RNC Documentary film by Tim Fasano

This was my first attempt to be a documentary film maker. It was shot during the Republican National Convention in Tampa 2012. It was a challenging task but I worked hard at it. My friend Kevin (who works in TV production) helped me film and edit this. But it was mostly my work. Please watch and let me know. I hope to cover a wide variety of topics.

Where Did My Money Go?

Tampa, Florida - Limousine Owner Moshe Leib, who has to pay fees to the Hillsborough Public Transportation Commission in order to operate in the county, is concerned and upset about the agency's contingency fund.
The Public Transportation Commission regulates limousines, taxi cabs and tow trucks. The agency has boasted for years it has more than $800,000 in the fund, but now more than half is gone.
"Where did the money go?" Leib asks. That's a question everyone involved with the PTC is asking, because at this point the $400,000 has disappeared into thin air.
County Commissioner Kevin White, who is the chairman of the PTC, says it's amazing and it befuddles him. "I'd like to know where the money is, because it's the taxpayers' money and we take it very seriously."
Part of problem is that the agency was always evasive about the money. Former Director Greg Cox, who resigned before he was to be fired after series of 10 News investigations, could never explain the fund.

CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW TAMPA COUNSEL DID BUSINESS WITH A CON MAN!

SEE MY POST ON CAESAR PADILLA BELOW: It seems the only thing holding up his full time appointment is that he lacks education. Kevin White still made sure he would be paid $100,000 a year for a political favor involving a member of his campaign staff. See link below.

My money is being used for this. I pay a fee every year to the commission so I can drive and they have levied fines of $20 because I did not have a collared shirt, $30 because I had on a Tampa Bay Bucs jersey on game day, $50 for unloading in a no standing zone when the only other place to unload was on railroad tracks. They are now considering to fine us if we have a dirty cab. This really makes me angry.

Is Cesar Padilla Corrupt?

I came across this info recently. It seems one of the Hillsborough county Commissioners Kevin White was attempting to bribe Hillsborough County Transportation Interim Commissioner Cesar Padilla for a political payoff.White has been pushing the TPC to double Padilla's salary to $100,000. Why? White had a campaign advisor named Victor DiMaio who Padilla subsequently hired as a lobbyist for $5,000 a month. Some things never change.Does Padilla know how little money the taxi drivers are making at this time because of the climate created by his agency. What makes him worth this much money paid for by fines to cab drivers for not wearing collared shirts and having dirty cabs. This agency needs reform...not more graft. After John Cox, I really thought that would happen.

Read this by By JANET ZINK, Times Staff Writer

At the last Public Transportation Commission meeting, board chairman Kevin White suggested hiring a lobbyist to handle legislative matters.Now, a little more than two weeks later, the agency has a lobbyist: Victor DiMaio, who was a consultant on White's winning campaign for the Hillsborough County Commission last year.White said he had nothing to do with hiring DiMaio.He simply told Cesar Padilla, interim executive director of the PTC, to find someone familiar with the commission, which licenses taxis, limousines and tow trucks.Padilla said he settled on DiMaio."He's been affiliated with the industry for a number of years," Padilla said. "He knows our laws and our rules. It was a short period of time. He fit the profile."He said White, who last month pushed for the PTC to more than double Padilla's salary to $100,000 when he made the leap from chief inspector to interim executive director, never mentioned DiMaio to him.