North Miami Beach Puppet Commissioner Daniela Jean thought she was oh-so-clever by complaining to our web hosting company that we had the audacity to publish an actual public record – the home address she listed on all of her Campaign Treasurer’s Reports, which are publicly posted on the City of North Miami Beach website.

She also whined to the Miami New Times that our “blog posts about her were defamatory and ‘extremely irresponsible.'”

Au contraire!

The truth is neither defamatory nor irresponsible.

Inconvenient, maybe, but that’s just too damn bad.

Puppet Commissioner Daniela Jean may not like our snarky reporting of the truth, but she’d better suck it up and get used to it.

Daniela Jean’s special brand of stupidity was not created in a vacuum.

After all, her “career” as a low-level administrative employee was launched in the City of North Miami … where terminal stupidity was invented.

As we reported yesterday, on November 20, 2020 we emailed North Miami City Manager Theresa Therilus and city Attorney Jeff Cazeau, to ask if city employee Daniela Jean was in complaince with Section F(3) of the North Miami Civil Service Rules, which mandates that “No officer or employee in the Classified Service of the City shall continue in such position after election to any public office.”

As a North Miami civil service employee, it was Daniela’s responsibility to actually know the rules and, more importantly, adhere to them.  The fact that she didn’t do either only further showcases her inherent stupidity.

But, Puppet Commissioner Daniela Jean is not alone.

There’s plenty of stupid to go around.

Especially in North Miami.

The responsibility of making sure that employees know and follow the rules falls squarely on the shoulders of Personnel Director Joseph Roglieri, Jr., and boy, did he drop that ball.

But, that’s not even the worst of it.

In his recent Miami Herald article, Aaron Leibowitz reported that Article 1. Sec. 15-14(b) of the North Miami Code of Ordinances, goes even further to specifically state, “No officer or employee in the service of the city shall continue in such position after becoming a candidate for nomination or election to any public office.”

That particular piece of legislation, Ordinance 1361, was passed on November 12, 2013 upon its second reading for the purpose of enacting the city’s Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERIP), which turned out to be a boondoggle in and of itself.

In essence, Ordinance 1361 amended in its entirety Chapter 15 of the city’s Code regarding Personnel, Pensions and Retirement, and specifically Article 1. – Department of Personnel.

You know, the very department that Joseph Roglieri, Jr. runs.

In fact, Sec. 15-3(11), specifically states that the Personnel Director shall “Perform such other and different lawful acts and functions as he or she may deem necessary or desirable to enforce the purposes and provisions of this article.”

If there’s anyone at City Hall who’s supposed to know that employees must resign to run for public office, it’s good old J Ro.

Now that it’s all hitting the fan, the North Miami Mayor and Council are illegally getting involved in city employee business.

At minute 1:25:17 of the November 24, 2020 Virtual Regular Council Meeting, Councilman Scott Galvin announced that “an issue of great importance” has come to his attention.  He went on to complain that the City Manager was enforcing the rules by complying with an “outdated part of our Code.”

Because seven years ago is ancient history, right?

Scott then went on to misinterpret another sentence in Sec. 15-14, claiming that employees are prohibited from donating to a political candidate or party.

News flash:  It does NOT say that.

After watching that meeting, we sent an email to the City Manager and City Attorney explaining that while Mr. Galvin took issue with the sentence, “No person holding a position in the service of the city shall make any contribution to the campaign funds of any political party or any candidate for public office or take any part in the management, affairs or political campaign of any political party…,” he apparently did not read the entire sentence, which ends with, “… further than in the exercise of his rights as a citizen to express his opinion and to cast his vote.”

We concluded that “this obviously means is that no city employee shall make or solicit political donations in the name of his or her service position, or especially on behalf of or in the name of the city.  It does not prohibit a city employee from making political donations to candidates or causes of his or her choice.”

Yes, reading is fundamental.

Unfortunately, Councilman Galvin then went on to overstep his bounds, and violate the city Charter, by directing the administration to “revisit this as quickly as possible” and “find some sort of relief that might bring them back until we can work this out.”

Councilman Alix Desulme was about to chime in when City Attorney Jeff Cazeau spoke up with, “Before anyone continues, can I just caution you all in going forward, as I’ve mentioned in the past there is another Code section that discusses the Manager’s power to hire and fire, and that the Council should not interfere in that.”

Mr. Cazeau was referring to Part I, Article III, Sec. 19 of the Charter of the City of North Miami, which specifically states:

Sec. 19. – Council not to interfere in appointments or removals.

Neither the council nor any of its members shall direct or request the appointment of any person to, or his removal from, office by the city manager or by any of his subordinates, or in any manner take part in the appointment or removal of officers and employees in the administrative service of the city. Except for the purpose of inquiry, the council and its members shall deal with the administrative services solely through the city manager and neither the council nor any member thereof shall give orders to any subordinates of the city manager, either publicly or privately. Any councilmember violating the provisions of this section, or voting for a resolution or ordinance in violation of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall cease to be a councilmember.

That fact did not deter Mayor Philippe Bien-Aime, who went on to complain about the “outdated” Ordinance … that he himself voted for when he was a Councilman in 2013.

Because North Miami.

Philippe then went on to direct the City Manager to “come up with an amendment.”

To an Ordinance, no less.

AND, he wants to make it retroactive.

Hey, Philippe …

North Miami Beach residents reading this blog should be afraid.

Very afraid.

Now that Commissioners Michael Joseph, McKenzie Fleurimond, and Paule Villard have managed to get their Puppet Candidate Daniela Jean elected, the infectious stupidity of North Miami will be coming to your City Hall.

For stupidly filing a completely false complaint against VotersOpinion and causing this website to be shut down for a week, Little Miss Puppet won herself a lawsuit, which we intend to litigate zealously.

For stupidly electing Michael Joseph’s puppet to the City Commission, North Miami Beach residents won the grand prize of becoming North Miami 2.0.

Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Stephanie