North Miami Beach councilman Frantz Pierre (a/k/a L’il Frantzie P) is in a bit of a pickle.  He either has to accept responsibility for violating the city’s building code by having too many people reside in his home, or he has to throw his “roommates” under the bus by forcing them to admit they committed voter fraud.  Time to pick your poison, Frantz.

As I reported earlier this month in Instant Karma’s Gonna Get You, according to the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, there are seven people (including Frantz and at least one of the women who will admit she married him) registered to vote who claim Frantzie’s address as their own.  So Mr. Pee-Air’s dilemma is that he now has to choose between admitting he’s in violation of the city code, or that some of those folks lied to the Elections Department on their Voter Registration Application about where they lived.

I’ve been digging some more, and I discovered that not one, but two, of the people on that list of seven gave telephone numbers which happen to be land lines outside the City of North Miami Beach.  The phone number listed for Jonathan Romelus is a land line in Lauderhill, Florida, and the one listed for Katrina Monique Allison is a land line in the City of Miami.  Neither of which is even remotely located in or near NMB.

Things must be very stressful for the councilman because yesterday it all came to a head.  And it nearly came to blows.

Based on information I provided, Code Compliance Manager Eric Wardle decided to investigate the possible code violation by sending a water meter reader out to Pierre’s house.  While the Police Report I have doesn’t specify the reason, I am surmising that the amount of water being used by the Pierre household would be a good indicator of how many people actually live there.  Pretty smart thinking!  However, things didn’t go quite as planned, as you can see by what the investigating officer wrote:

The mystery of whether or not Frantzie actually threw a chair remains.  If he did throw a chair, good thing it wasn’t Phyllis Smith’s or she’d have nothing to talk about.  Come to think of it, hide that chair, Frantz!

Even if he didn’t throw a chair, he did curse and slam down a clipboard.  Hard.  On a desk.

Take a moment to picture that scene in your mind.  Yeah, I know.  Pretty crazy, right?  Don’t laugh too hard.

I’m also guessing that L’il Frantzie P is not a happy camper right now.  What a cryin’ shame.  Good things usually happen to people who do the right thing.  Bad things usually catch up to people who don’t.  Eventually, anyway.

Seems to me that, like the literary protagonist Sophie, Frantzie’s Choice will be a bitch.  Sorta like karma.

Stephanie Kienzle
“Spreading the Wealth”