I have lived in Florida all my life. In all my years I've never heard so many people say they have to move because they can't afford to live here anymore. Our property taxes went up from $1200 a few years ago to $3000 last year and now $5000, for the year. Our homeowners insurance have also gone up to $5000 for the year.
Things have sucked in Florida since Jeb Bush took office. They have really gotten bad with his brother in the White House.
Here are a few articles about Charlie Crist. My vote is for Davis/Jones. I no longer trust anyone with an R at the end of their names.
May peace be inside all of us,
Cindy
What Floridians should know about Charlie Crist
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
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WMR) WMR's intrepid sources in Florida report on some details about GOP gubernatorial candidate and current Attorney General Charlie Crist, or should we say Charlie Christodoulos. Crist's father, Charlie, Sr., legally shortened the family's name in 1949, according to court records in Pinellas County, Florida. The elder Crist's father emigrated from Cyprus to the United States in 1912. We have also discovered a bit more about Crist's personal details, much of which have been obscured because of Crist's status as a "law enforcement officer." Under post-Patriot Act laws, personal details on law enforcement officers are blocked by special statutes. WMR received the following article Friday from George Maurer, a Key West Florida radio talk show host. This article contains information that every Florida voter should know before casting their ballot before or on November 7. "At the outset of this message, let me first get something off my chest. I'm a gay man who, never since I realized same more than 30 years ago, has ever denied same, and who served 30 years in the Army/Army Reserve. About Florida congressperson Mark Foley, I've found these past few days particularly troubling, especially so as I'm a progressive Democrat and very troubled about the HYPOCRISY of many of our Republican opposition. Starting at the top, we have AWOL George W. Bush who constantly gives TV speeches in front of and with a picture background of military audiences. AWOL George's only military background was a 6-year obligation with the Texas Air National Guard which he used to get a deferment from going to Vietnam, and from which obligation he was Absent Without Leave (AWOL) for the last couple of years of his tour. This same hypocrite has taken us to mammoth, unjustified, unpaid, prolonged war, killing hundreds of thousands of people. In the last couple of days, he and his hypocritical colleagues have enacted a military detainee bill which broadly defines "enemy combatants" and makes any US citizen or resident subject to same, without right of habeas corpus review, review only by an "enemy combatant review tribunal." They have voted to pay for and construct a 300-mile fence between the US-Mexico 3,000 mile border. Now we have Mark Foley. As an adult, I've never fooled around with underage males, let alone those over whom I've had some degree of power. Now, even the most staunch of Republicans must know about Florida congressperson Mark Foley. But what about Charlie Crist (Jr?), Florida's Republican candidate for Governor? The following appears in the online material of the Insurance Journal, as a 9/16/06 posting of Beverly S. Hill of Tallahassee, Florida: Charles Crist is an 'In The Closet Homosexual.' The fact that he is GAY means nothing. The fact that he is IN THE CLOSET and represents a party that hates GAYS means everything. This kind of hypocrisy is grotesque and cannot be tolerated. I hope we can all help Charlie 'COME OUT' before the election.' Let's take a look at Crist's biography. This perpetually tan (at least from the neck up), handsome, 50-year old bachelor was born on June 24, 1956 in Altoona, PA.. Half Greek origin, half Scots-Irish, his Greek dad, Charles Crist, Sr., M.D., changed the family name in 1949, from Christodoulos, dropping the 'h' and the 'doulos.' The second oldest of four children and the only son, the family moved to Atlanta when young Charlie was 6 weeks old, and where his dad went to medical school. In 1960, then Dr. Crist got a job at Bayfront Medical Center and the family moved to St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1966, Dr. Crist won election to the Pinellas County School Board. From 1970-74, presumably, Charlie attended St. Petersburg High School where his dad was football team doctor, and where Crist was said to have played quarterback until 'his playing career was cut short by a knee injury his senior year.' At the Crist home on Snell Isle, Charlie was said to play catch with the boy next door, Felix Fudge, who 'was four years younger.' Apparently, in the fall of 1974, Charlie decided to go to Wake Forest University in North Carolina, because, despite his high school knee injury, he, according to an 8/27/06 St. Petersburg Times' news article, 'hoped to extend his football career at a small university. . . . *** (B)ut he was a walk-on, a bench warmer who played in junior varsity games but never took a snap in a varsity contest.' Of course, Crist's official state bio merely says he "attended Wake Forest University, where he played quarterback. . . ." Now unlike AWOL George W. Bush, there's not a word anywhere that I've seen about Charlie's draft status in 1975 as the war was ending in Vietnam, and the draft as well, and no indication that he served a single day in the military. 'After his sophomore year at Wake Forest, a homesick Crist gave up on football and *** decided to transfer to Florida State University,' presumably in the fall of 1976. After graduating from FSU in June, 1978 (?), Crist apparently, in the fall of 1978, entered Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. In the summer of 1979, Crist, while attending law school in Alabama, entered his one and only brief marriage to a woman, Amanda Morrow. During the 1979 holiday season, Crist's sister Catherine Kennedy said his 'head was down and his shoulders were slumped.' Crist was the one who filed for divorce only some six months after the marriage and it was dissolved on 2/15/80. 'Like Crist, Morrow did not marry again.' In the Miami Herald 8/24/06 commentary 'Naked Politics", 'Bruce' posted 'What's this about Charlie's ex-wife, Amanda Morrow, being a lesbian? Does the press know that she has lived with her partner for years? Is this why Charlie's marriage failed? Is this why Mr. Crist is for Civil Union for gays? Does this mean that their marriage was a sham?' Presumably, Crist graduated from the Alabama law school in June 1981. Crist's reported chronology from 1981 until his 1992 election to the state senate is inexact at best. As far as I can glean it, he twice failed the bar exam before passing it on the third try. While struggling with the bar exam, he apparently 'interned' with the State Attorney's Office (in Pinellas?). (It helps to have a Republican medical doctor daddy.) Presumably in 1982, he got a five-year job as 'general counsel' for the St. Petersburg-based National Association of Professional Baseball Players, the 'controlling body' for minor-league baseball in the US, Canada, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Given time off for various months at end during the 5 years, he unsuccessfully ran for the state senate in 1986. Then, supposedly in 1987, he joined his brother-in-law's, J. Emery Wood's, one-man law firm. In 1988, Connie Mack won US Senate election, and Crist worked for a year as Mack's state director. He returned, for a couple of years apparently, to his brother-in-law's law practice, and Charlie was then elected himself to the state senate in 1992 where he served for four years until 1996. In 1997, who knows what he did? In 1998, Crist ran unsuccessfully for US Senate against Bob Graham. In 1999, Jeb Bush appointed him Deputy Director for the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation and he then won election as Florida Education Commissioner where he served from January 2001 to January 2003. From January 2003 to date, Crist won election and has served as Florida's Attorney General. One might sarcastically suggest that a person with an undistinguished academic career, an almost non-existent private sector career, who's tan, handsome and articulate and has a fairly rich Republican daddy, certainly deserves to be on the public dole as Florida's Education Commissioner and Attorney General. Now, of course, Crist is the Republican nominee to be Florida Governor. One should note that, while Education Commissioner in 2001, Crist was reported as condemning a play with a gay theme that 'offended Christians' (see May 2001 newsletter, TransFamily.). For the past year, as Crist's quest to be governor developed, Charlie has supposedly been 'dating' Kathryn 'Katie' Pemble, executive vice-president of the Bank of St. Petersburg. Pemble is 41 years of age, divorced, and has a 7-year old daughter. As to possible marriage with Pemble, Crist says 'I haven't thought about it.' In mid-September, 2006, 'millionaire Reform Party gubernatorial candidate Max Linn ' . . . 'insist(ed) that Charlie Crist is gay" . . . 'on Orlando radio station WFLA-AM 540' . . . to talk show 'host Bud Hedlinger. . . . ' Linn said 'he would 'put my hand on a stack of Bibles' to say Crist is gay.' His sexual preference is not to women. . . . '(See Gadfly in governor's race may have a sharp stinger.) As to Crist's being gay, 'Linn claimed to know this because he and Crist were in the same 1985 class of Leadership St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce program. 'We discussed it,' Linn said. Linn . . . said if Crist were to win, he would be subject to extortion and blackmail. In the next breath, Linn said he would avoid mudslinging but that Crist's personal life is a special case because it's about integrity." WMR has also learned that Crist's fraternity brother at Florida State was Brent Sembler, son of major Bush and Crist financial backer Mel Sembler. Sembler, who served as George W. Bush's ambassador to Italy and Daddy Bush's ambassador to Australia, was the brains behind the founding of SEED, Straight, Inc. and the Drug Free American Foundation (DFAF). Straight and SEED have been accused of abusing teens undergoing drug rehabilitation, including subjecting teens to brainwashing techniques. And what doctor served on the advisory board of SEED and approved of such techniques that subjected underage teens to brainwashing? None other than Dr. Charlie Crist, Sr., the father of the man who seeks to replace Jeb Bush and Governor of Florida. And why has Bernie McCabe, the State Attorney for Pinellas County, never brought charges against SEED, Straight, and DFAF for child abuse? It might have something to do with the fact that McCabe is a campaign contributor to Charlie Crist. It is clear that Crist's candidacy is an attempt to continue the Bush "banana republic" regime in Florida. And that spells big trouble for Democrats in the 2008 presidential election. After all, we should all remember what Jeb Bush and his hand-picked Secretary of State Katherine Harris pulled off in 2000.****************************************
AG Charlie Crist should remove himself from the investigation of Mark Foley.
AG Charlie Crist should remove himself from the investigation of Mark Foley. Were Crist and Foley really roommates? Were they working together in a coordinated campaign? We need an independent prosecutor to eliminate any appearance of bias. Conservatives are asking the speaker to resign because he kept quiet, allowing Foley to continue looking for more victims. In his letter to House Speaker Dennis Hastert Jeb Bush says nothing of the cover-up by Hastert. I understand that personal information about Foley’s victim was published on the web. These children need to be protected from further harm. A guarantee of privacy is needed to get them to come forward and testify. UPDATE: Crist has told the press that he was not a roommate of Foley.************************************
Commentary - Charlie Crist-Out of Closet On Schiavo 
Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist, a Republican candidate for governor, seems to have a lot to say now about the Terri Schiavo case.
Where was he last March when he should have performing the duties of his office?
Answer: Hiding because he didn't want any fallout for the case to descend upon his political future until he could be certain which way the winds and polls were blowing in the Schiavo case.
Last week, during an appearance at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach, Crist said that Gov. Jeb Bush shouldn't have gotten involved in the Schiavo case. Strange position for the Attorney General to take, saying that Gov. Bush shouldn't have made at least the appearance of performing the duties of his office. Bush was statutorily and constitutionally empowered to take the incapacitated woman into protective custody and although he obviously didn't have any real intent to do so because he stupidly called a news conference to announce it, at least be gave the appearance he was trying to do something. That's more than Crist did.
If Crist should unfortunately be elected Governor, when there's a controversial decision to be made, instead of making it, will Crist run and hide in the closet again?
Crist said that government shouldn't be involved in end-of-life decisions. However, Mr. Crist, government---and in particular the attorney general---should be involved in protecting the rights of vulnerable adults and in investigating Medicaid fraud. If you can't perform the duties of as Attorney General, why would the people of Florida ever want you to be their Governor if you only take action if you feel it's politically correct?
As attorney general, Crist is constitutionally charged with protecting the civil rights and liberties of the state's citizens but he did nothing to protect the rights and liberties of Terri Schiavo. He stood idly by and let her be dehydrated to death.
"There are some decisions that ought to be left to God and family", Crist was quoted as saying last week. "Had I been governor, I would not have done the same thing". Good thing you weren't Governor then, and if the voters are smart, you won't be Governor in the future.
Crist consistently stayed out of the Schiavo case although he should have been front and center in the protection of her civil rights. Less than four months after she died a horrific death, Crist had the audacity to call the judges in the Schiavo case "heroes", breaking his silence, saying that he was proud of Pinellas County Court Judge George Greer and U.S. District Court Judge James Whittemore. While he claimed he wasn't endorsing the court rulings against reconnecting Terri's feeding tube which led to her death, others didn't see it that way.
At least Crist's opponent Tom Gallagher had enough courage to take a position, saying that he favored government action to "prevent Terri's starvation". Gallagher said last week that "these kinds of end-of-life matters do not belong in government. But when these kinds of situations come in front of me, I would always err on the side of life. I think that's what you must do when you don't know anything else".
Better than hiding like Crist did while Congress, Gov. Bush, President Bush and the Vatican became involved in the case, pressing to keep Terri Schindler Schiavo alive after Greer and state and federal courts ordered her death because her heavily conflicted husband in name only, Michael Schiavo, said she wouldn't want to be kept alive by a feeding tube. Terri Schiavo sustained incapacitating brain damage in 1990 in still unexplained circumstances. Michael Schiavo said she was in a persistent vegetative state with no chance for recovery, a position her parents disputed. Terri left no living will and her parents said she never would have chosen to die in the matter prescribed for her by the courts and her husband. She died of dehydration on March 31, 2005, 13 days after her feeding tube had been removed.
Crist maintains that he's pro-life.
But you'd never know it. Crist is flip-flopping again.
Last spring Crist said that Gov. Bush wanted to take the lead in the Schiavo case and that the Attorney General's office supported those efforts.
"I don't need to lead where he's (Gov. Bush) is already leading", Crist had said, trying to excuse why he wasn't doing his job. In 1998, in his failed attempt to be U.S. senator, Crist said he was pro-choice.
But now that he's announced that he wants to be Governor, Crist changed his tune and says he's pro-life.
Crist seems to flip-flop a lot on critical issues.
"You try to encourage a culture that respects life but understand that some decisions are up to God and family", Crist says.
And that would include the decision of Mary and Robert Schindler Sr. that their daughter wants to live that they should be the ones caring for her. Michael wasn't "family". He was a husband in name only and a guardian by false application.
The life and death decision should have been made by her family and loved ones, not the mercenary estranged husband and his Hollywood-eyed attorney, George Felos aided and abetted in the judicial homicide by non-partisan Republican good ole boy George Greer.
Crist was and is more afraid concerned for his political future than he was of doing his job. A leopard doesn't change his spots. He'd do the same thing if he were elected Governor, sway whichever way the political wind blew rather than what was best for the people of the state of Floroida.
Charlie Crist seems to talk out of both sides of his mouth. Floridians need a person of good moral character and integrity to lead their state as governor. That individual is not Charlie Crist.
He abandoned Terri Schiavo, he hasn't done his job and in fact, he has been caught red-handed in actually impeding justice in the case and lying to the public.
He blatantly told the public in a televised statement that there had been no complaints of abuse made to the state Department of Children and Families (DCF) a week after a DCF file in the matter was acknowledged in the Schiavo case. He lied to the public.
He said there have been no complaints when there is an envelope containing information about alleged abuse in the Schiavo case which was personally handed to him and which was later returned to the complainant without action---but with Charlie Crist's fingerprints. He cannot honestly say that he was not personally made aware of the alleged abuse, neglect and exploitation of Terri Schiavo. And yet he did nothing.
Is this being pro-life? Is this being honest?
Is this the person you would want to be your state's next Governor?
In one of his newsletters to the public as attorney general, Crist said that "one of the greatest features of our system of democracy is the role government can play in protecting private citizens. Florida's government has a number of safeguards built into it, many of them designed to protect consumers for exploitation".
Those safeguards weren't employed to protect Terri.
Crist didn't protect one of the state's most vulnerable adults from exploitation nor did he take any steps to protect her civil rights.
Maybe it's because Charlie Crist simply doesn't know the law and isn't capable of holding the office of attorney general and certainly not the office of governor. After all, it took him three tries to pass the Florida Bar exam and he seems to have a problem with ethics too, coming under scrutiny of the Florida Elections Commission for allegedly using his office of education commissioner to campaign for the position of attorney general.
The investigation of alleged Medicaid fraud is also within the scope of his AG duties, policing what has become Florida's $12 billion per year Medicaid program.
Despite receiving nearly $600,000 in an insurance settlement and some $750,000 earmarked by a jury to provide rehabilitative services to Terri Schiavo, Michael Schiavo asked Judge George Greer to have Medicaid pay Terri's medical bills. And Greer agreed. Thing is, in that Michael refused to divorce her, how could he own any assets such as he claims he co-owned a house with his concubine and claims in his book that they owned a deli business. Did he declare those assets to Medicaid? If he had assets and was capable of paying for her care, why did he apply to Medicaid and why did Greer allow him to do so. How about it Charlie Crist?
Thing is, Terri Schiavo was placed in a hospice by Michael Schiavo and his lawyer, Felos who was chairman of the board of the hospice at the time. In order to be placed in a hospice legally and for Medicaid to foot the bill, there must be a diagnosis of terminal illness by two doctors and the maximum stay is six months. She was in the hospice for five years.
Why didn't Crist investigate this potential Medicaid fraud? Medicaid fraud can take many forms and cost Floridians hundreds of millions of dollars each year, Crist's own website states. So why didn't his office investigate the Schiavo situation? Oh wait, we know----he was waiting to assess which way the wind blew in terms of political fallout and he determined it was politically advantageous to stay out of the Schiavo case.
In addition to investigating fraud committed by health care providers, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of Crist's AG's office also investigates the abuse, neglect and exploitation of the elderly, ill and disabled residents of long term care facilities such as nursing homes, facilities for the mentally and physically disabled and assisted care living facilities.
The investigation of corruption in the administration of the Medicaid program is another important responsibility of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, the AG's website says.
Protecting the rights of Terri Schiavo, of all the disabled, elderly and all residents of the state isn't just Gov. Bush's job, it's that of Charlie Crist.
And he didn't do it..
If he can't do the job of attorney general, why does he think he should be Governor? 4-23-06
Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist, a Republican candidate for governor, seems to have a lot to say now about the Terri Schiavo case.Where was he last March when he should have performing the duties of his office?
Answer: Hiding because he didn't want any fallout for the case to descend upon his political future until he could be certain which way the winds and polls were blowing in the Schiavo case.
Last week, during an appearance at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach, Crist said that Gov. Jeb Bush shouldn't have gotten involved in the Schiavo case. Strange position for the Attorney General to take, saying that Gov. Bush shouldn't have made at least the appearance of performing the duties of his office. Bush was statutorily and constitutionally empowered to take the incapacitated woman into protective custody and although he obviously didn't have any real intent to do so because he stupidly called a news conference to announce it, at least be gave the appearance he was trying to do something. That's more than Crist did.
If Crist should unfortunately be elected Governor, when there's a controversial decision to be made, instead of making it, will Crist run and hide in the closet again?
Crist said that government shouldn't be involved in end-of-life decisions. However, Mr. Crist, government---and in particular the attorney general---should be involved in protecting the rights of vulnerable adults and in investigating Medicaid fraud. If you can't perform the duties of as Attorney General, why would the people of Florida ever want you to be their Governor if you only take action if you feel it's politically correct?
As attorney general, Crist is constitutionally charged with protecting the civil rights and liberties of the state's citizens but he did nothing to protect the rights and liberties of Terri Schiavo. He stood idly by and let her be dehydrated to death.
"There are some decisions that ought to be left to God and family", Crist was quoted as saying last week. "Had I been governor, I would not have done the same thing". Good thing you weren't Governor then, and if the voters are smart, you won't be Governor in the future.
Crist consistently stayed out of the Schiavo case although he should have been front and center in the protection of her civil rights. Less than four months after she died a horrific death, Crist had the audacity to call the judges in the Schiavo case "heroes", breaking his silence, saying that he was proud of Pinellas County Court Judge George Greer and U.S. District Court Judge James Whittemore. While he claimed he wasn't endorsing the court rulings against reconnecting Terri's feeding tube which led to her death, others didn't see it that way.
At least Crist's opponent Tom Gallagher had enough courage to take a position, saying that he favored government action to "prevent Terri's starvation". Gallagher said last week that "these kinds of end-of-life matters do not belong in government. But when these kinds of situations come in front of me, I would always err on the side of life. I think that's what you must do when you don't know anything else".
Better than hiding like Crist did while Congress, Gov. Bush, President Bush and the Vatican became involved in the case, pressing to keep Terri Schindler Schiavo alive after Greer and state and federal courts ordered her death because her heavily conflicted husband in name only, Michael Schiavo, said she wouldn't want to be kept alive by a feeding tube. Terri Schiavo sustained incapacitating brain damage in 1990 in still unexplained circumstances. Michael Schiavo said she was in a persistent vegetative state with no chance for recovery, a position her parents disputed. Terri left no living will and her parents said she never would have chosen to die in the matter prescribed for her by the courts and her husband. She died of dehydration on March 31, 2005, 13 days after her feeding tube had been removed.
Crist maintains that he's pro-life.
But you'd never know it. Crist is flip-flopping again.
Last spring Crist said that Gov. Bush wanted to take the lead in the Schiavo case and that the Attorney General's office supported those efforts.
"I don't need to lead where he's (Gov. Bush) is already leading", Crist had said, trying to excuse why he wasn't doing his job. In 1998, in his failed attempt to be U.S. senator, Crist said he was pro-choice.
But now that he's announced that he wants to be Governor, Crist changed his tune and says he's pro-life.
Crist seems to flip-flop a lot on critical issues.
"You try to encourage a culture that respects life but understand that some decisions are up to God and family", Crist says.
And that would include the decision of Mary and Robert Schindler Sr. that their daughter wants to live that they should be the ones caring for her. Michael wasn't "family". He was a husband in name only and a guardian by false application.
The life and death decision should have been made by her family and loved ones, not the mercenary estranged husband and his Hollywood-eyed attorney, George Felos aided and abetted in the judicial homicide by non-partisan Republican good ole boy George Greer.
Crist was and is more afraid concerned for his political future than he was of doing his job. A leopard doesn't change his spots. He'd do the same thing if he were elected Governor, sway whichever way the political wind blew rather than what was best for the people of the state of Floroida.
Charlie Crist seems to talk out of both sides of his mouth. Floridians need a person of good moral character and integrity to lead their state as governor. That individual is not Charlie Crist.
He abandoned Terri Schiavo, he hasn't done his job and in fact, he has been caught red-handed in actually impeding justice in the case and lying to the public.
He blatantly told the public in a televised statement that there had been no complaints of abuse made to the state Department of Children and Families (DCF) a week after a DCF file in the matter was acknowledged in the Schiavo case. He lied to the public.
He said there have been no complaints when there is an envelope containing information about alleged abuse in the Schiavo case which was personally handed to him and which was later returned to the complainant without action---but with Charlie Crist's fingerprints. He cannot honestly say that he was not personally made aware of the alleged abuse, neglect and exploitation of Terri Schiavo. And yet he did nothing.
Is this being pro-life? Is this being honest?
Is this the person you would want to be your state's next Governor?
In one of his newsletters to the public as attorney general, Crist said that "one of the greatest features of our system of democracy is the role government can play in protecting private citizens. Florida's government has a number of safeguards built into it, many of them designed to protect consumers for exploitation".
Those safeguards weren't employed to protect Terri.
Crist didn't protect one of the state's most vulnerable adults from exploitation nor did he take any steps to protect her civil rights.
Maybe it's because Charlie Crist simply doesn't know the law and isn't capable of holding the office of attorney general and certainly not the office of governor. After all, it took him three tries to pass the Florida Bar exam and he seems to have a problem with ethics too, coming under scrutiny of the Florida Elections Commission for allegedly using his office of education commissioner to campaign for the position of attorney general.
The investigation of alleged Medicaid fraud is also within the scope of his AG duties, policing what has become Florida's $12 billion per year Medicaid program.
Despite receiving nearly $600,000 in an insurance settlement and some $750,000 earmarked by a jury to provide rehabilitative services to Terri Schiavo, Michael Schiavo asked Judge George Greer to have Medicaid pay Terri's medical bills. And Greer agreed. Thing is, in that Michael refused to divorce her, how could he own any assets such as he claims he co-owned a house with his concubine and claims in his book that they owned a deli business. Did he declare those assets to Medicaid? If he had assets and was capable of paying for her care, why did he apply to Medicaid and why did Greer allow him to do so. How about it Charlie Crist?
Thing is, Terri Schiavo was placed in a hospice by Michael Schiavo and his lawyer, Felos who was chairman of the board of the hospice at the time. In order to be placed in a hospice legally and for Medicaid to foot the bill, there must be a diagnosis of terminal illness by two doctors and the maximum stay is six months. She was in the hospice for five years.
Why didn't Crist investigate this potential Medicaid fraud? Medicaid fraud can take many forms and cost Floridians hundreds of millions of dollars each year, Crist's own website states. So why didn't his office investigate the Schiavo situation? Oh wait, we know----he was waiting to assess which way the wind blew in terms of political fallout and he determined it was politically advantageous to stay out of the Schiavo case.
In addition to investigating fraud committed by health care providers, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of Crist's AG's office also investigates the abuse, neglect and exploitation of the elderly, ill and disabled residents of long term care facilities such as nursing homes, facilities for the mentally and physically disabled and assisted care living facilities.
The investigation of corruption in the administration of the Medicaid program is another important responsibility of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, the AG's website says.
Protecting the rights of Terri Schiavo, of all the disabled, elderly and all residents of the state isn't just Gov. Bush's job, it's that of Charlie Crist.
And he didn't do it..
If he can't do the job of attorney general, why does he think he should be Governor? 4-23-06
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