Woman Arrested For Stealing Signs Speaks Out (update)

First Coast News (FL) ^ | 10/26/2004 | Maria Tsataros

[Mount Athos]

Fabiola Armitage is back on television, only instead of a campaign ad the focus has been on her mugshot.

Armitage is a Kerry supporter and a strong believer in stem cell research. She's featured in an advertisement urging Floridians to vote against Amendment 3 on this year's ballot. The amendment would cap how much money a lawyer can make from a medical malpractice lawsuit.

St. Johns County Sheriff Deputies arrested Armitage for grand theft and battery this week. They say she had 78 campaign signs supporting George Bush and Mel Martinez in her trunk. Armitage tells First Coast News that she "was told by code enforcement that would be okay, to pick them off, to remove them from the right-of-way."

James Acosta, head of St. Johns County enforcement says that Armitage was "advised not to collect the campaign signs. We asked that she notify us of the area and we would send a crew to pick them up."

Armitage says she saw hundreds of Bush/Cheney signs illegally placed on State Road 13 and along Race Track Road. She admits to collecting as many as she could, saying she didn't know what to do with them and that "I thought it was okay to keep them."

James Acosta says keeping the signs is illegal.

Armitage was released from the St. Johns County Jail this morning. She's charged with grand theft for having those signs. She's also charged with battery after a woman who confronted Armitage about taking the signs claimed Armitage opened her car door and hit the woman in the back.

[Lorianne]

Yikes!

[A Jovial Cad]

She looks like your typical liberal Dimocrat--it's difficult to tell whether that's just a hideous, homely female or a sissified, pasty-faced male.

[BOBWADE]

LEZ-BO?

[Paul Atreides]

I don't even think it's a human being.

[ladyinred]

Sure she thought it was legal to keep them. Right.

[killjoy]

She's a man, baby!

[UncleSamUSA]

"She looks like Lou Reed."

LOL!!! You know.. she really DOES.

Only uglier.

[ladyinred]

She looks kinda like John Kerry!

[tiki]

I just told my husband, attitude shows on your face and you can tell that she has been a bitter, angry person for a long time.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Well, if I caught her stealing my sign. I'd clock her one...thinking she was a man, of course.

[SunnySide]

What is it with Trannys? LOL They can't ever GET IT RIGHT with the hair and makeup.

[Chode]

damn... that's one butt fugly looking RAT!!!

[orangelobster]

He takes a better mug shot than nick nolte at least.

[Spiff]

Her son is paralyzed from a soccer accident. She believes Kerry's lies that if he's elected the paralyzed will walk. She drank the kool-aid and doesn't understand stem cell research and/or President Bush's position one bit. Besides that, she is hideously ugly.

[Lux-In-Domino]

He looks like David Koresh! ... Branch Davidian, Waco, Texas????

[Cult of Personality]

Stem cell research won't help that f'ugly face.

[Palladin]

She's a man, baby!

[Smoote]

I'm just going to sit here and not say a thing. I'm not going to move a muscle, not even to swat that fly. "They'll see and they'll know and they'll say, 'Why she wouldn't even hurt a fly.'" "We all go a little mad sometimes."

[antaresequity]

Fabiola Armitage's son collided head on with another player in a soccer game rendering him paralyzed from the nose down.

Since his injury she has filed lawsuits against the school her son attends for accessibility issues.

She has sued the hospital for malpractice claiming a misdiagnosis. Facts of the case seem to support her claims, as her son was sent home not once but at least twice after his injury, and was repeatedly misdiagnosed.

She has paraded her son before the Florida legislature to 'put a human face' on the limits of 'pain and suffering' as it relates to malpractice caps.

The Florida liberal rags seem to find no lack of space to print stories about her or her son in some way or form.

She is a member of MoveOn.org.

She is a vocal opponent to Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush has held a position of a limits on pain and suffering awards for plaintiffs in malpractice suits.