I dreamt of being offered a number of different kinds of edible berry clusters, ending with a cluster of blackberries. Of all the berries I was offered, the blackberries were the least tasty. On waking, I understood the dream was about our school system, which has issued what seems to many people, including me, an incredible number of Blackberries to school staff. Later dreams narrowed the focus down to the Acevedos and the McPhersons. Perhaps a careful search and investigation of cell phone and/or Blackberry calls between Monique Acevedo and Christina McPherson will unearth answers to some of the questions many Keys people now have about what went on at Key West High School. Christina is vice-principal there. The school principal has said he was totally unaware of anything Monique had in play, and it is hard to imagine she would be able to get those projects going without approval from either the school principal or Christina. If Christina was Monique’s supervisor, she needs to be thoroughly investigated about what she knew of Monique’s activities, and what she did or didn’t do about it, including what she reported to other people, especially to the school principal under whom she worked.
I have been very reluctant to get drawn into the school situation. However, Morgan is running for mayor of Key West again, as am I. If the McPhersons are involved with the Acevedos, the public should know that and the exact nature of the involvement. Just as the public should know Morgan and County Commissioner Mario Di Gennaro are bosom buddies and have meetings behind closed doors — Mario told me this himself about two months ago. Just as the public should know Morgan’s brother, Ben, is the Comptroller for Ed Swift’s company, Historic Tours of America, which brought us the Duck Tours case. Just as the public should know Morgan’s mother, Antoinette, used to work and perhaps still works for Swift’s company. Just as the public should know Morgan’s childhood friend, Tim Koenig, is the lawyer and a mover and shaker in Cortex, a substantial developer of dubious, at best, experience in the Keys. The people of Key West need to know the personal, political and business alliances of all candidates who want to be our elected officials.
You know what my alliances are: I write about them on a regular basis. Jim Hendrick, excuse me, Czar Hendrick, told me about a week ago that I should be saying Captain Tony and Captain Outrageous gave me their endorsements. I told Jim maybe they would do that in a dream, and maybe Captain Kidd would join them. Jim said he didn’t know Captain Kidd. Maybe a lot of people around here didn’t know him, but a lot of people did. Especially if they didn’t have much money. Especially if they ever lived on the street. Certainly they knew him, if they saw the movie, “Have You Seen Clem?” a superlative personal odyssey disguised as a “documentary” on homeless people, who were not exactly what they at first appeared to be. Captain Kidd played a leading role in “Have You Seen Clem?” which made its national and international debut at our very own Tropic Cinema. How an educated person in Key West could not know about Captain Kidd and “Have You Seen Clem?” which has run several different times at Tropic Cinema and got a lot of local press, is beyond my comprehension.
I’m having lunch at Salute today with Father Steve Braddock, and will give him a large print of the “Will Work for Loaves and Fishes” painting featured in an earlier post, which arrived yesterday from the artist, Deb Hoeffner. In 2003, Steve and Florida Keys Outreach Coalition took me in when I was near death from a MRSA infection. Also during this time, Steve and FKOC took in Captain Kidd in after he broke his leg and couldn’t take care of himself. Although I knew Captain Kidd already, it was then that I really got to know him. It also was then that Steve and then city planning commissioner Bill Verge urged me to run for mayor of Key West. Steve and I became friends. But, as Sandy Downs would later learn, as everyone who has been my friend has learned, I listen to advice I receive from other people, then I take it up with my spiritual tormentors. Sometimes they agree with what my friends have told me, and sometimes they don’t. And sometimes they tell me to do things nobody likes, including my friends.
So, you see from this narrative, the only alliances I really have are with my Creator and the angels assigned to turn me every which a way but loose. Sandy Downs has pushed me very hard to come out hard against the McPerhsons because of the Acevedos, and she will tell you that I have been very reluctant to get involved. Only when “nudged” by my spirit tormentors have I gone anywhere near the McPhersons and Acevedos. I dunno, maybe Captains Tony, Outrageous and Kidd appreciate this, now that they are in the afterlife. I don’t know for sure, because they haven’t come to me in a dream and told me yay or nay, or anything. But can you imagine them endorsing any candidate other than me?” Well, can you?
Sloan for mayor, Key West