My Public Records Request to Hillsborough

From: David Kearns [mailto:davidanthonykearns@gmail.com]

Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 11:34 AM

To: Peg Reese

Subject: RIGHT TO KNOW – PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST

Ms. Peg Reese

Hillsborough County

Deputy Chief of Operations SOE

RIGHT TO KNOW – PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST

Pursuant to the state open records law, Fla. Stat. Ann. Secs. 119.01 to 119.19, I write to request a copy of the following records. Please respond to each item, separately, in writing.

Item 1: A copy of the audit log for OSX #499 for the election Nov. 2, 2010 Item 2: A copy of the GEMS audit log for the election of Nov. 2, 2010 Item 3:  The file directory for each of your election management computers for the general election Nov. 2, 2010. This is the text file containing the list of file names, dates, and sizes for each file in each directory.  Depending on which version of Windows you use, this file can be generated with the command prompt dir c:\dirlist.txt or a similar command.

If your agency does not maintain these public records, please let me know who does and include the proper custodian’s name and address.

I agree to pay any reasonable copying and postage fees of not more than $25 for this information. If the cost would be greater than this amount, please notify me. Please provide a receipt indicating the charges for each document.

I would request your response within ten (10) business days.

If you choose to deny this request, please provide a written explanation for the denial including a reference to the specific statutory exemption(s) upon which you rely. Also, please provide all segregable portions of otherwise exempt material.

Sincerely,

David A. Kearns

(address redacted)

(321)525-0117 cell

DavidAnthonyKearns@Gmail.com

No Word from the Division of Elections coming up on one year

The following  entry is from my Facebook site Rick Scott Watch of Sept 1, 2011. We note with no small sense of irony the Sec. of State chose to resign, and announced around Jan. 9, 2012. To date there has been zip, zero, nothing, nada in the way of follow up to this complaint I filed last summer.

Days ago I sent a detailed email to Pam Bondi's office through her website. I alerted her that I thought there was fraud inside the elections office in Hillsborough. Part of my working theory as I have stated is the Sec. of State may very well be in on the fraud.  And nothing he has done has shown me otherwise, certainly not in those years when he was a champion of touch-screen voting! Certainly not in his attempts to shut down early voting, fighting fair districts, one thing after another and so on.

How glad I am that rather than investigate, what her staff proposes doing is send the complaint on the very people who may be guilty, so, they can investigate themselves.

Just awesome.

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has received your email regarding

>  alleged election improprieties or fraud.  Attorney General Pam Bondi has

>  asked that I respond.

> 

>  I am forwarding your email to the Florida Department of State, Division of

>  Elections, which is the state agency that receives and reviews complaints

>  about alleged election or voter fraud.  The contact information is:

> 

>  Florida Department of State

>  Division of Elections

>  Room 316, R.A. Gray Building

>  500 South Bronough Street

>  Tallahassee, Florida  32399-0250

>  Telephone:  850-245-6200

>  Website:  http://election.dos.state.fl.us/

> 

>  The Department of State provides more detailed information about election

>  fraud and links to the applicable Florida Statutes online at:

> 

>  http://election.dos.state.fl.us/fraud.shtml

> 

>  Thank you for contacting Attorney General Bondi's Office.

> 

>  Sincerely,

> 

>  Allen Baer

>  Office of Citizen Services

>  Florida Attorney General's Office

>  PL-01, The Capitol

>  Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1050

>  Telephone:  (850) 414-3990

>  Toll-free:  (866) 966-7226

Scott Wants Florida's Own Immigration Gestapo Agency

What fun is it having a fascist dictatorship without a gestapo?
Rick's excuse will be immigration, which is why he wants to tap the Homeland Security Database. Duh!
No? I'm out of my god-frigging mind?

If we have learned nothing else from this experiment called Rick Scott, we have learned that every seemingly meek, mild, honest-engine request has another motive. And the underlying motive is often ten times, to one hundred times more sinister than the announced motive.
"Who can argue that we shouldn't have illegal people voting?" he said.
Who indeed?
If 'A' so 'Z' must follow, as well as 'O', 'G' and 'R'. That's the pattern over and over. And it just so happens OGR and so on, often take away our liberties, further reduce us to serfdom and enrich the Friends of Rick Program (FORK).
You need an example? Bitch, please:
The reason for selling state property, that being a King Air and a Cessna for a combined $3.7 million (rock bottom give-away) was to save $500,000 in annual maintenance costs. Never mind he had no legal authority to do it. But, we learned of a secondary motive. He was able to escape records laws which follow state owned property, namely aircraft, whenever they fly.
And so, using his own jet he whisked himself off (in thwarted secrecy) to Vail Colorado for the annual Koch-cult come to Mohammad meeting with all the conservative machers to compare notes on how they were each outdoing each other in their attempts to murder, murder, murder the middle class!(I tell you this can't wait we must kill them all!).
Another example? Really? You can't remember these lessons? Alright. He used a little documentary Davis Guggennheim called "Waiting for Superman" and FOX's it-gal of the moment Michelle Rhee to tell us that "the model on education is broken." This became the excuse for attacking teachers, their pensions, their tenurs, and continues to be a a major homework assignment for the Koch masters. Higher ed is currently in his cross-hairs.
The solution? Big box corporate learning and Koch approved professors starting at FSU and soon to be seen elsewhere. And all those lucrative contracts for the rights to enter the counties and set up shop. These provide tit for tat fodder to the upwardly mobile conservative palm greasers in both spheres! Diluting the power of our tax dollars to fund education, the overall destruction thereof, of course the desired end result.
The next hot ticket? "Druggies shouldn't be receiving unemployment or/and food stamps! This is a major problem!" (Which it's not.)
He was/is/was? who knows? retains, or doesn't, controlling interest in Solantic Walk-in urgent care which changed it's name to "Not-Solantic but something totally unrelated to all the controversy caused by Rick Scott's blatant use of our brand for his own evil purposes" also known as "CareSpot Express Health Care"- hair salon and Nazarene Church.
These centers of course, specialize in (wait for it) drug test kits at $35 a pop.
So now with these example in mind, and with an eye bent toward suspicion, what do we have? You have an evil madman asking the federal government to give him a look-see at the HLS database see he can merely keep illegals from voting.
Or is there more to it?

Friends of Rick program (FORK)

Ricky was all for something called "prison privitization". Cradle to prison program, Gulag Inc. Prison Vouchers, whatever you want to call it. GEO Group (NYSE:GEO) which owns 30 percent of the private prison space market and based in Boca Raton has major, major, major ties to Team Scott. Whether it's Scott's lobbyist Bill Rubin, or GEO's property trust manager Donna Arduin, who was Rick  Scott's transition team budget advisor; or whether it's the fact GEO gave Rick and the Republican party  $82,000 to help fund the inaugural shindig, there is an obvious case of political/corporate face sucking going on here, and one of the many facets of the Friends of Rick (FORK) program.
Speaking of Gulag Inc. and while we're on the subject, back we come to the original thesis here: a state gestapo.
When we establish this because (gasp!) "look at these fudged extrapolated mathematical lies we've come up with using data from Homeland Security as the spine of our deceit! Wow! We have got to do something about all these evil people on these spread sheets!" we will need to put all the targets of the massive inquest somewhere.
That means private prisons, which had been shot down by judges familiar with the state's constitution the federal one, as well as the contractual agreements with all 8,000 or more corrections officers in the state, are back in business owing to "emergency conditions! I tell you!"
The "woefully inadequate federal oversight" and they always use this Shakespearian refrain, will be pointed to as the reason to unleash corporate prisons on us, AND the pretext for creating a STATE agency to hunt down all would-be "evil doers" with a Minority Report concern for Constitutional or human rights.
Mark me well. This "request" to compare the data base against the voter rolls has a dual purpose. And responsible people at the federal level are obviously very uneasy about giving such authority, power, pretext and excuse over to this madman; as well they should be.
As well they should be.

Trying to File a Sunshine Law Violation Charge

Trying to file a Sunshine Law violation complaint to the proper authorities in Hillsborough County is a little like trying to herd cats.
No. Cats are smarter apparently. My cat comes when I call her. I swear she does. She understands certain words in the English Language.
The Hillsborough County sheriff's department apparently does not. The Hillsborough State Attorney's office likes to refer the Sunshine Law complaints to the sheriff's department, and the sheriffs don't speak or understand English until you get angry and nearly rude. Then they call you rude.
I spoke with a deputy. I will be kind and not mention her name but I will if pressed to prove what I say. I will be kind for now.
Florida Sunshine Law is covered under chapter 119 of Florida Statutes- our laws. I was on the phone tree begging thrown from one branch to the next when I landed on her line and like the others she kept saying "what? what is it? what?" Like that. Like if you say "what is?" enough with that tone. You know the tone. You're wrong for asking? Then I'll go away.
Finally we agreed she would look at the statute I kept referencing.
She came back on the line "I don't have it here."
"Well do you have google?"
"What, what? What? What?"
Cats. I tell you cats get it better than this. I've called the FDLE. I've called the Hillsborough State Attorney's office. Each agency refers me to the other, or the other two.
"What? What?"
If anyone has a name of someone in Florida who handles these complaints within state government, please contact me.
DavidAnthonyKearns@gmail.com

Voter Purge A CIA/Bush Diversion for Hacking

The foot stomping and posturing over the voter purges, in this writer's opinion constitute nothing more than a CIA/Bush-styled diversion which will cover-up a hacked vote again, here in Florida.
In 2000 (and I have said this on this blog until I am blue in the face) there were 16,022 votes counted backwards for Al Gore on election night. The location of the negative votes - did they appear from the anti-verse, what gives? - was discovered in precinct 216 in Volusia County. A precinct that had at that time a little over 600 registered voters.
This "error" on GES vote counting machines  ( later bought by Diebold, changed the name to Premier and then bought by Dominion voting) has never, ever been explained.
Since Al Gore conceded the election, all investigation into this was dropped.
During the recount phase the attention of the entire country was diverted with talk of "hanging chads" if you recall. And the collective fecal humor stage of the American public ate it up, so to speak.
Our brains completely shut down. The major media again told the country that Floridians are essentially brain dead morons who can't be trusted to vote properly and Americans also ate this lie up.
Let me ask you something. Was there a Bush or two involved in this? Yes. There were two in fact. Jeb and George.
Was there a Bush involved in the 2004 fiasco in Ohio?  Where Kerry was defeated by a middle man attack on the vote reporting system set up by then secretary of state Ken Blackwell? A man who promised to deliver the Ohio vote? Yes, there was, as well as a Karl Rove.
As the video in the previous link mentions, the same names and the same tactics keep showing up in Florida, and election tampering.
But the overall Bush badness and underhanded dark deeds go back even further.
The Bushes were at the heart of the Savings and Loan scandals of the late 1980s. They were at the heart of the drugs for guns for Contra program in the mid 1980s.
 It was George Bush senior who, as Director of Intelligence for the CIA hand-picked and programmed a young military cadet named Manuel Noriega and groomed him as an asset, turning a blind eye to his associations in the Colombian drug cartels.
It can even be argued that the first Gulf War invasion was a carefully planned operation designed to divert attention away from the Manuel Noreiga trial in which Manny was singing like a bird about nefarious dealings with Bush, particularly, who at the time of the invasion, was president of the United States.
What's a little election rigging to folks like this?
Pfffft. Child's play. That's what it is.
Key Bush family advisers have found themselves in league with Rick Scott, who made a great deal of money  in Texas.
Ken Detzner, our current secretary of state served as Jeb Bush's secretary of the state in an interim capacity and then helped transition the position from an elected one, to a governor appointee cabinet member. The worst situation, by the way, if you care about maintaining fair elections. That is, having the chief of all state elections, as a partisan appointee.
The idea to purge collateral thousands of voters along with less than a handful of illegal immigrants is too absurdly obvious not to be a CIA styled counterintell operation.
Even the republican elections supervisors aren't falling for it since it's their heads on the chopping block if they go back on federal laws. So, essentially it's a moot point. And Team Scott already know this. They are well aware of it.
When this dies down because a bought off media is already being directed to look away from it, the public will have had its mashed potato fill of talk of Florida and elections for a while.
During this period of exhasted disgust with Florida, the mechanisms of pre-programmed glitches and their "rescannings" will be honed to perfection. The bear traps for democracy now wait for a gullible public.
Florida's vote will be swindled. The governor will claim to be blameless by pointing out the fact his strongest efforts to steal votes were already thwarted by an "overreaching Obama administration."
You'll be convinced again that we're all too stupid to vote correctly down here.

We Don't Mention Voting Machines in AmerikaLITE

My daughter and I sat after the meeting today discussing my fixation with the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections and the false vote that gave us Rick Scott.She worked the camera for me and recorded my harangue against the commission for failing to call for any investigation into a clearly tampered vote which gave us this fascist ghoul in the governor's mansion.
"You can get obsessed over this stuff. You tend to fixate on things."
Kids understand there is a connection to their lives and a rigged election in an academic sense, but, they don't internalize it.
"Getting worked up about all this stuff," is so foreign to them.
But she's not alone. I belong to a group of bellyachers calling ourselves "Occupy Rigged Elections" a collection of misfits and malcontents who don't know what to do about the fact our democracy is being flushed down the toilet as we speak. Except watch with a sort of morbid fascination, like people on a subway platform witnessing a suicide by train.
I mean, we don't DO anything about it. We whine like simpering little victims about the situation but, ninety nine percent of us never DO a damned thing but Facebook our misery to each other. There is nothing more boring or useless than a group of lazy timid people who are in complete agreement with each other. (Fucking shoot me already!)
 My only consolation is I occasionally summon the nerve to get right up in some faces, but of course today, I have my daughter with me to provide perspective. Even this is as pathetic as I secretly suspected it was.
"Dad, they're not listening to you at all. You think the (the commissioners) are torn by some sort of moral dilemma. They're not. They don't care what you are saying. They just sit there, and don't say anything after you're through. You've done this now. This isn't working. You've got to do something else."
She's a smart kid. So I ask; "what?"
She shrugs, "get a lawyer. I don't know. That's for you to decide."
I have a couple of friends running for office in my county. They don't want to talk about it. They walk around with "all is well smiles" on their faces, even after the Scott Walker recall that wasn't; the one in which - somehow?-yeah?- media had all the answers less than one hour after the polls closed? uh-huh? And yet the exit polls took quite some time getting to us?
Does it make you wonder?
Took some time getting to us as media types scratched their heads and resolve what should have been a cake-walk for democrats, that resulted in a decisive loss.
Yeah....cause all of this makes sense. Right?
I called Ring of Fire Radio last week when they were talking about the voter purge  (purge, right? Because that's normal in an open democratic society) and ended up talking to Mike Papantonio about my book, and Kurt Browning, and the instant I started in on the Hillsborough vote and the voting machines, our normally courageous and outspoken Pap was like "Dave I gotta go, man." And moved right on to commercial.
I swear this damned thing is the third rail!
I have a friend in my local media who is the same way.
I don't understand how Pap, Rachel, Ed and the rest of them can talk about the absurdity of these allevged massive numbers of non-citizens still on the voting rolls, and never once mention the other argument, these corrupted voting machines? Is that journalism today? Is that how bad it is?
The only one of the MSNBC crowd I've seen even mentioning the machines was Chuck Todd and talk about limp it was in a reply tweet to Brad Freidman. (Chuck, how do you sleep?)
Todd used the  corporate dodge, slick on the head like grease off a block of ice, that "well? You trust your ATM don't you? So what's the problem?"
This from a guy who has this pompous pontificated commercial showing Himself making it through the White House gates to "ask the tough questions on behalf of the American people."
Vomit.Talk about dunderheaded obliviousness, ignorance with intent.
Anyway kids. This is where we stand today in AmerikaLITE.

The Snookie Award for Gutless Puke Media

The latest news in gutless  media comes from every hoodwinked snook outlet purveyor of infotainment that got in on the new "Rick on A Stick" lovefest and loudly applauded the governor for his new "open government" project SHITE-BURST (sorry) SUNBURST.
That last bit was a typo, sorry.
Now, Project Sunburst was to be a clearing house of state government emails. Media did all but break out lambeg drums, fife and whistle as you recall. The Orlando Sentinel, TBT, Miami Herald, Florida Today and several other Snook-on-a-Hook outlets went out on the massive limb to give credit where "gosh golly" credit was due to Governor Aardvark for putting out a webber (wait for it) with nary a damned thing on it.

"He's just resting"

It's a hoot. You dial this bird up on the old webster and this site that was slathered with praise as Ricky Come Runnin' to Jesus on Sunshine Law, has not one f-tick of an email there to be perused. It's empty, gang! Nitch. Nada. Nien. Null Set. (Oh make sure you use the handy dandy username and password. sunburst/sunburst).
"Lovely plumage the Norwegian Blue."
 Has been for days, will go on being so for days more. Weeks, months, years. And no one (wait for it) ever, follows up.
"No never?" (this is you talking here)
No Virginia. No! Not Fu-hUH-uh-uh- huck-ing EVER!
"But, never mind children, shhhhh. Don't mention the bad thing," because Lazy Big Media Teat has more offerings of nothingness and fake news coming right up!
Yes yes, hurry along. Don't see. Don't look, and please don't feed the brain-dead, shell-backed "see no evil" chimpanzees in our newsroom.
And the chimps go: "What? What's that? Project Sunturd? What? Now, explain that to us again, as our reporters and editors have selective dunderhead amnesia, brought on by Bribed Ossified Boss Syndrome (BOBS) and we can't seem to remember the news stories we wrote nigh on five days ago. Project Scudcurb? Wha...?"
Of course, they have totally left by the wayside their original story that prompted project Turdblossom; that being the deleted emails, hundreds if not thousands of Ricky's pre-junta government emails flushed down the john of history never to return.

Here, what's all this then?

They said the FDLE would have no problem getting to the bottom of all this, then. And certainly (harumpf I tell you harumpf!) the FDLE in no way shape or form would be prevented in any way from turning over any stone necessary (follow the crime where it leads and so on) to get to the bottom of something a member of the Geek Squad would tell you in one day. This despite the fact the FDLE reports to the very man they are now investigating, lo these many years.
Nothing sinister here. Move along.