Safe, he says. His good old boys are "safe". Maybe that's what he meant.
Posted on 10/13/2005 10:56:43 AM PDT by floriduh voter
Please help Floridians restore Florida from the Starvation State back to the Sunshine State. How can anyone visit Florida and enjoy their experience knowing what happened here?
Let's disband Judge Greer's elite corps from Pinellas County who participated in onerous, double dealing, immoral and illegal activities.
GREER'S ELITE CORPS: Former Sheriff Everett Rice vies for Fla AG
GREER'S ELITE CORPS: Current AG Charlie Crist vies for Fla Governor
Thanks in advance for helping Floridians save our State!
(Excerpt) Read more at conservative-spirit.org ...
PINELLAS COUNTY--A key player in the Terri Schiavo right-to-life case, heard in the Pinellas County courtroom of Sixth Judicial Circuit Court Judge George W. Greer, will now be sitting on the bench in that same courthouse, having been appointed to a new judgeship earlier this month by Gov. Jeb Bush.
John Carassas , 39, of Palm Harbor, who was serving as a deputy to Attorney General Charlie Crist, was the former state representative from House District 54 from 2000-2003, a seat now held by former Pinellas County Sheriff Everett Rice (R-Treasure Island) who is now seeking the office of attorney general. District 54 covers parts of Belleair, Largo, Clearwater and St. Petersburg as well as the Pinellas beaches.
Crist's Deputy AG, Key Player In Schiavo Case, Appointed Judge
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St. Pete Times mentioned this little hurricane today.
Commission members also wanted to know how the prospective judges viewed Pasco-Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer's handling of the Terri Schiavo case and whether they would be able to withstand similar heat from the national media. Greer ruled Schiavo would not want to be kept alive with a feeding tube and ordered it removed.
"He called a factual shot and then followed the law," said Jac k Helinger, a private attorney and former prosecutor in Pinellas. As a judge, "there will be long, hard nights. There will be difficult times. I accept that."
24 plead cases for three new judgeships
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www.sorrycharlie.com
>> Are you sure you're not confusing ... with The Empire Journal?
What's this about the Empire Journal?? I'm pretty sure it ceased publication last year. I don't see any links to it either.
MORE DIRTY LAUNDRY ON CHARLIE CRIST from February 2006. He says he's the "poorest" candidate for governor. Sure, and you pal around with Donald Trump. Anyway, his landlord violated homestead laws. Crist doesn't even own his St. Pete condo. Crist freely admits that he is poor in a self depricating way. I don't want him handling taxpayer dollars!
ST. PETE TIMES here:
Crist, a renter, gets tax law lesson
The attorney general, running for governor, learns his landlord is claiming a homestead break illegally.
By STEVE BOUSQUET, Times Staff Writer Published February 17, 2006
[Times files, 2002]
The Bayfront Tower, at Beach Drive and Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, overlooks yachts docked in Tampa Bay. Charlie Crist rented a 1,200-square-foot 22nd-floor condominium there in June 2003.
Charlie Crist, attorney general and candidate for governor, got a crash course in Florida tax law this week.
Crist has never owned a home. He rents a St. Petersburg condominium from a man who has been taking a homestead exemption on the unit, even though he doesn't live there as state law requires.
Crist, the state's top legal officer, said he didn't know his landlord was claiming the tax break or that it was against the law to do so.
"Could he not do that?" Crist asked.
Pinellas County Property Appraiser Jim Smith said Thursday the condo's owner, Lawrence Compton of St. Petersburg, appears to have broken the law. But as a tenant, Crist did nothing wrong, Smith said. State law says a homeowner who claims the $25,000 homestead exemption must live on the property unless he's on military duty.
"That's not cool," Smith said when told of the case by a reporter. "I will have our investigators check it out."
Compton, a 65-year-old retired accountant, declined to discuss his landlord-tenant relationship with Crist.
"I'm not going to talk about Charlie. I'm not going to get into that, okay? Have a good day," Compton said before hanging up the phone.
The condo issue emerged as part of a St. Petersburg Times review of Crist's finances. Crist has posted several years' worth of tax returns on his campaign Web site, charliecrist.com.
Crist pays $1,265 a month to rent the 1,200-square-foot condo on the 22nd floor of Bayfront Tower, which overlooks Tampa Bay. He also rents an apartment in Tallahassee.
"I love St. Pete," Crist said. "I'm on the road a lot, so all I've got to do is lock the door and go."
Crist's tax returns also show he has a net worth of $400,000 but has never owned a home. He earns more than $123,000 as attorney general and is single. His assets include stocks, a black 1997 Jaguar convertible and a 25-foot Trophy fishing boat he calls Freedom. Florida's homestead exemption is a vestige of the Depression. It eliminates the first $25,000 of a primary residence's value from property taxes, and what is perhaps more significant, makes the home eligible for the Save Our Homes cap on tax rate increases.
Pinellas property records show Compton has claimed a homestead exemption every year since he paid $260,000 for the condominium in April 2003. Crist rented the unit in June 2003 after he considered buying it himself.
Property records show Compton circled "no" on a questionnaire last July that asked: "Was this property rented?"
Crist said he called Compton Thursday and suggested he forfeit any claim to a homestead exemption. Crist said he also told Compton he would be willing to pay higher rent if necessary.
"It concerned me," Crist said. "That sort of brought upon a duty to me."
Property Appraiser Smith said Compton could be forced to pay back taxes, penalties and interest if a violation occurred.
Compton's legal address on file at the Property Appraiser's Office is the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, the same address he uses for voting purposes.
Crist described Compton as an acquaintance. Compton donated $500 to Crist's campaign for governor last November, and Crist recalled Compton attending a fundraiser hosted by a doctor, Richard Knipe, who lives near Crist's parents in St. Petersburg's Snell Isle neighborhood.
With ties to St. Petersburg and Tallahassee, Crist rents places in the two cities and leases a Jeep Cherokee.
"I think I'm the poorest guy running for governor," Crist said.
Records show Crist owned stock in Bank of America, General Electric and Pfizer, but sold those holdings and invested in a mutual fund in 2003 after being elected attorney general. He said he did that on the advice of a top aide, Clay Roberts, to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
He reported the fund's value at $91,000 on his 2005 state financial disclosure form. Crist also reported an IRA worth $114,000, deferred compensation worth $57,000, and nearly $18,000 in cash on hand.
Crist's opponent for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, reports a net worth of $1.7-million.
FV SAYS: More.... FV used to work in the building that Crist rents in. There are offices adjoining the residential side of these condos. They are really ritzy.
LURKERS AND MEDIA, CHARLIE CRIST DIDN'T STAY OUT OF TERRI SCHIAVO'S CASE. Not at all. A NAME ABOVE LINKS CHARLIE CRIST TO TERRI SCHIAVO ONCE AND FOR ALL. This article indicates that CLAY ROBERTS is an aide of Charlie Crist. CLAY ROBERTS was the Executive Deputy Attorney General who SHUT DOWN the investigation of TERRI SCHIAVO'S CIVIL RIGHTS. Clay Roberts, Crist key aide. I have the post-it note right here with Clay Roberts' name on it. I received a call about Clay Roberts and jotted his name down. CLAY ROBERTS STOPPED TERRI'S INVESTIGATION. Crist didn't stay out of Terri's life or death matter. He INTERVENED THROUGH CLAY ROBERTS to make sure that Terri would die for Greer and for the Semblers!!!!!! 8mmmauser, please post this link on the Terri's Day thread. It's another piece of the puzzle of What Happened to Terri Schiavo (how she was murdered).
There's something fishy about Dr. Richard Knipe who was mentioned in the article but I can't recall the details because that goes back to 2003.
He should be disqualified for running for governor. He's no better than Judge Greer.
I cannot begin to believe that trying to make the Governor's race a 1 issue contest is going to do anything to #1 win, and #2 help the future cause of conservatism.
Crist is the biggest RINO in the state.
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What if this was about race instead of disability? Would you continue to say it doesn't matter? Of course it matters because he's lying on his latest tv commercial about medicaid fraud.
He can't really say much about race because there's the deceased teen Martin Anderson who died on Jan. 6th after Fla Law enforcement beat him up at a boot camp while in State Custody. (Crist is being protected in re: Anderson's death too).
Safe, he says. His good old boys are "safe". Maybe that's what he meant.
When their book comes out, LOOK OUT.
What color are the black helicopters in your world????
Everett Rice's pal is Judge Greer. Michael arose at the Sheriff's Dept. in less than a year to supervisor of nursing and makes 70K a year and spends a lot of time supporting democrat candidates who are part of the culture of death.
So is Charlie Crist. He's not pro-life. He's not a conservative. He's fooling his supporters. I feel sorry for them. I know what to expect from Crist but they don't.
GALLAGHER FOR GOVERNOR www.tg2006.com/
Euthanasia is illegal so why is Florida doing it? fregards, FV
Judge Greer is reversed on appeal 2/3 of the time. But, not in Terri's case. The judges wanted to kill Terri for the right to die/euthanasia agenda which is bursting at the seams in Florida.
Rice-the puke-and Crist-the coward. Unconvicted and heartless, the type of girlie men who applaud michael-the monster-shitavo's urge to kill the 'useless'.
Wonder how any of these tiny humans can bear to look in the mirror. What any ugly hoard of death mongers.
DO FLORIDIANS REALLY WANT TO VOTE FOR A GUY WHO THINKS FREEDOM IS ABOUT HIS CLOTHES???????
Crist is uber-programmed and programmable and that's why the liberals luv him. Republicans are so being fooled.
Dept. of HHS has been directed by the USDOJ to conduct an investigation into allegations that Terri Schiavo's civil rights were violated. My opinions are based upon current allegations at the highest level of our government.
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