Execution Delayed to Accommodate Political Fundraiser

Wow ...

 

There is no graver responsibility and act of state government than an execution.

In Florida this week, a campaign fundraiser takes precedence.

Attorney General Pam Bondi persuaded Gov. Rick Scott to postpone an execution scheduled for tonight because it conflicted with her re-election kick-off reception.

"What's going on down there? It's ridiculous," said Phyllis Novick, the Ohio mother of one of Marshall Lee Gore's victims, when told Monday about the reason for the delay.

Gore, 50, raped, strangled and stabbed 30-year-old Robyn Novick in 1988 before dumping her body into a Miami-Dade County trash heap. Gore was also sentenced to die for the slaying of 19-year-old Susan Roark, whose body was found a few months later in Columbia County.

After Scott last month rescheduled the execution for Sept. 10, the date of Bondi's "hometown campaign kickoff" at her South Tampa home, Bondi's office asked that it be postponed. The new date is Oct. 1.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/execution-rescheduled-to-accommodate-pam-bondi-fundraiser/2140891

A delay is OK....a stay is not.

She said it shouldn't have been postponed. What do you want her to do now?

OK, fair enough. And I just wanted to note that she did say it shouldn't have been postponed since you didn't mention that in your posts.

Sal wrote:

Nekochan wrote:OK, fair enough.    And I just wanted to note that she did say it shouldn't have been postponed since you didn't mention that in your posts.

That's nice.

I guess if Marshall Lee Gore had said he shouldn't have raped and killed those women, everything woulda been copacetic.

Well, sure Sal. It's the same thing.  

The fundraiser date was scheduled before the execution date was scheduled. It's not as if she scheduled the execution on the same day as her fundraiser and then wanted to postpone the execution. And furthermore, when she was called on what she had done, she said it shouldn't have been postponed. She said she was wrong. And so then you posted the story on here for all forum members to see how horrible she is. And so now what do you want--for her to be burned at the stake?

Sal wrote:

Nekochan wrote:

Sal wrote:

Nekochan wrote:OK, fair enough.    And I just wanted to note that she did say it shouldn't have been postponed since you didn't mention that in your posts.

That's nice.

I guess if Marshall Lee Gore had said he shouldn't have raped and killed those women, everything woulda been copacetic.

Well, sure Sal.  It's the same thing.  

The fundraiser date was scheduled before the execution date was scheduled.   It's not as if she scheduled the execution on the same day as her fundraiser and then wanted to postpone the execution.  And furthermore, when she was called on what she had done, she said it shouldn't have been postponed. She said she was wrong.  And so then you posted the story on here for all forum members to see how horrible she is.   And so now what do you want--for her to be burned at the stake?  

Pressing the flesh for cash vs attending to your duty to be present at the state ordered execution of a human being ...

... you're right ...

... tough call.

In a sane world, she would be forced to resign for such a callous, heartless, ghastly, partisan move ...

... and sane people who claim to be "tough on crime" would be howling with outrage instead of making excuses like, "she said it shouldn't have been postponed", when SHE REQUESTED THE POSTPONEMENT!!!

Jebus ...

I didn't say it was a tough call. And neither did Bondi, that I can see. I know you like claiming that other posters said stuff that they didn't say, but it's really getting a little old. Howl and rant all you want to, just don't try to claim I said something that I didn't say.

Why didn't you just say in your first post that she should resign or be fired?

I'll tell you what I think, Sal. I think that neither the governor or the AG should schedule an execution without checking with each other's schedule. That would have been the smart thing to do instead of it turning into an embarrassment to both offices. As to it being something to be fired for or having to resign about...I just don't see it. But you go ahead and rant on if it makes you feel better..

LOL@ a lefty wanting a resignation from someone who postponed a execution to which most lefties don't even believe in.

Whats the big deal? he dies another day..........

Is Marshall complaining?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/florida-attorney-general-pam-bondi-investigation_n_996541.html

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- "Last December, when she was still investigating foreclosure fraud as a top lawyer in the Florida attorney general's office, June Clarkson gave a PowerPoint presentation to a legal association.

Her presentation amounted to an indictment of Lender Processing Services, or LPS, a company near the center of ongoing state investigations into claims that foreclosures have been rushed en masse through the legal machinery, without proper documentation. She flashed images of paperwork on a screen under the heading "forgeries," asserting that LPS' former subsidiary, Docx, had produced phony documents to justify unlawful foreclosures.

The legal association later sent Clarkson a thank-you note, calling her tutorial "invaluable." Word of her presentation reached New York, where a state Supreme Court judge cited it in a harshly-worded ruling that a bank lacked the right to foreclose on a Brooklyn home.

But the Jacksonville-based LPS was furious, particularly about one slide in the presentation: an image of the children's board game Candyland, a satirical reference to the mortgage securitization process. The following month, a lawyer for LPS sent a letter to Clarkson and Theresa Edwards -- a colleague who co-authored the presentation -- calling their PowerPoint display "irresponsible" and "inflammatory," adding: "The legitimate question at this point is whether you are still capable of conducting this investigation."

Upper management in the attorney general's office, which also received a copy of the LPS complaint, ultimately answered that question in the negative. The incoming director of the division of economic crimes admonished the two assistant state attorneys general, they say. In May, Clarkson and Edwards resigned under threat of being fired, according to the attorney general's office.

Florida has some of the highest rates of foreclosure in the country, and is home to many of the companies accused of improper document handling, yet the state's enforcement apparatus has treated many of these companies with striking lenience, according to former state prosecutors and lawyers who represent Florida homeowners.

Many cite the forced departure of Clarkson and Edwards as a vivid example of how mortgage companies and law firms successfully exploit connections to Florida's attorney general to soften legal probes, insulating themselves against the consequences of alleged law-breaking..."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/14/rick-scott-turnover-staff-resignations_n_2877771.html

"Although Rick Scott campaigned on job creation, the Rick Scott Blog Watch calls the governor "the Typhoid Mary to careers."

That's because of the exceptionally high turnover of his staff over the last two years.

Most recently, Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll gave notice after being questioned as part of a investigation into a $300 million charity fraud.

But Scott has hired three chiefs-of-staff in an 18-month period, and since taking office in January of 2011 accepted the resignations of eight agency heads, two general counsels, one policy advisor, and a communications director, as reported by Tampa Bay Times. At least 17 high-ranking staffers have left.

Are most of these resignations really firings as Scott flounders to improve dismal approval ratings, as suggested by the Orlando Sentintel?

Or were there just too many clashes with Steve MacNamara, the governor's former chief-of-staff described as a " brass-knuckles gatekeeper?"

Whatever the case, there were several in Scott's office who jumped ship after only a few months despite six-figure salaries..."