Former Gov. Jeb Bush, last week:

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made his strongest statement to date on the Republican Senate primary unfolding in his state, telling the conservative publication NewsMax in an on-camera interview that he considers Gov. Charlie Crist's support for last year's stimulus bill "unforgivable."

The stimulus essentially bailed out Florida last year, preventing deep and incredibly destructive cuts to our schools, hospitals, and infrastructure. In my community, 522 first and second year teachers still have jobs because of the stimulus. If the right wing Florida legislature had its way, those folks would be on unemployment, likely still searching for a half-decent job.

But back to good 'ol Jeb. To him Gov. Crist's support for the stimulus was "unforgivable." But that didn't stop Jeb from showing some love for Race to the Top, a federal education grant program set up by the stimulus.

Matt Yglesias caught this, and noted the following:

And you see this time and again. Folks on the right are sharply critical of “the stimulus” but generally raise no objections to large swathes of the stimulus—they like their local infrastructure projects, they like their tax cuts, and the more sensible among them like the education money.

Yes indeed. Even right wing hero Jeb Bush loves some part of the stimulus.

St. Petersburg Times columnist Howard Troxler, cites my favorite Florida politician, former Gov. Reubin Askew, as evidence of leadership that worked out well for Florida:

A new governor named Reubin Askew — sometimes with the help of the Legislature, and sometimes despite it — led Florida in an unprecedented program of modernization and reform, including:

• A total revision and modernization of the way Florida paid for schools.

• A much-needed statewide system of water regulation.

• New programs to buy and conserve Florida's natural land.

• The first law requiring "comprehensive planning" for Florida's growth.

• "Fair share" taxes on businesses that, because of their political influence, had enjoyed one of the nation's lowest tax burdens.

• A burst of "sunshine" and ethics laws, including a constitutional amendment requiring public officers to disclose their personal finances. Opponents of these ethics reforms mocked Askew as "Reubin the Good."

Askew then ran for his second term.

At every step Askew was working for the long-term interests of the state, and he did not care if he lost popularity because of it.

Winn-Dixie's founders fought him. St. Joe Paper fought him. Associated Industries of Florida fought him. To rebut the claims of Florida's businesses that a fair tax would drive up prices, Askew famously displayed to the public a Sears shirt bought in Georgia, and the same shirt bought at a similar price in Florida, even though Sears paid far more in taxes to Georgia.

Troxler goes on to bemoan the lack of "leadership" that exists with the current regime in Tallahassee. And goes on to propose a set of ideas that have mostly been embraced by progressives and Democrats:

Above all else, fix Florida's tax structure. Get rid of the loopholes and tax breaks — and if you're worried that's a "tax increase," then you should lower the overall rate on everybody else who's been paying all along.

Quit fighting the "fair districts" citizen petition in an attempt to protect your own empires.

Do something about the sneaky political committees that you have formed to launder campaign money.

Once you agree to fair districts and honest money, then you should be able to ask voters to increase your terms from eight years to 12, so we can develop a little more maturity up there.

Give the universities what they want. All of it. Quit fighting them over political control.

Give the Ethics Commission what it wants, too.

Don't decide oil drilling until you've heard every study, from every party, and maybe not even then until you've gone to walk on beaches in oil-pumping areas yourselves.

If you really must gamble, don't give away the store to the casinos. Extort them until they scream and threaten not to come. Then get even more for the problems they're going to cause.

The first item, reforming Florida's antiquated and regressive tax structure that harms working families and lets the wealthy get away with quite a bit is correctly put at the top of the list. Progress Florida's "Stop The Cuts" petition effort, which we launched yesterday, is a first step to move momentum for reform out of the think tanks and newspaper columns and into the grassroots.

But here's the thing about Troxler's otherwise great column: the regime that occupies Tallahassee believes they are leading. The problem is, as we know, that their reactionary "leadership" has hurt our state immensely for the roughly 12 years the Republicans have controlled the legislature and Governor's mansion. And no, any attempt by the press to do their typical "both sides are at fault" meme is just silly. The Dems haven't been in charge of any house of the legislature since 1996 and the Governor's mansion since 1998. Gerrymandering has kept them out, and the minority party is powerless to do very much.

Until there's a change of leadership and focus in Tallahassee, it will be very hard to accomplish much of anything that will benefit working people rather than just special interests who can bundle $500 checks.

However, leadership is also required from everyday Floridians, too. We can't just leave it to the politicians to solve our problems. Grassroots oriented, progressive/pro public interest groups will be needed to apply external pressure for progress regardless of who's in power. While I'm obviously biased, I think Progress Florida is a great example of such a group. Others I think also do this well include Worst to First and Fund Education Now, both of which employ organic grassroots strength to tackle major problems Florida faces.

Howard Dean is still right: "You have the power."

By Jim Morin, Miami Herald

BONUS CARTOON


By Jeff Parker, Florida Today

Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 1-22-10
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Why FL just got High Speed Rail
By NoFortunateSon
Daily Kos
As a Pinellas County native, I have been waiting 25 years for the announcement heard today: $1.25 billion would be granted for construction of a Florida high speed rail.

What's Crist to do (besides dropping out and endorsing Kendrick Meek)?
By Steve Schale
Steve Schale
If I had a dollar for every question I've gotten about the Crist campaign, just in the last 96 hours, I wouldn't be driving a seven year old car with 130,000 miles.

I suspect the new kid on the block is a bully
By Geniusofdespair
Eye on Miami
The only person who signed the Corporate papers (filed January 21st) for this 501c4 is Richard E. Coates, a Tallahassee lobbyist, who also happens to have as a client Barney Bishop's "Associated Industries of Florida".

CBS Tainting Super Bowl Broadcast
By Daniel Tilson
Progress Florida
In rolling out what they claim is a new policy to begin broadcasting "approved" paid advocacy group advertisements, the CBS TV network is clearly taking the sensitive, low-key high road - airing the first such spot during Super Bowl 44, being played Sunday in our South Florida backyard, with a few additional folks tuning in from around the globe.

Six amendments make the ballot
By Bill Newton
FCAN Blog
It will be another busy year for voters. The Legislature wants us to give up public campaign finance, and we have a chance to make Florida's election districts more fair and eliminate gerrymandering.

The judge that initially tried Tommy Zeigler 35 years ago had a prior contentious relationship with him. In states that give a damn about justice, Tommy would have been granted a new trial on his first appeal.

Scripps Treasure Coast Palm publications granted me an opportunity to appear before their Board and pitch my case to have one of their reporters accept my research on wrongful convictions and do a story. They didn't find the horror and heartbreak compelling.

They still don't. Below is the second Press Release I've sent them about Tommy; it'll probably be deleted, too.


From: Susan Chandler
Date: January 26, 2010 12:24:52 PM EST
To: Larry Reisman , Ken Ward
Subject: Fwd: Integrity of Judge in Death Row Case Compromised

Dear Mr. Reisman and Mr. Ward:

Please forward Ray McEachern's press release to the News Editor along with the following:

In considering the Release's newsworthiness:

James Bain ringing the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia on Martin Luther King Day reminded the nation that Florida indeed will persecute innocents for as long as 35 years; Zeigler's time behind bars isn't an indication of guilt. Bain's exoneration was not Polk's first - Juan Melendez is now working to help others and is aware of Leo Schofield's likely innocence. Polk's attempted, nearly successfully, to get Gov. Crist to execute Paul Beasley Johnson before the Supreme Court could discover the rampant prosecutorial misconduct in his case. Johnson's likely guilt made the misconduct all the more inexcusable.

Gary Bennett's Brevard case in now in Lawson Lamar's unclean hands via Crist's Execute Order. Unless there was a John Preston-tainted conviction resulting in an execution in every Florida county, of itself the Order substantiates Crist's, Lamar's and Norm Wolfinger's moral bankruptcy in light of Linroy Bottoson's Orange County Preston-tainted conviction and subsequent execution.

There appears to have been untoward cooperation between Orange and Brevard in locating "new witness" Sandra Weeks, who was set to testify against now exonerated Bill Dillon until Wolfinger was asked to confirm or deny that Weeks was a felon likely in need of prosecutorial favors, like James E. Gilmore, Clarence Zacke and Roger Dale Chapman. There appears to have been untoward cooperation between the DOC and Brevard in securing yet another early release for Chapman and discrepancies in Chapman's testimony at Dillon's exoneration compensation hearing that he would not have been available to offer without early release. Chapman's release without parole supervision allows the DOC to lawfully deny requests for information on his release.

Brevard Sheriff Parker seems intent on keeping the public from knowing that Pauline Scandale's 1988 Canova Beach homicide was strikingly similar to the 1981 Canova Beach homicide Dillon was framed for. Mrs. Scandale was an 82-year-old widowed kindergarten teacher who likely deserved to be able to pass peacefully in her sleep. She died in terror, enduring blows that crushed her skull, just like James Dvorak died seven years earlier. John Preston had been discredited by Geraldo Rivera on ABC's "20/20" four years prior to Mrs. Scandale's murder; every investigation Preston participated in nationwide, including Dillon's, should have been reopened. John Walsh was provided confirmation that Ottis Toole was indeed his son Adam's slayer within a week of charges being dropped against Dillon. Adam was killed in the same timeframe as Dvorak and was spotted in Brevard with Toole; you know where Adam's head was found.

Our government is so broken that activists free innocents and incidentally find actual perpetrators while public servants who are being paid to protect rights and liberties obstruct rather than assist, serving only themselves. Mrs. Scandale's murder was one of two within a week of an elderly woman home alone in Brevard. The second woman is not on the Sheriff's Unsolved Homicides webpage, which may be only a tip-off to another frame-up.

Taxpayers paid for faux criminal investigations that incarcerated the wrong men for decades while the guilty found new victims, with Jeff Abramowski's Brevard frame-up proving that this century is no different than the prior; it's newsworthy that the media hasn't found it newsworthy.

Thank you.

Regards,

Susan Chandler
3008 N 25th St
Ft Pierce, FL 34946
772-466-9874





For Release Monday, January 25, 2010

Integrity of Judge in Death Row Case Compromised

by Failure to Disclose Spouse is State Employee

Contact: Ray McEachern, 813-294-6772


The Code of Judicial Conduct sternly warns judges not to allow even the "appearance of impropriety." In apparent disregard of this clear rule, Judge Reginald Whitehead of the Ninth Judicial Circuit assumed responsibility for the case of 33 year death row inmate William Thomas Zeigler in 2003 after another judge had authorized DNA testing in 2001. Zeigler’s attorneys were so confident that the results of the testing would prove his complete innocence that they immediately moved to have his sentence vacated. In 2004, Judge Whitehead, who, for unknown reasons, took over the case from Judge Grincewicz who had ordered the testing, denied Zeigler’s demand for a new trial.

Five years later, Zeigler’s pro bono New York attorneys asked the court to test the DNA of the stains which were not tested in 2001. Judge Whitehead had ruled before the 2004 hearing that only evidence which had been a part of the trial record in 1976 would be allowed to be considered, effectively blocking Zeigler from proffering other exculpatory evidence which the state had withheld from defense at trial. The untested stains had not been a part of the trial in 1976, yet Whitehead allowed the state to use them to imply that the untested stains might prove Zeigler’s guilt. The new petition was assigned originally to Judge F. Rand Wallis, but, inexplicably, was taken over by Judge Whitehead.

In a letter faxed to Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr., Ray McEachern, Citizen Advocate for Tommy Zeigler, asked that the case be re-assigned to a different judge. In the letter, McEachern said that he verified with Chief Assistant State Attorney William Vose that ASA Esther Marie Whitehead was in fact the spouse of Judge Reginald Whitehead and that she was an employee of the state in 2004 when Judge Whitehead denied Zeigler’s petition for a new trial. In the letter McEachern states that the "integrity of the court has already been compromised by Judge Whitehead’s failure to disclose a relationship that can be exploited to the advantage of the state."

An online petition to Florida Governor Charles Crist, which has garnered 400 names, points out that the 1976 trial judge, Maurice Paul, now a federal judge, refused to step aside even though he had been an opposing character witness to Zeigler in a racially charged trial four months before the murders for which Zeigler was convicted. Zeigler was shot in the abdomen during those murders but survived to call police. Zeigler was charged with the murders three days later while he was in hospital intensive care.

For more information see www.freetommyz.com .

The mayors are right:

More than 230 mayors are in Washington for the winter meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors, and many said they had been forced to impose layoffs, furloughs, service reductions and fee increases to deal with falling municipal revenue. The next fiscal year looks even worse, they said.

“We are in the middle of a ‘jobs emergency’ that demands decisive and swift action,” said Elizabeth Kautz, the mayor of Burnsville, Minn., and president of the conference. “We need the Senate to pass a Main Street jobs package now.”

Mayor Kautz is a Republican, and while many Republicans in Congress oppose a second stimulus package, many of the Republican mayors here support it.

President Obama spoke before dozens of the mayors on Thursday, promising “a continued, sustained and relentless effort to create good jobs.”

In November, the latest month for which data is available, the jobless rate was up in all 363 of the cities surveyed by the conference, compared with the previous year. More than 105 metro areas have unemployment rates above 10 percent.

Even as recovery in the labor markets picks up steam in the next three years, unemployment rates will not return to pre-recession levels during that period for any metro area, the conference predicted.

“In the Great Depression they let up too soon and there was further recession,” Mayor Riley said. “Right now the president needs to avoid making that same mistake.”

Indeed, the first stimulus passed by Congress last year was too small. Obama's chair of the council of economic advisers, Christina Romer, had said the stimulus needed to be around $1.2 trillion or more to be most effective, rather than the compromised $700 billion package that was eventually passed. With that said, the first stimulus wasn't useless. It bailed out Florida from incompetent Republican legislative "leadersihp", and saved countless jobs, particularly teachers.

However, according to a recent report (.pdf) from the National League of Cities a $56 to $83 billion deficit is facing our cities. States, including our own, are facing down their own deficits. While progressives are urging Florida legislators to find new sources of revenue to overcome our latest $3 billion deficit, we could use one more package from the feds.

This need becomes more clear as people like future House Speaker and Senate President Dean Cannon and Mike Haridopolos go around crowing about how "the government doesn't create wealth."

Anyone who has a casual relationship with reality knows different. In fact, just 5 minutes with an American history book debunks Cannon and Haridopolos' far right pablum. The government (federal, state, local) employs millions of people, provides them benefits and discretionary income. This generates a great deal of economic prosperity boosting the private sector, and through an effective regulatory framework, can build shared prosperity. Duh.

So with Cannon and Haridopolos continuing the same failed economic policies of the Jeb Bush/Charlie Crist eras, we clearly need some responsible adults to step in. Whether it's a second stimulus or reforms making our state and local tax systems more productive and more progressive, our cities and states simply can't afford to shed jobs and programs in this recession.

Want to know where Paula Dockery, Bill McCollum, and Alex Sink stand on major issues facing Florida: education, health care, the environment? Good luck.

Take a look at any of the major candidate websites, and you'll find that Dockery and McCollum have no issue page. Alex Sink, to her credit, has an issues page, but only addresses issues she's tackled as CFO, not what she would do as governor.

I'm sure issue stances will be added in the future, we're more than 9 months away from the election, but our state faces huge challenges right now. As people who want to lead the fourth largest state in the country, it would be great to know how they would deal with our state's $3 billion budget deficit, woefully underfunded education system, broken health care system, threatened environment, and the overpowering influence of corporate special interests.

Furthermore, I'm really surprised the press hasn't caught this. Yes, they have been trying to corner the candidates on some issue questions (particularly Alex Sink on health care lately), but that's it. The press should call the major party candidates on the fact none of them have any kind of significant issue stances.

I'm not asking for or expecting vast policy tracts on every conceivable issue Florida faces. For now, at least a few cogent sentences on a handful of key issues would be nice.

Is that really too much to ask?

Our Editorial Cartoon of the Week feature is part of Progress Florida's popular FREE Daily Clips service:

By Ed Gamble, Florida Times-Union

Republican political opportunism.  That, in a nutshell, is the Sunshine State’s worst and not so well hidden tax burden.

Two stories that broke in recent days help highlight the shameful mess that the Florida GOP has made of both the state’s economy, and its tax code.

Some will object to such finger pointing, claiming it’s the national economic crisis that put Florida in the financial pickle it’s in. That would constitute a half-truth, at very generous best – as would any attempt to argue that the Democrats are equally responsible for the state’s unfair, dysfunctional tax system and the havoc it has created for working and unemployed families.

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Florida Today fails the public again in reporting on the pandemic of violence against women.


From: Susan Chandler
Date: November 10, 2009 7:47:17 AM EST
To: ksummers@floridatoday.com, John Glisch , letters@floridatoday.com
Cc: cig@eog.myflorida.com, Governor Charlie Crist , Senator Mike Haridopolos , Debbie Mayfield
Subject: "Victim's assistance is vital in campaign against domestic abuse" Florida Today, October 27, 2009

Dear Florida Today:

The theme of this article is the theme of many Florida Today articles - blame the victim. Yolanda Garvin-Williams had formerly dropped domestic violence charges against her estranged husband, so - according to Florida Today - it's her fault that he killed her. There's no interviews of family members to ascertain her reasons - women frequently drop the charges when their domestic partners threaten to kill them if they don't. Ms. Garvin-Williams may have dropped the charges out of sheer terror. There's conveniently no interviews of domestic violence shelter workers, because they could detail the reasons that women drop DV charges, and the subplot of the story is to make tarnished officers, prosecutors and judges shine, another recurring theme in Florida Today articles.

There are more women killed by their domestic partners every year then there are law enforcment officers who lose their lives on the job, including officer lives lost in traffic accidents.

Roughly three women per day die from domestic violence in the land of the free and home of the brave. Hundreds per day are seriously injured.

What the police, prosecutors and judiciary say about domestic violence in interviews and what they actually do about domestic violence on the job every day do not match, and all that Florida Today would have had to do to discern and report as much would be to interview women currently residing in domestic violence shelters. Florida Today is already well aware of the need to interview actual victims; I'm sure they've received many emails similar to the one I sent to John Glisch on June 18, 2004.

Further proof of Florida Today's bias is supplied through reading Gov. Crist's Executive Orders, which I assume that someone at the newspaper is assigned to do. The Orders tell a tale of state employees (or their relatives) perpetrating domestic violence and having their cases transferred to another jurisdiction for wrist slaps. If Floridians want real news, they have to read blogs like CourtWatcher; a November 8th post tells of a Castleberry police officer who now has no domestic violence record, if he completed a diversion program as directed. [http://courtwatchflorida.blogspot.com/2009/11/whatever-happened-to.html]

My June, 2004 email to Glisch detailed my personal concerns about Judge John Dean Moxley, who was quoted in the subject article, "While it's just a piece of paper and won't stop a bullet, it stops rational people who had a temporary aberration." Moxley was speaking of injunctions, and he spoke with his typical dishonesty. Most perpetrators of domestic violence exhibit an escalating pattern, not a singular outburst.

Drawing Moxley into the article is blatantly spit-polishing a hopelessly tarnished reputation. Moxley was involved in the lawless persecutions of Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge, Gerald Stano, William Dillon and likely many others, deploying coached jailhouse informants and bogus "scent evidence expert" John Preston. Jailhouse informant Clarence Zacke named Moxley as one of the prosecutors who coached him to lie on the stand about Dedge and Stano. As a judge, Moxley retained his penchant for perjury and his affinity for ridiculous "scent evidence," and developed a propensity for predation of taxpayers' money. The proof is in my case file. And Crosley Green's. And in Glenda Carlin Busick's book "Brevard Good Ole Boys." And the St. Petersburg Times DROP double dipper database. Throughout most of his career as a prosecutor and judge, Vicki Clark served as Moxley's assistant. My intuition says that the shortest distance between coached jailhouse informants and courthouses will eventually prove to be Ms. Clark's husband, a former Brevard Sheriff's deputy.

At the turn of the century, the Melbourne Police Department was a mess. There were internal and external investigations of officer misconduct, including domestic violence. Chief Chandler resigned; Chief Carey took over. Both chiefs thought domestic violence was no big deal. The FDLE was content with their attitude. The advice I received in a domestic violence shelter was to be grateful that I got out alive and to just forget about recovering my home and possessions. I was told to hide. I didn't heed that advice, but in group sessions I learned that most women did, especially the women who had children. They relayed tales of officers laughing at them while they cried; officers refusing to respond to calls when injunctions were violated, let alone make arrests. I didn't find out till years later that the day the MPD finally allowed me to file a complaint was the day after my then-husband had been arrested in a prostitution sting. Violating procedure, the Palm Bay Police Department had released an impounded vehicle titled solely in my name without notifying me, blaming the towing company, much to the owner of the company's ire. He gave me the officer's name who authorized the release. The MPD covered for the PBPD, and the FDLE covered for both, and the Attorney General, Chief Inspector General and Governor covered for them all.

Brevard isn't a safe place to live because Florida Today finds most truths inconvenient. If we don't have laws like other states that allow officers to make arrests and prosecutors to file charges based on visible evidence of domestic violence, we should. And our legislators won't address that need until newspapers make it clear. So who's fault is it - really - that Yolanda Garvin-Williams is dead - hers, or yours?

Sincerely,

Susan Chandler

Brevard's Sheriff Parker is getting a lot of help from Florida Today in making it seem rational that he take a hard look at just one of a reported 100 investigations to which John Preston lent his DNA discredited "scent evidence" expertise. There are people crying themselves to sleep every night in Brevard over John Preston's perjuries, and they've been weeping for at least 25 years. There are killers and rapists that are laughing every day over eluding prosecution, and they've been laughing for at least 25 years.



From: Susan Chandler
Date: November 7, 2009 9:04:39 AM EST
To: admin@bcso.us
Cc: Governor Charlie Crist , cig@eog.myflorida.com
Subject: "Sheriff reopens '81 murder case that sent innocent man to prison" Florida Today 11/4/09

Dear Sheriff Parker:

Hours before the above captioned article became available on the Internet, I wrote to Florida Today and copied Gov. Crist and Chief Inspector General Miguel in regards to a rumor I'd heard that the article solidified; your agency will reinvestigate James Dvorak's 1981 homicide.

Here is part of what I wrote:

"Through the electronic grapevine, rumor reached me that James Dvorak's homicide, for which Bill Dillon served 27 years, will be re-investigated. I rechecked the Brevard County Sheriff's Office cold case web page recently, expecting it to show some new sign of order since a cold case had been reportedly resolved. It's still in disarray. The Canova Beach homicide of an elderly woman - Pauline Scandale - still bears no information that could possibly bring resolution. Perhaps there was an inconvenience factor to posting the date of the Ms. Scandale's homicide, as Dvorak was bludgeoned to death on Canova Beach. Perhaps it's mere carelessness. Either way, the BCSO looks bad.

John Dean Moxley is now four-for-four in involvement in resolved Preston matters. He served as a prosecutor against Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge and Gerald Stano, and was in the background on Bill Dillon's case. Moxley's former long-time assistant, Vicki Clark, is married to former BCSO Deputy Ron Clark. Through Roger Dale Chapman's public apology to Bill Dillon, Thom Fair has been mentioned in connection with obtaining coached informant testimony, but my intuition says that Fair won't prove to be the shortest distance between coached informants and the courthouse. It very much matters that resolution for Stano took the form of being fried alive in Old Sparky, with evidence lawfully allowed to be destroyed after 60 days. It very much matters that Gannett took the low road and did not reveal in it's summation of Preston cases that the same coached snitch testified against Dedge and Stano, and had recanted prior to Stano's 1998 state-sanctioned homicide."

Sir, I don't know you, and can only guess at the content of your character. I do know that the BCSO had as much information on the incredibility of John Preston's testimony and the entrenched use of coached jailhouse informants when Wilton Dedge was exonerated as it does right now. All that's new is increasing public awareness of what individual public servants knew about Preston and snitches, and when. I've tried to add to that awareness, given that the media is determined to deliver information piecemeal, with frequent omissions. It is likely that such reporting affected the outcome of elections, and the likelihood of it being deliberate - in Florida Today's case - becomes ever more apparent with every article cheerleading Sen. Mike Haridopolos.

I interviewed Bill Dillon and Jeff Abramowski behind bars. I believed both men's claims of innocence; Bill's story echoed that told by Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge and Gerald Stano. Jeff's story was equally credible - two loci out of 15 is never a "hit," and 17.3 at D18S51 is nearly as common among males as head colds. My SEAL friends helped me get to the bottom of the Gerber knock-off knife purchase that supposedly placed Jeff in Melbourne when he was in Orlando. Wal-Mart doesn't sell black-bladed knives, sir, they're too expensive and too military. I "followed the money," too; it wasn't very difficult, and it didn't lead to Jeff.

Crosley Green changed his mind when I arrived at the prison for his interview, afraid that his lawyers would desert him if he spoke with me. He was still on death row then. The D.C. firm representing him typically limits their pro bono work to domestic violence cases; they defend agencies against whistleblowers, help corporations get the best of the EPA, represent public servants accused of misconduct. There's no case remaining against Crosley now that it's been established that his brother had previously driven the vehicle involved in the commission of Flynn's homicide, yet somehow Crosley is still behind bars. Crosley initially appeared before John Dean Moxley, and we both know what that means - the "scent evidence" is ridiculous - despite a different dog handler, given that Crosley's prints were nowhere to be found. Kim Hallock's "the black man did it" nonsense is just that - Crosley had a buzz cut, not Jheri Curls, and no ability to change his size. Statistically, Hallock is the prime suspect given her prior relationship to Flynn, and her convoluted, conflicting statements seem to make the statistic bear out.

I haven't been well enough to travel to interview Monte Adams. His parents are in hell. They know that fingerprint evidence is in the Clerk's possession that points to someone else other than their son, prints that were never run. They likely belong to the key witness against Monte, Johnny Galvin, who was found in possession of a TV set from the crime scene. After years of trying, they can't even get enough cooperation from the state to get Threna Adams' portrayal of her son altered to suit reality so that he will be eligible for parole. She never said her son was violent - Monte had no history of violence. Johnny Galvin did.

Gary Bennett apparently didn't receive the letter I sent to him when I was searching for additional Preston victims, which isn't surprising. Although the media won't publish the conflict in transferring his case to a jurisdiction where Preston testified, resulting in Linroy Bottoson's execution, I will. Over and over again. From where I sit, State Attorney Lamar's reputation is as tarnished as State Attorney Wolfinger's; I'm familiar with William "Tommy" Zeigler's and John Dobbs' cases and I'm familiar with other untoward Executive Orders aside from Bennett's that trade cases between Wolfinger and Lamar.

You accepted the campaign reelection endorsements of Wolfinger and Brevard's community of retired federal agents, including Sen. Haridopolos' father. From defending Ramos and Bennett, Wolfinger knew all about Preston and coached informants when he was sworn in and did nothing credible, in 1985 or since, to ensure that there had been candor before the tribunal. The retired FBI agents know that their agency is mandated to address public corruption that affects trial outcomes, yet ignore continuing coverage of contrived convictions, doing nothing to kick-start the Brevard field office, and all the while Sen. Haridopolos pretends that he's unaware of the FBI's mandates and the duty of the Legislature to check and balance the Executive and Judicial branches, even though he teaches politics as his day job at a pay rate that matches his academic aspirations, not his credentials. It would be odd if the information he pretends no knowledge of appeared in his "book" that belied the collegiate tradition of payment from publishing companies rather than taxpayers.

The more legitimate books "Fatal Flaw" and "Brevard Good Ole Boys" are still out there for anyone to read, and so is my blog, and others. Don't just investigate Dvorak's homicide, sir; investigate your entire department. And not just the Preston cases. I know who attempted to get inmates to testify falsely against Jeff Abramowski, so should you. Failure to run the prints in the Adams' case is a big deal. Please don't stop at clouded convictions; I've heard from non-incarcerated persons claiming to have been abused by your agency. If you can't investigate clouded convictions and citizen complaints out of determination to make Brevard safe, then by all means act out of fear of disgrace.

A growing number of people won't settle for the even the national media's accounts of anything having to do with Brevard law enforcement, the State Attorney's office or the judiciary. The AP's related articles have enough holes in them to steer an aircraft carrier through. Anderson Cooper couldn't bother his staff to correct the years Bill was incarcerated from 26 to 27, having considerable time to do so during the delay caused by Michael Jackson's death. Instead of doing a follow-up story of his discrediting John Preston in 1985 when charges were dropped against Bill in December, Geraldo Rivera went to Charlie Crist's wedding. Instead of being incensed at the apparent link between delayed confirmation that Ottis Toole killed his son and Bill's release, John Walsh instead publicly endorsed Charlie Crist's and Bill McCollum's political ambitions. The avowed victims' advocate didn't advocate for Preston's victims and inform his viewers that Florida's Chief Inspector General is obligated by statute to investigate complaints of public misconduct, calling in whatever agencies are necessary.

Eddie Joe Lloyd, a now-deceased exonerated gentleman once said of DNA, "That's God's signature ... God's signature is never a forgery." Fox frequently films your agency in action for "Cops," but all the footage in the world isn't going to nullify God's signature.

I've repeatedly requested that the FBI adhere to their public corruption mandate.

They're going to show up, sir, and it's going to be soon, and they're going to look at Orange County and Tallahassee, too.

Sincerely,

Susan Chandler

In response to teachers protesting hikes in their health insurance costs, in "Our Views: Tone it down" on October 27th, Florida Today's editors said, "We’re strong supporters of Brevard educators, as we’ve proven in advocating better state funding for schools and better pay for teachers."

Florida Today's argument boils down to this: the rest of the working world is having a tougher time than all youse teachers, so just shut up, already.

Here's my version of showing strong support for the teachers - providing a resource naming the Brevard School Board members that were collecting wages and retirement benefits simultaneously at the time the St. Petersburg Times printed their double dipper database in 2008. Simply go to the main web page [http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2008/interactives/retirement-loophole/], and then select Brevard Co School Board under "Refine results by." Hopefully, some of the double dippers have actually retired by now.

Peruse the database, read the other articles it references and all the while keep in mind the SPT disclaimer that some civil servants' wages are allowed to be kept secret, by law; see just how many Brevard civil servants are riding the gravy train - there seems to be more in Brevard than the county non-residents confuse it with - big, bad Broward. Most of the rest of the working world had to actually retire to collect retirement benefits, and had their retirement benefits reduced reflecting economic losses specific to their industry. Not so with Florida's double dippers. Puzzling SBA financial losses, now under formal investigation by the SEC, have done nothing to inspire Florida's legislators to close the welfare-for-the-wealthly loophole they created.

Don't shut up, Brevard teachers and support staff. You've endured a two year pay freeze, according to the article, and now you're going to face increased health care costs and reduced coverage on top of inflation. An either/or isn't unreasonable -- unfreeze wages or freeze health care premiums. Even though taxpayers can be mislead into opposing you in the absence of all the applicable facts - as the comments on Florida Today's editorial indicates - they likely don't want to overpay the Board while underpaying y'all.

When we're ill, most of us have odd comforts we allow ourselves. I've got YouTube playing Kermit the Frog singing "Rainbow Connection" in the background, reminding me of singing it to my daughter when she was little and under the weather. The very best thing that can happen is to have good wishes reach you out of the blue without anyone knowing you're sick.

Thanks to those who requested via email, along with kind words, copies of State Attorney Norm Wolfinger's awful letter to Special Master Kent Wetherell that spuriously attempts to portray Bill Dillon as unworthy of exoneration compensation for the 27 years of his life he lost after being maliciously prosecuted.

Wolfinger couldn't be so boldly blasphemous without enablers in Tallahasee and the media. Someday the dreamers will triumph over the dastardly, making the rainbow connection. Until then, we just have to keep writing letters as if innocent people's lives depend on them. Because they do.

From: Susan Chandler
Date: October 24, 2009 1:13:32 PM EDT
To: Senator Mike Haridopolos
Cc: Debbie Mayfield , cig@eog.myflorida.com, Governor Charlie Crist , letters@floridatoday.com, John Glisch , Norm Wolfinger , jrusso@pd18.net
Subject: "Matt Reed: Haridopolos tackles issues"

Dear Senator Haridopolos:

When a news article is well-written, the online comments section is absent information that the article should have contained.

In the case of the above-captioned Gannett Florida Today article this week, an informed reader commented on the gigantic oil spill off the coast of Australia that indicates that the new, purportedly safer offshore oil rig technology failed. Reporter Reed's failure to ask you about that spill did not take you off the hook for not addressing it; you're to represent your constituents' best interests, not Big Oil's. Out-of-work high-tech Space Coast residents that were paid government funds to make solar technology work in space should logically be paid government funds to perfect the same technology on earth to bring cheap, clean power to our nation. If they can come up with a vehicle that works on Mars, they can come up with an electric car. There likely isn't a single resident in your district that will be employed by endangering our coastline with oil rigs.

I didn't read all the comments; Florida Today's readers' rants, born of being misinformed, quickly become tedious, frightening and/or depressing. Hopefully, another enlightened reader countered your fiscal responsibility claims by commenting on your inability to effectively "tackle" DROP double dipping, which allows the likes of Norm Wolfinger and John Dean Moxley to exercise another form of predation on your constituents, aside from covering up the persecution of innocents for decades. Or perhaps a comment instead countered your fiscal responsibility claims by pointing out that you accepted professorial wages based on credentials you merely aspire to, along with a bogus "book advance," betraying your personal propensity for predation.

I hope that someone commented, "Where's Juan?" to counter your bragging about sponsoring Bill Dillon's exoneration compensation. Juan Ramos deserves his $250,000 to partially right the ruination caused by his five years on death row from John Preston's solicited perjuries. That Ramos' conviction was upset in 1987 is embarrassing for those who are still in the state employ - including Wolfinger and Moxley - that are responsible for the cover-up that kept Wilton Dedge, Dillon and many others behind bars and cost Gerald Stano his life. Through the electronic grapevine, I made Centurion Ministries aware that the 9th Judicial Circuit had used Preston to convict and execute Linroy Bottoson, and that transferring Gary Bennett's Brevard/Preston case there was conflicted. I've since found out that the 9th and 18th trade cases like baseball cards, with Gov. Crist's permission. Crist announced his intention to address South Florida's corruption on October 14th, continuing to deliberately ignore Preston's involvement in a reported 100 Brevard felony investigations.

Gannett pretended that Preston cases had been cleared nationwide 15 years ago. ["Convicted on false evidence; False science often sways juries, judges," authors Laura Frank and John Hanchette, USA Today, July 19, 1994; "The unmasking of Preston's dogs caused an uproar. Cases were overturned in Virginia, Ohio, Florida, Arizona and other states."] Despite Gannett's wiles, I'm even more confident now that there will be a federal investigation of the corruption and cover-up. The White House removed my comment from their facebook wall, "The FBI muddied their own credibility in protecting man's best friend ahead of actual men; after investigating dogfighting rings in several states, they have little choice but to rapidly investigate Florida's framing innocent men." Their censorship means that they read my message loud and clear, and so fast that no one got the chance to comment - this time. As of yesterday, I'm on Twitter and will learn my way around it as haltingly as I did facebook.

Reed claimed you're "one of the most influential Republicans in Florida." If true, what possible reason can there be not to use your influence to make it incumbent upon Florida's Governor to investigate any county wherein two upset convictions indicate use of an identical, untenable trial tactic to stop making taxpayers pay to be kept safe from harmless men like Ramos, Dedge and Dillon, then pay exoneration compensation of top of malicious prosecution costs. Roger Dale Chapman, who bragged to his brother about getting valid rape charges dropped by lying to tighten Dillon's frame-up, was apparently re-released Thursday after a sentence reduction. James E. Gilmore, who lied about Ramos, is a revolving-door offender, apparently released without supervision after the most recent offense. The harm done by coached informants that benefit by continual prosecutorial favors and actual perpetrators that innocents serve time for can only be stopped by an investigation that looks at every single Preston conviction and every subsequent complaint of prosecutorial malice.

So much is made of your ability to amass millions, so little is made of what little those millions actually pay for - pandering, predation, persecution, public endangerment. I have nothing against you personally and no ability to act on it even if I did, but I am forever wondering what it is that you personally have against your constituents and what prompts you to harm them so often.

Regards,

Susan Chandler

Although the writing was originally on two facebook walls, The White House removed it from theirs; it remains in place on mine.

Susan Chandler [to] The White House:
I wrote on my blog, "The FBI muddied their own credibility in protecting man's best friend ahead of actual men; after investigating dogfighting rings in several states, they have little choice but to rapidly investigate Florida's framing ...innocent men." And they really don't. I'm receiving supportive comments from other countries - it's only a matter of time before foreign news services decide to take a look at Juan Ramos', Wilton Dedge's and Bill Dillon's upset convictions and the dark deeds that Governor Crist has tried to help bury.   Read More »

The callous confidence that Florida's government displays in burying malicious prosecutions appears misplaced - The White House reads their facebook wall posts.


From: Susan Chandler
Date: October 14, 2009 10:44:09 PM EDT
To: John Glisch , letters@floridatoday.com
Cc: Norm Wolfinger , cig@eog.myflorida.com, Governor Charlie Crist , Seth Miller
Subject: "Wolfinger against compensation for Dillon"

Dear Florida Today:

William Dillon lives in Brevard County where Gannett's Florida Today makes its home and has made himself accessible to the press in his efforts to raise awareness of wrongful convictions. Reporter John Torres apparently failed to contact him to comment on State Attorney Wolfinger's deceitful letter to Special Master Kent Wetherell denigrating Dillon's exoneration claim. Dillon made his statements in the "In Your Voice" comments section of the article, along with the rabble Torres roused by once again understating Brevard's serial prosecutorial wrongdoing.

As Wolfinger chose to publicly extol his role in Wilton Dedge's exoneration yet again, it fell to Florida Today to reveal that the coached informant used against Dedge was the same one used against Gerald Stano, who was executed despite that informant recanting, a complete lack of forensic evidence and the sworn statements of six Daytona Beach police officers that Stano's "confessions" were the baseless result of Paul Crow's duplicity, with the first ghostwriter Crow hired to cash-in on framing Stano confirming the officers' allegations via his sworn statement.

That Gannett actively engages in election tampering by habitual "false light" reporting is obvious; less obvious is the resulting endangerment of the communities cross-country that keep Gannett in business with subscriptions, advertisements and taxpayer dollars (public notices).

FBI Director's Mueller's focus on investigating dogfighting rings instead of the harm done to thousands of Americans nationwide by John Preston, Keith Pikett and other self-acclaimed scent evidence experts is hideous, and spending scarce budget funds to mechanically refine scent evidence is ridiculous. Until dogs learn to talk, no one can be certain whether they "hit" on actual evidence or on scents they find pleasing.

A corporation can only lawfully behave as would a prudent person in the same circumstances, and no prudent person would facilitate the persecution of innocents - keeping killers free - so as to keep thugs in government office. Gannett is betting its life that Mueller will be allowed to continue his waywardness.

Regards,

Susan Chandler


P.S. Anyone wishing a .pdf of Wolfinger's letter to Kent Wetherell can request it by emailing studio8@infionline.net and putting Wetherell in the subject line.

At least not yet. The original fax was attached to the email that follows. The epilepsy information it contained is also present in two different circuit court's records.

That information is going to become public knowledge, because the quality of life of thousands of veterans nationwide rests on it.


From: Susan Chandler
Date: September 30, 2009 1:23:41 PM EDT
To: Governor Charlie Crist
Cc: cig@eog.myflorida.com
Subject: "A Message from Charlie Crist" and "A Message from former Senator Connie Mack"

Dear Governor Crist:

My memory served me well this time; in spending just a couple minutes searching my files, I found a fax I sent to you on May 21st, 2006, while you were still our Attorney General. I went into considerable detail about the effects of stress on people with epilepsy, apprising you of the acronym SUDEP.

Perhaps it's time for you to review my communications to you over the years on the behalf of the wrongfully convicted and other victims of public corruption and assess the wisdom of continuing to deny ordinary citizens oversight.

All that any of us that were trodden upon by miscreant civil servants have ever asked of you is to uphold the law, per your sworn and fiduciary responsibilities to protect the life, liberty and property of Florida's inhabitants.

It's my personal belief that every paycheck you cash is a fresh fraud on Floridians, whom you serve unequally and imprudently.

Regards,

Susan Chandler

Geez. Will I hear from Jeb Bush next?




From: Susan Chandler
Date: September 27, 2009 8:47:11 PM EDT
To: "Senator Connie Mack"
Cc: Governor Charlie Crist , cig@eog.myflorida.com
Subject: Responding to A Message from former Senator Connie Mack

Dear Sen. Mack:

I am an active, registered Democrat.

Earlier today, in responding to Gov. Crist emailed solicitation of campaign funds, I reminded him not only of his foreknowledge of my political affiliation, but of the lack of wisdom in playing foolish electronic correspondence games with a constituent who has epilepsy and a heart condition - both of which can be affected by stress - who has been pleading for years for him to fulfill his sworn obligations to address public corruption.

I posted that response on my blog; this response will go there, too, along with many well-documented posts that indicate Gov. Crist is not as you've portrayed him; likely what you truly "know from first-hand experience" about Crist corresponds more with my blogs than it does your saccharine endorsement.

There's no such thing as "Harass a Disabled Democrat Without Consequence Day;" I suggest y'all act accordingly.

Regards,

Susan Chandler





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From: "Senator Connie Mack"
Date: September 27, 2009 2:38:35 PM EDT
To: ""
Subject: A Message from former Senator Connie Mack

Dear Friends,

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In Florida, Charlie has worked to lower taxes and restrain the growth of government. As Governor, he has consistently opposed tax increases, secured historic property tax reform, and safeguarded Florida’s business climate. Charlie was ranked the most fiscally conservative Governor by the CATO Institute and signed the Americans for Tax Reform Taxpayer Protection Pledge.

Charlie is a pro-life conservative who will defend Florida’s families. In Florida, he has worked to maintain a culture of life and implemented policies that led to historic adoption levels. He has fought to keep violent predators in jail and consistently defended the rights of gun owners and was recently awarded the Gun Rights Defender of the Month.

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P.S. Anyone desiring a copy of Connie Mack's email can request it by emailing studio8@infionline.net and putting "Mack attack" on the subject line. Are you wondering when it'll dawn on them that they misspelled Senate?

Florida Today can write down is up daily and it won't make it so. It's my hope that what I document in my blog will be enough to make a brilliant trial attorney yell, "Eureka! I've found my Golden Goose," and sue Gannett's socks off for pretending to publish the news while authoring guile decade after decade.


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From: Susan Chandler
Date: September 22, 2009 7:46:37 PM EDT
To: John Glisch , letters@floridatoday.com
Cc: Governor Charlie Crist , cig@eog.myflorida.com, Alex.Sink@fldfs.com, Norm Wolfinger , FDLE Comments , Senator Mike Haridopolos , Debbie Mayfield

Subject: "Our views: A relentless offensive"

"Brevard sheriff’s deputies and police are risking their lives daily to keep the streets safe even as their budgets are squeezed. Prosecutors also are pressing hard despite thinned ranks, heavy caseloads and laws that can put the bad guys back on the streets." - Florida Today "Our views: A relentless offensive"

Dear Mr. Glisch:

Although I try to address your spin in a timely manner, sometimes I'm just too ill, so I'm belatedly addressing Florida Today's September 4th "Our View."

Public records indicate that it isn't our laws putting bad guys back on the streets, prosecutors routinely used career criminal snitches, Ramos/Gilmore, Dedge & Stano/Zacke, Chapman/Dillon and have an aversion to apprehending and prosecuting the actual perpetrator. It's ongoing, they tried to put two coached informants on the stand against Jeff Abramowski just a few years ago, and the evidence points to Michael Bruce Foley and Judy Foley, despite the FDLE expert DNA witness who claimed two markers out of 15 is a "hit."

If the process of locating snitches in Preston cases was the same as locating them for Abramowski's case, the BCSO is in on it. And so is the FBI, who disavows the content of their website and Director Mueller's testimony before Congress that addressing public corruption is one of their mandates. The former FBI agents that supported the reelection of the Sheriff is what - coincidence?

James E. Gilmore was released yet again in January, with no supervision; Roger Dale Chapman had his current sentenced shortened - of course - and will be free next month.

Below is part of Gilmore's record, with two different birth dates and an additional name. "CF" stands for criminal felony - there's 10 of them showing. There was an additional offense with a DOB match on month and day but not year, with a driver license's number with a couple extra digits in it. After I found Gilmore's records and pointed them out, it became impossible to search by driver's license numbers. Odd. I wonder how many times Gilmore, Chapman and other snitches got walks at crime scene without even being booked, courtesy of officers in-the-know.

Chapman's a multi-county offender. He seems to like it here in Indian River County, perhaps because it's a short distance for Brevard prosecutors to travel to. He raped a 16 year old girl and bragged to his brother about beating the charge by testifying against Dillon - remember? Joe Dillon, Bill's brother, was one of the arresting officers that collared him on a subsequent offense - remember? Not your problem, right? Your spin merely sacrifices community safety while ruining innocent men's lives and breaking their family's hearts.

Unlike his predecessor's prayers, Charlie Crist's - per his claims - are keeping us safe from the Almighty's wrath over the injustices, unless you count those harmed by the perpetrators that weren't prosecuted and the snitches who got walks. Crist knows that Preston testified in the jurisdiction where he transferred Gary Bennett's case; paranoid schizophrenic Linroy Bottoson was executed as a result. If memory serves, it's the same jurisdiction that Sandra Weeks hails from, who mysteriously has better recollection of a yellow T-shirt and Bill Dillon now than 27 years ago. There's a Linroy Bottoson on Linked-in, it's probably not a coincidence; Bottoson had children, just like apparently-framed Jeff Abramowski has children, and apparently-framed Crosley Green has children.

Take a look at this site below, Mr. Glisch; look how far the gentleman has gotten with Florida. He even has a section on felons who perjure themselves for favors. Start reporting the truth, including what all's really squeezing Florida's budget - double dippers like Wolfinger and Moxley and the other slithering snakes portrayed in "Brevard Good Ole Boys."

http://victimsofthestate.org/

Regards,

Susan Chandler


P.S. Gilmore's .pdf record from the email won't import. Those who want a copy can request one through studio8@infionline.net by putting "request a copy" on the subject line.

So, a funny thing happened on the way to appraising President Obama’s health reform address to Congress.  With my wife away on a business trip, I was home alone with our 4-year-old, cagily keeping her busy watching Disney’s “Earth” (stunning), while I shuttled back and forth to another TV to watch what I could of the President’s speech.

So I’m cheering, literally, as I hear Obama make the case for the public option plan, cheering and clapping enough to pique little Aliza’s curiosity in the next room.   I run in there and explain that I was cheering for Barack Obama -- she knows him by sight and name, and she’s a big fan.  After answering a few questions, including, I kid you not, “What’s John McCain saying?” (There’s back-story there that will just have to wait), she turned back to her movie, happily watching as a leopard was taking down a caribou in the wild.  I smiled and hurried back to the speech.

By the way, I took some pleasure in answering Aliza’s McCain question honestly enough, saying “He didn’t say anything, he just gave Obama a thumbs-up” -- which she laughed heartily at, adding “That’s crazy!” before turning her attention back to the harsh realities of Survival Of The Fittest.

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If you just read the history of the Boston tea party, you can laugh hardily at the 'patriots' known currently as Tea Party Baggers. Why aren't they protesting Walmart or every corporation that off-shores our jobs during economic turmoil to increase profit margins. How can you call yourself a patriot when everything you buy is made by a communist working for shite wages in another country. Sickening slobs that can't read history can call themselves Jesus on a cross fighting for Liberty and apple pie, but that doesn't make them capable of defending themselves from a single question like, How does lowering the cost of healthcare have anything to do with Tea bags?.
Simply, it is exactly the opposite situation that these rubes fight against. We want our heath care needs to be met in the market place of services, and the only way to get that is by government force working for us. That is the public option, right?

Thankyou Wikipedia. http://tiny.cc/RwsMD for explaining that the Boston Tea party was about monopolies as much as it was about taxation without representation. What does this have to do with health care? The current system (which is profitable for both private companies and wall street... ) is killing our economic potential,just like King George was killing the cheaper free public market by forcing his East India Co Tea on colonies, by price fixing, Taxing all tea 25% and then giving that money back to the East India company (run and owned by the royal family and it's Barons/Lords) so that they could kill the competition with Lowering Prices Every Day ©. Until I see you protesting a walmart or Bill Clinton, or The Bushes for opening us up to un-regulated free trade at their Speaking engagements, I'm going to laugh at the Tea Baggers because they have no clue why they are there.