[syriacus]

So

• Garcia joined the St. Petersburg Times as a political and Scientology reporter in 1992.
• Garcia and Repper's firm worked on Greer's Circuit Court election in 1992
• Repper has publicly supported Scientology
• The article by Garcia, at the beginning of this thread, supports Greer's decision to kill Terri in a format which mocks a Roman Catholic catechism.

[syriacus]

Garcia attends Scientology events, as a guest, not as a journalist.

I attended the party, as I have on one previous occasion, as a guest and not as a journalist.

I worked with Scientologists when I was the president of the Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation and forged some friendships.

(Some of the officials who attended - including Harrison, Hibbard, Brown, Rice, Jackson and Crist - are former political clients of mine.)

It's a strange position to be in, given that when I was a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times in the early 1990s, Scientology was my beat for about a year. I did regular battle with Scientology's spokesman over what I wrote and whether the stories I pursued were newsworthy or not.