The Julia Tuttle Causeway is the single human rights issue that may end Charlie Crist's political career at the Governor's mansion.
He's in trouble on the sex offender issue and he knows it.
Read on.
Per The Miami Herald, Charlie Crist Weighs in on Sex Offender Laws (BY JULIE KNIPE BROWN AND BETH REINHARD, 7/29/09):
Gov. Charlie Crist, who has kept himself at arm's length in the thorny debate over sex offender residency laws, inched toward a compromise on Wednesday, saying he would help ``facilitate a solution.''
However, he reiterated his position that the state would not overrule local laws -- even if the residency boundaries vary greatly from one municipality to another.
The controversy stems from the legal and political wrangling over a group of sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami-Dade. The squalid camp of 70-plus convicted molesters have few options because residency laws prohibit them from living within certain distances of where children play or go to school.
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Asked Wednesday if local government buffers have gone too far, Crist said: ``Not necessarily. It's up to local government to make those decisions, and I wouldn't want to impose my will on them. I think they're doing what they believe to be responsible in their localities, and I want to be respectful of that.''
His statement came after a Newsweek article spotlighted the camp, and Ron Book, chairman of Miami-Dade's Homeless Trust, railed at the governor for failing to help fix the problem. After meeting with the governor and his staff, he was clearly frustrated.
``I had to walk away. I was annoyed. They don't even have a clue of a solution,'' Book told Newsweek.
LESS ANNOYED
On Wednesday, Book was more conciliatory. He said he called the governor and apologized for his Newsweek comments. The governor, he said, had become more proactive on the issue in recent days.
His staff, Book said, ``Engaged in a dialogue with me as we explore what options there are . . . they recognize this as a problem; we don't have to point fingers.''
RELOCATING
Meanwhile, Book is moving forward with plans to relocate the Causeway dwellers.
He is ready to move eight of them to a private apartment building in South Miami-Dade -- but he said they aren't happy about moving so far south, even though some of them have transportation.
``I concede it doesn't have a lot of mass transit opportunities,'' Book said.
``But you got people with cars, give me a break.''
Who would those people be, Ron? The families you've made certain those under the JT cannot live with because of residency restrictions.
You give ME a break.
Check out what others are saying here.
One more aside.
DO NOT send Charlie Crist to the Senate.
6 comments:
I agree. Charlie Crist is going down in a ball of fire. I just hope that in the usual efforts of falling stars that he tries to take others with him. Most specifically, Mr. Ron Book.
Wouldn't it be fun if he spewed out some juicy stuff on Ron as Charlie was being escorted out?
That would be an interesting situation to watch...
Your Civil Rights are gone!!!
Your Freedom is gone!!!!
These 2 things go hand in hand. We as citizen's of the United States have ONE POWER ONLY and that power is a vote.
Charlie Crist will give your freedom away as quick as a frog can snatch a fly out of the air! You can bet on that!!!!
DON'T ELECT GOV. CRIST TO THE SENATE.
I can show you how we can take America back. Give me 10 minutes of your time to read a web page. CLICK ON MY NAME ABOVE.
We can "take back America" from the politician's. It takes only one thing......A SINGLE VOTE FROM YOU.
CLICK ON MY NAME ABOVE!@!@!@!@!@!
When a house (or a bridge, in this case) is built on the backs of citizens, they'll stand up eventually.
And those "pillars" of the community will come tumbling down.
I think the rats will take each other out. Should be fun to watch.
:)
He can't tell people WHERE to live only (currently) where NOT to live which is why he will NEVER EVER buck the residencty restriction local laws. Miami Beach home to many of our gay friends LOTS AND LOTS OF DINERO and the VERY FIRST place to residency restrict sex offenders and I should say 'sex offenders' out of their nasty city.
Because, how about those HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE FLAGS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS YOU ARE FLYING MY GAY FRIENDS??
Don't let those human rights flags fool you .. those people are nazis. I've passed them and engaged them. some of them almost pass the humanity test BUT NOT REALLY. The others are just out and out nasty. AND, I'm sure a very few are in the mix who have no idea what is going on and accept people because they say they are gay and eventually even pick up the fostered hate because they say they are gay .... I have a neighbor who PRETENDS he is gay if he thinks it offends anyone. Yes, this is a fact.
You would think that gay miami beach would stick up for human rights.
Don't bet a home under a bridge on it, baby.
They're even worse than ron book. THEY VOTED FOR IT.
They allowed it.
At least in Hillsborough County they had ONE PERSON objecting to a law that affected 275 people (at the time)
Masons, nazis and gaynazis.
I'm telling you ... if alex sink is elected if she doesn't fix things IMMEDIATELY and I doubt she will then we will know FOR THE LAST AND FINAL TIME what side her bread is buttered on.
I'm astounded enough by the current stupidity in the white house. They are doing their VERY BEST to make race a national issue and then say .. oh have a beer.
But, of course, the two walk away agreeing to disagree but 'talk more' so now we can have us this 'national dialogue' on race. Okay, because FOR ME the vocal minority who hate each other can stick THAT. Let them have a dialogue with all the mixed marriages and mixed race children whom they are slapping in the face with each one of these ridiculous setups.
Right. That guy's neighbor called 911 and right .. for the record. THE 911 OPERATOR asks for a description. Their schtick is : are they white black or hispanic?
So, here we go.
More carney advertising for the race issue.
It doesn't matter if charles in charge trips himself .. they're all rowing the same boat.
Alex Sink. Former banker. Same as me. Former bankers DO NOT TRUST alex sink no matter how she is floated. Someone better try to get Jim Davis to run again. They found NOTHING on him. Nothing. He would be a VERY good governor.
Alex Sink:
Blind (if I can't see it you can't either and so I'm doing nothing wrong.) Trust. I do NOT trust Alex Sink. She was top dawg at BOA .. boa lent my eighty five year old neighbor eighty thousand dollars on a half million dollar property knowing when he keeled they would get the property....
he keeled seven months later.
That's just a tiny bit of their predatory actions.
Ask any banker ANY ETHICAL BANKER. Alex Sink is NOT to be trusted.
Braking D
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090801/BREAKINGNEWS/90801007/1086/+’Romeo’+gets+pardon+from+Crist++Fla.+Cabinet+
'Romeo' gets pardon from Crist, Fla. Cabinet
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS • August 1, 2009
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet have pardoned a man so he’ll no longer be listed as a sex offender in what’s known as a “Romeo and Juliet” case.
Virgil Frank McCranie of Panama City Beach was 19 and his girlfriend, Misty, was 14 when they first had sex. McCranie, now 34, was arrested because Misty, now his wife, was a minor at the time.
They appeared before Crist and the Cabinet in June to plead for a pardon but the panel did not make a decision until this week, the Palm Beach Post reported Friday.
McCrainie said he kept losing jobs and their four children have been stigmatized. That’s because his name, picture and other personal information appeared on the state’s sex offender Web site.
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