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Jerry Weinstock, M.D., Psychiatry, retired (sometimes), replied, mostly, to the terrible automobile fatality part of yesterday’s poop of the day (news litter) – goodmorningkeywest.com post at goodmorningkeywest.com:
Sloan:—Wow—Too much to respond to immediately. First as an organic chemist —before Med school—(wrote a text book)( 2 vol)
none of my patients were allowed to take generic bezos —-generics and brand are 2 (TWO) different substances;
(second in practice for over 40 years)— NO one was allowed to get dependent and addicted.
I had NOT one case of patients that were ” in active therapy” becoming addicted —-sorry a big myth;
addictive personalities GET ADDICTED—that is that story.l; Not in— active treatment another scenario !-
remember Generics could be anything…!!! including rat poison.-seriously I know.
change the subject -terribly sorry about Kari -awful—my sympathy !!
downloading the rest -had 2 emergencies already today.-worn out from other dilemmas also
appreciate you keeping us all up to date -what a task—keep up your fine work—Jerry
I replied:
I can’t imagine the soul trauma in the dentist office of the woman who was killed, I know the dentist and several of his staff. I doubt prescription drugs will help them work through it, and just might prevent them from working through it, by blocking the emotions and perhaps leading to addiction to the chemical.
Not clear what you mean by “sorry, a big myth”
My psychiatrist prescribed Xanax for me, because of the awful interference with my sleep being caused by Zoloft and Zyprexa - all brand names. I had already determined, by trying to get off Zoloft and Zyprexa myself, that they were seriously addictive. I was leery, therefore, of the Xanax, took only one half of a dose, one half of one very small tablet, and I was loopy through the following night, so I figured it was seriously addictive and I didn’t take it any more. The white hot sores in my throat and mouth caused by the other two drugs, Zoloft and Zyprexa, also were wonderful.
The woman in the Citizen article read to me like someone in the DTs, with which Kari is quite familiar, has gone through the DTs a number of times. When we talked on the phone today and I told her, briefly, what I had read in the Citizen, she said it sounded like the DTs.
When I tried to stop Zoloft and Zyprexa cold turkey, after about 3 days I was getting really wired in my psyche, like I was coming unglued, like I would start screaming soon, if I didn’t start taking the pills again. It reminded me of what I had heard about heroin withdrawal. All of that reminded me of the woman in the Citizen article, and she may well have been hearing voices, but not from God, nor from angels. I was never told to do anything like that, nowhere even close.
After I had gone through my “residency” in psychiatry, I started saying, and I still feel this way, that no doctor should be allowed to prescribe psychiatric chemical medicine who has not first taken a full course in the drug, at least 6 months, then tried to get off of it.
I found myself thinking today of drunk people getting in cars and driving them and having an accident, and they are not charged for assault with a deadly weapon. Kari’s public defender lawyer got drunk, drove his car on US 1, and then into the mangroves, and he was only charged with DUI, which he then fought very hard, making was looked to me like insane legal arguments. While, of course, Kari was charged with a deadly weapon, an unloaded pistol, with which she could not have hurt anyone, unless she used it as a hammer. She pleaded guilty because her lawyer caused her to feel she had no other option, and she knew he did not know how to try a case - I wonder if he ever tried a case to conclusion, before a jury?
Something else that came to me later today, the horrific report in the Citizen might be a message to the city about its population’s drug dependency, which includes but is not limited by any means to psychiatric drugs. When I was getting to know Kari, she denied that booze is a narcotic; she said AA does not view booze as a narcotic. It is a narcotic, and NA says it is a narcotic. Key West is a den of narcotics addicts, just wander lower Duval Street, especially after dark, or drop into about any bar during the day, and meet them.
Sloan
Jerry wrote:
Sloan;—-Xanax was used by civil service workers that had a phobia of driving bridges-
their offices had been transferred from old town to the Naval Air Station—-
the big dismantling . They didn’t use the med. on weekends or holidays;
That med. saved their jobs and peace of mind..
Other problems mainly phobias Klonopin was used —easy to titrate off of
due to its characteristics of action—-at most 1 mg in 24 hours.
I never prescribed Zoloft and Zyprexa together.-ever.-(-never prescribed anything without careful close follow-up..—long sessions)..—i have a patient now on Zyprexa low dose -saved his soul, marriage and family—-he and his wife -ever grateful….( once daily) ( Klonopin is a once daily dose )
yes the trauma -caused by that accident -had to be horrendous .
I had a similar experience-which I will never forget—aneurysm killed
a long term patient -who had made tremendous progress over many years
SUDDENLY —it still sends paroxysms of chills —in my inner being ;
very difficult -the grief will never end.-more than 25 years ago.
Key West is a den of drugs and alcohol included. -I could go on-but I won’t.
Sorry about your unfortunate experiences —I can fully understand where you are coming from.
A friend gave us lobster last night —prepared at China garden -fantastic
good fish for tonight
My very best wishes to you and Kari ———!! Jerry
I replied this morning:
Morning, Jerry - turned out, a good friend of mine’ wife is a very close friend of the driver, who was trying to withdraw from Zanax. My friend’s wife is wasted over this, which has yanked her friend right out of her life - for my friend’s wife, it’s like a sudden death. What a horrible thing at all levels. Heard last night, the woman driver, now in jail, worked in one of City Commissioner Mark Rossi’s clubs. Rick’s/Durty Harry’s bar complex, it was reported in the Keynoter without mentioning Rossi, whose wife is a psychiatrist. I know there is a time for meds, I have known a number of people who knew they needed meds, despite the side effects. I imagine patients have a different view of their meds than their prescribing doctors. I hope people in Key West are more cautious after this tragedy, about taking narcotics, and about trying to get off them cold turkey. At the very least, they should not be driving motor vehicles under the influence or in detox.
Headed up to KOTS yesterday evening, maybe half hour before sunset. Got off my bicycle at a pedestrian crosswalk near the Taco Bell, and stood there waiting for traffic to stop so I could cross over to the wider bayside promenade, which is a lot easier to navigate than the narrow sidewalk on the Taco Bell side. As I stood there, a KWPD cruiser blew right past me. I tried to figure out a way he didn’t see me, but I couldn’t figure it out, as the sun was behind him, I was in plain view. I gave him the thumbs up as he blew past me, instead of the bird. A woman was standing in the middle of the crosswalk, also trying to get over to the bayside of the promenade. When the traffic stopped, I walked over and passed her and said I had wanted to flip the cop a bird, but I figured he would arrest me and take me to jail, and make up some story about me breaking some law. She chuckled. I waved thanks to the cars which had stopped to let the woman and I cross North Roosevelt.
Lots of bikers were pouring into town then, revving their Harleys. It’s going to be loud in town this week, thousands of bikers revving their Harley’s, which I can’t help comparing to masturbating.
Ciao,
Sloan
P.S. Just got off the phone with Kari; she said, in the alcohol DTs, you are hallucinating and don’t know what’s going on. If the woman driving in car was coming off Xanax cold turkey, and was in her fifth day of it, as the various newspaper reports indicated, she very well could have been hallucinating, hearing voices, and didn’t know what was going on. I said maybe a good lawyer will convince a jury, judge or the state attorney of that; even so, her life probably is wrecked. Kari said a woman inmate said she knew the driver, she was a dancer in the club where she worked. Exotic dancer, I asked? Probably, Kari said. Once an exotic dancer, who told me of her life and work in several Duval Street clubs, said young KW police officers who, off duty, are providing security for the clubs, are trafficking drugs in the clubs.
Sloan note:
I was told by someone yesterday, who might have reason to know, not Jerry Weinstock, that Xanax is prescribed today nilly willy by doctors, who are not psychiatrists. I said, the woman driver’s Xanax addiction was doctor-induced. In medical circles, doctor-induced illness is call iatrogenic disease. I pulled this from the Internet, and toward the end I highlighted in bold italics the warning against suddenly stopping using Xanax.
What is Xanax?
Xanax (alprazolam) is a benzodiazepine (ben-zoe-dye-AZE-eh-peen). Alprazolam affects chemicals in the brain that may become unbalanced and cause anxiety.
Xanax is used to treat anxiety disorders, panic disorders, and anxiety caused by depression.
Xanax may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
Important information
You should not use Xanax if you have narrow-angle glaucoma, if you also take itraconazole or ketoconazole, or if you are allergic to Xanax or similar medicines (Valium, Ativan, Tranxene, and others).
Do not use Xanax if you are pregnant. This medicine can cause birth defects or life-threatening withdrawal symptoms in a newborn.
Alprazolam may be habit-forming. Misuse of habit-forming medicine can cause addiction, overdose, or death.
Do not drink alcohol while taking Xanax. This medication can increase the effects of alcohol. Alprazolam may be habit-forming and should be used only by the person for whom it was prescribed. Keep the medication in a secure place where others cannot get to it.
Before taking this medicine
It is dangerous to purchase Xanax on the Internet or from vendors outside the United States. Medications distributed from Internet sales may contain dangerous ingredients, or may not be distributed by a licensed pharmacy. The sale and distribution of Xanax outside the U.S. does not comply with the regulations of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the safe use of this medication.
You should not take Xanax if you have:
- narrow-angle glaucoma;
- if you are also taking itraconazole or ketoconazole; or
- if you are allergic to alprazolam or to other benzodiazepines, such as chlordiazepoxide (Librium), clorazepate (Tranxene), diazepam (Valium), lorazepam (Ativan), or oxazepam (Serax).
To make sure Xanax is safe for you, tell your doctor if you have:
- seizures or epilepsy;
- liver or kidney disease;
- asthma or other breathing disorder;
- open-angle glaucoma;
- kidney or liver disease (especially alcoholic liver disease);
- a history of depression or suicidal thoughts or behavior; or
- a history of drug or alcohol addiction.
Do not use Xanax if you are pregnant. This medicine can cause birth defects. Your baby could also become dependent on the drug. This can cause life-threatening withdrawal symptoms in the baby after it is born. Babies born dependent on habit-forming medicine may need medical treatment for several weeks. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. Use effective birth control to prevent pregnancy while you are taking Xanax.
Alprazolam can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing baby. You should not breast-feed while you are using Xanax.
The sedative effects of Xanax may last longer in older adults. Accidental falls are common in elderly patients who take benzodiazepines. Use caution to avoid falling or accidental injury while you are taking Xanax.
Xanax is not approved for use by anyone younger than 18 years old.
How should I take Xanax?
Take Xanax exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Follow all directions on your prescription label. Never use alprazolam in larger amounts, or for longer than prescribed. Tell your doctor if the medicine seems to stop working as well in treating your symptoms.
Alprazolam may be habit-forming. Never share Xanax with another person, especially someone with a history of drug abuse or addiction. Keep the medication in a place where others cannot get to it.
Misuse of habit-forming medicine can cause addiction, overdose, or death. Selling or giving away this medicine is against the law.
Do not crush, chew, or break a Xanax extended-release tablet. Swallow the tablet whole.
Call your doctor if this medicine seems to stop working as well in treating your panic or anxiety symptoms.
Do not stop using Xanax suddenly, or you could have unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. Ask your doctor how to safely stop using this medicine.
If you use this medicine long-term, you may need frequent medical tests.
Store Xanax at room temperature away from moisture and heat.
Keep track of the amount of medicine used from each new bottle. Xanax is a drug of abuse and you should be aware if anyone is using your medicine improperly or without a prescription.
Based on my dreams last night, the angels still really like the lead article in yesterday’s every Friday online edition of Key West the Newspaper (thebluepaper.com), and the reader comments thereto, which grew a few more hairy legs since I published it yesterday. So here it all is, up to now.
State Attorney Challenges FKAA Chairman’s Right To Vote In Key West Elections
Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority board chairman Robert Dean
by Naja and Arnaud Girard…….
Is the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority taking on water? Two weeks ago an FKAA board member, Melva Wagner, was forced to resign. She had continued receiving benefits and payments as a board member even though she had moved away from her district almost a year ago.
This week it’s FKAA’s Chairman, J Robert Dean, who seems to be walking the plank. “I have reason to believe,” wrote State Attorney Catherine Vogel, after concluding her criminal investigation, “that James Robert Dean is attempting to vote illegally.”
The claim is somewhat more serious than in Ms. Wagner’s case. Dean has been voting in Key West elections, claiming to be a Key West resident. He was also appointed by Governor Bush to represent the Key West district on the FKAA Board of Directors.
In his 2004 application for board appointment he notified the Governor that he had moved to Key West. He also changed his legal residence, on file with the Supervisor of Elections, to a small studio apartment he owns behind his Key West funeral home.
However, Dean and his wife have claimed a Homestead on their home in Key Haven for over thirty years and this week Chairman Dean had to admit to Chief Investigator Chris Weber of the State Attorney’s office that his real home is the one in Key Haven, located outside the City limits.
Chairman Dean may also be unlawfully sitting on the FKAA Board. The Florida Statute that created the Aqueduct Authority requires that each member reside in the district they represent. The districts mirror the five Monroe County Commission districts.
Is there something rotten in the Keys’ sewer and water system?
It is a legitimate question. Monroe County residents pay three times more for water and sewer services than their immediate neighbors in Miami-Dade County. In a one year period those extra dollars could add up to enough to pay for a thirteenth month of rent on an average one-bedroom unit in Key West.
FKAA was created by the Legislature in 1937. It’s not permitted to turn a profit – any excess revenue must roll back into the agency. And FKAA is raising more revenue every year. In 2000 it was collecting $26 million from sales of potable water to approximately 42,000 customers. Today, 2015, its customer base has only increased to about 47,000, but sales are now budgeted at over $47.5 million for potable water [with an additional $3.5 million in wastewater [sewage disposal] revenue].
This is the same water pumped directly from the ground at the same treatment plant in Florida City, named after the 26-year FKAA Board Chairman, Robert Dean. The same water sent through the same pipes all the way down to Key West. The most expensive water in Florida.
It’s easy to find criticism and suspicion about the top-heavy secretive organization.
One upset Citizen wrote to the State Attorney:
“Dean has been milking the system, playing politics too long… Why do certain politicians get homestead removed, pay fines & are removed […], yet others continue in their games and no one does anything about it, not the Governor, not the State Attorneys Office, not the Supervisor of Election, not the FKAA Board, not the Property Apprais[er]. What is going on…”
Another complaint was sent to State Attorney Dennis Ward:
“Can we all do this, live at our place of business in a different district than where we have our homestead? How has this been overlooked so long? Even the state attorneys turned a blind eye when they were sent a letter regarding Robert Dean District vs. Homestead. [Mark Kohl]”
Apparently, over the years, three successive State Attorneys: Mark Kohl, Dennis Ward, and Catherine Vogel were all urged to act on accusations that Robert Dean had misrepresented his legal residence.
It is unclear from the file whether Mark Kohl initiated any investigation. In 2009, Dennis Ward asked Chris Weber to investigate. Weber noted that Dean had a Homestead declared on his Key Haven home and he was obviously not convinced that Dean was living in the 300 SF efficiency on Bahama Street in Key West. A simple check of utility bills for the efficiency would have clearly established that no one was living there. Yet Weber was, apparently, overruled by then Supervisor of Elections, Harry L. Sawyer, who told Weber it was “common knowledge” that Dean was using the efficiency as his residence.
In 2001, Dean was not reappointed to the board. FKAA was going through a defining period. The Aqueduct was just getting jurisdiction over what would be hundreds of millions of dollars in grant funding to sewer the entire Florida Keys. However Governor Bush had chosen Elena Herrera for the Key Haven (Lower Keys) District.
The next opening was the Key West district seat held by John Koenig. In 2004 Dean wrote to Governor Bush claiming that he had moved to Key West, he changed his voter registration address from Key Heaven to 417 Bahama Street in Key West, and he applied for Koenig’s seat. In January 2005 he was appointed to the FKAA board to represent Key West. He was back in the game.
But last week, the issue of Dean’s legal status as the Key West representative on the FKAA Board resurfaced.
This time Chris Weber asked to visit the efficiency. He looked at the empty shelves, at Dean’s Key Haven address on his drivers license and a slew of other public documents. He got Dean to admit that he had likely only slept in the tiny apartment 6 times in the past six months and that, in fact, he primarily lives in Key Haven.
Dean claimed that in 2009 Harry Sawyer had found that he could legally use the Bahama Street efficiency to qualify as a voter in Key West elections. There are no documents establishing that Sawyer made any such determination and he was not questioned during the most recent investigation. Last week when we interviewed Joyce Griffin, who was the assistant to Sawyer at the time, she said, “The only thing we did back then was ask Mr. Dean, ‘Do you live there?’ and he said yes he did, and that’s all we did.”
However, State Attorney Catherine Vogel took Dean’s claim about Sawyer at face value,
“The Supervisor of Elections gave the opinion that Mr. Dean was qualified. Mr. Dean has been relying on his analysis and has been voting. Consequently, up to now he has not known that he is an unqualified voter.”
There will be no criminal prosecution. Dean could have faced a charge of voter fraud, a third degree felony carrying a maximum 5-year prison sentence.
Catherine Vogel however did send a notice to Supervisor of Elections Joyce Griffin formally challenging Mr. Dean’s right to vote in Key West elections after she made a finding that he was improperly registered at the Bahama Street address.
Can Robert Dean continue to represent Key West on the FKAA Board? Having Mr. Dean release control of the Board would be the end of an era.
Robert Dean has guided FKAA through some of its most challenging times, installing a new water main and more recently multiple central sewage treatment and disposal systems. The Keys have been fitted with modern infrastructure and FKAA customers are furnished with award-winning potable water. Even during some of the most challenging situations, like after Hurricane Andrew, when the Florida City plant was without electricity for 28 days, water was still flowing clear and safe through the Keys.
Then there are the not so good things. In 1993 a Grand Jury was convened to investigate Dean’s decision to provide free water hook up to his friend Ron Keiter on Crane Boulevard on Sugarloaf Key [some 2000 feet of pipeline including over 1000 feet of 4” main that would have cost him $40,000]. He was also questioned on the decision to provide a highly discounted water mainline to an offshore island owned by the Spottswood family.
The Florida History Department at the Monroe County Library on Fleming Street has a copy of the tongue-lashing report that fell short of bringing criminal charges. There was no proof that money had changed hands in all those backroom deals investigated by the Grand Jury.
The Grand Jury found that Dean had fired then FKAA Executive Director Steve McDaniel, who had squarely refused to bring free hookups to well-to-do customers [McDaniel, Dean claimed, had had an affair with a female FKAA employee, creating a “conflict of interest.”] McDaniel was replaced with Terry Dougherty who immediately brought 2000 feet of 4” water main to the Spottswoods’ island.
The FKAA Board is meeting at 10:00 am on September 25, 2015. Board member Cara Higgins wants the board to address the allegations that Mr. Dean has misrepresented his status as a Key West resident putting into question his eligibility for the Key West seat on the FKAA board of directors.
The FKAA board meeting is open to the public.
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CORRECTION: The original version of this article incorrectly ststed that State Attorney Catherine Vogel had concluded that J Robert Dean may have been unlawfully voting in City of Key West elections since 1980. The records provided show a switch to the Bahama Street address from the Key Haven address in 2004, apporximately one month prior to Mr. Dean’s appointment to the FKAA District 1 (Key West) seat.
See the State Attorneys documents here:
2015-SA-00189-A-K – Inv Report 2009 Inv Report Challenge Voter Residency in Florida – Redacted
2015-SA-00189-A-K – DL Supporting Documents – Redacted
2015-SA-00189-A-K – Property Appraiser Inv Reports 2011 and 2009 – Redacted
Here’s a link to the previous Friday’s blue paper article on Robert Dean, in which Citizen 101 made her debut in the wolves den.
- FKAA Board Chairman Under Criminal Investigation
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Rounding out today’s fun,
Sancho Panza continued our Bernie Sanders for US President conversation reported in yesterday’s poop of the day (news litter) – goodmorningkeywest.com post at goodmorningkeywest.com, ending with mine to Sancho:
I like Bernie Sanders far better than the rest of the wannabes, but he was darn slow, I think, to wake up to the debacle the US invasion of Afghanistan was, is; and I think he’s lost in space if he thinks the Taliban are gone bye bye, and if he thinks he, or any American president, or America, will fix the Palestine problem. As president, I would get America the hell out of that region, and I would stop supporting those countries, including Israel.
Sancho wrote:
Obviously you and I agree… that’s why we could never hold elected office!
I think maybe with the invention of the Internet, the traditional News Media could eventually become irrelevant and people will be able to see “The News” as it happens, real time… no opportunity for spin masters to put lipstick on the proverbial pig! That’s if we don’t destroy ourselves before that… but I am feeling hopeful that “the truth will, one day, set them free”.
Watching the last Republican debacle on CNN, it seem as if half the country is still in the dark ages, looking out for places to pillage and witches to burn in the name of God and Country. What a farce… Donald Trump was the only one with a mischievous glint in his eyes that hints at the banality of it all… he knows because he dips his beak in those fetid waters all day long… he probably is the best President… this country deserves… why not!?
A true lover of wisdom has hands too busy to hold on to anything! He learns by doing and every pebble in the path becomes her teacher! Oink
I replied:
Aw, Sancho, does this mean you won’t write Kari’s and my names on your ballot?
Sancho wrote:
Only if it would make you King and Queen! LOL!
I replied:
Yeah, of course; otherwise, it would be idiotic, having to deal with Congress and the Supreme Court; I’m sure Kari also would much prefer being Queen, than Vice-President. I’ll pass this wonderful news along to her soonest. Mucho gracias, not to be mistaken with mucho grass.
Oink
Kari and moi at Burger King, for breakfast, last spring
I suppose the beatings will continue until morale improves …
Chow maim,
sloanbashinsky@outlook.com
And why is BOB Dean and his $100,000+ crew EXTORTING 3000+ Taxpayers In George Neugents voters district #2 to GIVE UP their Property Rights for installing Turd Griders on Private Property instead of putting them in the Utility Easements provided by Law and where the FKAA has placed their water pipes andmeters and Now are placing For the County the MANDATED sewer infrastructure. Was it to save the $4.8 MILLION to provide traffic bearing lids for those turd grinders like the ones that were provided for the TAXPAYERS who live on Grassy Key. Are the Taxpayers in Grassy Key more Privilrged Taxpayers than the Taxpayers in the Lower Keys?? Possibly They are. Possibly because They also live in the Corporate City of Marathon-the home of 2 Monroe County Comissioners Neugent And Rice(take care of OUR residents and Screw the Lower keys(as usual). Enough is Enough. However the FIX is in The MANDATE MUST be met. Just like Obie Wan said to Luke–Nowhere else will you find a hive of SCUM & VILENY.
About that “award winning water”…..
Yes, it’s hearsay coming from me, but FKAA employees in a position to know told me that the water that wins the taste tests is not what rides in the pipe line for about a week from Florida City, getting additions of chlorine as needed. It is water from the reverse osmosis plant that is then run through an additional carbon filter, they said. That is so in character, which is what makes it especially believable to me. That “pristine” water source that you hear Deputy Executive Director Kerry Shelby rave about in the FKAA radio ads is the same water that Miami-Dade drinks and is treated the same way. If it tastes any better to you here, maybe it’s the addition of ammonia or the depletion of chlorine along the way, which generates known carcinogenic by-products. The water quality tests that you see on the “customer confidence” glossy paper inserts in your water bill are done with freshly treated water, not Key West tap water, and are not always even from the same year. I have strong reason to believe that the current samples are from the reverse osmosis plant rather than the lime softening plant that provides nearly all the water from your faucet.
The “customer confidence” blurb is mandated by DEP, but why does the FKAA brag about its water in radio and newspaper ads? Who are they competing with? What’s with their slogan “Tap water- the best drink in town”? It’s like a circus. It’s all an illusion, sheeple. Pay attention, know there is trickery and deceit, and don’t focus on the smoke screens.
Thanks, Halloween, for another fine trick or treat comment; and, pray tell, what does FKAA, which has a monopoly on tap water, waste ratepayers’ money advertising it? Are they trying to convert people who don’t drink bottled water, instead of tap water? Or who drink cistern water instead of tap water.
I don’t grok State Attorney Catherine Vogel’s logic that Dean didn’t know he was voting illegally, because he had the okay from Supervisor of Elections Harry Sawyer to vote in Key West. Dean knew he didn’t live in Key West, he knew he was not supposed to vote in Key West. Now, he has admitted he did not live in Key West, which he knew all along. I wonder if our friend, Citizen 101, will cuss us wolves out about today’s blue paper thrashing of Dean, now that he has himself admitted he did not, does not, live in Key West? I wonder if Dean is wishing Citizen 101 had held her peace; maybe he’s wondering if some people who read her ravings will wonder if she represents his fanclub? The Crane Blvd and Spottswood island reports certainly are juicy and in keeping with how some people get something other people don’t get. I wonder how the local Democratic Party is weathering this tempest? The Supervisor of Elections Office just now told me on the telephone that Robert Dean, Chairman of FKAA, is registered as a Democrat.
Sloan,
Dean’s voter registration changes from both March 4, 1999 and November 30, 2004 show him as a registered Republican. Is there another voter registration change that we aren’t aware of?
As I wrote in another comment, he changed his party affiliation on March 4, 1999. Perhaps, he was a Democrat before that date?
Colby
Dean was registered to vote at his Key Haven address until just 37 days before he was appointed to the District 3 FKAA seat. He changed his voter registration address to 417 Bahama from 14 W Cypress on November 30, 2004. He was appointed to the FKAA District 3 seat on January 5, 2005. We are really expected to believe that is a coincidence?
Dean and his lawyer have repeatedly stated that he has only voted in Key West elections. That is a blatant lie. There is no other way to put it.
Furthermore, from 1986-2001 Dean was appointed to the FKAA Key Haven seat. Ex-Key West Mayor Kermit Lewin was appointed to the City of Key West seat. Why would he suddenly need to represent a different district when he claims that he has always maintained the same primary residency?
You can see changes he made to his voter registration on pages 16 and 17 of the following pdf file. :
http://thebluepaper.com/-/wp-content/uploads/2015-SA-00189-A-K-Property-Appraiser-Inv-Reports-2011-and-2009-Redacted.pdf
On March 4, 1999, he changed his party affiliation, and on November 30, 2004, he changed his address to 417 Bahamas.
Nice work, Colby!!
Seconded.
Who needs defence lawyer when you have Vogel and Weber? Not Bob Dean or KWPD.
Wow, ” Consequently, up to now, he (Bob Dean) has not known he is an unqualified voter”. Really? And you bought that? That’s the kind of thing I would expect to hear from a defense attorney, not the State Attorney. There will be no criminal prosecution. Why not? As Ms. Vogel said, Dean “may have been voting illegally in Key West since 1980.” And even though he’s been asked about his residence several times (at least), and he has obviously lied about it, it isn’t egregious enough to bring charges against him? I asked before and I’ll ask again, just who the hell is this guy and how has he managed to intimidate so many people in Key West?
Do any of you recall the elections several years ago – It could have been 8-10 years I can not recall – but it came down to a tie vote and they drew straws out of a hat to select a winner! I am not kidding. Another political race about the same time was within ONE vote! You have to wonder if Bob Deans’ one vote changed those elections. And if it did, what about all the decisions and influence some elected official had that should probably not have been sitting on the dais in Key West. WHO REMEMBERS THOSE ELECTIONS AND WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT THAT!?!
About that “award winning water”…..
Yes, it’s hearsay coming from me, but FKAA employees in a position to know and have participated told me that the water that wins those taste tests is not what rides in the pipe line for about a week from Florida City, getting additions of chlorine as needed.They said it is water from the reverse osmosis plant that is then run through an additional charcoal filter.. That is so in character for FKAA, which is what makes it especially believable to me. That “pristine” water source that you hear Deputy Executive Director Kerry Shelby rave about in the FKAA radio ads is the same water that Miami-Dade drinks and is treated the same way. If it tastes any better to you here, maybe it’s the addition of ammonia or the depletion of chlorine along the way, which generates known carcinogenic by-products. The water quality tests that you see on the “customer confidence” glossy paper inserts in your water bill are done with freshly treated water, not Key West tap water, and are not always even from the same year. I have strong reason to believe that the current samples are from the reverse osmosis plant rather than the lime softening plant that provides nearly all the water from your faucet.
The “customer confidence” blurb is mandated by DEP, but why does the FKAA brag about its water in radio and newspaper ads? Who are they competing with? It’s all for public image and most of it is BS. What’s with their slogan “Tap water- the best drink in town”? It’s like a circus. It’s all an illusion, sheeple. Pay attention, know there is trickery and deceit, and ignore the smoke screens and the smoke the blow up yonder..
More shocking news! Such corruption! It appears this board is not interested in serving the public as much as they are there to serve their friends! And there it is the Spottswood name! Doesn’t this family have enough money to pay the fees that any of the rest of us would be charged to their little island without asking for favors
This is disgusting.
This is not the end of this – it is only the beginning.
EVERYONE NEEDS TO SHOW UP to this meeting FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25th at 10am.
They need to understand this is not going away.
Is not too much to expect honesty, actual transparency, wise financial management, and for an agency to treat everyone equally?
We CAN and WILL change this corrupt system.
Stay on it Blue Paper and see you all on Sept 25th!
You have to love KW. The average person goes to jail. An Uber Driver, “Dog Lady” etc.. Others find themselves a vegetable from a taser or dead like Charles Eimers.
Yet the connected others get off. Kathy Smith gets a multi-month paid vacation and 5 day suspension, Police officers who lie under oath get 5 days suspension. I could continue this list for hours.
Now Bob Dean gets a pass because “he didn’t know”? Last I looked the law is the law and ignorance is not a defense.
For all of you “regular folk” out there ask yourself this question: “Is this how I will be treated when I break the law?”. Hell NO!, you will be dragged from your home and family in handcuffs. Only these well connected “bubbas” have a collection of get out of jail free cards. Kind of makes you wonder if “the mob” is running KW.
I have heard it called the “conch mafia”. Maybe our state attorney will grow a pair and a conscience. A FKAA board meeting packed with a mob of irate Florida Keys residents might be fun, even if nothing comes from it. Might be even more fun, if someone brings a few buckets of tar and several pillow cases filled with feathers. Buzzard feathers best. And, to make our sister Citizen 101 feel appreciated, the Halloween citizen mobsters come dressed as wolves bearing sheep skins for the FKAA board members to stick onto their tar and buzzard feathers. Arrrooooo!!!
Someone needs to write a book on Key West. Perhaps it should be called “The Mafia of Key West” or “The Corruption in Paradise” or “Rollover Hemingway”.
Bozewell, did you ever read “Bubba Justice in Key West, Pooping on the People in Paradise”? I heard after it was published and a few copies found their way into the county library system, the bubbas made the library get rid of those copies.http://www.amazon.com/Bubba-Justice-Key-West-Paradise/dp/1886225427.
Meanwhile, I believe the blue paper is doing a pretty fair job writing a serial sequel to “Bubba Justice in Key West”.
Interesting concept, Mafia. Funeral homes?? Instant Creamations?? We’ve all read about two in a coffin possibly in Chicago??? Didn’t Bob go to the U of Ill Navy Pier in the ’60’s??? I’m not suggesting anything. I lived in Chicago, went to U of Ill. Navy Pier in the ’60’s???
I’d sure like to see this information sent to Gov. Scott and big market news media. This is an Election year and there’s nothing like a nice Scandal to spice up the Campaign Retoric. OBTW, mafia, KW, Na,no chance of that happening LOL