Florida Democratic Party

Monday, June 20, 2005

Peace Out

This is the end of the Florida Democratic Party's Official Blog.

Why? Because of the contradiction in the words "Official Blog".

Read any good blogs lately? I bet they were edgy. Had some personality. Dished a little. Maybe they linked to a variety of news articles or documents and contained insightful commentary. They maybe took some back page news like the Downing Street Memos and showed you why they should be on the frontpage of every rag that dares to call itself a newspaper.

The FDP Blog didn't. It couldn't. Anything put out on the Official Blog has to be something the FDP can stand by. It becomes policy. We can't have my personal opinions out on the blog and expect our Chair to have to confirm or deny them. She's got better things to do than explain my political opinions.

Content for the Official Blog needs to be vetted by the Chair before it can be posted. A time-consuming process, especially when she is travelling or has other priorities. If we want to go to all that trouble, it should be for big news. The kind of thing that might be in a press release. If I'm going to do a press release, then I can just post that to the website. No blog necessary.

I love blogs. If you need some good blogs on Florida politics, I recommend floridapolitix and flnews. Those are my personal choices, not endorsed by the party. (Imagine that disclaimer after every paragraph). For the official word from the Florida Democratic Party, come see us at www.fladems.com.

Chris Sands
IT Director
Florida Democratic Party

posted by Florida Democrat at 8:15 AM

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    Try this one: "Comments and posts on this blog are the opinions of their authors, and are not the official views of the Florida Democratic Party, its officers, its members, or anyone else. They're certainly not the views of Governor Jeb Bush. But you knew that already."

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    CAMPAIGN WEB SITE: www.TannerForJustice.com

    Daytona Beach News Journal Profile
    RJ Larizza PA and Associates
    Office of the State Attorney John Tanner 7th Judicial Circuit


    News 4 Jax Candidate Profiles: 7th Judicial Circuit State Attorney
    Orlando Sentinel Voter’s Guide
    Florida Times Union (Jacksonville) Story


    Currently the polling in this race shows that it is extremely close and with a lackluster turnout for early and absentee ballots the decision will likely come down to the turnout of undecided voters in Tuesday’s Primary Race. However, although this is the date for the primary, this race is open to voters of all affiliations (Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Greens, Libertarians and all other parties as well as those registered Independent or NPA (No Party Affiliation). Recent polling has shown that the race is currently neck and neck with an even split of 37% for Tanner and 36% for Larizza. 25% remain undecided. And it is likely to be those undecided voters as well as voters from the Democratic and other parties who may not be aware that they can vote in this race pitting two Republican candidates against each other with no other opponent in another primary. Thus rendering this Tuesday’s election the final, and thus general, election for this extremely important office.

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    On Tuesday, August 26th, you, the citizens and voters of Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam, and Volusia County have the opportunity to hold public officials to account. You, the citizen, through your vote, are indeed the only means of checking the abuses of power when those charged with enforcing the law and upholding the rights of the citizenry fail, often in their own self- or personal-interests, to do so.

    Further information on Tanner’s controversial career can be found throughout the internet. Here are two interesting sites that could provide a starting point for your own research:

    Special Report of the Daytona Beach News-Journalonline.com
    Volusia Hometown Democracy: Things to Know about John Tanner

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    But the State Attorney Race is the GENERAL ELECTION
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    RJ Larizza PA and Associates
    Office of the State Attorney John Tanner 7th Judicial Circuit


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    According to the autobiographical confession, which details Lake’s life from an early childhood of sexual abuse through 1998, “John agreed that this needed to stay between us, and that he would counsel me, and approach Marcia [Tanner’s wife], about Lisa, and (minor’s name omitted).” But after considering this option Tanner informed Lake that he could not involve his wife as she would have then had a legal obligation to report the crime to state law enforcement and would therefore have a conflict of interest.

    For some reason Tanner did not consider himself bound to the same obligations and failed to report the crime and confession, took no official action to document the event, and initiated no investigation or prosecution. After a falling out with his wife Lake kidnapped his step-children and fled to California. This event initiated a police investigation, leading to the return of the children to Florida, and an official investigation by local law enforcement within Tanner’s jurisdiction. Although the police investigators sought, and eventually obtained, evidence of the molestation – first in an officially sanctioned recording of a telephone recording between his wife and Lake in which Lake was asked to, and did, confess to the many unlawful acts – Tanner did not take action or alert the investigators of his prior knowledge of the situation.

    With an official investigation under way Lake again sought the assistance of Tanner but given the change of circumstances Tanner chose to speak through a third party, in which he advised Lake on legal matters with regard to what he should do in Court, and stated at that point he could only assist him if he turned himself in if an official complaint was filed in the molestation case by his wife who was now in the process of seeking a divorce. Further investigations, revealed in official police documents, obtained a detailed history of the sexual acts committed on the minor step-daughter over the period of years the family lived in both Tennessee and Florida. Included in the evidence obtained in the case, (98-3428 filed initially with the Flagler Beach Police Department) which was turned over to Tanner’s office, were letters written by Lake seeking forgiveness and admitting his wrongful acts to members of his family, including an apologetic letter sent to the victim’s grandmother in which Lake again recounts the story of how he first went to Tanner for help regarding his wrongful acts and concerns for his family members. Tanner did not reveal his involvement with Lake, his knowledge of the criminal activities, and did not reveal his conflict of interest while also taking no action to prosecute the case.

    Tanner’s opponent, J R Larizza, unaware of this extremely disturbing matter, however, has run a campaign with the theme that “John Tanner thinks he is above the law.” This sentiment has been echoed by many in the law enforcement community over which Tanner has jurisdiction to initiate and/or refuse investigation and prosecution. The Volusia County Sherriff, Ben Johnson, was quoted in the Daytona Beach News Journal (August 2, 2007) that “he fears Tanner is on a ‘crusade’ against his deputies as payback” for Johnson’s prior public criticism of Tanner’s investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter’s arrest. That investigation was eventually transferred to another State Attorney, Harry Shorestein, who convened the Grand Jury investigation the report of which, apparently highly critical of Tanner, still remains sealed from public view. During that investigation Tanner forced Shorestein’s son, Bryan, an Assistant State Attorney in Tanner’s office, to resign for allegedly downloading hardcore porn on a State Attorney’s Office computer – an allegation Bryan Shorstein denies.

    Yet while the critical Grand Jury report remains sealed from public view, as Tanner seeks re-election to yet another term as his district’s highest law enforcement official and member of the judicial branch of government, it is perhaps the public records – those detailing Tanner’s complicity in covering for a fellow church member who confessed to him multiple crimes of sexual battery on a minor and failing to place his public duties, as State Attorney, above his private preferences – that reveal the need for the public to take a stand regarding what Larizza appears to accurately portray as an official who deems himself to be above the law.

    The lack of accountability, double-standards, and extremely troubling history of Tanner should be motivation for the citizens of the 7th District, if not the entire State of Florida and the nation, to have those public records brought to light with an official investigation whether or not Tanner remains in the office of State Attorney. It should, however, also be strong motivation for the voters in Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam and Volusia County – Republicans, Democrats and others – to take a stand this Tuesday by going to the polls with the intent of removing Tanner from his position of power and authority so that he can stand accused of these truly disturbing acts, and indeed a history of questionable activities and privately-motivated crusades at the public’s expense, and to stand accused, be investigated and potentially prosecuted, as a private citizen. With the same rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty by the State as should be expected as the standard applied to those whom Tanner, in his twenty-year history as the 7th Judicial District’s lead prosecuting attorney, should have been granted.

    On Tuesday, August 26th, you, the citizens and voters of Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam, and Volusia County have the opportunity to hold public officials to account. You, the citizen, through your vote, are indeed the only means of checking the abuses of power when those charged with enforcing the law and upholding the rights of the citizenry fail, often in their own self- or personal-interests, to do so.

    Further information on Tanner’s controversial career can be found throughout the internet. Here are two interesting sites that could provide a starting point for your own research:

    Special Report of the Daytona Beach News-Journalonline.com
    Volusia Hometown Democracy: Things to Know about John Tanner

    Both sites provide multiple links to prior stories and information.

    Charles Grapski

    By Blogger ap_video, at 2:57 AM  

  • Primary Election – Tuesday August 26th

    But the State Attorney Race is the GENERAL ELECTION
    Therefore all party affiliations and non-party can vote in this important race

    Incumbent John Tanner
    Faces a Significant Challenge
    By Challenger RJ Larizza

    RJ Larizza – Challenger John Tanner – Incumbent
    CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: www.Larizza2008.com
    CAMPAIGN WEB SITE: www.TannerForJustice.com

    Daytona Beach News Journal Profile
    RJ Larizza PA and Associates
    Office of the State Attorney John Tanner 7th Judicial Circuit


    News 4 Jax Candidate Profiles: 7th Judicial Circuit State Attorney
    Orlando Sentinel Voter’s Guide
    Florida Times Union (Jacksonville) Story


    Currently the polling in this race shows that it is extremely close and with a lackluster turnout for early and absentee ballots the decision will likely come down to the turnout of undecided voters in Tuesday’s Primary Race. However, although this is the date for the primary, this race is open to voters of all affiliations (Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Greens, Libertarians and all other parties as well as those registered Independent or NPA (No Party Affiliation). Recent polling has shown that the race is currently neck and neck with an even split of 37% for Tanner and 36% for Larizza. 25% remain undecided. And it is likely to be those undecided voters as well as voters from the Democratic and other parties who may not be aware that they can vote in this race pitting two Republican candidates against each other with no other opponent in another primary. Thus rendering this Tuesday’s election the final, and thus general, election for this extremely important office.

    Tanner has been a controversial figure from the start and faces increasing opposition among law enforcement within his jurisdiction as well as citizens concerned for the public interest. At age 25, Tanner, prior to becoming State Attorney, was indicted for manslaughter in the death of a lifeguard trainee. He first obtained the office of State Attorney in 1988 and immediately became infamous for his death row “prayer sessions” with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy. Tanner has openly stated his “born again Christian” religious status, claiming to have found God at age 40, as a major characteristic of his private and public activities. (See Your State Attorney: Man of God, Man of Law) Following the Bundy sessions Tanner became convinced that pornography was to blame for Bundy’s crimes and he began an anti-pornography crusade which eventually cost him re-election in 1992.

    Upon returning to office Tanner was no less controversial as a public official. He has come under severe criticism of law enforcement officers after he waged what they view as retaliatory investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter, Lisa, was arrested for public intoxication. He has also been recently criticized for spending over half-a-million dollars of public money fighting to keep a Grand Jury Report, critical of Tanner, from being released to the public. In 2004 Tanner was fined $2,500 for attempting to board a flight at the Daytona Beach International Airport with firearms and ammunition along with knives and other weapons.

    Most troubling, however, are some recent revelations of Tanner’s activities both prior to and during this campaign. Tanner is reported to have made a comment at a meeting of a Republican’s Women’s Club, where he and his opponent were guests, that he would “shoot Barack Obama if he believed he was a terrorist.” Ironically this event occurred the same day a man was arrested in Miami and jailed without bond for the offense of making a threat on the life of a candidate for the presidency.

    But perhaps the most disturbing allegations to have arisen during the past weeks come from official documents from police investigations within his jurisdiction. According to the documents, Tanner, teaching Sunday School, was approached by one of the members who confessed to him a history of sexual abuse on his step daughter from the age of five through the age of ten – incidents that occurred, according to the records, in both Florida (in Tanner’s district) and Tennessee. In an autobiographical confession by the individual, James Lake, which was entered into police evidence after he committed suicide Lake details how he sought out Tanner after Sunday School class to make his confession out of guilt and also sought Tanner to involve his wife in providing counseling to his wife and the victimized daughter. "I stayed after Sunday School and broke down and confessed to John Tanner the horrible thing I had done. I was hoping, that his wife, Marcia, would be able to talk with Lisa, and be able to help them.”

    According to the autobiographical confession, which details Lake’s life from an early childhood of sexual abuse through 1998, “John agreed that this needed to stay between us, and that he would counsel me, and approach Marcia [Tanner’s wife], about Lisa, and (minor’s name omitted).” But after considering this option Tanner informed Lake that he could not involve his wife as she would have then had a legal obligation to report the crime to state law enforcement and would therefore have a conflict of interest.

    For some reason Tanner did not consider himself bound to the same obligations and failed to report the crime and confession, took no official action to document the event, and initiated no investigation or prosecution. After a falling out with his wife Lake kidnapped his step-children and fled to California. This event initiated a police investigation, leading to the return of the children to Florida, and an official investigation by local law enforcement within Tanner’s jurisdiction. Although the police investigators sought, and eventually obtained, evidence of the molestation – first in an officially sanctioned recording of a telephone recording between his wife and Lake in which Lake was asked to, and did, confess to the many unlawful acts – Tanner did not take action or alert the investigators of his prior knowledge of the situation.

    With an official investigation under way Lake again sought the assistance of Tanner but given the change of circumstances Tanner chose to speak through a third party, in which he advised Lake on legal matters with regard to what he should do in Court, and stated at that point he could only assist him if he turned himself in if an official complaint was filed in the molestation case by his wife who was now in the process of seeking a divorce. Further investigations, revealed in official police documents, obtained a detailed history of the sexual acts committed on the minor step-daughter over the period of years the family lived in both Tennessee and Florida. Included in the evidence obtained in the case, (98-3428 filed initially with the Flagler Beach Police Department) which was turned over to Tanner’s office, were letters written by Lake seeking forgiveness and admitting his wrongful acts to members of his family, including an apologetic letter sent to the victim’s grandmother in which Lake again recounts the story of how he first went to Tanner for help regarding his wrongful acts and concerns for his family members. Tanner did not reveal his involvement with Lake, his knowledge of the criminal activities, and did not reveal his conflict of interest while also taking no action to prosecute the case.

    Tanner’s opponent, J R Larizza, unaware of this extremely disturbing matter, however, has run a campaign with the theme that “John Tanner thinks he is above the law.” This sentiment has been echoed by many in the law enforcement community over which Tanner has jurisdiction to initiate and/or refuse investigation and prosecution. The Volusia County Sherriff, Ben Johnson, was quoted in the Daytona Beach News Journal (August 2, 2007) that “he fears Tanner is on a ‘crusade’ against his deputies as payback” for Johnson’s prior public criticism of Tanner’s investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter’s arrest. That investigation was eventually transferred to another State Attorney, Harry Shorestein, who convened the Grand Jury investigation the report of which, apparently highly critical of Tanner, still remains sealed from public view. During that investigation Tanner forced Shorestein’s son, Bryan, an Assistant State Attorney in Tanner’s office, to resign for allegedly downloading hardcore porn on a State Attorney’s Office computer – an allegation Bryan Shorstein denies.

    Yet while the critical Grand Jury report remains sealed from public view, as Tanner seeks re-election to yet another term as his district’s highest law enforcement official and member of the judicial branch of government, it is perhaps the public records – those detailing Tanner’s complicity in covering for a fellow church member who confessed to him multiple crimes of sexual battery on a minor and failing to place his public duties, as State Attorney, above his private preferences – that reveal the need for the public to take a stand regarding what Larizza appears to accurately portray as an official who deems himself to be above the law.

    The lack of accountability, double-standards, and extremely troubling history of Tanner should be motivation for the citizens of the 7th District, if not the entire State of Florida and the nation, to have those public records brought to light with an official investigation whether or not Tanner remains in the office of State Attorney. It should, however, also be strong motivation for the voters in Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam and Volusia County – Republicans, Democrats and others – to take a stand this Tuesday by going to the polls with the intent of removing Tanner from his position of power and authority so that he can stand accused of these truly disturbing acts, and indeed a history of questionable activities and privately-motivated crusades at the public’s expense, and to stand accused, be investigated and potentially prosecuted, as a private citizen. With the same rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty by the State as should be expected as the standard applied to those whom Tanner, in his twenty-year history as the 7th Judicial District’s lead prosecuting attorney, should have been granted.

    On Tuesday, August 26th, you, the citizens and voters of Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam, and Volusia County have the opportunity to hold public officials to account. You, the citizen, through your vote, are indeed the only means of checking the abuses of power when those charged with enforcing the law and upholding the rights of the citizenry fail, often in their own self- or personal-interests, to do so.

    Further information on Tanner’s controversial career can be found throughout the internet. Here are two interesting sites that could provide a starting point for your own research:

    Special Report of the Daytona Beach News-Journalonline.com
    Volusia Hometown Democracy: Things to Know about John Tanner

    Both sites provide multiple links to prior stories and information.

    Charles Grapski

    By Blogger ap_video, at 2:57 AM  

  • Primary Election – Tuesday August 26th

    But the State Attorney Race is the GENERAL ELECTION
    Therefore all party affiliations and non-party can vote in this important race

    Incumbent John Tanner
    Faces a Significant Challenge
    By Challenger RJ Larizza

    RJ Larizza – Challenger John Tanner – Incumbent
    CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: www.Larizza2008.com
    CAMPAIGN WEB SITE: www.TannerForJustice.com

    Daytona Beach News Journal Profile
    RJ Larizza PA and Associates
    Office of the State Attorney John Tanner 7th Judicial Circuit


    News 4 Jax Candidate Profiles: 7th Judicial Circuit State Attorney
    Orlando Sentinel Voter’s Guide
    Florida Times Union (Jacksonville) Story


    Currently the polling in this race shows that it is extremely close and with a lackluster turnout for early and absentee ballots the decision will likely come down to the turnout of undecided voters in Tuesday’s Primary Race. However, although this is the date for the primary, this race is open to voters of all affiliations (Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Greens, Libertarians and all other parties as well as those registered Independent or NPA (No Party Affiliation). Recent polling has shown that the race is currently neck and neck with an even split of 37% for Tanner and 36% for Larizza. 25% remain undecided. And it is likely to be those undecided voters as well as voters from the Democratic and other parties who may not be aware that they can vote in this race pitting two Republican candidates against each other with no other opponent in another primary. Thus rendering this Tuesday’s election the final, and thus general, election for this extremely important office.

    Tanner has been a controversial figure from the start and faces increasing opposition among law enforcement within his jurisdiction as well as citizens concerned for the public interest. At age 25, Tanner, prior to becoming State Attorney, was indicted for manslaughter in the death of a lifeguard trainee. He first obtained the office of State Attorney in 1988 and immediately became infamous for his death row “prayer sessions” with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy. Tanner has openly stated his “born again Christian” religious status, claiming to have found God at age 40, as a major characteristic of his private and public activities. (See Your State Attorney: Man of God, Man of Law) Following the Bundy sessions Tanner became convinced that pornography was to blame for Bundy’s crimes and he began an anti-pornography crusade which eventually cost him re-election in 1992.

    Upon returning to office Tanner was no less controversial as a public official. He has come under severe criticism of law enforcement officers after he waged what they view as retaliatory investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter, Lisa, was arrested for public intoxication. He has also been recently criticized for spending over half-a-million dollars of public money fighting to keep a Grand Jury Report, critical of Tanner, from being released to the public. In 2004 Tanner was fined $2,500 for attempting to board a flight at the Daytona Beach International Airport with firearms and ammunition along with knives and other weapons.

    Most troubling, however, are some recent revelations of Tanner’s activities both prior to and during this campaign. Tanner is reported to have made a comment at a meeting of a Republican’s Women’s Club, where he and his opponent were guests, that he would “shoot Barack Obama if he believed he was a terrorist.” Ironically this event occurred the same day a man was arrested in Miami and jailed without bond for the offense of making a threat on the life of a candidate for the presidency.

    But perhaps the most disturbing allegations to have arisen during the past weeks come from official documents from police investigations within his jurisdiction. According to the documents, Tanner, teaching Sunday School, was approached by one of the members who confessed to him a history of sexual abuse on his step daughter from the age of five through the age of ten – incidents that occurred, according to the records, in both Florida (in Tanner’s district) and Tennessee. In an autobiographical confession by the individual, James Lake, which was entered into police evidence after he committed suicide Lake details how he sought out Tanner after Sunday School class to make his confession out of guilt and also sought Tanner to involve his wife in providing counseling to his wife and the victimized daughter. "I stayed after Sunday School and broke down and confessed to John Tanner the horrible thing I had done. I was hoping, that his wife, Marcia, would be able to talk with Lisa, and be able to help them.”

    According to the autobiographical confession, which details Lake’s life from an early childhood of sexual abuse through 1998, “John agreed that this needed to stay between us, and that he would counsel me, and approach Marcia [Tanner’s wife], about Lisa, and (minor’s name omitted).” But after considering this option Tanner informed Lake that he could not involve his wife as she would have then had a legal obligation to report the crime to state law enforcement and would therefore have a conflict of interest.

    For some reason Tanner did not consider himself bound to the same obligations and failed to report the crime and confession, took no official action to document the event, and initiated no investigation or prosecution. After a falling out with his wife Lake kidnapped his step-children and fled to California. This event initiated a police investigation, leading to the return of the children to Florida, and an official investigation by local law enforcement within Tanner’s jurisdiction. Although the police investigators sought, and eventually obtained, evidence of the molestation – first in an officially sanctioned recording of a telephone recording between his wife and Lake in which Lake was asked to, and did, confess to the many unlawful acts – Tanner did not take action or alert the investigators of his prior knowledge of the situation.

    With an official investigation under way Lake again sought the assistance of Tanner but given the change of circumstances Tanner chose to speak through a third party, in which he advised Lake on legal matters with regard to what he should do in Court, and stated at that point he could only assist him if he turned himself in if an official complaint was filed in the molestation case by his wife who was now in the process of seeking a divorce. Further investigations, revealed in official police documents, obtained a detailed history of the sexual acts committed on the minor step-daughter over the period of years the family lived in both Tennessee and Florida. Included in the evidence obtained in the case, (98-3428 filed initially with the Flagler Beach Police Department) which was turned over to Tanner’s office, were letters written by Lake seeking forgiveness and admitting his wrongful acts to members of his family, including an apologetic letter sent to the victim’s grandmother in which Lake again recounts the story of how he first went to Tanner for help regarding his wrongful acts and concerns for his family members. Tanner did not reveal his involvement with Lake, his knowledge of the criminal activities, and did not reveal his conflict of interest while also taking no action to prosecute the case.

    Tanner’s opponent, J R Larizza, unaware of this extremely disturbing matter, however, has run a campaign with the theme that “John Tanner thinks he is above the law.” This sentiment has been echoed by many in the law enforcement community over which Tanner has jurisdiction to initiate and/or refuse investigation and prosecution. The Volusia County Sherriff, Ben Johnson, was quoted in the Daytona Beach News Journal (August 2, 2007) that “he fears Tanner is on a ‘crusade’ against his deputies as payback” for Johnson’s prior public criticism of Tanner’s investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter’s arrest. That investigation was eventually transferred to another State Attorney, Harry Shorestein, who convened the Grand Jury investigation the report of which, apparently highly critical of Tanner, still remains sealed from public view. During that investigation Tanner forced Shorestein’s son, Bryan, an Assistant State Attorney in Tanner’s office, to resign for allegedly downloading hardcore porn on a State Attorney’s Office computer – an allegation Bryan Shorstein denies.

    Yet while the critical Grand Jury report remains sealed from public view, as Tanner seeks re-election to yet another term as his district’s highest law enforcement official and member of the judicial branch of government, it is perhaps the public records – those detailing Tanner’s complicity in covering for a fellow church member who confessed to him multiple crimes of sexual battery on a minor and failing to place his public duties, as State Attorney, above his private preferences – that reveal the need for the public to take a stand regarding what Larizza appears to accurately portray as an official who deems himself to be above the law.

    The lack of accountability, double-standards, and extremely troubling history of Tanner should be motivation for the citizens of the 7th District, if not the entire State of Florida and the nation, to have those public records brought to light with an official investigation whether or not Tanner remains in the office of State Attorney. It should, however, also be strong motivation for the voters in Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam and Volusia County – Republicans, Democrats and others – to take a stand this Tuesday by going to the polls with the intent of removing Tanner from his position of power and authority so that he can stand accused of these truly disturbing acts, and indeed a history of questionable activities and privately-motivated crusades at the public’s expense, and to stand accused, be investigated and potentially prosecuted, as a private citizen. With the same rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty by the State as should be expected as the standard applied to those whom Tanner, in his twenty-year history as the 7th Judicial District’s lead prosecuting attorney, should have been granted.

    On Tuesday, August 26th, you, the citizens and voters of Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam, and Volusia County have the opportunity to hold public officials to account. You, the citizen, through your vote, are indeed the only means of checking the abuses of power when those charged with enforcing the law and upholding the rights of the citizenry fail, often in their own self- or personal-interests, to do so.

    Further information on Tanner’s controversial career can be found throughout the internet. Here are two interesting sites that could provide a starting point for your own research:

    Special Report of the Daytona Beach News-Journalonline.com
    Volusia Hometown Democracy: Things to Know about John Tanner

    Both sites provide multiple links to prior stories and information.

    Charles Grapski

    By Blogger ap_video, at 2:57 AM  

  • Primary Election – Tuesday August 26th

    But the State Attorney Race is the GENERAL ELECTION
    Therefore all party affiliations and non-party can vote in this important race

    Incumbent John Tanner
    Faces a Significant Challenge
    By Challenger RJ Larizza

    RJ Larizza – Challenger John Tanner – Incumbent
    CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: www.Larizza2008.com
    CAMPAIGN WEB SITE: www.TannerForJustice.com

    Daytona Beach News Journal Profile
    RJ Larizza PA and Associates
    Office of the State Attorney John Tanner 7th Judicial Circuit


    News 4 Jax Candidate Profiles: 7th Judicial Circuit State Attorney
    Orlando Sentinel Voter’s Guide
    Florida Times Union (Jacksonville) Story


    Currently the polling in this race shows that it is extremely close and with a lackluster turnout for early and absentee ballots the decision will likely come down to the turnout of undecided voters in Tuesday’s Primary Race. However, although this is the date for the primary, this race is open to voters of all affiliations (Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Greens, Libertarians and all other parties as well as those registered Independent or NPA (No Party Affiliation). Recent polling has shown that the race is currently neck and neck with an even split of 37% for Tanner and 36% for Larizza. 25% remain undecided. And it is likely to be those undecided voters as well as voters from the Democratic and other parties who may not be aware that they can vote in this race pitting two Republican candidates against each other with no other opponent in another primary. Thus rendering this Tuesday’s election the final, and thus general, election for this extremely important office.

    Tanner has been a controversial figure from the start and faces increasing opposition among law enforcement within his jurisdiction as well as citizens concerned for the public interest. At age 25, Tanner, prior to becoming State Attorney, was indicted for manslaughter in the death of a lifeguard trainee. He first obtained the office of State Attorney in 1988 and immediately became infamous for his death row “prayer sessions” with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy. Tanner has openly stated his “born again Christian” religious status, claiming to have found God at age 40, as a major characteristic of his private and public activities. (See Your State Attorney: Man of God, Man of Law) Following the Bundy sessions Tanner became convinced that pornography was to blame for Bundy’s crimes and he began an anti-pornography crusade which eventually cost him re-election in 1992.

    Upon returning to office Tanner was no less controversial as a public official. He has come under severe criticism of law enforcement officers after he waged what they view as retaliatory investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter, Lisa, was arrested for public intoxication. He has also been recently criticized for spending over half-a-million dollars of public money fighting to keep a Grand Jury Report, critical of Tanner, from being released to the public. In 2004 Tanner was fined $2,500 for attempting to board a flight at the Daytona Beach International Airport with firearms and ammunition along with knives and other weapons.

    Most troubling, however, are some recent revelations of Tanner’s activities both prior to and during this campaign. Tanner is reported to have made a comment at a meeting of a Republican’s Women’s Club, where he and his opponent were guests, that he would “shoot Barack Obama if he believed he was a terrorist.” Ironically this event occurred the same day a man was arrested in Miami and jailed without bond for the offense of making a threat on the life of a candidate for the presidency.

    But perhaps the most disturbing allegations to have arisen during the past weeks come from official documents from police investigations within his jurisdiction. According to the documents, Tanner, teaching Sunday School, was approached by one of the members who confessed to him a history of sexual abuse on his step daughter from the age of five through the age of ten – incidents that occurred, according to the records, in both Florida (in Tanner’s district) and Tennessee. In an autobiographical confession by the individual, James Lake, which was entered into police evidence after he committed suicide Lake details how he sought out Tanner after Sunday School class to make his confession out of guilt and also sought Tanner to involve his wife in providing counseling to his wife and the victimized daughter. "I stayed after Sunday School and broke down and confessed to John Tanner the horrible thing I had done. I was hoping, that his wife, Marcia, would be able to talk with Lisa, and be able to help them.”

    According to the autobiographical confession, which details Lake’s life from an early childhood of sexual abuse through 1998, “John agreed that this needed to stay between us, and that he would counsel me, and approach Marcia [Tanner’s wife], about Lisa, and (minor’s name omitted).” But after considering this option Tanner informed Lake that he could not involve his wife as she would have then had a legal obligation to report the crime to state law enforcement and would therefore have a conflict of interest.

    For some reason Tanner did not consider himself bound to the same obligations and failed to report the crime and confession, took no official action to document the event, and initiated no investigation or prosecution. After a falling out with his wife Lake kidnapped his step-children and fled to California. This event initiated a police investigation, leading to the return of the children to Florida, and an official investigation by local law enforcement within Tanner’s jurisdiction. Although the police investigators sought, and eventually obtained, evidence of the molestation – first in an officially sanctioned recording of a telephone recording between his wife and Lake in which Lake was asked to, and did, confess to the many unlawful acts – Tanner did not take action or alert the investigators of his prior knowledge of the situation.

    With an official investigation under way Lake again sought the assistance of Tanner but given the change of circumstances Tanner chose to speak through a third party, in which he advised Lake on legal matters with regard to what he should do in Court, and stated at that point he could only assist him if he turned himself in if an official complaint was filed in the molestation case by his wife who was now in the process of seeking a divorce. Further investigations, revealed in official police documents, obtained a detailed history of the sexual acts committed on the minor step-daughter over the period of years the family lived in both Tennessee and Florida. Included in the evidence obtained in the case, (98-3428 filed initially with the Flagler Beach Police Department) which was turned over to Tanner’s office, were letters written by Lake seeking forgiveness and admitting his wrongful acts to members of his family, including an apologetic letter sent to the victim’s grandmother in which Lake again recounts the story of how he first went to Tanner for help regarding his wrongful acts and concerns for his family members. Tanner did not reveal his involvement with Lake, his knowledge of the criminal activities, and did not reveal his conflict of interest while also taking no action to prosecute the case.

    Tanner’s opponent, J R Larizza, unaware of this extremely disturbing matter, however, has run a campaign with the theme that “John Tanner thinks he is above the law.” This sentiment has been echoed by many in the law enforcement community over which Tanner has jurisdiction to initiate and/or refuse investigation and prosecution. The Volusia County Sherriff, Ben Johnson, was quoted in the Daytona Beach News Journal (August 2, 2007) that “he fears Tanner is on a ‘crusade’ against his deputies as payback” for Johnson’s prior public criticism of Tanner’s investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter’s arrest. That investigation was eventually transferred to another State Attorney, Harry Shorestein, who convened the Grand Jury investigation the report of which, apparently highly critical of Tanner, still remains sealed from public view. During that investigation Tanner forced Shorestein’s son, Bryan, an Assistant State Attorney in Tanner’s office, to resign for allegedly downloading hardcore porn on a State Attorney’s Office computer – an allegation Bryan Shorstein denies.

    Yet while the critical Grand Jury report remains sealed from public view, as Tanner seeks re-election to yet another term as his district’s highest law enforcement official and member of the judicial branch of government, it is perhaps the public records – those detailing Tanner’s complicity in covering for a fellow church member who confessed to him multiple crimes of sexual battery on a minor and failing to place his public duties, as State Attorney, above his private preferences – that reveal the need for the public to take a stand regarding what Larizza appears to accurately portray as an official who deems himself to be above the law.

    The lack of accountability, double-standards, and extremely troubling history of Tanner should be motivation for the citizens of the 7th District, if not the entire State of Florida and the nation, to have those public records brought to light with an official investigation whether or not Tanner remains in the office of State Attorney. It should, however, also be strong motivation for the voters in Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam and Volusia County – Republicans, Democrats and others – to take a stand this Tuesday by going to the polls with the intent of removing Tanner from his position of power and authority so that he can stand accused of these truly disturbing acts, and indeed a history of questionable activities and privately-motivated crusades at the public’s expense, and to stand accused, be investigated and potentially prosecuted, as a private citizen. With the same rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty by the State as should be expected as the standard applied to those whom Tanner, in his twenty-year history as the 7th Judicial District’s lead prosecuting attorney, should have been granted.

    On Tuesday, August 26th, you, the citizens and voters of Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam, and Volusia County have the opportunity to hold public officials to account. You, the citizen, through your vote, are indeed the only means of checking the abuses of power when those charged with enforcing the law and upholding the rights of the citizenry fail, often in their own self- or personal-interests, to do so.

    Further information on Tanner’s controversial career can be found throughout the internet. Here are two interesting sites that could provide a starting point for your own research:

    Special Report of the Daytona Beach News-Journalonline.com
    Volusia Hometown Democracy: Things to Know about John Tanner

    Both sites provide multiple links to prior stories and information.

    Charles Grapski

    By Blogger ap_video, at 2:57 AM  

  • Primary Election – Tuesday August 26th

    But the State Attorney Race is the GENERAL ELECTION
    Therefore all party affiliations and non-party can vote in this important race

    Incumbent John Tanner
    Faces a Significant Challenge
    By Challenger RJ Larizza

    RJ Larizza – Challenger John Tanner – Incumbent
    CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: www.Larizza2008.com
    CAMPAIGN WEB SITE: www.TannerForJustice.com

    Daytona Beach News Journal Profile
    RJ Larizza PA and Associates
    Office of the State Attorney John Tanner 7th Judicial Circuit


    News 4 Jax Candidate Profiles: 7th Judicial Circuit State Attorney
    Orlando Sentinel Voter’s Guide
    Florida Times Union (Jacksonville) Story


    Currently the polling in this race shows that it is extremely close and with a lackluster turnout for early and absentee ballots the decision will likely come down to the turnout of undecided voters in Tuesday’s Primary Race. However, although this is the date for the primary, this race is open to voters of all affiliations (Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Greens, Libertarians and all other parties as well as those registered Independent or NPA (No Party Affiliation). Recent polling has shown that the race is currently neck and neck with an even split of 37% for Tanner and 36% for Larizza. 25% remain undecided. And it is likely to be those undecided voters as well as voters from the Democratic and other parties who may not be aware that they can vote in this race pitting two Republican candidates against each other with no other opponent in another primary. Thus rendering this Tuesday’s election the final, and thus general, election for this extremely important office.

    Tanner has been a controversial figure from the start and faces increasing opposition among law enforcement within his jurisdiction as well as citizens concerned for the public interest. At age 25, Tanner, prior to becoming State Attorney, was indicted for manslaughter in the death of a lifeguard trainee. He first obtained the office of State Attorney in 1988 and immediately became infamous for his death row “prayer sessions” with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy. Tanner has openly stated his “born again Christian” religious status, claiming to have found God at age 40, as a major characteristic of his private and public activities. (See Your State Attorney: Man of God, Man of Law) Following the Bundy sessions Tanner became convinced that pornography was to blame for Bundy’s crimes and he began an anti-pornography crusade which eventually cost him re-election in 1992.

    Upon returning to office Tanner was no less controversial as a public official. He has come under severe criticism of law enforcement officers after he waged what they view as retaliatory investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter, Lisa, was arrested for public intoxication. He has also been recently criticized for spending over half-a-million dollars of public money fighting to keep a Grand Jury Report, critical of Tanner, from being released to the public. In 2004 Tanner was fined $2,500 for attempting to board a flight at the Daytona Beach International Airport with firearms and ammunition along with knives and other weapons.

    Most troubling, however, are some recent revelations of Tanner’s activities both prior to and during this campaign. Tanner is reported to have made a comment at a meeting of a Republican’s Women’s Club, where he and his opponent were guests, that he would “shoot Barack Obama if he believed he was a terrorist.” Ironically this event occurred the same day a man was arrested in Miami and jailed without bond for the offense of making a threat on the life of a candidate for the presidency.

    But perhaps the most disturbing allegations to have arisen during the past weeks come from official documents from police investigations within his jurisdiction. According to the documents, Tanner, teaching Sunday School, was approached by one of the members who confessed to him a history of sexual abuse on his step daughter from the age of five through the age of ten – incidents that occurred, according to the records, in both Florida (in Tanner’s district) and Tennessee. In an autobiographical confession by the individual, James Lake, which was entered into police evidence after he committed suicide Lake details how he sought out Tanner after Sunday School class to make his confession out of guilt and also sought Tanner to involve his wife in providing counseling to his wife and the victimized daughter. "I stayed after Sunday School and broke down and confessed to John Tanner the horrible thing I had done. I was hoping, that his wife, Marcia, would be able to talk with Lisa, and be able to help them.”

    According to the autobiographical confession, which details Lake’s life from an early childhood of sexual abuse through 1998, “John agreed that this needed to stay between us, and that he would counsel me, and approach Marcia [Tanner’s wife], about Lisa, and (minor’s name omitted).” But after considering this option Tanner informed Lake that he could not involve his wife as she would have then had a legal obligation to report the crime to state law enforcement and would therefore have a conflict of interest.

    For some reason Tanner did not consider himself bound to the same obligations and failed to report the crime and confession, took no official action to document the event, and initiated no investigation or prosecution. After a falling out with his wife Lake kidnapped his step-children and fled to California. This event initiated a police investigation, leading to the return of the children to Florida, and an official investigation by local law enforcement within Tanner’s jurisdiction. Although the police investigators sought, and eventually obtained, evidence of the molestation – first in an officially sanctioned recording of a telephone recording between his wife and Lake in which Lake was asked to, and did, confess to the many unlawful acts – Tanner did not take action or alert the investigators of his prior knowledge of the situation.

    With an official investigation under way Lake again sought the assistance of Tanner but given the change of circumstances Tanner chose to speak through a third party, in which he advised Lake on legal matters with regard to what he should do in Court, and stated at that point he could only assist him if he turned himself in if an official complaint was filed in the molestation case by his wife who was now in the process of seeking a divorce. Further investigations, revealed in official police documents, obtained a detailed history of the sexual acts committed on the minor step-daughter over the period of years the family lived in both Tennessee and Florida. Included in the evidence obtained in the case, (98-3428 filed initially with the Flagler Beach Police Department) which was turned over to Tanner’s office, were letters written by Lake seeking forgiveness and admitting his wrongful acts to members of his family, including an apologetic letter sent to the victim’s grandmother in which Lake again recounts the story of how he first went to Tanner for help regarding his wrongful acts and concerns for his family members. Tanner did not reveal his involvement with Lake, his knowledge of the criminal activities, and did not reveal his conflict of interest while also taking no action to prosecute the case.

    Tanner’s opponent, J R Larizza, unaware of this extremely disturbing matter, however, has run a campaign with the theme that “John Tanner thinks he is above the law.” This sentiment has been echoed by many in the law enforcement community over which Tanner has jurisdiction to initiate and/or refuse investigation and prosecution. The Volusia County Sherriff, Ben Johnson, was quoted in the Daytona Beach News Journal (August 2, 2007) that “he fears Tanner is on a ‘crusade’ against his deputies as payback” for Johnson’s prior public criticism of Tanner’s investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter’s arrest. That investigation was eventually transferred to another State Attorney, Harry Shorestein, who convened the Grand Jury investigation the report of which, apparently highly critical of Tanner, still remains sealed from public view. During that investigation Tanner forced Shorestein’s son, Bryan, an Assistant State Attorney in Tanner’s office, to resign for allegedly downloading hardcore porn on a State Attorney’s Office computer – an allegation Bryan Shorstein denies.

    Yet while the critical Grand Jury report remains sealed from public view, as Tanner seeks re-election to yet another term as his district’s highest law enforcement official and member of the judicial branch of government, it is perhaps the public records – those detailing Tanner’s complicity in covering for a fellow church member who confessed to him multiple crimes of sexual battery on a minor and failing to place his public duties, as State Attorney, above his private preferences – that reveal the need for the public to take a stand regarding what Larizza appears to accurately portray as an official who deems himself to be above the law.

    The lack of accountability, double-standards, and extremely troubling history of Tanner should be motivation for the citizens of the 7th District, if not the entire State of Florida and the nation, to have those public records brought to light with an official investigation whether or not Tanner remains in the office of State Attorney. It should, however, also be strong motivation for the voters in Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam and Volusia County – Republicans, Democrats and others – to take a stand this Tuesday by going to the polls with the intent of removing Tanner from his position of power and authority so that he can stand accused of these truly disturbing acts, and indeed a history of questionable activities and privately-motivated crusades at the public’s expense, and to stand accused, be investigated and potentially prosecuted, as a private citizen. With the same rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty by the State as should be expected as the standard applied to those whom Tanner, in his twenty-year history as the 7th Judicial District’s lead prosecuting attorney, should have been granted.

    On Tuesday, August 26th, you, the citizens and voters of Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam, and Volusia County have the opportunity to hold public officials to account. You, the citizen, through your vote, are indeed the only means of checking the abuses of power when those charged with enforcing the law and upholding the rights of the citizenry fail, often in their own self- or personal-interests, to do so.

    Further information on Tanner’s controversial career can be found throughout the internet. Here are two interesting sites that could provide a starting point for your own research:

    Special Report of the Daytona Beach News-Journalonline.com
    Volusia Hometown Democracy: Things to Know about John Tanner

    Both sites provide multiple links to prior stories and information.

    Charles Grapski

    By Blogger ap_video, at 2:57 AM  

  • Primary Election – Tuesday August 26th

    But the State Attorney Race is the GENERAL ELECTION
    Therefore all party affiliations and non-party can vote in this important race

    Incumbent John Tanner
    Faces a Significant Challenge
    By Challenger RJ Larizza

    RJ Larizza – Challenger John Tanner – Incumbent
    CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: www.Larizza2008.com
    CAMPAIGN WEB SITE: www.TannerForJustice.com

    Daytona Beach News Journal Profile
    RJ Larizza PA and Associates
    Office of the State Attorney John Tanner 7th Judicial Circuit


    News 4 Jax Candidate Profiles: 7th Judicial Circuit State Attorney
    Orlando Sentinel Voter’s Guide
    Florida Times Union (Jacksonville) Story


    Currently the polling in this race shows that it is extremely close and with a lackluster turnout for early and absentee ballots the decision will likely come down to the turnout of undecided voters in Tuesday’s Primary Race. However, although this is the date for the primary, this race is open to voters of all affiliations (Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Greens, Libertarians and all other parties as well as those registered Independent or NPA (No Party Affiliation). Recent polling has shown that the race is currently neck and neck with an even split of 37% for Tanner and 36% for Larizza. 25% remain undecided. And it is likely to be those undecided voters as well as voters from the Democratic and other parties who may not be aware that they can vote in this race pitting two Republican candidates against each other with no other opponent in another primary. Thus rendering this Tuesday’s election the final, and thus general, election for this extremely important office.

    Tanner has been a controversial figure from the start and faces increasing opposition among law enforcement within his jurisdiction as well as citizens concerned for the public interest. At age 25, Tanner, prior to becoming State Attorney, was indicted for manslaughter in the death of a lifeguard trainee. He first obtained the office of State Attorney in 1988 and immediately became infamous for his death row “prayer sessions” with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy. Tanner has openly stated his “born again Christian” religious status, claiming to have found God at age 40, as a major characteristic of his private and public activities. (See Your State Attorney: Man of God, Man of Law) Following the Bundy sessions Tanner became convinced that pornography was to blame for Bundy’s crimes and he began an anti-pornography crusade which eventually cost him re-election in 1992.

    Upon returning to office Tanner was no less controversial as a public official. He has come under severe criticism of law enforcement officers after he waged what they view as retaliatory investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter, Lisa, was arrested for public intoxication. He has also been recently criticized for spending over half-a-million dollars of public money fighting to keep a Grand Jury Report, critical of Tanner, from being released to the public. In 2004 Tanner was fined $2,500 for attempting to board a flight at the Daytona Beach International Airport with firearms and ammunition along with knives and other weapons.

    Most troubling, however, are some recent revelations of Tanner’s activities both prior to and during this campaign. Tanner is reported to have made a comment at a meeting of a Republican’s Women’s Club, where he and his opponent were guests, that he would “shoot Barack Obama if he believed he was a terrorist.” Ironically this event occurred the same day a man was arrested in Miami and jailed without bond for the offense of making a threat on the life of a candidate for the presidency.

    But perhaps the most disturbing allegations to have arisen during the past weeks come from official documents from police investigations within his jurisdiction. According to the documents, Tanner, teaching Sunday School, was approached by one of the members who confessed to him a history of sexual abuse on his step daughter from the age of five through the age of ten – incidents that occurred, according to the records, in both Florida (in Tanner’s district) and Tennessee. In an autobiographical confession by the individual, James Lake, which was entered into police evidence after he committed suicide Lake details how he sought out Tanner after Sunday School class to make his confession out of guilt and also sought Tanner to involve his wife in providing counseling to his wife and the victimized daughter. "I stayed after Sunday School and broke down and confessed to John Tanner the horrible thing I had done. I was hoping, that his wife, Marcia, would be able to talk with Lisa, and be able to help them.”

    According to the autobiographical confession, which details Lake’s life from an early childhood of sexual abuse through 1998, “John agreed that this needed to stay between us, and that he would counsel me, and approach Marcia [Tanner’s wife], about Lisa, and (minor’s name omitted).” But after considering this option Tanner informed Lake that he could not involve his wife as she would have then had a legal obligation to report the crime to state law enforcement and would therefore have a conflict of interest.

    For some reason Tanner did not consider himself bound to the same obligations and failed to report the crime and confession, took no official action to document the event, and initiated no investigation or prosecution. After a falling out with his wife Lake kidnapped his step-children and fled to California. This event initiated a police investigation, leading to the return of the children to Florida, and an official investigation by local law enforcement within Tanner’s jurisdiction. Although the police investigators sought, and eventually obtained, evidence of the molestation – first in an officially sanctioned recording of a telephone recording between his wife and Lake in which Lake was asked to, and did, confess to the many unlawful acts – Tanner did not take action or alert the investigators of his prior knowledge of the situation.

    With an official investigation under way Lake again sought the assistance of Tanner but given the change of circumstances Tanner chose to speak through a third party, in which he advised Lake on legal matters with regard to what he should do in Court, and stated at that point he could only assist him if he turned himself in if an official complaint was filed in the molestation case by his wife who was now in the process of seeking a divorce. Further investigations, revealed in official police documents, obtained a detailed history of the sexual acts committed on the minor step-daughter over the period of years the family lived in both Tennessee and Florida. Included in the evidence obtained in the case, (98-3428 filed initially with the Flagler Beach Police Department) which was turned over to Tanner’s office, were letters written by Lake seeking forgiveness and admitting his wrongful acts to members of his family, including an apologetic letter sent to the victim’s grandmother in which Lake again recounts the story of how he first went to Tanner for help regarding his wrongful acts and concerns for his family members. Tanner did not reveal his involvement with Lake, his knowledge of the criminal activities, and did not reveal his conflict of interest while also taking no action to prosecute the case.

    Tanner’s opponent, J R Larizza, unaware of this extremely disturbing matter, however, has run a campaign with the theme that “John Tanner thinks he is above the law.” This sentiment has been echoed by many in the law enforcement community over which Tanner has jurisdiction to initiate and/or refuse investigation and prosecution. The Volusia County Sherriff, Ben Johnson, was quoted in the Daytona Beach News Journal (August 2, 2007) that “he fears Tanner is on a ‘crusade’ against his deputies as payback” for Johnson’s prior public criticism of Tanner’s investigation into the Flagler County Jail after his daughter’s arrest. That investigation was eventually transferred to another State Attorney, Harry Shorestein, who convened the Grand Jury investigation the report of which, apparently highly critical of Tanner, still remains sealed from public view. During that investigation Tanner forced Shorestein’s son, Bryan, an Assistant State Attorney in Tanner’s office, to resign for allegedly downloading hardcore porn on a State Attorney’s Office computer – an allegation Bryan Shorstein denies.

    Yet while the critical Grand Jury report remains sealed from public view, as Tanner seeks re-election to yet another term as his district’s highest law enforcement official and member of the judicial branch of government, it is perhaps the public records – those detailing Tanner’s complicity in covering for a fellow church member who confessed to him multiple crimes of sexual battery on a minor and failing to place his public duties, as State Attorney, above his private preferences – that reveal the need for the public to take a stand regarding what Larizza appears to accurately portray as an official who deems himself to be above the law.

    The lack of accountability, double-standards, and extremely troubling history of Tanner should be motivation for the citizens of the 7th District, if not the entire State of Florida and the nation, to have those public records brought to light with an official investigation whether or not Tanner remains in the office of State Attorney. It should, however, also be strong motivation for the voters in Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam and Volusia County – Republicans, Democrats and others – to take a stand this Tuesday by going to the polls with the intent of removing Tanner from his position of power and authority so that he can stand accused of these truly disturbing acts, and indeed a history of questionable activities and privately-motivated crusades at the public’s expense, and to stand accused, be investigated and potentially prosecuted, as a private citizen. With the same rights to be presumed innocent until proven guilty by the State as should be expected as the standard applied to those whom Tanner, in his twenty-year history as the 7th Judicial District’s lead prosecuting attorney, should have been granted.

    On Tuesday, August 26th, you, the citizens and voters of Flagler, St. John’s, Putnam, and Volusia County have the opportunity to hold public officials to account. You, the citizen, through your vote, are indeed the only means of checking the abuses of power when those charged with enforcing the law and upholding the rights of the citizenry fail, often in their own self- or personal-interests, to do so.

    Further information on Tanner’s controversial career can be found throughout the internet. Here are two interesting sites that could provide a starting point for your own research:

    Special Report of the Daytona Beach News-Journalonline.com
    Volusia Hometown Democracy: Things to Know about John Tanner

    Both sites provide multiple links to prior stories and information.

    Charles Grapski

    By Blogger ap_video, at 2:57 AM  

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