I've been invited to appear tomorrow morning as the leadoff guest on the area's best, highest rated, most trusted, most credible and unbiased source for morning drive news talk--"Real News with Rick Outzen" on 1370 WCOA.
Rick will likely ask me to recap last Wednesday's BCC meeting and in addition we will more than likely discuss the latest on OLF 8, the appropriate and lawful utilization of TDT funds, the impending closure of REAP lodges, The big meeting in Perdido/D1 on incorporation tomorrow night, and any other issues of importance Rick would like to discuss.
Tune in live at 7:00AM--or catch the podcast here, where I will post it once it is published.
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Make sure you talk about this story:
https://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/escambia-county/2023/08/21/commissioner-jeff-bergosh-texts-mention-edler-ousted-ems-doctor/70608398007/
You continue to be an embarrassment to our community. Meanwhile Rome is burning and our county continues to unnecessarily be one of the poorest counties in Florida
If the reporting is representative of what did and didn't happen, it sounds to me like you've got another outside counsel asleep at the wheel and not even bothering to bring evidence. Is she even aware of Cannon's own recommendations on public record in the Bear vs. Underhill federal case?--you know, the one that Doug has been dragging out for four years now.
If I'm you, Commissioner Bergosh, I'd be intervening into this case *hard* to get an injunction against anyone releasing any private messages with my family. Clearly, you cannot sit back and think an insurance lawyer is going to have your family's best interest and back on this with the sort of zeal a personal attorney would be pursuing it.
It sounds to me like Edler's lawyers are in the process of normalizing the crime. Cannon is a fantastic magistrate and a great writer, but she did make one glaring wrong recommendation in the Bear case that Judge Cannon had to overrule. Hopefully despite what seems to have been a lackluster performance on the part of "your" attorney, Cannon is going to see clear through the distractions to the law that she and Judge Cannon have already so clearly elucidated.
**All of the questions under discussion at the hearing yesterday were already hashed in Bear vs Underhill, apart from the theft.
Doug raised holy hell about letting JJ Talbott and Rick Figlio even see his private messages, apart from Mr. Bear. THE COURT REVIEWED THEM INSTEAD AND MADE THE DETERMINATION WHAT WAS PUBLIC AND WHAT WAS PRIVATE, and turned a small portion over for Doug to sift through and decide.
This was even with there being absolutely no question where the messages were coming from--they were coming from Doug himself. Did "your" attorney even mention any of that, in her filings or verbal argument? (I would have no idea--I haven't been following this case on PACER and didn't attend the hearing.)
It's clearly time that you either decide to retain yourself and your family adequate counsel and pursue this crime seriously, rather than allowing another hack outside counsel to punch a clock as stand-in for a personal attorney, or to just make peace with everything being released all over town.
If I were worried about my texts to you getting released, you can bet I'd be intervening legally. As I couldn't care less, there's no reason to spend that money.
My family members aren't on that string, though. If they were, make no mistake this thing would have already had an injunction with a half dozen TROs slammed down by now.
ps. Why don't Edler's attorneys just turn the messages over to the magistrate, and then PRR you for all the public record? The Court can then see if there are any discrepancies.
ANY attorney who had the slightest idea of recent public record recommendations and rulings made by THE SAME MAGISTRATE AND COURT THEY'RE SITTING IN FRONT OF could have made this argument as a secondary request to just tossing them altogether.
In addition, why is Jim Little stating in his article this morning that you didn't respond to a PRR? Are Edler's lawyers claiming you didn't, or does Jim have Jonathan Owens too far down his ear again?
Sorry, correction above: that was of course supposed to be Judge *Rogers* overruled her magistrate Hope Cannon's recommendation on whether Doug intended to withhold his public record.
In a nutshell, Cannon reversed what she had seemed to say earlier and recommended that he really didn't technically do anything on purpose. So Judge Rogers had to overrule that with language that can be summarized as "The hell he didn't."
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