Rick Scott: Typhoid Mary to Careers

Must be something about him. Despite great pay, plenty of perks, people have a habit of throwing their high-end jobs away after just a few short months of daily exposure to Rick Scott.

Secretary of State Kurt Browning announced his retirement ( his second retirement in as many years) in January 2012. It became effective in February. Browning, much written about in these pages, and in Rick Scott: Enemy of the State gave a meandering sotto voce speech to reporters in Tallahassee where he said it wasn't for political reasons but he wanted to be closer to his wife, and his son whose cancer was made public in 2009.
Browning soft-denied that the move was made so he could run for Pasco Schools Superintendent.
But, he filed his election paperwork for precisely that at the end of February. Our demands for information into election shenanigans, which Browning well may have known about, may have been somewhere in his decision tree.

Frank Farmer, Scott's Surgeon General resigned March 2012, saying he wants to spend more time with his wife as she recovers from breast cancer.

Doug Darling, key adviser and director of the State's Department of Economic Opportunity resigned in January 2011, six months into his job. This comes after the office released its first annual report which demonstrated for all who cared to read it, that those companies who had accepted the blood sweat and tears from teachers and students in the form of preferential tax treatment failed to follow through on their promises and actually create jobs. This of course opened up a whole can of worms called "what are they actually doing with the money?" and of course, likely as you've heard by now, no one seems to know.

Charles Trippe, Scott's general counsel, resigned yesterday March 6, 2012.  Trippe, former General Counsel to CSX Transportation (railroad) has figured in heavily in several issues pertaining to the governor including but not limited to, Scott's handling of the decision to end high speed rail.

Jack Miles, director of the Department of Management Services resigned effective at the end of this month, taking his chief of staff, Brett Ryman with him. Miles is in charge of purchasing, materials, equipment and other services.

These join the roll of other walking wounded limping away smarting from the Rick Scott administration:

Press flak Brian Hughes, Departed December 2010.

Campaign Manager Suzie Wiles.  Departed January 2011
The following is an excerpt from Rick Scott: Enemy of the State about Wiles.


"Suzie Wiles, Scott’s campaign manager during 2010.Wiles is a well-connected political strategist from Ponte Vedra Beach near Jacksonville, who served as a mayoral aide to both John Delaney and John Payton in Jacksonville.

In January, Wiles was scooped up by the Jon Huntsman presidential campaign following the inauguration of the new governor.

Okay. She ran Scott’s campaign all throughout 2010, then she quits so soon after he’s elected to take on Huntsman? Huntsman, who wasn’t exactly being called a favorite of the GOP?

Okay. You jump from a ship that’s allegedly well afloat to one that’s obviously left port with some holes in it?

Perhaps she’s a victim of Post Traumatic Boss Syndrome (PTBS) from her experience with RS.

Then she departed Huntsman as well in June commenting only that “it was just time.”

As all of us know, when you’ve worked for a tough boss who wore your ass out, the next place you work, you are absolutely not into taking any bullshit whatsoever. Call me a liar. "

Press flak and robo-caller Trey Stapleton Departed January 2011

Strategist Mary Anne Carter June 2011 – 
The following is an excerpt from Rick Scott: Enemy of the State concering Carter


"Perhaps the biggest shocker to those on the outside Team Scott was Rick Scott’s policy adviser Mary Anne Carter who abruptly resigned, two days after she was featured in a complimentary piece in Miami Herald, touting her as one of the tough women-powerbrokers behind the scenes.[i]

The news came after Scott announced he was moving Senator Mike Haridopolos’s chief of staff, Steve MacNamara, to replace his own chief of staff, Mike Pendergast, who was being moved over to run the Department of Veterans Affairs.[ii]

Carter was variously described as Scott’s top policy advisor, his guru, and at least once, erroneously, his “chief of staff”.

Carter didn’t provide much in the way of reason for leaving other than a professed longing to get back to her family which is understandable.

She said in her complimentary resignation letter to Scott; “…state government is ultimately not for me…”[iii]

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[i] “The Women Pushing Governor Scott’s Agenda” Miami Herald, June 19, 2011 http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/19/2273429/the-woman-pushing-gov-scotts-agenda.html

[ii] “Scott’s Top Policy Advisor Resigns Amid Shake-up” St Petersburg Times, June 22, 2011. http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/rick-scotts-top-policy-adviser-resigns-amid-shakeup/1176522

[iii] “Resignation Letter from Scott aide Mary Anne Carter” Tampa Bay online June 21, 2011 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/news/story/resignation-letter-from-scott-aide-mary-anne-carter1/

Top Polster and adviser Tony Fabrizio Departed October 2011 to join the Rick Perry campaign. Repeating: the RICK PERRY campaign was preferable to staying with Scott.  Fabrizio was a controversial figure to say the least for the GOP being openly gay and proud. He has been described as an inside man on policy.

The following is an excerpt from Rick Scott: Enemy of the State on Fabrizio:

"Tony Fabrizio, chief pollster and political strategist. Fabrizio of Brooklyn and Long Island, New York, is also considered a friend. He once warned Scott of state Senate President Mike Haridopolos and House Speaker Dean Cannon, “these guys mean to castrate us! They are not our friends.”

Lobbyist Hayden Dempsey resigned in August 2011. The following is an excerpt from Rick Scott: Enemy of the State concerning Dempsey.

"Dempsey is quoted as needing to focus on raising his two daughters.[i]

Is it code-talk, this line “I need to focus on my family”? These people were all earning upwards of $150,000 per year. Some have kids in college or approaching that.

Does this logic sound truthful?

I only now discovered that I have been ignoring my family all these years. I mean, what was I even thinking taking a high paying, high stress, high profile job where I got my name in the paper every other day? I could have been working at SAM’s Club as a cashier!

Something doesn’t wash here.

Of course some resignations seem to be forced by the executive, or his staff. And they don’t always end in tragedy for those who resign, only reappointment."

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[i] “Florida Governor Rick Scott’s Top Lobbyist resigns” (AP) Aug. 4, 2011. http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/politics/21005015280371/

Ed Buss, Prison's Chief, resigned August 2011.
The following is an excerpt from Rick Scott: Enemy of the State, concerning Buss:

Recently MSNBC was filming at a Santa Rosa County Corrections for their series Lock-Up. But Rick Scott ousted the crew from the premises and voided their contract they had written for $100,000 under the blessing of State Corrections Secretary Ed Buss, who had been brought in by Scott, as former head of Indiana Corrections.

Scott said Buss had no authority to sign the deal. In the end, Scott signed the contract, and fired Buss, allowing the MSNBC crew to go back into the facility after a two day hiatus. At this writing we don’t know the entire story on either the firing, or the connection to Geo Group, but, there apparently is more to it than the MSNBC contract; namely Buss’s handling of the state’s prison privatization efforts.

State Senator Paula Dockery (R-Lakeland )[i] said that Buss was forced out because he wouldn’t keep quiet about the actual cost of privatizing prisons in 18 counties from Bradenton to Key West; namely some $25 million in overtime, sick leave etc. payouts that seem to conveniently escape everyone’s attentions when alleged cost-savings are touted as the reason for the entire privatization effort.

You can’t help but wonder if the state’s plan is simply to not pay the $25 million owed to the corrections officers and staff.

“Everything being done with regard to privatizing prisons is being done in secrecy. In private,” Dockery said in the article just previously referenced.

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[i] “Dockery says Buss was punished for speaking up on privatizing prisons” The Buzz , From the Staff of the St. Petersburg Times Aug. 26. 2011  http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/dockery-says-buss-was-punished-speaking-privatizing-prisons

This list isn't complete. These are only some of the names.

I want you to hunker down with me by the fireside here, listening to the crickets and the hissing embers. Ask yourself, honestly now, what makes a person throw away a high paying job with plenty of perks and benefits, in the worst economy to hit this country since the Great Depression?

Ponder that question and then download my answers here.

Hillsborough, is Now Democracy's Achilles Heel

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Hillsborough County's Interim County Attorney Don Odom has sent me the "Conduct of Election Report" for Nov. 2, 2010.

First point of interest. Hillsborough SOE says 12 memory cards failed to download their data. As we recall from yesterday, the voting machine company, Dominion said this was because election workers took the memory cards out of a machine (think of a CD burner on your desktop computer) before vote-counting software could finish downloading.

If the county SOE is correct, Dominion voting's gear is seriously flawed in that 38,000 votes were erased in a crucial election between Sink and Scott. If Dominion is correct, that means someone working for Hillsborough County's SOE made a serious error, not once, but 12 times in a row.

Additionally, the cards weren't tested? Apparently they were immediately shipped out to EARLY VOTING PLACES ONLY where DEMOCRATS are known to vote early.

There are no two ways about it. Think about it. One or the other. But which is it?

One thing is for certain: despite the uncertainty in either the machines, or the personnel, THERE HAS BEEN NO INVESTIGATION into the SOE by anyone. And the county commission of Hillsborough seems to have NO interest in getting to the bottom of this and answering that "which" question, despite spending millions on those machines.

Why? And how responsible is it for them to behave this way. Think about it, not one county commissioner in seven even cares about finding out whether the voting machines are seriously flawed OR whether there are actually people engaged in a criminal high-jack, racketeering of the Florida vote working in their SOE office.

Oh? Third choice? People operating the machines don't have the technical wizardry of a seventh grader. But they DO know how to send their mistakes to voters in the African American community, in the student community, in the bedroom community, of the 99 percenters.

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Meanwhile, back on earth, the election of Rick Scott in Hillsborough went off without a complete canvassing board.

Why?

#Dominion Blames Hillsborough SOE for #RickScott election glitch

After months of wrangling with Rick Scott Watch, Hillsborough County officials have released a written document concerning the alleged "glitch" that erased  38,000 votes in areas of minority electors, on Nov. 2, 2010.

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The document dated March 1, 2011, released by Hillsborough interim county attorney Odom Feb. 28. 2012 is from Dominion voting; the machine and software vendor, now controlling nearly 50 percent of all voting in Florida, and nationwide.

Dominion voting appears to call what had been deemed a "glitch" by the media, and the SOE, operator error on the part of county election staff and officials.

In terse technical language it indicates a "hot removal" of the memory cards during the phase when those memory cards were coded with vote-counting software before those cards were sent out to count the votes at early voting places. Only early voting was affected in the "glitch."

In more plain language, elections staff may have removed the cards from the machines before the process of downloading all the vote counting software was complete: essentially sending those cards to early voting places without the ability to capture the votes.

Nearly 50 percent of the ballots in the last three days of early voting "failed to download" onto the memory cards at early voting locations in the towns and communities of Temple Terrace, Town N' Country, West Tampa, New Tampa, South Shore and Jan Platt.

This resulted in a rescanning exercise put on display for the media at the Falkenburg Road Annex where more than a dozen poll workers ran 38,000 ballots "back through" scanning machines during the late evening hours of November 2, and the early morning hours Nov. 3, 2010.

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This, along with similar problems in Palm Beach delayed the concession speech of democratic gubernatorial contender Alex Sink until nearly 10 a.m., and acceptance speech of republican Governor-elect Rick Scott until nearly noon on Nov. 3, 2010.

The document, which reads almost as though taken from a product instruction manual comes after repeated verbal and written requests to the SOE, county commissioners, and finally Mr. Odom. 

Several readers of this blog, fans on Facebook of Rick Scott Watch, Occupy Rick Scott, Rick Scott: Enemy of the State, and Occupy Rigged Elections were given a form email to send to Odom demanding answers, just before Mr. Odom sent out the document to my Gmail account DavidAnthonyKearns@Gmail.com 

This marks the first time any documentation regarding this, perhaps the largest single computer/software election glitch in the state's history, has ever been published in any media.

Rick Scott Watch began asking questions relative to this "glitch" or "operator error"  in July 2011 during research for our book Rick Scott: Enemy of the State

History of our quest, for those just joining us.

Hillsborough SOE Earl Lennard told us July 21, 2011 that a glitch did result in a rescanning during the primary in August, as far as he could recall. He offered no documentation when asked, but said a report was forthcoming from Dominion, apparently referring to this one dated four months prior to our interview with him. 

He also said the rescanning process was completed by 10:30 p.m. Both are false statements which were not corrected by MIS director Tim Bobanic, nor chief of staff Craig Latimer who were present during the interview.

Rick Scott Watch approached Hillsborough County officials on three occasions making personal three minute appearances before the county commission demanding answers which weren't forthcoming.

1. Jan. 5. 2012 Our comments are filmed at 1:12

2. Jan. 19, 2012 Our comments are filmed at 0:31

3. Feb. 22, 2012 Our comments are filmed at 1:26 or thereabouts.

We also sent numerous emails to both commissioners and the county administrator regarding this "glitch" before receiving this response yesterday.

Not the First Time in Hillsborough

The events are similar to the logistically and mechanically "glitched" election of 2008 in Hillsborough, following which a box containing 440 voted but uncounted ballots were found in a warehouse and presented to newly elected supervisor of elections Phyllis Busansky.

Busansky had narrowly defeated controversial incumbent Buddy Johnson. 

Johnson faced numerous allegations of mismanagement and his tenure later faced an FBI investigation. 

It came to light during an audit and the FBI investigation, he had a convicted arsonist working for his office earning $20,000 for less than four months work.

Busansky was found dead on her hotel room floor in June during a conference for supervisors of elections, held in St. Augustine.

Governor Charlie Crist replaced her with republican former schools super Dr. Earl Lennard who is not seeking re-election in 2012.

Many questions remain.

Namely the obvious: For more than a year following the remarks of Hillsborough County Commissioner Mark Sharpe "heads are going to roll over this"  (in an article dated Nov. 4,  2010 of the Tampa Tribune,) commissioners have remained unified in their silent disinterest. Why?

Perhaps in an unrelated development, Commissioner Sharpe announced his decision to run for congress in August of 2011.

Why has there been no investigation or inquiry into this event despite the assertion, that has been known since March of 2011, that the machines were not to blame,  but that the election staff themselves were for an error that an eleven year old operating the CD burner on his desktop computer would easily avoid?

Then these empty useless vote tabulating cards were sent by the SOE specifically to areas designated to capture early voting in minority communities. Why? 

Why wasn't the error discovered sooner, so that an emergency "rescanning" was necessary in the middle of the night? Were the personal vehicles of the poll workers used to transport the ballots to Falkenburg Road as television video seems to suggest, or were county vehicles used?

Why that number, 38,000; which so conveniently, mathematically buoys the result of Scott v Sink over the rocky shoals of a recount?

Given all of this, why hasn't there been an investigation of the election of Rick Scott by some governing authority?

And where is the media on all of this? Why are they so silent? Can't they even ask these questions? Is it impermissible for them to do so now? Is this how bad it has gotten in this country?

More to come.

Test for Token #Democrats

Can't remember what the party actually stands for?Are you someone who wears the T-shirt, but the elevator doesn't make it all the way to the top?  Do you suffer from Prolonged Token Democrat Displacement Disorder (PTDDD)? Take the test and see?

1. Which of these statements is TOTALLY FALSE?

a. Obama is God
b. Obama is God AND he will save the world.
c. Walking on water is a sign of miraculous intervention of some sort and Obama had something to do with it.
d. Obama isn't necessarily divine.

2. If a candidate selects "one from every demographic" to work on his or her campaign and features them in the campaign material photos and websites. The candidate can best be described as?

a. A typical democratic contender
b. A limousine liberal
c. A progressive democrat
d. The best candidate for the elected position regardless of any other thing.

3. The candidate in the previous question hasn't chosen a platform yet; what he is for, or what he for or is against. His decision to create a swatch card of "diverse" faces BEFORE deciding what his stated goals and objectives are would be described as.

a. Asinine and a disgrace
b. Good timing
c. Potential ammunition for the right
d. Good strategy

4. The candidate in question two, knows his position on abortion but as a catholic can't bring himself to make that clear during the primary for fear of losing the female vote. He should..?

a. Stick to his guns.
b. Run and hide
c. Duck dodge and wave
d. Change his position immediately

5. Your friends are going to an event to lambaste a senator for his position on privatizing prisons. But, you find out that the senator is actually not going to be at the event. Your best move is to what?

a. Get drunk
b. Say nothing
c. Get drunk say nothing, go anyway
d. Get drunk, say nothing, go anyway, tell everyone the senator is in the building, you just saw him in the window.

6. You get to an event and discover you have the wrong T-shirt on. You should immediately do what?


a. Get drunk
b. Say nothing
c. Get drunk say nothing, go anyway
d. Get drunk, say nothing, go anyway, get the bumper stickers out of your car and sell them.

7. You are at an event screaming loudly with compatriots. But soon into the protest you discover a promotions booth for the very company you are protesting against offering snacks for free with a smile. In essence you find the entire event is a hoax designed to bring the media to the benefit of the company, with you as a foolish pawn. You should do what?


a. Get drunk
b. Say nothing
c. Get drunk say nothing, go anyway
d. Get drunk, say nothing, go anyway, tell everyone the senator is in the building, you just saw him in the window.

8. You discover the candidate you are working for is actually plant from the republican party, and he will likely change party affiliation from D to R, soon after taking office. What should you do? (Best answer)


a. Get drunk
b. Say nothing
c. Get drunk say nothing, clap and chant slogans
d. Get drunk, say nothing, clap, continue to sell bumper stickers, and make calls to garner support and donations.




9. You discover that there is a massive flaw in the voting machines in your county, or your state. Come 2012 there is a very real possibility the election will be stolen using this flaw. You should do what? (Best Answer)

a. Continue along as if nothing's the matter in fish-like, zombified willful ignorance
b. When someone tries to explain it to you, shake your head repeatedly saying "wha..? wha...? I don't get it? It must not be true otherwise I would have heard about it by now."
c. Go to another fund raiser. Drink. Squeal with laughter at the slightest joke to reduce the tension.
d. All of the above.

10. If someone shows you proof elections are being stolen in Florida you should do what?

a. Blacklist them, report them to the DNC. Call DWS and Alan Grayson to tell them there is a dissenter.
b. Get on Facebook and talk about how wonderful it was seeing Alan Grayson in person.
c. Put on fishnet stockings, and nothing else, walk around your house humming U2, yell at the pool guy for not doing his job. Kick the poodle for peeing on the carpet.
d. All of the above.

11. If you are going to an event to "protect women's rights" and you hear all elections have been cancelled with martial law now in place, your emotional reaction would be best described as which?

a. Horrified that martial law was installed.
b. Infuriated that not only women's rights, but ALL rights are being stomped out
c. Terrified that physical danger, genocide, concentration camps for dissenters may result
d. Angry that your event is now cancelled.

12. You are corralled into pens with your friends who are all part of your protest group. Proctors begin shooting GPS tags into the flesh of all detainees, using the very devices animal control uses to tag stray dogs. A week goes by without sleep. You find one day all of you are being slowly ushered to a room containing an industrial cheese grater. You suspect you will be directed to jump into it after emptying your pockets. As this horrific process unfolds you notice that gay detainees are being segregated to be thrown into a different cheese grater. Your move here is to...?

a. Try to escape immediately
b. Attempt to overpower your guards and stage a revolt!
c. Attempt to contact outside help
d. Begin a petition to demand equal treatment of all detainees.

13. The Stanley Milgram Experiment was which? (Best answer)

a. An experiment designed to show the evil of blindly following orders.
b. A creative use of buzzers
c. Largely thought to be immoral due to the psychological trauma of unknowing test subjects
d. Horribly filmed and acted by homophobic, misogynist, racist white men with no sense of color or style.

14. You discover a woman organizing your protest is actually Rick Santorum in drag. The very definition of "wolf in sheep's clothing!" What do you do? (BEST ANSWER)

a. Nothing. As long as he parties like the rest of us and says the right things, who cares.
b. Nothing. Don't want to go against the crowd
c. Convince myself despite all evidence that it isn't happening.
d. All of the above.

15. You discover Rachel Maddow has a reoccurring habit of avoiding actual news while focusing on the juicy tidbits spun off by the republican spin machine: non issues designed to inflame the masses while corralling them away from real news and real issues; more to the relief of corporate masters. Your best response would be to what?

a. Call the show and say something
b. Tell my friends in my protest group
c. Write an OpEd piece
d. Say nothing, do nothing; as others might notice I am not "of the body".

16. You're given a choice of attending a protest here, choose one.

a. The "Humans Against Genocide" Protest (limp press coverage)
b. The "Don't Put Us In the Goddamn Cheese Grater!" Protest (meek, surviving press coverage only)
c. The "Stop Rigging Our Elections" protest ( not a peep of press coverage, not one bug-tick, anywhere).
d. Protest slamming a city councilman for using the words 'All of Y'all' in an anti-union speech (Massive press coverage by NYT, CNN, Rachel Maddow, We Got Ed etc.).

17. Who are these remarks referring to? "My brother not need be idealized in death nor enlarged in what he was in life. He was a good and decent man who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it." (Your best answer)

a. Gandhi
b. RFK
c. MLK
d. Someone who likely wouldn't call for a first strike on Iran on behalf of Israel, and therefor not a real democrat.

18. If someone sends you a post of Facebook asking you to do something for the cause. Your move is usually what?

a. Like the post, then do as asked if I believe in the cause.
b. Like the post then do as asked if there is no money in it and I believe in the cause.
c. Like the post but then ask for more information to see if I am doing the right thing.
d. Like the post only, even if I am totally committed to the cause. Liking the post conveys the impression of participation even though I don't plan on participating. In fact, it has gotten so bad, I can barely summon the energy to "like"  post I may agree with. I sort of just fool myself into believe even in my weak-assed silent agreement with the post I am "with the movement" and "doing something." And like, I know this is the wrong way to think, and all, but another part of me doesn't really give a shit. And I sort of laugh at everyone else who "actually participates" even if only to "like" the post they have no intention to comply with. And even though the entire country is going to corporate owned hell in a hand-basket, I'm sort of in a daze like a dead fish on a dock about it. I could give a fuck. I only pretend to be "for democracy" and it's amusing to me that I feel that way. Hey? Did you see Idol last night?

19. Rachel Maddow would have to tell you to do what, before you stopped following her.

a. Change your hair color.
b. Change your clothes on a downtown bus
c. Put your underwear on over your pants
d. None of these. You would instantly do whatever she asked.

20. If offered the chance to buy a book telling you the republican game-plan for Florida throughout the next four to eight years, you would do what?

a. Buy it by downloading the link here from Amazon
b. Claim to have bought it after reading only the first few pages.
c. Read the first few pages off the web since they are free
d. I wouldn't buy it. As a democrat I find it abhorrent to buy the work of a fellow democrat for reasons I can't explain. Aside from which being a democrat is a recreational outlet. It doesn't actually mean anything, silly.


Please keep coming back to the blog by clicking this link for answers to the quiz and your individualized test results throughout the day!

You Must Say Something Racist Before the Media Pays Attention to You

And the grandmotherly gadlfly  gets up before the Hillsborough County Commission and practically whispers this unfortunate line: "you're talking about ghettoizing."

Of course she said she was referring to a sort of racial gerrymandering. And she could have said this more mercifully. She also said the dreaded line "you want to be apart you should go back to where you came from."

Can we forgive a grandmotherly figure who knows not what she says?"

Nope. It's too late now. The train of demagoguery has left the station!

His selective journalistic conscience fully inflamed, the newspaper reporter begins scribbling.(Link here) He has found his low hanging fruit to ornament a potentially dry story about a new district, for Hispanics.

He and the news cameras have been waiting for this:, the Great White Whale of  perceived "racism," to surface! "Harpoon her, great beast that she is!"

This dangerous creature: standing all of four feet seven inches, weighing in at seventy eight pounds with a voice of a small, angry finch. She is soooooo terrifying!

Even officialdom wastes no time in attacking. Never let a granny go unpunished.

County Commissioner Les Miller; "Let me apologize to the Hispanics that are here in this chamber watching, for the derogatory comments...that cuts deep. That hurts. It's painful. I apologize for the comments being made. (he repeated it!) I apologize for the comments being made!"

Clapping, and applause here. A Kumbaya moment serving to scold the gadfly. Bad, bad gadfly.

It helps to have someone willing to say something retrograde, something throwback, something impolitic, yes, something racist in her effort to get a decent debate going. Succulent red meat for the media to devour and pretend to be the defenders of ....meh, whatever.

The fact is, everything going on in any government body depends on the initial vote that put that public official into that chair. Because without the sanctity of the vote, you don't get a Less Miller in the first place. You don't get a black guy, or an Hispanic guy on the county commission. You don't even get a woman on the board, either. You don't get an openly gay man, or woman, on any county commission. You likely won't even get an agnostic, heaven forbid it!

Given the old system you certainly wouldn't get a tiny woman even daring to scold officials, as she does, so admirably, so valiantly, week in week out about their spending and so on.

So. If you want to get attention from the media say something which can be perceived as racist. Bring your granny.

Or go further! Come dressed as a chicken, perhaps, wear a funny shirt, and one of those crazy multicolored fake afros. Bring an accordian and a monkey. Make a stupid ruckus so the media can poke fun and ignore the heart of the issue. As they stumble blind in the darkness they create with their own closed eyes.

If you want to be ignored by both the media and public officials, what you must do is attack the heart of the issue. Raise a concern of the failure in our voting machines, that, if remedied, would solve the problems inherent with democracy. For this would erase a perceived need for special districts raised by a threatened minority feeling oppressed by the status quo.

Because failing the sanctity of "one person one vote" you don't get any diversity. Cry, whine into your Cuban coffee or latte all you want, baby. You don't even get the discussion of the creation of an "access district."

"Say theyuh Commissioner Beauregard? Have's you evuh hoid of something here, called an "access district?"


"No Commissionuh Thibedeaux, I don'ts beleebs I have, suh! Newfangled idea from yankeefolk no doubt, or perhaps thuh heeeeethuns!"

The term never, ever (and again now) ever! comes up. They don't even bother to consider something so outlandish.

Without the sanctity of the vote you get a sham, people. A governing board made up of ruling members of the local Mason Temple perhaps. Complete with all their coordinated red-herring issues and chicken feeding nonsense conflicts that the media, like hooked Snook, continue to fall for.

You get conspiring officials be they Masons,  be they Poobahs, who since the 1850s have all been white hetero males of the same religious persuasions. Who for generations, have all been working for the same law firms, all the way back into dim-distant intolerant, enslaving past. Who have occupied all state legislature positions, as well.

You get nothing, citizen. You get bupkiss. If you or your family aren't part of the system that has been in place since before you were born, you my friend get no representation whatsoever.

You are told to go suck on a lollipop of untruth. You are lied to when you petition your sham government. They pat you on the head in the most patronizing manner, and send you on your way.

We have been approaching this commission, this county government, since July looking for one piece of paper to verify an erasure of 38,000 votes in District 3 (Miller) during the last election which the media - perhaps now bowing to some Beauregard sinister directive from the top - seems willing to forget along with the officials they are supposed to be watching for us. (We spoke again! That makes times three! We got no ink.)

So that the media and the officials themselves can erase history and continue to manipulate the system for their own means, bring back the Way Back Machine, and oppress the very people who democratic Commissioners Les Miller and Kevin Beckner pretend to protect.

Comes the surprising vote! The commission voted down 5-2, even the notion of handing the issue over to the voters of Hillsborough County by way of a referendum. Nope. No special and different districts for you, Hispanics.

Supremely quiet and officious commissioners Ken Hagan, Victor Christ, Alan Higgenbotham and Sandra Murman, (who seemed more concerned  with events on the social calendar than any single issue) voted against it. And can you beleebs it? How in the world could they even consider not letting the citizens have a crack at this one!! Do you believe they voted that way?

Round and round like mice on a wheel, folks. That's you.

The Herring of (Perceived) Racism comes in at 1:10! We come in at 1:19. Commissioner Miller comes in at 1:26 or thereabouts.

Here's the meeting link.

Newsprint Media Plays silent Hausfrau to the Extermination of Democracy

No rock left un-turned!

Reporters: they tell you they can go after any story. Will go after any story. Will follow the news (music rising here) where ever it leads!

I spoke to a very respected reporter last week, at a major newspaper, who shall remain nameless lest the Schutzstaffel root him out of his desk and toss him into the street.

Having worked for four newspapers covering city council, county commission and some state issues myself, I have an idea or two about how he does his job; what the issues are, what constitutes a news story and what doesn't.

I asked him about the newsworthiness of the Hillsborough Glitch. News has changed since I was in it. Used to be it was in the public record it was fair game: i.e. said at a meeting. Member of the public comes in, tops off, kooky as it may sound, get the reaction from the other side, and you can run it, provided it is balanced and the story has a basis in reality, such as an event the like of the Hillsborough Glitch.

The corporate ooze still hasn't erased the history of it. But it is trying. And the new reportage is the method. It's astounding the bar they've set for what constitutes reality, a workable news story.

Essentially, until I prove what I am saying is true - that's right, unless I root around inside the guts of the voting machines myself and prove they were hacked - it's not a news story. I don't have an opinion worth airing in newsprint.  I have to dive inside the machines myself, mind you, and come out the other side with the buzzed out circuit (yep! here it is!) Or, I have to develop my own software worm, break into the systems myself, and have my little algorithm spit back the malware code to me (yep! This is it!) before the newspapers are permitted to even discuss it. To even mention the names of the companies involved all of these things must come to pass. By this test, nothing would ever be brought before a judge, ever; much less be written about.

It's like having to isolate the cancer cells in your mom's brain tumor before being permitted to take her to the doctor. Tell me in what other arena of life is a burden of absolute proof required before even a balanced story is written posing the question, whether a thing is good, or bad?

No no. You must have absolute proof this thing is bad, before we in the media will be permitted to run a story on it, even to take both sides and let the reader make up his own mind.

Time-Machine checked News only!

His comment to me was, that since he "can't go back in time" and see whether or not the vote was hacked in Hillsborough County, there's really no reason for his newspaper to even ask the question: this despite a glitch that mysteriously wiped out 38,000 votes. He can't even write a news story airing the fact I would like to get Hills county officials to give me some shred of evidence in writing that the event even happened. That there was even a problem on election night is easily called into question, and I can't get a written record of the event. Nope. Not news, by today's standards. Wowzers! That's some set of standards! Only news verified by TIME MACHINE makes the papers!!!

By the by; this seemingly ludicrous system of byzantine information-choke is how history is erased, mind you. And funny things happen when people start trying to erase history. As we recall? No? Not so much?

"Helke come away from that window!"

This is the very excuse logic the German hausfrau's used when they were excoriated for not knowing where the trains went, just down the road from the concentration camps. I don't say this lightly. This is precisely the mentality. 

"You didn't have any idea where the trains were going?"

"No we didn't know. We had no idea and since there was no proof we weren't permitted to say anything!"

"Proof?"

"Ya"

"The trains went down this road full. Then they came back empty."

"Ya."

"And you didn't ask what went on down there?"

"We were told not to go, not to ask, and so we didn't."

 This is  the same attitude modern media has with regard to a problem that has left our democracy as vulnerable as Swiss cheese. Machine hacked elections, hacked democracy, election rigging courtesy of Diebold, Premiere or Dominion.

All seems so Orwellian

These reporters today can't even ask the questions, unless their story is all wrapped up with a nice little bow of proof! So, what they really want is a press release by some "Ministry of Authority", that there had been a problem, but now it is solved for the Good of the Body Public.

Well that logic rates a hearty "Double-plus-good!" on the tyranny meter!

For scary practical purposes my conversation with the reporter sounded something eerily similar to this:

Me: "But it happened!"

Him: "Did it?"

Me: "You're paper wrote about it!"

Him: "Did we? I can't say as I recall..." (crickets)

Me: "Well, that's what I am asking you to do, to search your archive and look up your old stories on this issue. Surely you can look at your archived stories, where the event was discussed, can't you?"

Him: "I don't know, can I?" (crickets)

"No he's not, he's just resting!"

Me: "I have a copy here of one of the stories taken off the web. It has your paper's name on it. It mentions that 38,000 ballots were erased and they had to be re-scanned in the middle of the night."

Him: "But what proof do you have?"

Me: "That's right! That's what I am asking you to look into! Look into that!"

Him: "I can ask a question or two, but not much else."

Me: "Why?"

Him: "Well, there's no proof is there. Not much use to us without proof."

If this were NASCAR they would run that film to find out what happened, if it took a million years. If this were footage of a Kardashian's naughty parts in a video clip from Youtube they would run it backwards and forwards all day long all over CNN - with the smudge of discretion of course - just to make sure we had confirmed that indeed, she showed her woo-hoo! during her trip downtown wherein she wasn't wearing under garments!

But since we are talking about the rigging of our entire election system using vulnerable software that's been around since the late 1980s; since we're talking about large corporations essentially perpetrating a silent coup on us all, marshaling us all off to WW III now or God knows what they have in mind; no, we can't discuss it.

We won't even do you the honor of running a news story mentioning your concerns.

Because you, common citizen, have no voice anymore. Not anymore.

Furthermore what The Big Machine really needs from you now, is to STFU and participateLITE in our Ministerial Warm Body Exercise (MWBE) called "voting."

After you show up in the required demographics, we'll juke the numbers the way we like.

We'll take it from there.

Letter to Hillsborough's County Attorney

I have been inquiring since July for some written report concerning the alleged error of the Dominion voting machines that reportedly erased 38,000 ballots on election night Nov. 2, 2010.

 I have been given no information. I have spoken before the Hillsborough County Commission twice and am prepared to do so again at any time regarding this issue. I have inquired directly to your SOE Earl Lennard and was told false statements in the presence of Mr. Bobanic and Mr. Latimer neither of whom corrected him. They offered no documentation. 

I was assured by commissioner Mark Sharpe there was a preliminary report regarding the alleged error in the machines that night. But once again nothing has been forthcoming. I am soliciting radio and television time to speak on this matter as I consider it alarming that the county apparently has no information on a horrendous glitch, amplifying my suspicions that the election was rigged in Hillsborough County. I have no trouble standing up in whatever venue be it local radio or national television to lay the evidence out as it is. Please dissuade me of the notion that the entirety of the county government is suspect by directing whomever it may be, to send me written documentation as to the exact cause as best known, of the Hillsborough Glitch of 2010. 

Thank you