Thankfully Tutstar gave me the link to the Greer Campaign contribution list last night. So I have that saved in Excel. I will cross reference them ot this Board member list. Although they have the Board Memeber list on their website, there are no e-mail address for anybody. I bet I spent 8 hours a few months ago or was it even last month (?) hunting up e-mail address for them. Getting the e-mail addresses was hard I only got around 40% and some of those wrote and said that they are no longer on the board.
I was about to give up whan I came across this.
Greer, George W. (NOP)(CTJ) 03/11/2004 500.00 CHE MCFARLAND GOULD LYONS SULLIVAN & HOGAN 311 S. MISSOURI AVE CLEARWATER, FL 33756 LAW
A Doug Jones works for this group.
I don't know if this is the same Doug Jones, who is President of the Advocacy Center or not. But if it is, I think they have a problem. This Doug Jones defends "physicians, nursing homes and other health care providers." (And his law firm contributes to Judge Greer.) If it is the same Doug Jones, I wouldn't think he would be a good choice to be President of the Advocacy Group that may need to prosecute these same "physicians, nursing homes and other health care providers."
Profile of Douglas P. Jones at http://www.mcfarlain.com/att_profiles/jones.html
"Doug Jones is the senior trial attorney with McFarlain & Cassedy. Mr. Jones heads the Firm’s Healthcare Malpractice Defense Group. He has 27 years of trial experience. Mr. Jones defends physicians, nursing homes and other health care providers in malpractice suits and before state licensing agencies.
Mr. Jones currently serves on the steering committee for the USLaw Professional Malpractice Group and is the current Chair of the Florida Defense Lawyers Legislative Action Committee. He has lectured on professional witness testimony at the Florida State University Center for Professional Development. Additionally, he has been published by the Florida Bar on representation of physicians in malpractice cases. Mr. Jones is admitted to practice before all courts in Florida as well as the United States Supreme Court and the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Middle Districts of Florida. Mr. Jones is a member of the Tallahassee Bar Association, Defense Research Institute, Florida Defense Lawyers Association, and the Atlanta Claims Association.
Mr. Jones received his Juris Doctorate from Stetson University College of Law in 1976. He was an Assistant State Attorney with the Second Judicial Circuit from 1976 to 1979 and served as Chief Assistant State Attorney for Jefferson County in 1978-9. He joined McFarlain & Cassedy in 1979. His experience includes trial work in state, Federal, and administrative courts throughout Florida. He is married and has two boys.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/campfin/contrib.asp#both
I didn't find any Doug Jones, and only found three Douglas Jones listed as Florida Bar Member (none in Largo) -- a Douglas Stuart Jones (tax attorney in Tampa), a Douglas Earl Jones (Boca Raton), a Douglas Preston Jones (Tallahasee), the one listed above, whose law firm contributed to Judge Greer and obviously defends cases in front of Judge Greer.
I don't know if it is the same Doug Jones, but I think we need to find out. Even if they are not the same, this information shows us what type of people gave to Judge Greer's campaign, a firm with a direct interest in the outcome of nursing home cases in front of Judge Greer.