The election of Mr. Desmond Barrett to Chairman of the ECWCD

Below was submitted to the ECWCD Supervisors during the Public Comment before the elections on 1/24/05 ---------

To the Supervisors of ECWCD –

Re: The election of Mr. Desmond Barrett to Chairman of the ECWCD

Dear Supervisors,

First – Mr. Barrett already received a fine $200.00 from the election commission – for issues with the CAIT as he was chairman

Second – Mr. Barrett has addition violations pending with the election commission and ethics commission – use of ECWCD fax machine. He has a hearing on the 27th of January on the ethics charges in Tallahassee.

Third – it is a proven fact with he has taken special interest money for his campaign from the employees & spouses of Dry Water Cattle and the Teamsters Unions that represents the employees of the ECWCD. So how can he vote in the contracts and issues on Dry Water Cattle and / or employee matters ethically?

Fourth – Mr. Barrett runs a local Day Care as the director --- in the past 18 months he has had 42 non – compliance orders and two of them dealing directly with not reporting an incident with a minor child.

And Finally --Mr. Barrett public record speaks volumes -- Gets fined for a election violation – has pending violations do to miss use of governmental property form your own agency -- takes special money for his election from contactors and employees union -- show repeatedly he can not run a business – I ask you the other supervisors of the ECWCD can you afford to lose the public trust and elected Mr. Barrett as the Chairman of this multi million dollar governmental agency ---