Stop suspicious Shaker Village deal in Tamarac | Letters to the editor
Please, please, please, keep up the pressure (“A very shaky ride for Tamarac taxpayers,” Sun Sentinel editorial, July 30).
Tamarac residents deserve a cleaned up city government. Vice Mayor Marlon Bolton’s name keeps coming up. What’s worse is, he brings up the body of Christ to do his bidding. The man has zero shame.
Recently, a fire chief brought up complaints about Bolton being more concerned about his own branding than the city of Tamarac. Just awful. Please continue to use your journalism skills to continue to keep this matter out in the open.
Billy Jones, Tamarac
A horrible waste of money
I’m writing as one of the many concerned citizens of the city of Tamarac regarding potentially illegal activities by members of the Tamarac City Commission.
There was an item on the city commission’s July 12 agenda that would essentially take between $8,015,000 and $11,015,000 of taxpayers’ money and utilize it to purchase a dilapidated clubhouse in the private Shaker Village, a homeowners’ association in the city of Tamarac.
Vice Mayor Marlon Bolton rents a residence and lives in Shaker Village, thus potentially enriching himself at taxpayer expense.
Not only is this a horrible waste of taxpayer funds, but I believe there is potential corruption going on with the District 1 commissioner, Bolton. As well as the self-dealing of Commissioner Bolton, it remains to be determined what actions have been taken regarding him working in concert with commissioners Kicia Daniel and Morey Wright on this issue.
This entire deal does not pass any sort of “smell test,” nor do the financial benefits accruing to Vice Mayor Bolton indicate his adherence to his fiduciary responsibility to the 70,000+ residents and taxpayers of Tamarac.
Only the sunlight of the press can stop this misappropriation of funds in its tracks and cleanse the city of yet another raid on taxpayer funds by commissioners.
Barney Agate, Tamarac
Unnecessary criticism
It is time for Broward County to review the ethics guidelines that apply to city officials after Fort Lauderdale commissioners were unnecessarily publicly criticized and required to reimburse Inter Miami for attending the event on July 16 welcoming and introducing Lionel Messi to Fort Lauderdale that was held at the stadium owned by the city of Fort Lauderdale.
Our city commissioners and mayor worked hard to get the deal done to bring Inter Miami to Fort Lauderdale, and I am proud of our city leaders who attended the event and am disappointed that they have been attacked for being champions for our city.
They deserve to have these overly restrictive ethics codes reviewed and modified in a manner that does not restrict them from doing what we asked of them when we elected them.
Chad McCoury, Fort Lauderdale
Above the law?
I’d like to pose a conundrum. We keep hearing that “no man is above the law.” If Trump is convicted of a felony, runs for president in 2024 and wins, then pardons himself and all of his cronies, can we then put the expression “no man is above the law” to rest — once and for all?
Philip Passer, Tamarac