Rules and Laws are only for Republicans to follow.
Was the boat “The Flying WASP” by any chance?
$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.
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.
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.
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.
i have seen his ads here in florida....no thanks....
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.
“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.
You sure it was the Summerwind and not the Scaramouche (John Kerry’s boat)?
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?
When Ross Perot heard the story, he exclaimed, “blast it!”
Lindsay Lohan appears on deck of 'The Summerwind' wearing a black, cut-away, one-piece swim suit.
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/07/jeff_greene_lies_about_lindsay.php
Jeff Greene Doesn't Think Lindsay Lohan Pictures Are Important
By Kyle Munzenrieder, Fri., Jul. 9 2010