Sometimes you just have to follow the money and draw your own conclusions. Szerdi and Jerome followed some of their predecessors in the campaign game--You remember the Retha Lowe incident that got her in all sorts of trouble with Tallahassee. Retha lives in our landfill district. Because they wanted to do more business in Lake Worth, Sun companies contributed the same amount to her in the general election as they did in the primary to Tom Ramiccio...$2,500. A few years back, Sun companies gave $2,500 to Lisa Maxwell, now Chair of the Electric Utility Advisory Board as well as $1,400 to Shanon Materio's BacPac that was supporting certain candidates. Materio, as you know, is now commissioner in West Palm Beach and gave $200 to Serge Jerome.
John Szerdi really drank the Koolaid during this election when he took $1,000 from various Sun Recycling Companies.
Serge Jerome even got his hooks into the Vice President of Sun Recycling for $250. He failed to identify the company for whom she works and said that her job was that of a "vice president." And many of his supporters in the Haitian community live in that area where Sun dumped arsenic. What were you thinking, Serge?
If you recall, Sun Recycling dumped all sorts of questionable debris on our landfill. People in the Osborne area complained over years about their health because of asbestos. (They were supposed to remove it and our landfill was to be in the same condition in which they originally received it per the Contract.) This entire matter of the cleanup of our landfill was swept under the rug by this administration who now says there is nothing to cleanup--all is fine--the ones who hate legal fees and find it easy to hand over $1.6 million to a scam artist at our beach. It is easier to drag things out and/or forget about them and now complain or give the excuse that it was a "bad business plan."
The guys on the dais, who only listen to their own voices, just pat themselves on the back and treat the public abombinally and we, as an electorate, just keep hoping for the best or throw our arms into the air asking, "What can we do?" We told them last night. The tide was turned and they finally had to listen to the voters.
Patti Hamilton, Vice President of Sun Recycling and
Charles Gusmano, Founder and COO of Southern Waste Systems
People are awake!
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