Posted on 11/16/2012 6:32:23 AM PST by RummyChick
TAMPA — The emails were anguished, pleading and sent straight to the mayor.
"Bob, hope all is well," Jill Kelley wrote at 5:57 a.m. Tuesday to Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, whom she knows socially.
What came next offers a glimpse into Kelley's state of mind as a national scandal blew up in her front yard.
"My kids are scared, and need their 'home' back," she wrote, asking for help with "paparazzi" at her Bayshore Boulevard mansion.
At 6:18 a.m. Wednesday, she emailed again.
"Dear Mayor Bob," she wrote, saying that her name, along with those of former CIA director David Petraeus and Gen. John R. Allen, "have been exploited by the media."
"I wouldn't care — if they got the facts right and the focus was on the criminal that stalked all of us," she added in an apparent reference to Petraeus biographer and mistress Paula Broadwell. "But the truth will one day prevail."
Then she complained, "to put insult to injury, your police dept gave the local 911 tapes to the press!"
The police dispatch recordings included her cell phone number, she said, so now "I have been receiving threats all night."
Kelley said she was not sending her daughters to school and her husband, Dr. Scott Kelley, was sleeping at the hospital, "because it's just gotten too difficult to even pull out of our own driveway."
"I'm scared and cannot believe what my city — in which I have contributed so much of my love, time, money and leadership, has now done to me and my innocent family," Kelley wrote.
Asked Thursday if he did anything in response to Kelley's complaint, Buckhorn said no. "Public record," he said of the police calls.
But the emails reveal a facet of the Kelleys' life in Tampa that has until now received little notice.
The couple not only lavished attention on top officers from MacDill Air Force Base, but cultivated friendships with Florida politicians — even if it meant being pushy.
Thursday, a photo of then-U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio, with Jill Kelley and her twin sister, Natalie Khawam, on each arm, made the rounds on Twitter.
Republican Angelette Aviles tweeted the photo. She said it was taken at a March 2010 fundraiser for Rubio at an office in Tampa. The cost was $1,000 a plate.
But the twins didn't pay anything, said Aviles.
"They weren't on the guest list," she said. "They came in, took a photo with him, and left. . . . I had no idea who they were" — until she saw the women's faces in the news this week.
Rubio spokesman Alex Conant said the senator met the twins during his 2010 campaign.
"Mrs. Kelley has sent his Senate office invitations to social events, but he hasn't attended any," Conant said.
Kelley did not contribute to Rubio's campaign. Jill Kelley did give $500 to the Florida Republican Party in 2010, and Scott Kelley and Natalie Khawam each gave $250 in 2009 to Todd Marks, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for the state House.
Also this week, the Daily Telegraph of London, citing an unnamed Republican source, said Khawam once dated former Gov. Charlie Crist.
Reached by phone, Crist said: "Consider the source."
"Didn't happen," he said. "I may have met her."
Crist said he met the Kelleys, along with Petreaus and wife, Holly, for a dinner at Bern's Steak House in Tampa. Jill Kelley — "a delightful person," Crist said — arranged the dinner.
The Kelleys didn't support Buckhorn during his race for mayor, and he said he had never met them. But they reached out to him soon after he was elected in March 2011.
Three weeks after Buckhorn was sworn in, the couple hosted a cocktail reception for him on the front yard of their home.
Since then, Jill Kelley has kept in touch with the mayor, often extending social invitations, according to emails released by the city late Thursday.
Less than a month after the reception in the mayor's honor, Kelley emailed Buckhorn that she hoped to see him and his wife, Dr. Cathy Lynch Buckhorn, at a dinner party that evening for the King of Jordan.
"The King and his sister (the Princess) are awesome people!" she wrote a few days later. "Actually your name was brought up by the Generals when they were showing off the party I hosted you! (everyone loved that party)"
"Especially me," responded Buckhorn, who said he counts Kelley as an acquaintance.
He said he has not been able to accept any of Kelley's invitations since the reception in his honor, but he — along with his wife and police driver — did give her a ride home after a MacDill function when her husband was working late and was unable to meet her.
"Gen Mattis" — an apparent reference to Marine Gen. James Mattis, who succeeded Petraeus as commander of CentCom — "was so kind to offer, but I realized you two were passing my way," Jill Kelley wrote to Buckhorn the next day.
Kelley also messaged the mayor early this year after reports that American personnel in Afghanistan had burned Korans, enraging Muslims.
Soon after, Tampa Bay shock jock Bubba the Love Sponge Clem said "we are going to deep fat fry" the Koran, according to a news report from WMNF-88.5 FM radio.
In response, top officers at MacDill reached out to the mayor to try to talk the DJ out of a publicity stunt that could have endangered troops.
Buckhorn also heard from Kelley, who said she had just gotten off a phone call with Gen. Allen and Vice Adm. Robert Harward, the deputy commander of CentCom, and needed the mayor's help "with the potential crises we'll be dealing with."
"If it involves the radio station, we are working on it," Buckhorn replied.
"They asked me to get involved, like I did when it happened with the Pastor last year," she emailed back.
"This Bubba the Love Sponge is a complete moron," Buckhorn told her in response.
The Koran-burning never took place.
One thing that comes through in many of Kelley's emails is how chummy she is with top generals.
A month after the threatened Koran burning, she invited Buckhorn to a noontime reception, hosted by Harward, being held in her honor at MacDill.
And in October 2011 she invited Buckhorn and his family to her daughter's sixth birthday party.
Buckhorn begged off, saying his daughters had swim meets that day, though he added: "would definitely rather be lounging on Bayshore with an adult beverage."
"I agree!" Kelley said, and then added a note referring to Petraeus. "I'll be sure to send the Director your regards — should be another fabulous weekend in DC."
Is that Phillips and Burns the debt collector?
Btw,did you find out info on Michael Boone who loaned natalie 600,000
Yeah, that Crist rumor was the most far fetched thing about the Twins ;-)
Alas, it’s a salacious red herring.
Wow, outstanding article, Thank you RummyChick for your tireless efforts in helping put this together. The more we learn the more disturbing it becomes. I am amazed at the access these twin tarts had to so many powerful individuals and her friendship with Holly (to me) is being downplayed.
It could very well be that Broadwell did us a great service.
WHO in State approved this? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Jill Kelley (inset), the south Tampa socialite who touched off a scandal that took down CIA director David Petraeus, didn’t exactly impress the leader of the Henry B. Plant Museum Board in the three years after then-Mayor Pam Iorio appointed her.
http://www.tampabay.com/
I am awaiting Bubba’s song on Youtube
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/bubba-the-love-sponge-vows-political-revenge-for-buckhorn-calling-him-a/1261872
TAMPA — Does Bubba the Love Sponge Clem have anything to say about Mayor Bob Buckhorn calling him a “complete moron” in an e-mail to south Tampa socialite Jill Kelley?
Does he ever.
“For Bob Buckhorn to call me a moron? I mean, are you kidding me? Let’s talk about moron status,” he told the Tampa Bay Times.
Clem slammed red light cameras as a public “shake-down” and mocked the six-foot rule Buckhorn pushed years ago to keep performing strippers that far from patrons. He also criticized the mayor for officially honoring his radio rival Todd “MJ” Schnitt.
“At the end of the day, you wouldn’t hear any of this nonsense from Pam Iorio,” Clem said of the former mayor. “She was calculated. She didn’t call names. She didn’t get voted on a whim.”
Jill Kelley contacted Buckhorn earlier this year, saying then-CIA director David Petraeus and General John Allen were emailing her about a plan Clem had to “deep fat fry” the Koran, and “getting this dealt with.” She said she expected a call from Afghanistan from Allen to discuss a next step.
Clem said the officials that got him to stop it were his lawyer and the heads of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office and Tampa Police Department, but “probably, she did get intel to have me stop it, and that’s the problem itself.”
A Bubba’s Army truck circled the Bayshore Boulevard block of the Kelley home for about a half-hour this morning, pumping a parody to the tune of Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus’’ about Petraeus.
“I hope Bob Buckhorn gets looped into it,” Clem said of the scandal.
“This guy is a joke. He’s messing with the wrong guy, and I will make it my mission to destroy this guy. I am his political death sentence...
“Unless he apologizes to me and gives me a key to the city.”
Well isn’t that interesting. There was no place this girl didn’t go.
On another thread, I (half jokingly) made a comment about Jill crashing State Dinners, someone should look at/for the photos. Subsequently, it turns out she’s been to a WH breakfast & gosh knows what all else. So, I jokingly said maybe she was a Mata Hari .... and then Schlussel’s article comes out. Now, not joking at all, I’ll just say I think this Jill (& Natalie) Kelley thing is going to blow sky high before it’s all over and a lot of folks are going to be covered in the blowback.
bubba, who must be a fixture in tampa and who drove around Jill’s house today...has a radio show
Here’s his take yesterday. I love the way he says jeal-e-ous.
http://www.theboneonline.com/Player/101719731/
Does make a point that if a Judge can see through two General’s letters..Natalie must be pretty bad. A female lawyer who had two General’s back her STILL lost custody.
Evidently, the Lawyer Natalie is suing for Sexual harassment is a pretty big lawyer in Tampa.
Isn’t that loan $800,000?
If it’s this Boone, he sold his interest in Lazer Spot, Alpharetta, GA ... either in 2010 or 2011.
For more info on the Marcelle case we need someone with a PACER account.
PHOTOS: Jill Kelley watches news coverage in her home while reporters swarm around outside
Jill sat for over an hour near the window in her dining room fully aware the news media was photographing and her
Read more: http://www.700wlw.com/pages/nationalnews.html?feed=104668&article=10571257#ixzz2CPTHs33j
Boone loan is 600,000. Jill’s loan to Natalie is 800,000.
There is a Phillip and Burns,LLC that are debt collectors.
Okay, thanks. I’m pressed for time.
bbl
I've wondered what Jill Kelley did, exactly, that set Broadwell off. I would have thought Kelley's association with Petraeus would have been far enough in the past to be off Broadwell's radar screen. It preceded his tour in Afghanistan, and, as far as we know, Broadwell and Petraeus were not an item until after he was appointed CIA Director.
In any case, it was Broadwell's bad judgement in dealing with her supposed rival that ended up outing her and Petraeus.
Heh. Those two girls look like Brokeneck Mountains.
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Georgia/Alpharetta/michael-boone/28908767.aspx
View profile for Michael Boone and is located in Alpharetta, GA.
direct dial: (770) 886-6851
Sources: Dun & Bradstreet last refreshed 11/10/2012
Florida Department of State last refreshed 11/10/2012
Note the FL SOS, which would be logical if he had real estate interests in FL.
From Bloomberg Business Week:
Lazer Spot might be the right Michael Boone.
Co-founder, Wes Newsome
Now from FL SOS Corp Search
Foreign Profit Corporation
LAZER SPOT, INC.
Filing Information
Document Number F08000000778
FEI/EIN Number 582253369
Date Filed 02/20/2008
State GA
Status ACTIVE
Principal Address
ALPHARETTA GA 30005
Title CEO
NEWSOME, WESLEY A
ALPHARETTA GA 30005
Boone name is on archived docs at SOS website
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