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| Cerk of the Court Pam Childers' vaccuous, meritless, baseless ethics complaint against me summarily recommeded for dismissal...... |
It's like Deja Vu all over.
First, insiders in the county IT department stole confidential files and disseminated them to others in contravention to law in an effort to destroy me. No consequences to any of them for what they did-- even though what they did was a crime and possession of the PII in the stolen files is a Felony. Ho hum. No consequences. Multiple people have this data, the state officials charged with enforcing laws prohibiting this know who has it, and nobody has been charged.
Nope--In lieu of prosecuting those that did wrong in stealing and passing around copies of Social Security Numbers, Tax Forms, Medical Records, Banking Information, and other sensitive data---the powers that be instead decided to cook up some BS garbage that I violated the sunshine law. They even sent stolen text messages from my personal phone to the grand jury hoping I had done something wrong. The grand jury, after going through three-years worth of my text messages with a fine toothed comb, quickly determined I had done nothing wrong, committed no crime, and they returned no true bill. Case closed.
Fast forward to mid July of this year, right before the election, and I get notified that Clerk of the Court Pam Childers has filed a baseless, vaccuous, vindictive and meritless "Ethics Complaint" against me.
Now, the way these things work is they are confidential until there is a finding of a violation or when there is a recommendation of no violation by the LAWYERs who work at the ethics commission.
So, I got the complaint, spoke to the investgator, and sent in my response to the FDOE.
The prosecuting investigator pushed forward, and I pushed back---knowing I followed every law to the T.
Just because people don't like what I say, or don't like the things I said in private text messages that were stolen and disseminated unlawfully-----does not mean I have done anything wrong.
To the contrary--I follow rules, I follow the law, have never violated any law during my 18 year tenure on either the school board or the board of county commissioners. That's why, when my head hits the pillow at night I am out like a light, and I sleep like a rock.
So, it comes as no surprise that even after the prosecuting investigator pushed this garbage bag case forward with this garbage report---my answer quelched and squashed any notion that anything unlawful had occurred. Blew it up like a bomb. Blew it to smithereens.
The minute an actual expert in the law, a LAWYER with FDOE looked at the prosecuting investigator's report and my response side by side---it was almost an instantaneous recommendation by the Lawyer for dismissal. From the FDOE LAWYER's order:
"There is insufficient evidence to reflect that Respondent brought the matter to the County Commission in a manner that was inconsistent with the proper performance of his public duties. While County Attorney Rogers initially opined that Selover's request to pay the fine and fees should be rejected, she then offered an alternative option that the County Commission voted to accept as a means to pay the fines and fees. Therefore, based on the evidence before the commission, I recommend that the commission find no probablecause to believe that Respondent violated Section 112.313(6), Florida statutes."
