The headline in MinnPost says it all:
School board's approval of $375,000 contract for Al Flowers-related group now drawing questions
I know this article (click here to read it) is getting read
because...
It was forwarded to me twice, and the tone of the emails forwarding the link was along the lines of "HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?! HAVE YOU SEEN IT?!"
(ADDENDUM, JULY 31: This article contains messed up breaks and does not represent the usual quality of this blog. But rather than mess around with technical nothing, I'm just going to leave things as they are and drive on)
In the wake of Flowers' arrest, pointed questions are being asked about what kind of example and mentor to children in the public schools has such a record as Al Flowers (not to mention his extended family) and a teenage daughter wearing an ankle monitor.
Perhaps the Flowers family, so eager to share CERTAIN details, will share with us what was the criminal conviction which caused this young woman to be wearing the monitor in the first place?
But I digress. Here's the main point I wish to draw to the attention of readers:
This isn't the first time reports have been aired of Al Flowers
getting a big, dubious, mysterious payout from the Minneapolis
public school system. Click here for an article written on this blog in February, 2011 alleging a payout was made for $103,770.
Though this blog dug as deep as it could in 2011, I wasn't able to find my way to the bottom and sniff out evidence of that money, just the word of a trusted government source. INTERESTINGLY, I was hearing the same thing FROM THE SAME SOURCE just a few days ago about another big payout to Flowers. The name of Reverend Clarence Hightower came up, as well. But now it seems MinnPost has its teeth in the story, hard, like Flowers had his teeth in that police officer's we-don't-know-what.
Allegedly.
Hey, MinnPost...can you pick up the trail of clues and get to the
bottom of this payout, too? We would all be ever-so-interested!
Jesus, Johnny. Learn the rules of capitalization!
ReplyDeleteI believe Sabrina Flowers was practicing law without a license at Jill Clark's firm.
ReplyDeleteI've never even HEARD of a "Sabrina Flowers."
ReplyDeleteElaborate, anonymous commenter.
After I copied and pasted that headline from MinnPost my paragraph breaks got thrown all over.
ReplyDeleteAnd rather than messing with it I decided to just push forward.
Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteI have decided I LIKE the messed up breaks in the sentences.
It makes the text read like a combination of my blogging and a freestyle poem.
Just this one time I don't mind a little accident like that.
The commenter whose comment I am rejecting, who is talking about Mayor Hodges, says "Ask around and your knowledge will be enhanced."
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to think...who is it I know who uses that old rumor mill trick of trying to feed this blogger false info, hoping I will go all around "asking" about the info?
WHO could that be?
You know what info I'm spreading around? That somebody is talking smack about Hodges and I think I know who it is. You can deal with Hodges' husband as far as I'm concerned.
In regard to the Al Flowers info, etc...
ReplyDeleteLook, about all I can do with the info at the moment is email it to Beth Hawkins, who wrote the MinnPost article, and hope she cares. I don't have time to dig into it right now.
It's interesting info and I suggest you take the time to share it widely, widely, widely. I'm glad this blog post and thread is here to help conglomerate the info, but at the moment I can't move much more forward except I can publish your comments.
with your post" now the Fed's will look into Al.Flowers& Alisa Clemons& Rev.???Mary Sprats-Flowers, Etc. background etc. ???? let them have there 15 Mins of Fame .but they must remember .The Fed's is on there ass??? "We Watch -
ReplyDeleteWe Call" keep playing the victims? CSI, child care owners , north side crime solver etc. "CHI-TOWN" at there best. the funds about to STOP,ENOY on the back of the true -North Side Residents. You guys some FOOL/but not ALL. I Personal What to Think The MPD. for all the BS They've to put up with, it's a Job I Couldn't Do? to MANY Games Players, Slickers,& want a be LEADERS$REMEMBER the Fed's will come in 2Month or 20 Years ? But They Will Come. MPS told me I had to buy my kids a uniform ? but they can give Al over $475.000 of MY taxes paying money ? with-out asking me anything???( Please Keep -In -Mind )AL Cant Even Spell He's On Name
if you ask Al Flowers how to spell His name ? he would say ah, ah,& ah ,ah, & this is the person that MPS is giving over $500.000 too? to teach My kids?20 years later, I drop -out of MPS BECAUSE OR THIS,? I WAS Dum,BUT THE TEACHER WAS Dumber ,MSP @ IT'S best(I drop out of school in the 5th grade) sad but true.
ReplyDeleteAl Flowers - Youth Mentor...Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha,Ha...
ReplyDeleteI'm sure the only youth sponsorship performed was to the young thugs who supplied the shit that went up his nose!