Category: April

There is one more part. KW people who do not hold Mayor Cates and the six city commissioners responsible for what happened to Charles Eimers last Thanksgiving Day themselves are responsible, as accomplices. Responsible in God’s Court, where all of Key West, except its homeless people, stands trial for what happened to Charles Eimers. That’s a wee bit bigger matter than where to put a new homeless shelter.

What’s the consensus, should I plant some sod to green it up or will I regret the extra maintenance?

“The real director of life is accident” Wrong! there is no such thing as accident, there is only lack of forethought, logical planning, and common sense. What we call Accidents are nothing more than stupidity one way or another! EX: He was kill in the war because the bomb exploded on him by accident.

“What happens to the rest of our brain we don’t use”  Well, here in the Keys, we rum soak it or use other methods to scare off the demons and depression. It’s called happy hour!

Basically, Crist has fed at the public taxpayer trough for nearly all of his career. He’s been a Florida Senator who served without any real accomplishments. He was appointed Education Commissioner where he served for only two years. He was Florida’s Attorney General, but only half way through that gig, he began to focus his attention on being elected Florida’s governor.

While still Attorney General, but campaigning to be Florida’s governor in 2006 he was interviewed by the Palm Beach Post. He had been bragging about his service as our Education Commissioner. But, he screwed the pooch when the told the interviewer that he didn’t know what time of year the FCAT was administered, nor did he even know what a passing score was. Then he waffled on strict education standards. He was widely ridiculed.

Charlie’s decision to focus his attention on his run for Governor during the last two years of his service as Attorney General was a forecast of things to come.

Charlie was sworn in as Florida’s Governor in January of 2007. Florida was one of the first states to feel the effect of a national recession with job losses starting in April 2007, several months before other states. When the national recovery began in June 2009, Florida was slow to join in and for several years lagged behind the pace of the U.S. economic recovery.

Florida suffered more foreclosures than any other state.

Even though Florida was wracked with unemployment well above the national average, our rate tripled under Charlie,  and a 6 billion dollar deficit, Charlie decided to call it quits and run for Senate only a little more than 2 years into his 4 year term.

Then Crist confidant Jim Greer (now convicted felon) was asked why Crist was bailing out on the governor’s office. Greer replied: “he has concluded that the problems and issues that Floridians are facing — high unemployment and the economy — can’t be solved in Tallahassee, they need to be solved in Washington, and I believe that’s what he’s going to do.” Link

Deer Friends, that is just incredible. Only 2 years into his term, Crist says that he can’t do a damned thing about our economy, so he quit trying and began running for the Senate. It is astonishing that Crist would admit that there was nothing he could do to help Florida.

Maybe after two years, Charlie was engaging in a little retrospection. Then we were hemorrhaging jobs. By the end of his term Florida lost 850,000 jobs. During Charlie’s tenure our unemployment from skyrocket from 3.5% to 11.1%. Deer Friends that’s more than tripled, and well more than the national average..

It’s astounding, but Charlie actually thought that raising taxes would improve our economy. He raised taxes and fees by about $2 billion, then to rub salt into the wound, he refused to commit to no further increases. Nonetheless, Florida’s deficit exploded to about $6 billion..

Charlie even signed into law a bill that raised college tuition by up to 15%.

And so, just over two years into his 4 year term, Charlie turned his back on Florida and began his run for US Senate. It wasn’t his first try, back in ’98 he ran against Bob Graham, Charlie got his butt kicked. But he still yearned for the seat. Marco Rubio had also declared his intention to run for the US Senate in ’09.. Charlie saw Marco Rubio, a relative political newbie, as an easy mark. In fact not long after Charlie declared, he led the polls by more than 40 points.

Somehow, perhaps because of an informed electorate, Charlie tanked in polls, so badly that he decided to abandon the Republican Party and run as an Independent. You should know that on national TV Charlie promised all of Florida that he would not run as an Independent. But he did, and  Charlie again got his butt kicked.

Now Charlie, still chasing the golden fleece of a government job has quit being an independent (do you see a pattern there?), and has joined the Democrat party in his quest to be Governor again.  Charlie perhaps should be known as the Chicken of the Sea, he absolutely refuses to debate his Democrat rival, Nan Rich.

Charlie has told us that Florida is incapable of fixing it’s own economy, and he’s told us that he can’t fix it. We know that that because Charlie told us. But still Charlie wants to be governor.

Thanks to Rick Scott’s governance, Florida is in a much better place today than when Charlie was at the helm. Now we have gone from Crist’s huge budget deficit to a budget surpluses of about $1.2 billion. Now we are enjoying lower taxes, our auto tag fees have just been reduced. Our Teachers are getting raises, Scott has managed to convince most of Florida’s colleges to provide a B.A. degree for only $10k tuition.

The SunSentinel reported just a couple of days ago that Florida’s economy in 2014 is leading the nation in job growth and the overall recovery. In South Florida, employment is expected to grow 2.3 percent each year and unemployment to moderate to an average of 5.7 percent. The average annual wage is forecast to grow by 2.9 percent to $55,200.

Charlie knows how to campaign, look pretty, give speeches, press flesh, but his record proves that he doesn’t know a damned thing about being a Governor. On the other hand, he does know a lot about running away from responsibility. Link