In the June 11-17, Gulf Coast Business Review, Judge Greer is on the cover and the issue's feature story. Here is one of the statements that appears within the article, from page 6 (emphasis mine):
"But there just is no hidden relationship, says Felos and Greer in interviews with GCBR. They claim only an attorney-judge relationship.
Oppmann has also raised issues about Greer’s campaign contributions. He’s focusing mostly on contributions from current or former hospice board members.
He also questions the propriety of a contribution from Deborah Bushnell, a Dunedin attorney who also represents Schiavo.
As for his relationship with the hospice, Greer says the nonprofit group cared for his father, Charles, who died at age 79. “They took care of my father during his last days in 1991,” he says. “That’s probably the closest I’ve been with hospice ever.”
Greer is reluctant to talk specifics about the hospice as it relates to Terri’s guardianship. He fears her parents willseize upon anything he says to disqualify him as Terri’s guardianship judge.
Anderson has filed four motions seeking to disqualify him.
“The question has to do with the case,”he says. “I don’t want to get into a situation where I get a fifth petition to disqualify me.
“But I don’t know who is on the (hospice) board,” Greer adds. “So I can’t tell you if I have good friends on the board or not. I have no idea who is in charge of administering the hospice organization.”
Felos has served as chairman on the hospice board of directors. He resigned after Terri’s husband admitted her to the facility in April 2000. About two months later Greer signed an order to remove the feeding tube.
“Terri was already a hospice patient when I resigned, because an order was signed that her artificial life support would be removed,” Felos says. “She would be removed to the hospice No. 1 because she had a terminal illness.”
There was another reason, Felos says. Court testimony accused the Schindlers and supporters of creating disturbances at another facility that cared for Terri. “The nursing home administrator said if that pattern continued they would ask us to remove her,” Felos says. “We wanted to make a transfer in an orderly fashion rather than doing it under the gun.”
That response doesn’t sit well with Terri’s brother, Bobby Schindler. He questions why Greer allowed his sister’s transfer without a required court order. Greer says he cannot discuss the issue because it involves a pending case.
“We learned about it after the fact, ”Schindler says. “Terri was moved and our attorney was notified and she went to Greer after the fact. It was a moot issue at that point. We would have objected to Terri being moved to hospice.”
Catherine Felos, George Felos' ex-wife helped Judge Greer on Judge Greer's 1998 re-election campaign. She was a big wheel on the committee. So Greer's saying that Felos' wife helped get him reelected but that they don't know each other. That's a very stupid statement on the part of Judge Greer. He just destroyed his credibility further, if that's possible.
Next, Greer states that he didn't know anyone that is on the board. Besides George Felos, Martha Lenderman (judge John C. Lenderman's wife) is on that board, and Greer's old cronie and pal Barbara Sheen Todd is also on that board. Barbara Sheen Todd and Greer were both the zoning commissioners that voted to support Mel Sembler's sale of swampland (the Cooper's Point scandal) at an inflated price to the city of Clearwater, Florida many years back. They've been thick as thieves for a long time.
Is there no end to this judge's sheer stupidity telling such easily challenged lies?
FYI: Why is Judge Greer's race the ONLY JUDICIAL RACE that requires requesting copies of his donor lists at 15 cents per page? All the other judicial races are "free" to the public. WE CANNOT ACCESS JUDGE GREER'S DONATION LISTS. What are the chances this judge without scruples has something to hide? Pretty, pretty good.
If your are on my DEFEAT GREAT PING LIST, you will see this again on the Jan Govan for Judge Thread. FV
ping to 40. Very strange stuff going on with the Dept. of Elections in Tallahassee. Greer's donor lists COST MONEY to purchase. They must tell many tales.
Voter fraud PINGEROO!!
"Greer says he cannot discuss the issue because it involves a pending case." . . .