As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, Florida Governor Jeb Bush showed exactly what kind of vindictive, mean-spirited, conscienceless prick he really is, when he responded to Terri Schiavo’s autopsy by asking a state prosecutor to launch a criminal investigation of whether her husband Michael called 911 promptly. This was harassment, pure and simple.
Of course, there was nothing to the allegations, so….
Gov. Jeb Bush has declared an end to the state’s inquiry into Terri Schiavo’s collapse 15 years ago, after Florida’s state attorney said there was no evidence that criminal activity was involved.
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“Based on your conclusions, I will follow your recommendation that the inquiry by the state be closed,” Bush said in a two-sentence letter.
Hmmm. I wonder if the other sentence included an apology for wasting the state attorney’s time on a personal vendetta? I kinda doubt it.
Well, there goes Jeb’s presidential aspirations. I wonder if James Dobson will demand that he be burnt at the stake?
But isn’t it interesting that just like in the election challange, the Republicans had absolutely no facts to support their position, but they kept making it and slandering all in their way despite that. It’s the Republican way.
JDB @1,
It’s funny you say that, because I was tempted to continue on with the post, making that point exactly. There’s a reason why every single judge ruled in favor of Michael Schiavo, and why every single investigation has turned up no evidence of abuse or foul play… the evidence never supported any the charges coming from the right. They lost decisively because they had no case. And as you point out, that’s exactly what happened in the election contest trial.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for an apology from Jeb or any of the other right wing liars. I wish Michael Schiavo could sue each and every one of them for slander. They’ve got it coming. What the hell is wrong with our country that we let scum like this run our government? I can’t believe that many voters can be so stupid … which leads me to believe the voting machines must be rigged.
Oh come-on, we all know the judges were biased and the facts cooked…just like the election, right? Evidence is only good if it suits their side.
Ignorant fools, liars and cowards!
Sacastic I may be….
Talk about Attorney Generals wasting money, I love how you always set yourself up Goldy. Cristine Gregoire wasted how many millions? HA HA HA To funny, maybe it was all those trips to DC on our tax dollars hob-knobbing with the EX-Arkansas Attorney General Slick knob Clinton. I bet he really showed crissy the ropes. LOl
hey Guys, Have you missed me?
420,518 signatures on I-912. I guess you liberals better run down and start checking signatures!
Chardonnay, you are an ignorant fuck. Gregoire won the largest legal settlement in the history of the world, and brought in $4.5 billion from the tobacco settlement for the taxpayers of our state — money that repays the state for decades of Medicaid expenditures for smoking-related illnesses.
When right wing blowhards like Chardonnay seek to milk the $16 million OK Boys Ranch verdict for political gain, they never mention the $4.5 billion settlement Gregoire won. A convenient oversight if there ever was one.
Furthermore, it’s disingenuous at best to claim that Gregoire’s office cost the taxpayers $16 million by missing an appeal deadline. That is almost certainly untrue. The verdict for $16 million was against DSHS in favor of 3 plaintiffs who were sexually abused while wards of the OK Boys Ranch, a state-supervised group home. The facts of the case are egregious: The abuse was committed by staff members, and DSHS was aware of it but did nothing for over two years. DSHS’s liability was clear-cut, and the appeal would only have asked for a reduction in the judgment amount. Whether higher courts would have granted any reduction is highly speculative, especially given the egregious facts of the case.
Furthermore, missing the appeal deadline was not a personal mistake by Gregoire. The mistake was made by a staff lawyer two or three layers of management down the ladder. Gregoire supervised the state’s largest law office (nearly 500 lawyers) that handles thousands of cases a year. It’s ridiculous to insinuate that she could be personally aware of the status of each and every case. That’s why the AG’s office has deputy AGs, section chiefs, and supervising attorneys. During the 12 years Gregoire was AG, her office compiled an exemplary record. Nobody is perfect; mistakes occur in all organizations of that size. Nearly all of this state’s large corporate law firms have blown major cases and paid large malpractice settlements; shit happens to the best of us.
To try to make political hay out of that missed appeal deadline is bullshit. Bullshit, nothing more. So stuff it up your ass, Chards.
Arctic Char: Neo-con rhetoric and argument is meant only to incite and motivate the brainless “base” you depend upon for your political survival. There is no rhyme or reason for you to repeat it here as it only serves to simultaneously bore and aggravate . So…..go away….
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Pbj, how hard is it to get people to vote against taxes? A lot easier than doing something constructive about our state’s transportation problems. I don’t want to pay 9 1/2 cents higher gas taxes either. It won’t surprise me a bit if I-912 makes it on the ballot and is passed by the voters, but where will that leave us in terms of the Viaduct and 520 bridge? What I have said all along is that if the rest of the state doesn’t want to pay a penny for King County infrastructure, then King County should stop exporting $125 million a year of gas tax revenue to other counties and spend that money in King County. If I-912 passes, the Legislature should redirect existing gas tax money to Seattle’s problems and tell the rest of the state — which has been subsidized by King County motorists for years — to go fuck themselves. If you don’t want to pay gas taxes, fine, you can drive on dirt roads but stop taking money from Seattle drivers, you fucking freeloaders. What goes around, comes around.
I got no bone to pick on the Schiavo issue, I jsut wondered what you make of this report:
http://www.theempirejournal.co.....ation.html
Honestly curious.
That’s not a “report,” it’s an obviously biased editorial comment that states as follows:
“In a medical analysis of laboratory reports in the Schiavo case, prepared by several medical professionals, the general conclusion is that the blood chemistry of the brain damaged woman showed lactic acidosis.
“There are several causes for this but the one of interest is extreme exertion during anoxia, like fighting to breathe while a personwas on her back, pinning her down and cutting off her oxygen by one means or another …”
What you have here is an editorialist suggesting the cause of death was strangulation. Yet by his own admission, there are “several causes” for the blood results, so his comments are nothing but unsupported speculation.
If you’re an objective and rational person, who’s word will you rely on, the official conclusions of the medical examiner, or some unnamed “nurse” cited in an obviously biased editorial comment written by a partisan with an axe to grind?
pbj: You mean, you convinced a bunch of people to vote against taxing themselves at the gas pump? How brilliant and helpful of you! Would you want to tackle an initiative to punish Boeing for giving military secrets to the Chinese? Secret technology that was developed at taxpayer expense and given to Boeing to help this “private” business to survive— or is this all getting a little too complicated for you?
Is the management at Boeing traitorous and un-American? Obviously, they are. Where is your patriotic outcry? I won’t hold my breath waiting for it.
I can’t wait to see pbj walking to work on a cow path, har har. These right wingers living in the 19th century aren’t all bad. If we eliminate government and taxes, pretty soon there will be no cars or asphalt, and nature will reclaim our once-beautiful state. Humans will be a dim memory, and the bald eagles and salmon will be happy again.
Roger,
I guess my comment would be that if there is a possibility raised, it isnt necessarily vindictive to investigate it.
I would rather see an investigation that finds nothing then a lack of one that leaves possibilities open.
Having said that, I hope its over.
DR Q,
If Boeing, a former employer of mine btw, broke the law, then the government should investigate.
What that has to do with I-912 is beyond me.
The fact that people were incensed enough to gather, with no professional signature gathering companies, over 400k signatures in less then 30 days whould be a victory for the peoples rights to check and balance their government.
The second half of the equation comes in November. Let the people decide.
In my opinion though, it will be for naught. As the Mariner Stadium shows, when the people say no, the State finds a way to say yes anyway.
karl
When asked about her son-in-law during the 1992 malpractice trial, Mary Schindler testified:
“He’s there every day. She (Terri) does not want for anything. He is loving, caring. I don’t know of any young boy that would be as attentive. He is … he’s just unbelievable, and I know without him there is no way I would have survived this.”
Visit http://www.thebscorner.com tomorrow for full story.
Oh yea, one more thing from the results of the State Attorney’s inquiry report on Schiavo.
Additionally, we could discern no rational motivation for attacking one’s spouse allowing her to linger near death for forty minutes or more and then calling for help in sufficient time to save her life so she could potentially name her assailant.
Enough said. . .
Damnaged D….once again, another idiotic neo con troll with no facts to back up anything you say
You talk so sexy. I just know that you are a switch hitter. What with all your gung ho talk of the armed forces. How many armed forces made you in your time?
CI @18,
What, you hate DamnageD when it suits you? DamnageD has been a reliable lefty since he first began posting. Perhaps you lack the proper litmus test to make that determination (kool-aid doesn’t cut it).
Perhaps you were unable to decipher his spelling:
Sacastic I may be….
Need any help with that?
re 15: The government is finished investigating and is prosecuting. Don’t you read a newspaper?
He was perfectly justified in looking into this. Michael Schiavo’s story changed when asked what happened after her ‘collapse’. No one seems to have much nice to say about him who knows anything.
RE 15: It has to do with tax money and enriching private concerns like Boeing with developments made at taxpayer expense and then GIVING these military secrets to COMMUNIST enemies so they can make a buck selling a few fucking airplanes at the possible safety of US citizens by GIVING AWAY state secrets. Well , I guess it is a little harder to grasp than a tax at the gas pumps to fix potholes. Congrats on your brilliant success in “helping” our state.
re: 22 (Comment by x— )
You need to do your research before you make that claim. Remember it was THE TIME GAP not if Michael is a nice guy.
Who first brought up the time gap charge. . . Terri’s folks.
From the State Attorney’s inquiry report:
They [Schindler’s] had previously provided our office a timeline indicating that they were called as early as 3-4 a.m. but recently told Thogmartin they could not recall the time. Similarly, Terri’s brother, Bobby Schindler, told Dr. Thogmartin he could not remember the time that he was called or initially arrived at the Schiavo residence except in relation to the arrival of the paramedics.
ALSO read #16 above.
7,8,12,13, 15, etc…
You let them change the subject so easily.
My take: The Carlisle (sp?) Group finally found a competant advisor for Jeb who promptly told him to shut the fuck up about Schiavo. There are also more than a few businessmen in the US of Texas who realize that it is a loser issue for them and is best never mentioned again. Oh, and wait for something like a terrorist attack, hurricane, whatever, to issue the de facto mea culpa.
CandrewB @25
There are also more than a few businessmen in the US of Texas who realize that it is a loser issue for them and is best never mentioned again
You talking about me?…
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When a governor orders a fishing investigation based on a preconceived assumption about a person’s guilt for the purpose of “getting” that person, it’s vindictive — and morally wrong.
The donks can scream all they want about Jeb… in the end no one really gives a shit! I am telling you the republicans can still get some traction from this issue come 2006. All they have to do is play the parents as the victims(which is the truth by the way) and pull at the religous rights heart strings. The religous right is the biggest most untapped voting block in the US. No one will care how the other side spins it since Terri endining up dying. In short this in a winning issue for the republicans only. The democrats have nothing to gain.
RUFUS @ 28
“I am telling you the republicans can still get some traction from this issue come 2006.”
Stand proud, young man, and bask in the pride of your brilliant plot for just how the religious right can milk the ashes of Terry Schaivo!
You have a bright future as a political strategist.
Oh. . . and I hear the White House has an imminent vacancy for just that job.
The religous right is the biggest most untapped voting block in the US
it also has the lowest IQ
chardonnay @
“hey Guys, Have you missed me?”
Gosh, chard, some of those guyz were sure mean to you. Not a nice welcome back message. So, let me be the first to say, WELCOME BACK, chardonnay!
We sure did miss you.
Every village needs its idiot. . . and all that!
Reply to DR Q @ 21.
Just as i said, when the investigation is made, and is closed with no evidence of wrongdoing, then the matter ought to be closed. Jeb did the right thing by investigating allegations, and then in closing when they turned up empty.
had he pursued it further, I would have spole against it.
RE: DR Q @ 23– I already admitted that if Boeing was naughty they should be prosecuted. If you wanna poke your accusations at the legislature and Gary Locke for the way they kiss Boeings corporate butt, or Microsoft or any other corporate concern, then I am all for that. They have a responsibility to maintain a productive relationship to encourage businesses, but they go too far some times.
As to my “grasping”, try making your point for its effectiveness next time, instead of trying to bait me with a tangent.
RE: Roger @ 27– The same could be said about a criminal investigation anytime it is based on an accusation from a party with a hidden motive. It happens all the time. Yet the law requires it be vetted and determined to be valid or not.
As I see it, and I have studiously avoided saying anything else about the Schaivo case here, an accusation was made, investigated and closed. It was a victory for Schaivo that should put to rest the accusations.
My posting that link was to get feedback on the fact that it *ins’t* going to stop, and see how people felt about it.
I personally and glad it’s over and want to get on with life that doesnt have them on the frontpage every day.
If you have a problem with that, oh well. I don’t see why though, it isn’t like I am taking the Schindler’s side.
you guys are so eager for her to be killed. amazing
RogerRabbit@7:
Furthermore, missing the appeal deadline was not a personal mistake by Gregoire. The mistake was made by a staff lawyer two or three layers of management down the ladder. Gregoire supervised the state’s largest law office (nearly 500 lawyers) that handles thousands of cases a year.
Nice try. In the real world, as opposed to the land of make-believe that is state government, you blow an appeal deadline like that, you probably get disbarred. Gregoire was counsel of record, and as such she was responsible to know what was what with the case. This is especially true in light of the fact that the judgment almost certainly would have been reduced on appeal. And I like your use of the Enron Logic to save Gregoire: “But gosh, it’s a big org, and I just didn’t know!” News Flash: It was her JOB to KNOW! It was what we taxpayers paid her the big bucks to know! More to the point is how you give her full credit for the tobacco settlement, but no responsibility for blowing a $17.8 million appeal. Presumably some of those section chiefs, assistant section chiefs, assistant assistant section chiefs, the senior assistant in charge of assistants, ad nauseam, played some role in the tobacco shakedown, erm, settlement. But no, you give Gregoire full credit. Doesn’t work that way.
Does so work that way, Penispain, because we said so and made it stick. So, go clean your soiled undies and have a good cry!
The religous right is the biggest most untapped voting block in the US
it also has the lowest IQ
At least we republicans can count. We also know what is is.
Marks @ 20
Thanks for the pump…and spell check!
At least SOMEBODY can see saRcasm!
CynicalIdiot@ 18
Since we already have a “Cynical” on this blog…and your lack of basic reading skills indicates, you should just stick with the “Idiot” handle. It fits.