The "Not So Poor" 12 Year Old Who Rebutted Bush on SCHIP Veto

Multiple, Baltimore Sun ^ | 10-07-07 | self

[icwhatudo]

Graeme Frost, who gave the democrat rebuttal to George Bush’s reasons for vetoing the SCHIP Bill, is a middle school student at the exclusive$20,000 per year Park School in Baltimore, MD.

Graeme was in a severe car accident three years ago, and received care paid for by the government program known as SCHIP-(State Children's Health Insurance Program)

"I was in a coma for a week and couldn't eat or stand up or even talk. My sister was even worse," Graeme wrote. "My parents work really hard and always make sure my sister and I have everything we need, but we can't afford private health insurance."

His sister Gemma, also severely injured in the accident, attended the same school prior to the accident meaning the family was able to come up with nearly $40,000 per year for tuition for these 2 grade schoolers. Confirmation both attended Park found here using edit-"find on this page"-Gemma. It will take you to an article in the schools newspaper about a fundraiser for Gemma class of 16, and Graeme class of 13.

Here are photos of the school's 44,000 square foot Wyman Arts Center: two galleries, an outdoor ampitheater, Meyerhoff Theater, Macks-Fidler Black Box Theater, practice rooms, rehearsal space, and ceramics, 3-D sculpture, woodworking, jewelry, painting, photography, digital graphics studios, recording studio, and keyboard lab.

In a Baltimore Sun article the family claims to be raising their four children on combined income of about $45,000 a year. "Bonnie Frost works for a medical publishing firm; her husband, Halsey, is a woodworker. They are raising their four children on combined income of about $45,000 a year. Neither gets health insurance through work."

What the article does not mention is that Halsey Frost has owned his own company "Frostworks",since this marriage announcement in the NY Times in 1992 so he chooses to not give himself insurance. He also employed his wife as "bookkeeper and operations management" prior to her recent 2007 hire at the "medical publishing firm". As her employer, he apparently denied her health insurance as well.

His company, Frostworks, is located at 3701 E BALTIMORE ST. A building that was purchased for $160,000 in 1999. The buildings owner is listed as DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIAL DESIGN CENTER, LLC whose mailing address is listed as 104 S Collington Ave which is the Frost's home. The commercial property he owns is also listed as the business address for another company called Reillys Designs which leads to the question of whether rental income is included in the above mentioned salary total

The current market value of their improved 3,040 SF home at 104 S Collington Ave is unknown but 113 S COLLINGTON AVE, also an end unit, sold for $485,000 this past March and it was only 2,060 SF. A photo taken in the family's kitchen shows what appears to be a recent remodeling job with granite counter tops and glass front cabinets

One has to wonder that if time and money can be found to remodel a home, send kids to exclusive private schools, purchase commercial property and run your own business... maybe money can be found for other things...maybe Dad should drop his woodworking hobby and get a real job that offers health insurance rather than making people like me (also with 4 kids in a 600sf smaller house and tuition $16,000 less per kid and no commercial property ownership) pay for it in my taxes.

[AuntB]

See post # 138

[PLMerite]

Succient and brilliant!

[rollo tomasi]

Does AP think Pres. Bush scrambled all military personnel to guard the front of hospitals, trauma centers and clinics so children would not be let in and receive care?

AP editors should be checked to see if they have any sense of intelligence.

[dynachrome]

Thank you for the ping. I sent this plus excerpts to the local media and some of the national talkshows. I AM composing a letter to the IRS tonite based upon these articles. These people need to be hammered. Too angry to see straight!

[SShultz460]

NICE!

A shout out to you from Steyn on the Corner

[PISANO]

All of the FACTS will be lost to the VISUAL of a 12 year old escaping death's clutches and his tale of woe.

BET no MSM organization will accuse the Democrat Party of using a CHILD's near death experience and his family's horror story for political purposes.

All you have to say today to get a free pass for anything is, "It's for the children."

[Allan]

This also has been noted by Instapundit.

[SShultz460]

Very Dap sir Very Dap

[Sir Gawain]

Congrats, NR and Instapundit picked up your post.

[BillF]

Great research.

There is a total disconnect between the families’ lifestyle and their self-reported income. Reading between the lines of the below, Halsey Frost, Father of the child spokesman and allegedly unable to pay health insurance for his family, probably was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

Possible explanations or excuses are that the children get tuition assistance at the school and that the family is getting bills paid by the wealthy paternal grandfather of Graeme Frost.

However, if the paternal grandfather, A. Corwin Frost, is subsidizing his son’s family, you’d think that Corwin Frost or Halsey Frost could afford the health insurance. (Maybe Halsey never told his Father that he had to rely on the taxpayers to pay for health insurance?)

Corwin Frost has apparently described his son, Halsey Frost, as an architectural designer, NOT a simple woodworker.

The info on Corwin Frost indicates that he is quite wealthy (not that there is anything wrong with that), probably spends/spent his summers in Vermont (maybe a current or previous family vacation home?), and donates to numerous educational and religious institutions. Has or had at least one prize winning antique car, not an inexpensive hobby. [Again, nothing wrong with any of this, just a disconnect between it and the idea that the son must rely on taxpayers for subsidizing necessary family expenses such as health insurance.]

Corwin Frost is from such an old established architecture family that the Smithsonian has an album of designs from several generations of Frosts.

Links and details per following about Corwin Frost:

http://intranet.risd.edu/pdfs/6.6AprilNews.pdf
Rhode Island School of Design
A. Corwin (Corky) Frost (Arch ’59) is the Chair of the Facilities Committee. Frost is Principal of Frost Associates, which provides professional advice, guidance, and management to building owners and tenants for planning studies, expansion, relocation, renovation, or other facilities projects. In addition to his RISD degree, he holds a BA from Princeton University (’56). Frost began his career with positions as a designer at Harrison & Abramovitz, Architects (1959-60), project designer and project manager at Frederick G. Frost, Jr. & Associates, Architects (1960-68), and Partner and General Manager at Frost Associates (1968-78). From 1978 to 1988, he worked in various capacities with CBS Inc., his final position being Director of Facilities Engineering. He then moved to the Department of Design, Construction, and Management at The City University of New York (1992-95), first as Deputy Director for Project Management and then as Acting Director. Since 1995, Frost has been a consultant to the Newark Public Schools, responsible for managing a $1.7 billion comprehensive redevelopment plan. Frost Associates has won several awards from the New York State Association of Architects, including a certificate of merit (’70), two honorable mentions (’70, ’74), and two Architectural Design Awards (’75). He retired as Chairman of the Bronxville Planning Board in 2004 after 14 years in that role. Frost has been an active participant in the New York Chapter of the AIA, the Westchester Arts Council, and the Westchester County Historical Society. He is the father of Anne R. Frost (’97 GD) and Halsey Frost (architectural designer).

http://www.risd.edu/trustees_staff.cfm
honorary trustee Rhode Island School of Design

http://www.risd.edu/pdf/views/views_fall2006.pdf
Leadership Donor Rhode Island School of Design

http://www.christchurchbronxville.com/childcenter/index.html
living memorial to Eliza Corwin Frost [Sadly, a sister of Halsey Frost, daughter of Corwin Frost, died in or before 1973 as indicated from a Child Care Center at a NY church being named for the deceased.]

http://www.manchesterandmtns.com/carshow/carshow-winners.html
3rd Place: #631 A. Corwin Frost, Bronxville, NY, 1956 Ford Thunderbird
Class N

Donors Bronxville School Foundation
http://www.bronxvilleschoolfoundation.org/Donors.htm

Donor to Princeton
http://www.princeton.edu/~fotb/mailings/Upbeat_08-04.pdf

Donor of $1000 to $1,999 to The Community Fund
http://www.thecommunityfund.org/Annual_Report06.pdf

Donors of $500 to $999 to Concordia College of Westchester, NY (Christian atmosphere, run by Lutheran Church
http://www.thecommunityfund.org/Annual_Report06.pdf

Donors to Vermont Historical Society
http://www.vermonthistory.org/links/vhsar06.pdf

Apparently donated to the Vermont Arts Council, although I can’t open the Octet stream file
http://www.vermontartscouncil.org/LinkClick.aspx?link=Documents/Ab

“Building these schools is much cheaper than building prisons,” added Corwin Frost, the district’s architectural consultant. http://www.gscschools.org/gsc/News%20Articles/1-6%20thru%201-9-06%20articles%20on%20Lameduck%20session%20and%20School%20Construction.html

Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Three generations of Frost architecture in the New York area :, 1985
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/collections_list.cfm/fuseaction/Collections.ViewCollection/CollectionID/8205 - An album compiled by Frederick G. Frost, Jr. regarding the architectural firms Frederick G. Frost, Architects, Frederick G. Frost, Jr. and Associates, and Frost Associates.

[FreedomCalls]

Great sleuthing. Thanks.

[EDINVA]

Let’s not forget ... Nancy Pelosi is FROM Baltimore. Her father and brother were Mayor(s) of Baltimore. Perhaps these are old family friends who would be willing to put their kid up for ‘the cause.’

[Bob]

Congratulations. Your research has been picked up by PowerLine blog and Mark Steyn in National Review:

PowerLine Blog

National Review (Mark Steyn)

[sauropod]

Put their address into Mapquest. It’s not that far from the Inner Harbor.

Given where they live, it’s no mystery why their kids go to a Private School.

Are you familiar with the condition of Baltimore public schools?

[gathersnomoss]

Wonderful, the parents are training their offspring to be LYING LIBERALS. For the sake of the chulrun, doncha know.

[sauropod]

The SDAT info sez their property is valued at 263,000. That’s not money in-hand, but given the info you posted about the end-of-unit recent sale...

Makes you wonder...

[Eric Blair 2084]

Unbelievable. Great job.

The sad part is the useless main stream drive by media “jounalists” are getting a paycheck...and you’re not for doing their work for them.

I just e-mailed this to Rush in case somebody else hasn’t. Somebody should do the honorable thing and e-mail the DNC to let them know what may be coming next week.

[BCrago66]

This is from the affluent-sounding Butcher's Hill neighborhood page, first discovered by our Freeper-Reporter (reporting the news so the MSM doesn't have to):

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http://www.butchershill.org/about/facts.shtml

TOP 10 REASONS TO LIVE IN BUTCHERS HILL

10) Pet-Friendly Neigbhorhood
9) City and National Historic District
8) 20-25 minutes from BWI Airport, 10 minutes from Rte. 95 North or South, and 5 minutes from 83 North
7) 10 minutes from the Lyric, Meyerhoff, Center Stage, Mechanic, Camden Yards, and Ravens Stadium
6) Wonderful views of the city skyline and the harbor
5) Great neighborhood association
4) 300 restaurants in a 2-mile area
3) Access to Patterson Park: Largest park in the downtown area
2) Best real estate value in the city
1) Location, Location, Location!

__________________________

And check out the pics on the "virtual walk" of Butcher's Hill:

http://www.butchershill.org/about/virtualwalk.shtml

I might move there, if only I could afford it.

[Cate]

Our senator Max Baucus (D) sponsored the failed bill He started running ads the night before the President vetoed it- stating that he is very upset with the President’s veto. The ad has been run non stop on every station we have for days now. Hmmm.... if the senator only had the foresight to donate all that money for the ad to the state’s CHIP program... the 14,000 supposed left behind children would have been covered for the year. Politics sometimes creates idiots. sigh..

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