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Jeff Greene Denies His Anchor Damaged Belize Reef (Billionaire DEMOCRAT Senate Candidate)
Miami Herald ^ | Friday, 07.23.10 | ADAM C. SMITH

Posted on 07/23/2010 11:22:25 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 07/23/2010 11:22:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Rules and Laws are only for Republicans to follow.


2 posted on 07/23/2010 11:24:58 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Was the boat “The Flying WASP” by any chance?


3 posted on 07/23/2010 11:25:05 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny...its principles are the founding principles." - M. Levin)
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$1.87 million in unpaid fines, I would tell them to kiss it too.

I would pay someone to work with the government to repair the damage but that amount of money is obscene.


4 posted on 07/23/2010 11:34:02 AM PDT by dila813
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Surely Al Gore has some sort of Coral Reef Offset Fund that this man can buy into that will allow him to buy credits from a small time Australian fisherman.


5 posted on 07/23/2010 11:35:10 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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This schmuck is running for the Democrat nomination for senate in Florida. He is running nonstop “I’m the green candidate” ads. This tells me the media is shilling for Kenrick Meek the brother who doesn’t have two cents to do his own research. All of this a side we need Green to win the primary so he can spend his money beating up Charlie Crist. BTW Rubio get 53% in the three way and walks away with it.


6 posted on 07/23/2010 11:35:33 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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It regrows....They say it won’t repair...but it will. It was an anchor....not an atomic bomb...


7 posted on 07/23/2010 11:40:15 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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I would pay someone to work with the government to repair the damage but that amount of money is obscene.

The fine includes damage repair, holistic repentence costs, wealth guilt tax, pain and suffering for Gaia, plus a little something something to Al Gore for the effort.

8 posted on 07/23/2010 11:40:35 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Greene bought Summerwind in 2003, registering it in the Marshall Islands, a well-known tax haven.

I'm all for tax havens and minimizing your tax burden. But since Democrats insist on raising taxes every chance they get, shouldn't they take the lead in paying them?

it costs about $100,000 to fill up the tank on Summerwind, which burns about 50 gallons of fuel per hour.

Money well spent, I'm sure, and I wouldn't criticize anyone for spending it as long as they acknowledge that the whole carbon footprint issue is a lot of hoo-haw. If he doesn't believe "global climate change" is a pretext for government intervention in the economy, then I don't care how many gallons of fuel he burns as he motors around the world digging up coral reefs. If he's another Al Gore, though, who thinks he's supposed to be immunized from the laws he passes, though, it doesn't hurt to point out the hypocrisy of it all.

Nearly two million in fines for dropping an anchor in the wrong place seems like a shakedown to me. But if its compounded due to his refusal to pay an earlier, smaller fine, it may be entirely warranted. The story doesn't make it clear, nor does it make it clear if the area is marked on the nautical charts as a no-anchor zone. If it isn't, he couldn't be expected to know not to drop anchor. So that would be my first question, which the news-writer didn't address.

9 posted on 07/23/2010 11:40:39 AM PDT by marron
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i have seen his ads here in florida....no thanks....


10 posted on 07/23/2010 11:42:17 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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Don’t know much about Jeff Greene, but appearance wise, he looks like everyone of those lawyers who immediately went to court in Florida on behalf of Al Gore in 2000.


11 posted on 07/23/2010 11:49:00 AM PDT by GWB00 (Barbara Streisand barely made it out of high school.)
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“Greene bought Summerwind in 2003, registering it in the Marshall Islands, a well-known tax haven.”

The democrats, party of the rich. He and John F’n Kerry don’t want to be patriotic and pay their fair share of taxes.


12 posted on 07/23/2010 11:49:24 AM PDT by llano2
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Either that or "Seafood."
13 posted on 07/23/2010 11:54:05 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/ff41/paperhogan/?action=view&current=flyingwasp_lq.flv


14 posted on 07/23/2010 11:57:15 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny...its principles are the founding principles." - M. Levin)
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It regrows....They say it won’t repair...but it will. It was an anchor....not an atomic bomb...

I had a piece of frogspawn coral that bleached and died after hurricane Ike crashed my aquarium. A buddy placed the fragment in his lighted aquarium sump, where it miraculously began to regrow.

It spent a week in the crashed aquarium, which was like a bait bucket on a hot summer day. Less than two years later, its revived and going gangbusters.

I've seen a lot of coral appear to come back from the dead, in tanks that would make decent mass-extinction simulators. While lefties squeal about 'fragile' reefs, they make no mention of 'resilient' reefs.

15 posted on 07/23/2010 11:58:40 AM PDT by Spirochete (Just say NO to RINOs)
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You sure it was the Summerwind and not the Scaramouche (John Kerry’s boat)?


16 posted on 07/23/2010 12:00:53 PM PDT by Cheesel (So this how democracy dies...with thunderous applause, March 21, 2010)
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How do you repair a reef? Put on a splint? Or maybe trowel in some mortar like in the Star Trek episode about the creature that tunneled through rock? Are there reef repair companies?


17 posted on 07/23/2010 12:14:00 PM PDT by scory
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But Mr. Greene is a Democrat who believes that taxes and fines should be based on the target’s ability to pay rather than the amount of damage caused. We have to make an example of those evil billionaires.


18 posted on 07/23/2010 12:16:28 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (If I weren't afraid of the feds, I would refer to Obama as our "undocumented POTUS")
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When Ross Perot heard the story, he exclaimed, “blast it!”


19 posted on 07/23/2010 12:22:04 PM PDT by ansel12 (Mitt: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush")
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Must have been a ‘fluke’! (heh)


20 posted on 07/23/2010 12:28:12 PM PDT by pingman (Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
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