATERFRONT dog parks. Our waterfront land is so precious, why are we limiting its use?

Brickell thinks they deserve one too. I am targeting the Miami Beach dog park. The City of Miami Beach has complete trust and confidence in the ability of their dog owners to self police and control their dogs. But, picking up doesn't negate the feces born bacteria. It prevents others from being able to use this land. And this waterfront belongs NOT ONLY to dog owners.

The dog owners of South Beach (highly organized as SOFIK9) are not at all like those Scofflaws over on Brickell, who made the Miami Circle experiment go so disastrously wrong and create all those bad feelings. Our lovely City, went to all the trouble of reversing that strict Miami Dade County ordinance just to hand over to our canines, the largest expanse of green space, with tall shade palms in South Pointe Park next to Government Cut. at the coolest times of the day, sunrise to 10am. and 4pm to 7pm. Its a fine spot, by Smith and Wollensky, to watch dogs of all sizes and dispositions having a great time, off leash. Other visitors to the park, on the other hand be warned. There are only four concrete benches along there, on Cut Walk. You certainly can't sit on the grass to see the ships go by, or the sun go down. Kids don't expect to run about, do cartwheels, or play tag or ball, some dogs are aggressive.

Its more important that the dogs have space to play tag and ball. Unsafe, Unsanitary, Unfair...you think????

This is an idea that will have to be  adopted as dog owners are so inconsiderate and unaware and seem to be fantasizing that they are helping to fertilize the environment.

 

 

Daphne Campbell: Worst Democrat in the Florida State Legislature. By Geniusofdespair

Worst Democrat in Florida Legislature: Daphne Campbell

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Miami Shores, Biscayne Park, Little Haiti, Upper Eastside, El Portal and Parts of North Miami: Vote out your District 108 State Representative Daphne Campbell.  She is on the wrong side of so many issues I don't know where to start.

She just sent out a notice to constituents claiming she got funds for her district... only trouble is $650,000 of what she takes credit for was vetoed by the governor. She never even requested those funds! She is just taking credit for what other entities/Rep's applied for - that happen to be in her district. Ick!!!

In her campaign report she got $500 the same day from Genting Casinos and Anheuser Bush Beer.  She also got $500 from Dosal Tobacco. Of course Lobbyist Ron Book and family gave her money.  She also got $500 from a PAC called The Committee for Florida Justice Reform (she is the only Democrat to get money from this PAC - KOCH brothers gave this PAC money).

She is a favorite of the Christian Family Coalition enough said with that one.

She and her son were accused of defrauding Medicaid. From the Miami Herald:

"The state attorney general’s office is tracing hundreds of thousands in payments by the state to group home companies that were run by Campbell and her husband, according to sources close to the investigation...Neither Campbell, 54, a Democrat whose House district covers northeast Miami-Dade, or Hubert Campbell, 46, who was convicted in a mortgage fraud case in 2007, would respond to interview requests. The probe comes weeks after the arrest of the couple’s 28-year-old son, Gregory Campbell, in a separate Medicaid fraud case. He is accused of falsely billing the state for nearly $300,000 and has pleaded not guilty."

There are other good candidates, why repeat myself, here is another article I wrote on this district's election.

To our critics who complain we never beat up on Democrats: help get this woman out of office!!!

Same sex marriages and President Obama ... by gimleteye

It was a very smart move to draw another bright line ("Corporations are not people") separating the GOP challenger, Mitt Romney from the majority of American voters.

Is Steve Shiver headed back to Miami?

Around the World Ocean Race: Puma Has Arrived in Miami. By Geniusofdespair

Puma arrived about 3p.m. on Wednesday at Bicentennial Park, winning leg 6 of the 3,590 nautical mile race. The racing boat was greeted in Miami with rain and hail. Be sure to check out the Volvo Ocean Race Village where you can party and get to see the boats.

Miami is the only North American stop-over for the race. Watch a video on it. Here is the schedule if you go down to the racing village set up at the Park:

Corporations are not people: Citizens United and beyond ... by gimleteye

When the Bush Supreme Court blew up the tattered US campaign finance system with its Citizen United decision, all hell broke loose far from the sight of the general, unsuspecting public. Today, corporate donors whose identity can be legally concealed by super PAC's-- and whose political messages are straight up endorsing specific candidates and issues-- are giving GOP candidates a 10-1 spending advantage over Democrats. 10-1. That is very much on the minds of the nation's top liberal donors gathering in Miami this week.

If voters stop to think -- a very big question, itself -- they will come to understand how the shitstorm that Barack Obama inherited is still working its way through the US economy and that a big piece of that shitstorm is how corporate donations are dominating elections.

"What is happening now is what I predicted," GOP Senator John McCain recently told CBS. "The United States Supreme Court -- in what I think is one of the worst decisions in history -- struck down the restrictions in the so-called McCain-Feingold Law, and a lot of people don't agree with that, but I predicted when the United States Supreme Court, with their absolute ignorance of what happens in politics, struck down that law, that there would be a flood of money into campaigns, not transparent, unaccounted for, and this is exactly what is happening."

I take a darker view of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court justices who decided the outcome of the 2000 presidential election absolutely know what happens in politics. They are the activist judges that the right wing rails against.

The defeat of longtime GOP US Senator Richard Lugar by state treasurer Richard Mourdock is an example. Lugar cultivated a career engaging with Democrats in the Senate. Mourdock has campaigned on an Attila The Hun platform that supposedly resonated with Tea Party supporters. But the Tea Party: who are they? Who are those Mourdock supporters?

The Indiana primary vote, yesterday, showed the power of super PAC's. At least $4.5 million was raised by independent expenditure groups, including the Club for Growth Action. The Koch billionaires are prominent supporters of Club for Growth, but otherwise it is impossible to know the full list of contributors who had it "in" for Richard Lugar. (Time will tell, what corporations from Florida wanted Lugar gone.)  The pro-Tea Party super PAC FreedomWorks spent about $580,000 supporting Mourdock; but who really is behind FreedomWorks? We don't know.

The good news for Democrats is that President Obama is formidable on the campaign trail. The economic headwinds are stiff. US voters may yet be persuaded that turning over our democracy to a shadowy underworld of corporations and executives who will not willingly disclose their identities is a very poor way forward.

Florida's Bat-Shit Crazy Allen West says there are 36 Terrorist Training Camps in the U.S. By Geniusofdespair

Republican Rep. Allen West would be worth a chuckle if he weren't so crazy. Yes he said 80 House Democrats are members of the Communist party. But that isn't the first crazy thing he said. How about the 36 Terrorist Training Camps that he swears are operating in the United States.



Video on YouTube.

Note that this video is about Illegal Immigration. So who is coming in at the Mexican Border? Are they Drug Dealers, Terrorists or just plain folks trying to make a better living. West thinks they are Drug Dealers and Terrorists and to him it appears, they are one in the same with the Mexican Government. Maybe West should focus on some REAL home-grown terrorists like Marcus Faella, recently arrested with the rest of his white supremacist group. It is easy to project possible scenarios, but what about this real one? West is silent now.

Writer Maurice Sendak Died Today ... by gimleteye

Last Sept. 25 we posted the following... and repost now, mourning the loss of Maurice Sendak, who died today:

My children grew up with the books of Maurice Sendak, "Where The Wild Things Are" and "In The Night Kitchen". We read those books together hundreds of times, especially when they couldn't fall to sleep. Sendak's art is part of our lives. Famously reclusive and private, he gives a gift of an interview to Terry Gross and to listeners, of NPR's "Fresh Air" (carried locally on WLRN). It is a revelation and a surprise. This link will re-direct you to listen to the interview online. Do it, today. Even if you never read a Sendak book, you will be glad you did.

Is Alice Pena Running Against Dennis Moss? By Geniusofdespair

Lynda Bell giving Alice Pena an award.

I read in Dan Ricker's Watchdog Report that Alice Pena is said to be running for Miami-Dade County Commissioner Dennis Moss's seat, like she would ever win. I think of Alice fondly as that egg lady (she sells eggs) with the crazy vendetta against environmental regulators. She is from the 8 1/2 Square Mile area and she is always attacking what was once called DERM. She single-handedly orchestrated uproars of the 8 1/2 Square Mile area for twenty years, a kind of mad operative for the radical right. Now that there is a virtual junta controlling the county and state -- that is fiercely anti-environmental at its core -- it is apparently OK to bring the crazies from the back pastures right up into the executive offices. This is how County Commissioner Lynda Bell sees Alice Pena:

“It is wonderful that once a year we get to honor that one special woman in agriculture,” stated Commissioner Bell. “I think that it’s very fitting that Alice Pena is being recognized as Miami-Dade County Farm Bureau’s Women of the Year.” Besides from being the leader of the Farm Bureau, she is a great lady that is deeply involved in her community.”

Of course, everyone that has seen the zaniest film ever made, "Pink Flamingos," knows, we do have a precedent for crazy egg ladies. Here is Divine with Edie Massey the ORIGINAL, beloved, paranoid Egg Lady.


The video on You Tube

Liberal donors in Miami this week ... by gimleteye

The New York Times reports that major liberal donors including George Soros are meeting somewhere in Miami this week, for a last hour planning session leading up to the November 2012 election. Security will be tight. Gone are the days when none other than Jeb Bush, who had recently left office, was seen surveilling the Biltmore Hotel to glean what he could from the private meeting there. As EOM has noted, the Citizens United decision by the US Supreme Court has triggered a tsunami of corporate cash into the GOP and GOP-related organizations. John McCain described the Court decision as "an outrage". Counting on learning more about the meeting, here, at EOM than The Miami Herald.

Lobbyist Ron Book...again. By Geniusofdespair

Like, this is the ONLY guy that is suitable for this Board? We have to waive residency requirements for Lobbyist Ron Book; We have to waive term limits for him; We have to waive multiple board requirements for him. The Commission shouldn't be waiving requirements period. That is why they are there, to be adhered to. We need new blood.

This lobbyist gets all the breaks from the County Commission. Expect this to pass today, he raises money for all the County Commissioners. Wouldn't you know that Pepe Le Pew Diaz is the sponsor. How about looking for someone in Miami Dade County, Pepe? Denny Wood who sent the press release said, "Ronnie Book needs to get out of the Homeless business due to his hate ridden conflicts" (Many of the homeless are former sexual offenders and Book's daughter was a target of a predator). More on Ron Book.

President Obama: "corporations are not people, people are people" ... by gimleteye

Obama's campaign kick-off speech in Ohio last week drew a bright line when he said, "Corporations aren't people, people are people." Mitt Romney disagrees. If you like our campaign finance system, thanks to the Bush Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited corporate contributions, hidden from public view, then your choice is clear.

The Great Destroyers let no economic crisis go to waste ... by gimleteye

The last five years have tested the hypothesis that the public doesn't care what government does, so long as its belly is full and cares even less when its belly is empty.

The easiest place to take measure of the result is the destruction and elimination of rules and regulations meant to protect Florida's air and water, natural places, and communities from rampant suburban sprawl. The Everglades comes first and foremost to mind, where billions of taxpayer dollars have been pledged to restore the faded River of Grass.

Both bloggers here at Eyeonmiami have been engaged as civic activists in South Florida for a long time. We use this venue because the mainstream press long ago lost its credibility by failing to challenge the status quo that burned Floridians' quality of life, environment, and economic opportunity -- ie. jobs-- to a crisp. I call the culprits, the Great Destroyers.

Friends of the Everglades -- the organization founded by Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1969 -- is plaintiff in federal litigation against the US EPA and State of Florida, run by the sugar industry, for failing to meet pollution control standards established as a result of years of earlier litigation. On this blog I've restrained myself from commenting on litigation since I am president of Friends, whose role was noted in yesterday's Miami Herald.

But I would like to comment on a remark made by one of the voices of the Great Destroyers in the Herald report about a possible settlement (without detailing exactly what litigation the settlement would address): Gaston Cantens, of the Fanjul billionaire's Florida Crystals reportedly told the Herald, “For a business, whenever you can have stability and certainty, then you can make long-term plans with confidence."

My comment: Big Sugar in Florida has always had "stability and certainty". In fact nothing is more stable than the profits Big Sugar is able to extract from its Farm Bill privileges. Last year's bumper sugar harvest occurred at a time of record, chronic drought. How is that for certainty? Although Florida voters in 1996 voted to hold Big Sugar primarily responsible for the costs of its pollution -- it's in the Florida constitution -- a recent report funded by the Everglades Foundation demonstrates that the public picks up 74 percent of those costs. How is that for certainty?

Sugar production is exhausting soil throughout the Everglades Agricultural Area while making plans and investments for its future use as cities or inland ports (see below) in ways that will foreclose opportunities to restore the Everglades. The only thing that is "certain" about Big Sugar's interactions with government is that its principals will invest the last penny to fight for its prerogatives. The industry has reaped billions in profits for shareholders like the Fanjuls, who simply reinvest a portion of its taxpayer subsidized guarantee of profits into the Florida legislature and various county and city elected officials. (Where is the Tea Party on that?)

The point is that the Fanjuls and their Big Sugar compatriots have always been able to "make long-term plans with confidence". Civic activists who thought the economic crisis -- the worst since the Great Depression -- would make room for a return to common sense have been proven wrong. They call what they are doing to Florida, as being about creating "jobs", but what they are really about is cementing in place the prerogatives of campaign funders.

Time will tell if the "enforceable remedies" demanded by federal judge Alan S. Gold will emerge from the negotiations between the state and EPA. No one will be more interested than Friends of the Everglades.

Facebook Lolitas. By Geniusofdespair

Remember the 1962 movie Lolita by Stanley Kubrick, book by Vladimir Nabokov, about a seductive 14 year old?

Welcome back.

This post is a facebook warning about your tweens. I easily found these photos on Facebook - I am friends with only one of them. I believe they have an age limit of 13 on Facebook. I know at least one of these kids just turned 12. Mothers of the world, warn your kids about putting suggestive photos on Facebook. I saw lots of bikini clad pre-teen photos. I don't get the tongue thing. Apparently it is important to include it in your photos as I saw dozens of ugly tongues. Pictured below, all claimed to be middle school students and some gave their full name and real birthdate.

This photo below: The orthodontist of one of the little girls is a "friend" to the little girl. Yes a grown man she hardly knows.  In turn, here is one of his friends that I found on the orthodontist's site through the little girl's site:

Did you know that where your kids shop, the store clerks become your kids "Friends"? I saw a married woman from Hollisters on a 12 year old's site. For this reason: Today I say Hollister Co. Sucks and Facebook Sucks. Two Sucks in one post, that is a record. Please parents, go look at what is on your child's page and look at their friends' pages -- nothing is locked in their trusting world.

Environmental Regulation: What the Florida Legislature Undid. By Geniusofdespair

Say goodbye to regulation, say hello to environmental degradation. The bills that passed roll-back years of progress and you know the Governor will sign them all:

• Prohibits a county or a municipality from conditioning the processing for a development permit on an applicant obtaining a permit or approval from any other state or federal agency;
• Authorizes the DEP to issue a coastal construction permit before an applicant receives an incidental take authorization;
• Expands eligibility for those entities entitled to reduced or waived permit processing fees;
• Expands the use of Internet-based self-certification services and general permits;
• Exempts previously authorized underground injection wells from ch. 373, part III, F.S., except for Class V, Group 1 wells;
• Reduces the time for agency action or proposed action on a permit from 90 to 60 days;
• Provides for an expanded state programmatic general permit;
• Raises the qualifying low-scored site initiative priority ranking score from 10 to 29, and exempts certain expenditures from counting against the program;
• Revises qualifications for fiscal assistance for innocent victim petroleum storage system restoration;
• Provides expedited permitting for intermodal logistic centers (inland ports);
• Authorizes zones of discharges existing installations, with certain limitations;
• Revises requirements for permit revocation;
• Revises the definition for “financially disadvantaged small community”;
• Revises the definition of industrial sludge;
• Specifies recycling credits available for counties that operate waste-to-energy facilities;
• Revises provisions related to solid waste disposal and management;
• Provides for a general permit for small surface water management systems;
• Expands the definition for “transient noncommunity water systems” to include religious institutions;
• Clarifies creation of regional permit action teams for certain businesses;
• Allows for sale of unblended fuels for specified applications, and specifies that alternative fuels other than ethanol may be used as blending fuels for blending gasoline; and
• Prohibits the collection of permit renewal fees for those permits that were automatically extended by Chapter 2011-139, ss. 73 and 79, L.O.F.

If approved by the Governor, these provisions take effect July 1, 2012.

Dog Etiquette ... by gimleteye

I could write about the Everglades today and the $890 million the state will reportedly spend (Miami Herald) as a result of litigation brought by Friends of the Everglades-- the organization for which I volunteer time as president of the board-- and which other environmental groups did not want to join when the original litigation was filed years ago, but instead I want to tell you about my dog. To be fair, Friends has partners in other aspects of Everglades related litigation ... I still want to write about my dog.

Cassius is a 90 lb Chesapeake Bay retriever. Here is a photo of Cassius the day I brought him home about five years ago. He is wishing his mother were near but instead is squeezed to sleep by the baseboard nook.

Cassius wants to please, but he wants to do it his own way.

He will agree to everything I want him to do so long as he agrees to it first. This explains why, when it is time to jump back in the car after a walk in the park, he will take the most circuitous route possible, testing my patience with every sniff and last pee until he goes through the pantomime of remembering: oh, now you want me to get in the car?

Then just before jumping, he looks up as if to say, "I'm here now. What is it you wanted me to do?"

Cassius is a one-way retriever. That is to say, he is half-trained. He will chase sticks endlessly, then bring them back to me in a manner of speaking. He takes the long route. When he wants me to throw the stick again he will walk ahead of me in the direction I'm walking and drop the stick for me to rediscover. In other words, the game of retrieve for Cassius involves me retrieving the stick he's retrieved. That's a Chesapeake.

Cassius will retrieve a log if I throw it. But of all the thousands of sticks, balls, toy ducks and miniature tires, what he loves best is to retrieve a blade of grass.

When I lie down on the grass in the yard he turns into an animated ball of attention. His entire being focuses on the blade of grass between my fingers. I drop it. He tries to find it. I pick another blade of grass and he goes into prey and quarry mode. Every fiber of his being wants to attach to my fingers and that blade of grass, or the next one, or the next one after that. Chesapeakes aren't for everyone, but they are for me.

Rick Scott's Deposition. By Geniusofdespair

Deposition of  Governor Rick Scott.  Always good viewing. At 2:53 he doesn't even know the name of his company.

A Lobbyist Bonanza Development. By Geniusofdespair

Why does Fortune Land Investments, LLC ( Miguel Poyastro) need all these lobbyists? Anyone live near here? The biggest piece is zoned Townhomes/Residential. The land on the right and the sliver at top on the left are zoned Vacant Land 0081. Augustin Herran signed the deed of sale for Quantum Ventures, LLC.  So again, why all the lobbyists, and why the two lobbyist classifications:

Subject "NONE":
MICHAEL FREIRE
JOSEPH G. GOLDSTEIN
ALAN KRISCHER
INES MARRERO-PRIEGUES
JUAN MAYOL
RICHARD PEREZ
TRACY R SLAVENS

Subject SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE DETERMINATION:
(a substantial compliance determination is required when a development plan is not sufficiently identical to the plan approved pursuant to a Zoning Hearing or Administrative Site Plan Review)

HUGO ARZA 
MICHAEL FREIRE
JOSEPH G. GOLDSTEIN
ALAN KRISCHER
INES MARRERO-PRIEGUES
JUAN MAYOL
RICHARD PEREZ
TRACY R SLAVENS
ALBERTO J TORRES

The land was purchased in 2010 for $12,000,000. There was a sale 11/2005 to Quantum for $47,853,600 but it is marked "Other Disqualified". That is a big difference in price.

If they aren't doing anything out of the ordinary, why do they need so many damn lobbyists? Even outside the UDB (This parcel borders the UDB at 157th Ave. but it is inside)  there are usually only one or two lobbyists. This over-kill makes me very suspicious.