Posted on 11/01/2004 8:09:34 AM PST by floriduh voter
I can print that Greer mailer on this thread. I'll have to upload it first. I'll get it here tomorrow. Funny that a clear violation of the Judicial Canons occurred and they deemed it UNFOUNDED.
I WILL POST THAT GREER CAMPAIGN MAILER HERE TOMORROW.
The Greer Campaign Mailer was received by regular by MY MOTHER. I have possession of it. It is not from any part of any Complaints to the JQC. floriduh voter
ONE MORE TIME: Greer Campaign Mailer was received by regular "MAIL" BY MY MOTHER.
I agree that the mail will be forwarded. But I don't think it's immaterial at all in terms of measuring a "news" organization's (in this case, yours) interest in accuracy, and therefore, the likely credibility of their reporting.
And that you, when provided with a correction, respond that "it's immaterial"--that tells me what matters to you...and to me.
Thank you.
Without Anstead's knowledge, Greer took a quote from Anstead and slapped it on his campaign mailer. It was a paragraph of Anstead praising Greer and the quote is not dated. It looks like an endorsement. Greer turned his entire campaign over to Mary Reppa. He didn't oversee any campaign matters. I heard him say so at a townhall forum. The moderator asked Greer if his billboards were in violation and Greer said something similar to: I dunno. I ordered 'em and sent 'em a check. That sums up his JUDICIAL CAREER. I DUNNO.
Bump! Bump!
Mary Reppa has a web site. Supposed to be a big time campaign consultant. She broke lots of campaign laws imo to get Greer re-elected and he never checked her work. google for her. maybe it's www.maryreppa.com. Anyway, she brags on her site re: who her campaign clients were. Another spokesperson for Greer was Todd Pressman.
Govan ran a great campaign and got almost 57,000 votes and we didn't even meet him until after he filed on May 7th.
It was a tough campaign because GOVAN DIDN'T VIOLATE CAMPAIGN LAWS BUT GREER DID. So many campaign laws were violated, judicial canons and regular campaign laws. Public agencies broke laws to endorse Greer. Our supervisor of elections is protecting Greer to this day.
Stupid people voted for GEORGE GREER. We are stuck with him for now.
Interesting that she donated to Greer. Quid pro quo? You allow me to run your campaign and I'll donate to your campaign?
I recall that donations had to be less than a total of $500.00. Am I correct, amdgmary re: Govan v. Greer election.
I Have some information for you from the Judicial Qualifications Commission:
RICHARD C. MCFARLAN, CHAIR and BROOKE S. KENNERLY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. (Verified for Year 2004).
I'm not. I've been fighting this fight for a heck of a long time, and certainly don't have a need to justify myself to you, or anyone else.
But I'm serious about what I'm doing, and about being effective at doing it. And I know that, rather than have my efforts dismissed as hysterical crackpotting, either because they are misdirected, or because my information contains blatant factual inaccuracies, I want my efforts to count.
Why are you trying to divert attention from your inaccuracies instead of simply correcting them?
Everett Rice absolutely has been protecting Greer but now Rice is bumped up to the Florida House and we now must fight with Rice as a new representative. I'm sure he's going to fight any attempts to UNDO JIM KING'S HITLERESQUE LEGACY. I can get you Rice's picture. He looks like he's from the Dukes of Hazard show.
Duncan's aide told me that all non-partisan candidates were interviewed by the GOP executive committee and that they picked Greer. What is curious is that Govan never mentioned being interviewed by the GOP executive committee, specifically by Duncan's campaign aide.
It's a close call that George Bush won Florida. We threatened to withhold our votes if anything happened to Terri before November 2nd. President Bush supports Terri's Law but we were so ticked at the Pinellas GOP for endorsing Greer. That's taking pro-life donations to endorse euthanasia. That's MAIL FRAUD. Super of Elections Deborah Clarke wouldn't hear any of that from me. She's part of the incestuous relationship and her office is just three blocks north of GOP Headquarters. They are both across the street from the courthouse complex at 49th St. where Judge Baird declared that Terri's Law was unconstitutional. (another Judge who wants Terri dead). I did a report on that hearing that's on my Terri's Fight News page.) It's kind of towards the middle of the page.
Finally, State Attorney Bernie McCabe who is also buds with Greer is in the same complex as Judge Baird. J. Greer is downtown at 315 Court St., Clearwater.
INCEST WHY? What is all these people's motivation for Terri having to be done in???
Rice's picture caption "I'll be your friend if you pay me."
I agree with you. The people were swayed by the St. Pete Times endorsement of Greer.
"I've been fighting this fight for a heck of a long time"
Hmm. You registered with FreeRepublic on Mar 30, 2004.
"I'm serious about what I'm doing, and about being effective at doing it"
Please tell us what "I'm doing" about "fighting this fight".
"efforts dismissed as hysterical crackpotting"
You appear to be indulging in a traditional diversionary tactic.
Breaking a nail or showing up here in the spring does not constitute participating in Terri's fight. (sarcasm tag) Thanks for chiming in.
Thanks a bunch if you genuinely joined Terri's Fight whenever you joined.
Apparently, Terri's doing good. Her family has been visiting her quite often.
hi and bttt. Terri's doing good.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1281817/posts
Due to new sod at Woodside Hospice, the prayer vigil has been rescheduled to the 12th of December.
Prayers for Terri.
435. Birthday Vigil will be on Dec. 12th instead of Dec. 3rd. It will be held at a local park instead of at Hospice Woodside.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-aseclivingwill18111804nov18,0,2699797.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
Posted November 18, 2004
Hanford Pinette made his wishes clear in a living will: He never wanted to be kept alive by a machine.
Today Pinette, 73, lies in an Orlando hospital, where machines run his lungs and kidneys. Doctors see an unresponsive patient with no hope of recovery. Alice Pinette sees her husband of 53 years clinging to life.
Now the Clermont man's fate will be fought out in a courtroom in an unusual battle waged by Orlando Regional Healthcare System officials, who want to let him die, against Alice Pinette, who wants to keep him alive.
"They're just trying to pull the plugs," Alice Pinette, 73, said Wednesday, standing in the doorway of her home. "He still communicates with me, and I won't let them do it."
A hearing in the case is scheduled for Tuesday before Orange Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood. The outcome could have broad implications on the enforcement of living wills, which are supposed to remove uncertainty about a patient's wishes in the event of a terminal illness and incapacity.
Paul Malley, president of the Tallahassee-based Aging With Dignity, a national organization that advises people about the benefits of living wills, said he could not recall a Florida hospital going to court to enforce a written living will over the wishes of a patient's family.
"It's definitely highly unusual for a hospital to bring up a case like this," Malley said. "Where this case is, is a real challenge. There may not be an easy answer here."
The argument doesn't center on Pinette's wishes, but whether he's sick enough to carry them out.
"He's all right," Alice Pinette said. "He's getting better, a little each day."
David L. Evans, Orlando Regional Healthcare's lawyer, said the hospital maintains Pinette will not get better and is trying to abide by the patient's wishes.
"All we can do is come in and describe his medical condition and his competency," Evans said last week. "We're just doing what we feel we're legally obligated to do."
The Pinette matter is almost a reversal of the Terri Schiavo case.
Schiavo collapsed 14 years ago and is now in a Clearwater nursing home in what doctors call a progressive vegetative state. She is kept alive by a feeding tube and left no written directive of her wishes.
Schiavo's husband, Michael, contends his wife told him she would not want to be kept alive. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, have battled Schiavo in court, arguing their daughter is aware of her surroundings.
The case sparked a national controversy when Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature intervened to block a court order removing Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. The courts ruled in Michael Schiavo's favor and the case remains on appeal in Florida's courts.
The case has been cited as an example of why people need to write living wills.
Pinette, a Korean War veteran and government engineer who moved to Clermont in 1994 from Maryland to retire, wrote a living will in 1998 and assigned his wife to carry out his wishes, designating her as his "surrogate."
In the event of a terminal condition with no probability of recovery, Pinette stated: "I direct that life-prolonging procedures be withheld or withdrawn when the application of such procedures would serve only to prolong the process of dying."
Pinette stated in the will that he wanted "to die naturally" and receive medication only to "alleviate pain."
But Alice Pinette produced a durable power of attorney signed by her husband on the same date in 1998.
The power of attorney states her husband assigned her "to decide for me [Hanford Pinette] any matters regarding my health care, including, but not limited to, consenting to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures."
Earlier this year, Pinette suffered congestive heart failure, his wife said. He has been hospitalized since February, according to the petition filed by Orlando Regional Healthcare, and is currently at Lucerne Hospital.
Despite Alice Pinette's assertions that her husband is not terminally ill, the hospital argues in court documents that Pinette's "renal system, respiratory system and cardiovascular system are all being supported by artificial means alone."
The petition also says Pinette is not competent to make his own decisions and is not likely to recover his mental capacity. The hospital's bioethics committee which reviews cases such as this also agreed to withdraw life support.
And two doctors -- Sanjay Muttreja and Juan Herran -- submitted affidavits that Pinette is terminally ill and has no "medical probability" of recovering.
"It is my opinion as Mr. Pinette's treating physician that Mr. Pinette meets the requirements of his living will," Muttreja said in his affidavit.
But Alice Pinette, who goes to the hospital daily, said her husband "still communicates with me."
She said Pinette squeezes her hand, shakes his head and has indicated that "he wants to go home."
That is proof enough to her that he's not terminally ill.
"There's a lot of people they say that about, and it's not true," she said. "They've been after me since July to put him down."
Robert Wilkins, a Maitland attorney whose practice includes living wills, said Alice Pinette is fighting an uphill battle.
"You should be able to control your own destiny and a surrogate shouldn't be able to override that," Wilkins said. "It really isn't her prerogative, it seems to me, to disregard that."
Wilkins said Alice Pinette's best hope is if her attorney can successfully argue that the living will is invalid.
Alice Pinette's attorney, William E. Ruffier, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Malley, the Aging With Dignity president, said the case may help others avoid this situation by talking about living wills and the responsibilities of the surrogate before it's too late.
The best person to be someone's surrogate, for instance, might not be his or her spouse, Malley said.
"It's a difficult situation," Malley said. "But it can be avoided with other families."
Anthony Colarossi can be reached at acolarossi@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-6218.
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We apologize for any difficulty you may be experiencing with the links to legal documents.
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Dear Friends of Terri:
Terri's website www.terrisfight.org is temporarily under minor construction.
We apologize for any difficulty you may be experiencing with the links to legal documents.
We anticipate the link repair to be completed within the next few weeks.
Thank you for your patience.
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