Good Morning Florida Keys

Sheriff Capt. Bob Peryam attended the Florida Keys Contractors Association meet-the-candidates luncheon at Sombrero Country Club yesterday. He walked over, looked me in the eye, shook my hand, and said, “It’s good to see you.” I wondered why he did that, because I couldn’t imagine him feeling it was good to see me. I could imagine him telling me I was lying about him, slandering him. But he didn’t do that. He looked me in the eye, shook my hand and said it was good to see me. He seemed to mean it.

He did mean it. Deep inside, Bob wants all of it out in the open. He wants everyone who knows him, everyone who might vote for him, to know all of him, and not just part of him. This is how the soul works: it wants everything out in the light of day, because the soul knows this is the only way for everything to be righted, aligned, resolved.

As Jesus told his own disciples, if they abided in him, they would come to know the truth and the truth would set them free. As Jesus told them when he was preparing to leave them before Pentecost, he would send them something to lead them in his stead. At Pentecost, they received the Spirit of Truth, which led them from that day forward.

Deep down inside, Bob Peryam wants Keys people, especially Keys women, to know his weaknesses. What it might be like if he is sheriff, when he has even more power and is a role model for his male deputies and officers. He wants it known that he is vulnerable to blackmail and being asked special favors from women he has sex with, and from their families, especially from their parents. And that he encouraged Courtney Kelley to apply for a job with the Sheriff’s Office, which she then did, in “special ops,” but was turned down, which really upset him.

Bob wants Keys people to know that recently Sheriff Roth had his case reopened, not to investigate Bob, but to try to find something to pin on Sandra Downs. This came about after Diana Kelley, Courtney’s mother, called Bob to complain about Sandy harassing her. Bob wants Keys people to know that I warned Sandy to be very careful of Diana, and that I talked with Sandy the entire time she was in dialogue with her. Sandy approached Diana by phone, and she responded. Sandy never saw Diana, they never visited face-to-face. Sandy’s cell phone records show she called Diana a couple of times, and Diana called her. It was two-way. It was voluntary. There was no harassment.

Bob wants Keys people to know this, and that it was not Sandy but Dennis Reeves Cooper, of Key West the Newspaper, who finally pried Diana’s 7-page handwritten complaint out of the Sheriff’s Office. Dennis gave a copy to Sandy. Only after he broke the story in KWTN did Sandy type up Diana’s complaint, at my request, and give me a copy, which I then posted to the Bob Peryam/Kelley Family File page of goodmorningfloridakeys.com. For all of which Bob looked me in the eye, shook my hand, and told me yesterday that it was good to see me. He meant it.

Sloan Bashinsky, non-partisan county commission candidate

Political advertisement, by human standards, written, paid for and approved by me.

Today I’m scheduled to attend the Florida Keys Contractors Association Meet the Candidates get-together at Sombrero Country Club in Marathon. I confess to having mixed feelings about being there. I mean, I’m the candidate who keeps saying no more new development, period, the end. The candidate who says the same for new development disguised as “redevelopment,“ when the finished product looks nothing like the original footprint. The candidate who says the fragile Keys have had all the development they can stand, and no one who lives here can look in the mirror and honestly argue otherwise. The candidate who says, yeah, if someone owns a buildable lot and wishes to build his or her home on it and live here full-time, then that should be allowed. But not to live here only part-time. We don’t need any more part-time residents.

I realize this an extreme position to take. Alas, extreme measures are needed. We live in an environmentally sensitive and threatened area. Look around at all the houses and condos already for sale in the Keys. Thousands. We need more houses and condos here? You will never convince me. We need more vacation rentals, timeshares? You will never convince me. We need more hotels? You will never convince me. We need more shopping malls? You will never convince me. What we need is more affordable rental housing. Affordable by dictionary definition, not by developer or politician definition. Alas, the price of Keys land is so high that it seems impossible for contractors to build affordable rental housing and then make a profit from renting at affordable rates.

I recently read in Key West Citizen an article in which developer Ed Swift of Key West sharply criticized Key West City for funding the rehab of existing houses in Bahama Village, which were costing $300,000, I think it was said in the article, to re-do; then they would be rented. M recollection is Ed said individual new rental units could be built for $30,000-$40,000. Key West Mayor Morgan McPherson, as I recall, was quoted as saying they, the City Commission, maybe needed to take another look at the Bahama Village project, in view of the costs of rehabbing those houses.

I found myself wondering, hmmm, if Ed can build rental units for $30,000 to $40,000, how come we don’t see any of that going on? Then, I find myself thinking, where’s Ed going to get the land to do it on? The only place I know to get land for building living units at a cost of $30,000 to $40,000 dollars, is land already owned by Keys cities and Monroe County. With no land cost, a contractor can build pretty cheap here. Maybe come in at $40,000 per unit, or less. Maybe. What size that unit would be, I can’t imagine. Maybe the size of the flat I rent in Key West: a one-room efficiency, with separate bath and shower, for $1,150 a month, including all utilities and a parking space. I suppose that’s affordable housing. Key West City seems to think so, because the owner of my unit rents it out under the City’s affordable housing program. My place is fine for me, but would be a stretch for two people.

I hope Ed will show our local governments how to build affordable living units at somewhere near the cost he said in the Citizen article. Affordable rental units. And I hope he will build them for the cities and county, get paid a fair wage for doing it, then move onto another similar project, leaving for the government housing authorities to do the renting and managing. Municipal bonds could be floated to cover the cost of construction, with rentals paying off the bonds.

We do not need one more market rate transient rental unit, of any kind. We do not need another stick of housing built for people who don’t live here. Or who only want to live here part time. There already are thousands of houses and condos for sale in the Keys for those kind of people to buy or rent. Thousands. What we need is affordable rental housing for rank-and-file Keys people, the poor working stiffs who live here.

I’m sure the contractors I will be with today will be thrilled to hear this from me, even though it’s not like I don‘t know their trade. I used to be a real estate lawyer. I represented some small building contractors from time to time. I incorporated a few of them. Drew up their wills. Closed their sales and mortgage financing for their buyers. Defended and prosecuted their lawsuits. I sometimes played golf with them, went out drinking after work. I sometimes took them to banks to tell their lending officer that they could not finish out construction in progress and were giving it back to the bank.

I hope I am able to persuade some of them to make deals with our city and county governments to build affordable rental housing for regular Keys people. I’m not holding my breath, though, because I have yet to meet or hear of a Keys contractor who impressed me as willing to put the Keys and rank-and-file Keys people first.

Sloan Bashinsky, non-partisan county commission candidate, District 3

Political advertisement, yeah, sure, written, approved and paid for by me

I received the same thing by email from two different people, replying to yesterday’s Women’s.Rights post. They both have bellsouth.net email addresses. Maybe they are kissin’ cousins.

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Let’s play guess who? Winner takes “best observer title.” In Michaels Haskins book, Chasin the Wind, he describes a publisher/editor as, “fat, bald guy, with stringy mouse tail, who writes crap, going after people who can’t do anything about it. A speck of truth and he fills the rest with innuendo and rumor. He’s no journalist.” Who can this person be?

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I’m fat, but not bald. I have no tail of any kind, but would like to get some again before I die. I write a great deal of crap because that’s about all there is out there to write. I go after anyone I can find in a wheel chair, iron lung or oxygen tent, and all children who have not yet reach puberty, the younger the better, especially those too young yet to read and write. Better still, they can’t even speak yet. I doubt I say anything that is true, much less a speck. It’s all innuendo and rumor. Just read what I post to Today’s FlaKey Drivel at goodmorningfloridakeys.com, and see for yourself.

Right, I’m no journalist. I’m a politician, running for public office. Darn. I must need to get a better disguise. And a new publicist and ad writer. I mean, this drivel I put out is supposed to make people like me, want to vote for me! But the way I’m going, I’ll be the most unpopular candidate ever to live on this world. Why, I may set the Guinness Book of Records record for getting the least number of votes! I mean, does anyone really think there is anything whatsoever sane about wanting to be an elected public official? Well? Is there anyone? See, not a hand raised.

Meanwhile, back to another email I received yesterday about someone who can’t look out for herself:

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“It is Incongruous to me that Jim Scholl and Mark Rossi were invited to help the embattled Louis LaTorre by the defense attorney. Are they not drinking buddies? How could an intelligent jury accept their testimony? All three are well known to enjoy their alcohol. Staying out until 2:30AM, drinking, means trouble for anyone, including the infamous three.”

[Jim is Key West’s City Manager, Mark is a City Commissioner. Also with them that night was Morgan McPherson, Mayor of Key West, who also testified in Louis’ behalf, according to the most recent Keynoter issue.]

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Let’s see. I’m sitting on that jury. I hear three high Key West city officials testify that their old friend Louis was out boozing with them until the wee hours. I hear that Louis finally gets in his car and drives on the wrong side of US 1 and collides with an oncoming vehicle and permanently cripples a woman who also has been drinking some herself but is driving on the side of the road she is supposed to be driving on. I see that Louis apparently got out without much more than a scratch. I see Louis’ buddies, who were out boozing with him that night, trying to help his lawyers somehow make it out to look like the woman was at fault and Louis wasn’t. I wonder if Louis’ old friends would be trying to get him off if Nadezda Bowman was one of their daughters? Or the daughter of one of their friends? Or if she had just been a Conch, or even an American by birth? I wonder. Then I write something on my jury ballot.

Sloan Bashinsky, non-partisan county commission candidate

Just in case someone somehow actually thinks this is a political advertisement, it was written, approved and paid for by me, and by winged ones nobody really wants to mess with, least of all, a fat, bald guy, with a stringy mouse tail, who writes crap and goes after people who cannot look out for themselves. Poor helpless bubbas, maybe they all need to go to prison where they can pick on people who really can take care of themselves — right, Sandy?

Yesterday’s Stalking.Blues post described a new menu file at goodmorningfloridakeys.com — Black & Blues. The second report in that file is about a Deputy Calhoun, who appears to enjoy stalking and terrorizing young Keys women.

The second report came into being after two Keys women contacted Sandra Downs and told her their stories. I then met with Sandy and one of the women, Talia, for a couple of hours one night, and came away very upset. My ensuing dreams did not attempt to persuade me not to be upset.

Sandy called me yesterday morning with an update. Talia had called her to say “Mayor DiGennaro’s daughter, Bianca” — Talia spelled DiGennaro correctly, as it had been spelled for her by Bianca — had told her that she, too, is being stalked by Deputy Calhoun. I told Sandy that Mario needed to be notified, and said I would call him, which I then did. He answered the phone, and was with his wife. I told them what I had heard; said I was convinced it was very serious, there is something really wrong with this deputy, and for them proceed accordingly. I did not hear anything back, but knowing Mario, I imagine he is looking into it. His family is precious to him, and I seriously doubt he is going to let any harm befall Bianca, if he has anything to say and do about it.

I later told Sandy that if she had been Sheriff, shortly after she learned of this, Deputy Calhoun would have had his neck snatched so hard that he would have had to spend the rest of his life in a chiropractor’s office. It will be interesting to see what Sheriff Roth does with this news. He is on my email list. Has been for years. Whether or not he or anyone in his office reads what I send to him to read, I don’t know. It’s the same stuff I send to the five county commissioners and State Attorney Kohl to read. And to many Keys people. And post to goodmorningfloridakeys.com and goodmorningkeywest.com.

Maybe it’s time for all of us to step back and ask ourselves: How come? How come this happened? How come Deputy Calhoun is on the loose? How come?

Maybe we should ask ourselves about Deputy Calhoun’s role models?

Maybe we should ask ourselves if there is an attitude in the Keys that it’s okay for men to do this sort of thing?

Maybe we should ask ourselves if that attitude needs to be taken seriously and something be done about it?

Maybe we should create a special commission to study on this, then make recommendations. Maybe we should hire qualified people to serve on this commission and pay them well for their hard work with this truly unpleasant task. Maybe we should start by hiring now County Mayor Sonny McCoy, Sheriff Captain Bob Peryam and recently retired Key West Police Chief Bill Mauldin.

Or maybe we should just put someone in the Sheriff’s Office who really will do something about it. Guess who?

Sloan Bashinsky, non-partisan county commission candidate, District 3

Political explosion, written, paid for and approved by little ole me, with some nudging from above . . .

A verbatim typed reproduction of the 7-page handwritten complaint filed against Sheriff Captain Bob Peryam, which was the basis of the front-page article in the current issue of Key West the Newspaper, is now posted in the new Bob Peryam/Kelley Family File at goodmorningfloridakeys.com. What most baffles me is it appears from KWTN’s article that the Sheriff’s Office took Bob Peryam’s word for what happened, even though it was looking at a very detailed handwritten complaint that very likely could not have just been dreamed up, a good bit of which could have been verified or disproved by the Sheriff’s Office simply speaking with the complainant’s family members and their neighbors.

Nor does it appear that polygraph examinations were done on either Bob Peryam or the complainant. Why does the Sheriff’s Office have a resident polygraph examiner, if not for cases such as this one? If I had been Bob Peryam and such charges had been leveled against me and I was innocent, I would have demanded to be polygraphed. Demanded. And I would have asked that the complainant be polygraphed, too. I would have done the same thing if I was Bob Peryam’s lawyer, or a representative of the Police Benevolent Union acting in Bob’s behalf.

Yesterday, Sandy Downs emailed me two “new” MSCO “stalking” cases, which now are posted in the new Black & Blues file of goodmorningfloridakeys.com. Read and know that maybe only the tip of the iceberg has been reported about MSCO predation. I told someone yesterday, who asked what are Sandy Downs’ credentials to be Sheriff, that she earned them by investigating the Sheriff’s Office for three years. I should have added, mostly all by herself, for free, and it’s time she gets paid for doing it.

Meanwhile, Bill Becker, News Coordinater of US 1 Radio, and Tom Tuell, Editor of our only daily newspaper, Key West Citizen, were on US 1 Radio together yesterday morning, applauding that we now have two experienced law enforcement officers running for Sheriff: Bob Peryam and a just-retired DEA agent, who the Republicans are backing to run against another already-declared Republican, Phil Mandina, who himself, unmentioned by Becker and Tuell, has considerable experience in law enforcement, and, unlike the other two experienced law enforcement officers, also is an attorney and has practiced and still is practicing law.

It doesn’t look to me that having experience in law enforcement has anything to do with a candidate making a good sheriff, or even a good law enforcement officer. Just look at Capt. Bob Peryam, whose many years of law enforcement experience seem to have taught him very little about the difference between right and wrong. Just look at Sheriff Rick Roth, now retiring, which is why all these people are running for Sheriff. Roth has as a Captain, Bob Peryam, and as a Lieutenant, Bob’s wife, Cindy, who is Roth’s head of Internal Affairs. If Roth had learned anything from experience in law enforcement, he sure as hell would not have one of his captain’s wives in charge of Internal Affairs.

I told Sandy yesterday that it looked to me that Bob Peryam was pointing me straight at Charles “Sonny” McCoy, our County Mayor, who once again is running for re-election on the County Commission, which chooses among its five members our County Mayor. I told Sandy that Dennis Reeves Cooper, Publisher and Editor of Key West the Newspaper, who busted the Bob Peyram story wide open, could have done the same thing with the Sonny McCoy stalking story, but Dennis didn’t touch it. Nor has Dennis ever touched it, because Sonny is one of Dennis’ buddies, whom Dennis lets write a weekly column in KWTN about anything Sonny wants to write about.

Nor was the Sonny McCoy stalking story mentioned by Key West Citizen when it recently announced Sonny’s decision to run again. What? The Citizen doesn’t think it should throw into its coverage of a campaign announcement a little alleged dirt on the announcing candidate, but it was okay for the Citizen to write a great deal about the recent hasty and quiet departure of Key West’s Police Chief Bill Mauldin, who was alleged with stalking and exposing himself to and pawing his office’s and the city’s Public Affairs Officer, Christie Phillips? Isn’t the public entitled to be reminded of the alleged dirty underwear of a candidate for public office, when the campaign announcement is made? Shouldn’t the public be reminded of it? Of course the public should be reminded, because the public has to decide whether or not to vote for the candidate. And because, if the public puts the candidate into office, it has to live with the alleged chickens, if they come home to roost.

So what didn’t the Citizen or Key West the Newspaper tell the public about Sonny McCoy when he announced he was going to run again? What the public did not hear was the story of Sonny and his aide, Celeste Bruno. So I am put by my dream maker last night to tell it here, based strictly on what I already read in the Citizen and heard about town quite a while ago now. Only Celeste, Sonny and God know what really happened. Well, I sort of really know, because I would have been told in dreams if there is nothing to Celeste’s side of the story. Since most people don’t seem to have the hotline to heaven I am blessed/cursed with, here is a more human perspective.

Celeste was Sonny’s Executive Assistant, working in his county commissioner office. Her salary and benefits were paid by the County. She said Sonny kept coming on to her. It got so bad that she quit her job. Then she became County Commissioner Dixie Spehar’s Executive Assistant. The stalking continued, Celeste said. Finally, it got the best of her and she quit working for Dixie. She started complaining. One of Sonny’s bubba friends was sent to prison for harassing Celeste about her complaints. But not Sonny. Hmmm, let me guess? He’s a Republican. Sheriff Roth is a Republican. State Attorney Kohl is a Republican. Or maybe Sonny is so powerful in Key West that he simply is untouchable by local law enforcement? Even by the Feds?

Celeste ended up in therapy. Then, she moved away. She did not leave quietly. She went to the EEOC. They investigated. Heard enough to convince them to give Celeste a right-to-sue letter, which is required before someone can bring a civil law suit under federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination/harassment on the job site. On the job site. You guessed it. Since it was on the job site, the County will provide for Sonny’s legal defense under its employment contract with him, and will pay any civil damages assessed against him. A county commissioner screws up on the job, the County pays for it. A county commissioner stalks a county employee, the County does not pay for the employee’s legal expenses or damages, if the employee wants to do something about it. Just doesn’t seem quite fair, does it? But that’s how it is.

Being a lawyer and all, although not one who still practices law, here’s what I would have done if I was the Sheriff or County Attorney when Celeste decided to complain about Sonny. It is also what I would have done if I had been sitting on the County Commission. Or on the EEOC. I would have asked Sonny to submit to polygraph examination. And Celeste, too. I would want to get to the bottom of it as quickly as possible. True, polygraph tests are not 100 percent reliable. Also true, a person usually cannot be forced to submit to a polygraph examination. Even so, the Key West Police Department, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and the F.B.I. and DEA, and other law enforcement and security agencies and offices use polygraph testing to help them evaluate cases.

There is no reason the County Commission should not do this, too. In fact, the County Commission should pass an ordinance saying: If from the date of passage of this ordinance, a county employee is accused of illegal wrongdoing, or if a county employee accuses another county employee of illegal wrongdoing, then the accused and/or accusing employee must submit to polygraph examination. If the employee declines to be polygraph-tested, the employee is in breach of contract and automatically and permanently ceases to be a county employee, and loses, even if the employee is a county commissioner, any and all rights to be provided legal defense and/or indemnification for damages arising from actions or alleged actions of said employee.

Sloan Bashinsky, non-partisan county commission candidate, District 3, which is Sonny McCoy’s district

Paid political advertisement, I suppose, written, approved and paid for by little old me.

I also suppose the beatings will continue until morale improves . . .

This week’s issue of Key West the Newspaper, which comes out today (Friday, 25 April), features a front-page piece about Sheriff Captain Bob Peryam, the Democrat candidate for Sheriff. This piece makes fools of Key West Citizen and its editor, Tom Tuell. Fools. Why? Because Sandra Downs went first to Tom with the story, and he did not chase it down like KWTN’s publisher and editor, Dennis Reeves Cooper, later did. Instead, Tom and the Citizen published a near rave front-page announcement of Captain Bob Peryam and his race for Sheriff. Instead, Tom and the Citizen viewed Sandy as a nut case, a conspiracy freak, and in doing so Tom became the gadfly his newspaper had labeled Sandy, when it announced her candidacy for Sheriff. Not a gadfly in the Socrates get-to-the-bottom-of-things sense. A gadfly in the derogatory sense Tom and the Citizen meant to paint Sandy. Well, the chickens have indeed come home to roost, and not just for Tom Tuell and the Citizen.

Bob Peryam’s wife, Cindy, is head of Internal Affairs at the Sheriff’s Office. The evidence Dennis relied upon to write today’s piece about Cindy’s husband was given to him by the Sheriff’s Office after he dogged them to death for it. Evidence Cindy Peryam, head of Internal Affairs, had to have seen. Evidence Sheriff Rick Roth had to have seen. Evidence they shuttled all over the place, trying to keep it out of Sandy Downs’ hands, even though she was telling them she knew about it and wanted it under the transparency in government and freedom of information laws. Evidence that surely cuts Cindy Peryam’s heart to the quick, because it plainly shows that her husband thinks with his dick and doesn’t give a rat fuck about his own wife, or women, or other people’s families in general.

Bob Peryam is someone many people in the Keys want to have as their next sheriff. Well, let’s hope no women vote for him. Let’s hope that. For not only does Bob apparently think with his dick and show up where he isn’t welcome, he isn’t even man enough to admit it. Nor does he have the sense God gave a baboon. He ran for Sheriff knowing the Sheriff’s Office had this evidence on him. Did he think it would not somehow find its way into the light of day? Does he live in a state of such arrogance that he believes he is bullet proof? That it doesn’t matter what kind of “family man” he is?, which is what he has boasted in some of his political advertising that he is — a family man. Does he believe people will vote for him no matter who or what he really is? Apparently so. Nothing else could explain his idiotic behavior.

And what explains the behavior of Sheriff Roth, who has known of this evidence all along against Capt. Bob Peryam? What does that say about Sheriff Roth, who some time ago was featured in a front-page Key West Citizen about his retirement and applauded for his sparkling record in office? A law enforcement officer who had retired from government and taken a $394,200 lump sum retirement payment and almost $7,500 a month in additional retirement payments, and then went back to work at a $118,200 annual Sheriff’s salary? The same kind of sweet deal, which is legal in Florida, but not in all states, that Captain Bob Peryam wants for himself, we can only imagine. Legal double or even triple dipping. In Florida. We are going to allow a Sheriff Captain who thinks with his dick and seems to have no respect for families, whose wife has done nothing to rein him in, at home or on the job, to be our next Sheriff? If so, we are checking ourselves into the state mental. And hell.

Okay, boys and girls. Which Sheriff candidate says this sort of shit has to stop? Come on, tell me who is doing that? It’s okay. You can say it. Oh, you don’t want to say it? You are feeling like a fool? Aw, too bad. You thought Sandy was making it all up, just trying to get herself elected? Or she was crazy? Well, who is crazy now? It sure ain’t Sandy, folks. It’s the people who have been bashing her. The chickens indeed have come home to roost. And make no mistake: it was Sandy’s digging that brought Dennis Cooper into this case. It was Sandy who got this story starting to breathe the light of day. Sandy, who says, if elected, she will clean house in the Sheriff’s Office, keep the good deputies and get rid of the rest of them. Sandy, who says she will cut $6,000,000 in fat out of the $44,000,000 Sheriff’s budget. Sandy, who says she is going to encourage whistle-blowing in the Sheriff’s Office, and look out for and protect and encourage the good deupties. Sandy, who says she is going to catch the bad guys and put them in jail, no matter who they are. Even if they work in the Sheriff’s Office. In the State Attorney’s Office. In the County Courthouse. On the County Commission. Sandy.

Meanwhile, if this week’s copies of Dennis’ sleuth work are snatched off the newsstands before you get there, like, maybe by Bob Peryam and his friends, you can go to kwtn.com and read about it online, after it’s published there. As Dennis often writes when he is gnawing a bone, stay tuned . . .

Sloan Bashinsky, non-partisan county commission candidate, District 3

Political disturbance, written, borrowed, approved and paid for by me

I have been wondering when and last night in dreams I was cleared to write about the healing of the MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) sore on my abdomen, which I wrote about contracting some time ago. I said it was spirit-connected to deep unresolved past wrongdoing on my part, and to very tough spirit work I then was doing in the Keys, mostly around Keys mega-developer Pritam Singh.

There were three types of treatment, which went on at the same time.

1) I went to the Urgent Care Center on Flagler, where, after about an hour wait, I was seen by a nurse, who, on looking at the sore, agreed it was MRSA. She said she had once worked at Lower Keys Medical Center, and they had taken to culturing skin infections and subjecting the culture to different kinds of antibiotics, and MRSA responded best to Batrim, which is a sulfa drug. Shortly after seeing the nurse, and physician’s assistant came into the room and agreed that it was MRSA and wrote a 10-day prescription for generic Bactrim and an antibiotic cream, which I was to apply twice a day. She told me to apply warm, wet compresses to the sore several times a day. And Publix would fill the generic Bactrim prescription for free, as part of a promotion Publix was doing for certain common drugs. I did not see a doctor, and paid $235 by check for the bill for the office visit because I had no insurance. Publix charged me for the Bactrim substitute, and the total for it and the anti-biotic cream was $57, which I paid in cash. I took the Bactrim substitute, as prescribed, twice a day for ten days. I did not use the cream for very long, and after a few days, stopped the warm, wet compresses. Here’s why.

2) A woman friend in the Keys, who is getting to know something about medicinal herbs, advised me to find some Mediterranean oregano oil at a health food store, and apply it a few times a day to the sore. Alternatively, she said I could apply poultices of wild oregano, which she said grows locally in the Keys. She said it would kill the infection and draw out the poisons. She also advised me to get a jar of Vaseline Petroleum Jelly and mix tincture of iodine in it, until it became reddish in color, and apply that over the sore after I applied the oregano. She said the Vaseline would keep the sore open, so it would heal from inside out and not close up and trap the infection under the skin, and the iodine would both kill the infection and draw it out of me. She told me where to find wild oregano up her way in the Keys, but I found a small dropper bottle of wild Mediterranean oregano oil at Sugar Apple in Key West, for which I paid $35. I found the Vaseline and iodine at Wallgreen’s, and a long Ace-type bandage to use as a wrap about my abdomen, to hold a gauze bandage in place after I applied the oregano oil and iodinated Vaseline to the sore. Total cost at Walgreen’s about $15.

The oregano oil stung like the dickens, as did the iodinated Vaseline, which I applied after the stinging from the oregano oil had subsided. At first, I used maybe 3-4 drops of oregano oil at each application, but that was too much and it burned the wound. I cut back to a drop or two, which seemed okay. The iodinated Vaseline did not seem to aggravate the wound. By the third day of using these two “home remedies,” the sore was starting to respond. This was the fifth day of the total treatment. By the tenth day, when I ran out of the Bactrim substitute, the sore was starting to look more like an open healing wound, than a nasty infection, and it was shrinking. I continued the home remedies a few more days, as the wound continued to shrink and close. I stopped using the oil of oregano maybe three days, to give the would a rest from its powerful action, and only used the iodinated Vaseline. After about three days off the oregano oil, I went back to it. Maybe three weeks after the visit to the Urgent Care Center, the wound had healed.

3) Throughout the treatment, I was given different work assignments, in dreams mostly. Some of the assignments appeared in my daily posts, some did not. I did not enjoy these assignments, but I knew I had to do them, if I wished to be healed of the MRSA. Just before the Bactrim substitute ran out, I dreamt of two men from my past leaving and going someplace else. I understood on waking that they represented two egregious events/activities from my past, which had set me up in the spirit to have such a horrible thing as MRSA. I understood I was being healed. I also understood that I would not be healed if I did not do the work assignments given to me to do.

I am not usually treated to a miracle cure of something that ails me, physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually. I am given work to do, and as I do it, healing occurs. I am pretty sure this has to do with something I came to understand about the New Testament, oh, maybe ten years ago. In that Age, an attempt was made by heaven, through Jesus, to use miracles to lure people to him. This was understand to be risky, because it was seen that people might be so wowed by the miracles that they could lose sight of how Jesus was living and what he was saying. The risk proved out, and today Christendom focuses a great deal on the miracles and very little on how Jesus was and what he said.

Churches mostly tell people they are saved simply by believing that Jesus was the only begotten son of God, and he came to save them from their sins, and there is nothing else they can do to improve or deepen their salvation. That Jesus spent his entire ministry telling people to do unto others what they wanted done to them. That he said what people do and don’t do, and what they say and don’t say, is so very, very important, is absent from Christendom’s salvation formula. That he said those who hear his words and do not do them are like a foolish man who built his house on sand, and when the flood came, the house was swept away, does not influence Christendom’s salvation teachings. That he said better never to have heard of him, than to hear of him and then not do what he said to do, falls on death ears in Christendom.

This is why, when people ask me if I am a Christian, I answer that I am not, because I do not see Christianity following Jesus. Yes, within Christianity some individuals, Jimmy Carter, for example, do very well following Jesus. Mother Theresa was another person. And Dr. Martin Luther King. And the black woman who raised me like her own son. Far as I can say, she was nearly perfect. She taught me all by herself much, much more than all those days I spent in Sunday schools and churches. Much, much more. She lived her belief in Jesus. She lived it. In my dreams I do not see that she has a problem with my saying I am not a Christian but am nonetheless a follower of Jesus. The Jesus described in the New Testament. Especially in the Gospels. Especially in and around the red letters, which highlight what he said to his disciples. Including, “These things and greater, you also shall do.” And, “The student cannot be greater than his teacher, but can become like him.”

In this post today lie medical knowledge and treatment methods not generally known or used by modern medicine or modern religions. MRSA is a terrible, fatal if not treated, plague in the Keys. Urgent Care Center said they see many cases of it, in mainstream people. As do all Keys physicians. This scourge is not limited to homeless people, where it wreaks havoc. It is rampant in all levels of Keys society. A cure I was used to develop for the general population is explained here.

Sloan Bashinsky, non partisan county commission candidate, District 3

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P.S. Yesterday morning, I received an email from Bill Becker, News Coordinator of US 1 Radio, saying he had started getting a virus warning when he entered the Today’s FlaKey Drivel file at goodmorningfloridakeys.com. I was not getting a virus alert from the McAfee virus protection program in my laptop when I went to that file, so I went online through a couple of Sippin’ Internet Café’s computers, and got a virus warning when I opened Today’s FlaKey Drivel. I reported it to Capt. Conch, at bigpinekey.com, who had set up Today’s FlaKey Drivel and that website for me. He did a lot of work yesterday, trying to find a virus, and down below is his email saying there is no virus. At least not one in the human sense. In the spirit sense, we all carry viruses, and today I have written about how they are treated in me by physicians who do not live on this world. It is not entirely inaccurate to say that Jesus was a virus, which, if believed and taken to heart and action, would heal the people of this world of many of their ails, on and off this world.

“I’ve done it all and have been on the phone with everyone. They all said there was no virus on your site—anywhere. I even download it and was able to run a scan and there is no virus. So you’re ok. None of the techs I spoke with knew why some anti-virus software was showing an alert.”

Anyone still concerned about going to Today’s FlaKey Drivel file at goodmorningfloridakeys.com, can find the same postings at Today’s Cock-a-doodle-file at goodmorningkeywest.com, which has not received any virus alert reports.

If you did not see Sandra Downs’ letter to the editor in Key West Citizen yesterday, you can read it in the “Sandy on civil liberties” menu file on the homepage of goodmorningfloridakeys.com. The website Sandy’s letter said appears to have been blocked by Monroe County on its server.

While at goodmorningfloridakeys.com, you might also wish to read the poem in the “Sandy — God’s poet” file, which, like Sandy’s letter to the editor, made her write it. That’s how God poetry arrives: it makes you write it, comes without warning, leaves you a bit jellified inside, and a bit awed. If you are the person it comes through.

I imagine some people will scoff at Sandy’s letter to the editor and poem. Maybe a lot of people will. Plenty of people scoffed at Jesus in his day. And plenty still do, including plenty of Christians, who claim him as their Lord and Savior, but do not live by his model and teachings. Better for them, he said, never to hear of him, than to hear of him and then ignore him.

I imagine plenty of people also will scoff at this summary below from Sandy about some of her experiences in the zoo that is our Sheriff’s Office and Department of Law Enforcement and State Attorney’s Office. A zoological dig in which she tried to get to the bottom of what actually is going on with Sheriff Captain Bob Peryam, her Democrat opponent in the sheriff’s race. Like Sandy’s poem, like her letter to the editor, you can believe this, or not. Like you believe Jesus, or not. Always, it’s a choice. To believe, or not. Always.

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I started campaigning for the Sheriff’s race and was contacted by certain
individuals because of this. I came to know information that is not
generally made public. I wrote several articles on my website about Cindy
Peryam being Director of Internal Affairs while her husband was a Captain
and the obvious conflict this presented compromising her investigative
role into her husband and their friends activities. Bob Peryam is the
Democratic candidate for Sheriff. I learned of Bob Peryam’s activities
through his victim’s mother. I learned of Cindy Peryam’s attempts to cover
his misdeeds up, and the role Sheriff Roth played in it all from the
victim’s mother. I also learned several other things. I atempted to get
the information which is public, or should be, and distribute it for
consideration to those who will cast a vote in this race. I think it is
only fair the voters be informed. The problem is Bob Peryam’s file is
completely transparent and squeaky clean (missing in other words)due to
his wife’s position. This is not representative of the truth.

I asked Sheriff Roth for Bob Peryam’s file prior to the Homepac meeting in
Key West. I was denied. I was told by spokesperson Christina for MCSO
that Bob Peryam was under an FDLE investigation, therefore his files were
not public at the moment. She said she had obtained this information
directly from Sheriff Roth while she had me placed on hold.

I phoned Sheriff Roth directly the next business day. He asked to have me
on speakerphone with a witness present, his assistant Val Marinelli. I
told him to tape record me if he wished. I never say anything that I will
not say in public. I asked Sheriff Roth if the investigation with Bob
Peryam was about the ongoing relationship he had with a very young girl
against the parents wishes during working hours. He said, “No this
investigation is regarding the relationship he had with a young woman on
probation, the relationship you are referring to was handled years ago. I
assigned it to an outside agency who I hired to conduct the investigation.
I believe it was FDLE in Tallahassee and that case has been closed for
some time.” I asked Sheriff Roth if I could have that file. He said he
did not know where it was, he’d have to dig it up,if he could find it at
all. He said because an outside agency conducted the investigation, they
don’t have to keep it in Peryam’s file at Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
He said the current investigation was being handled locally by FDLE agent
Kathy Smith. He told me to call her.

I called FDLE in Talahassee and asked for the closed investigative file.
I spoke with Mark Mitchell in Executive Investigations. He said, “Which
file on Peryam do you want? There are 10.” I said, “All of them.” He
gave me the number to call to request the files, which I did immediately.

I called Tom Tuell. I said, “Peryam is under investigation currently with
FDLE,and it appears he has been numerous times before for the same
thing…relationships with YOUNG women while on duty. I gave him the
information and who I spoke with at FDLE in Tallahassee. I challenged him
to print the story just as he had done numerous times before when McCoy
and DiGennero were under Sunshine Law violation investigations, even
before they were concluded. Tom had printed each and every time there was
even an investigation. I was sure he’d be interested in this candidate
for Sheriff being investigated for improper relationships. I was wrong. He
did not print it.

I phoned local FDLE agent Kathy Smith about the current “probation
relationship” and the new investigation. She responded that the
investigation was assigned to an agent, and the agent would contact me.

I sent a letter to FDLE in Tallahassee asking that the investigation be
conducted outside Monroe County as local FDLE Director is Kathy Smith, a
resident married to a police officer, and she is the same agent who threw
my file away and refused to investigate my case involving the illegal
incarceration of 5 juveniles in the adult jail for 10 hours on accusations
they played hide and go seek at a school 5 nights prior, and committed no
other crime whatsoever, yet were held like Guantanamo prisoners deprived
of every right afforded by our Constitution. This same agent would now be
handling the FDLE case against Bob Peryam??? It needed to go to
Tallahassee, and I sent a letter to Tallahasse to follow up my phone call.

I spoke to Tom Tuell again. He said Mark Mitchell with FDLE in Tallahassee
said there were not 10 files but only 1. He said Sheriff Roth said there
is no active investigation going on, and then Tom said, “Sandy, I’ll just
tell you, they say you are a nut case and they never told you this.” He
did not disclose if it was Mark Mitchell or Sheriff Roth who said this.

I called Sheriff Roth. I said to Val Marinelli, his assistant, that she
had been there for his conversation with me, in which Sheriff Roth put me
on speakerphone. I told Sheriff Roth to tape record it as everything I
say I am willing to say in public. Val was witness to the fact that
Sheriff Roth said I can’t have the Peryam file because there is an active
investigation going on with Peryam’s relationship with the “probation”
lady. Why would he tell Tom Tuell that I am not accurate and there is no
investigation going on? There either is, or there isn’t. If there isn’t, I
want his file. “Oh and by the way I told Val, “tell Sheriff Roth I will be
reporting the fact he told lies to me in his official capacity to FDLE.”

Val said, “There was an investigation, but it is now closed. The files are
still with local agent Kathy Smith.”

I asked Val “When did the investigation close? Why did Roth report to me
it was active?” She said I’d have to call FDLE. I called Kathy Smith. She
said, “Yes, there was an investigation and it is now closed. However, the
reports are awaiting approval and cannot be released yet. The report was
handled locally.”

So, I called FDLE in Tallahassee, and asked what the status of my request
for the files were? They said, “They are being processed.”

I called FDLE, Kathy Smith, and also made a surprise visit to her. She
said the investigation I want is with the State Attorney’s Office.

I called Mark Kohl. They said I would have to leave a message with Paul
Meyers. No one could tell me where the file I want is, who holds it, how
to get it, etc. No one has returned my call.

All of the files have disappeared. This is the Bubba System. This is what
I want ended. This is why, unfortunately, you have no other choice for
Sheriff but me, if you want this *&@##!*# to stop.

Sandra Downs

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I believe Sandy. Why do I believe her? Because I know for a fact that the angels Melchizedek are pushing her to run for sheriff, and dig up all the stuff she digs up, like a rat terrier forces its way down into their hiding places after rats. I know because Sandy’s dreams tell me the angels Melchizedek are all over her, and my dreams tell me to do everything I can to help her campaign. And because she displays many other “symptoms” of someone being tutored, pressed, dragged, shoved, cajoled, coaxed, tricked and carried by the angels Melchizedek to do God’s bidding, no matter the risk to herself and the people she loves. The angels Melchizedek, given by God stewardship over this planet we call Earth. A Melchizedek was with Abraham, in Genesis. The next one we know about was with the disciples in Palestine, as explained in the New Testament Letter to the Hebrews, which Christendom has gone out of its way to ignore. Incredible, but true. Just as what Sandy wrote above is incredible but true.

She is telling people, if elected sheriff, she will catch the bad people and put them in jail, no matter who they are. She will encourage and protect whistle blowing in the Sheriff’s Office. She will put a lot of people in the Sheriff’s Office and our local governments in jail. She will chop off a number of top positions in the Sheriff’s Office, and cut $6,000,0000 in fat out $44,000,000 Sheriff‘s budget. All of this is known in the Sheriff’s Office, in the bubbas’ offices, in the powerbrokers’ offices, in the criminals’ offices, in the State Attorney‘s Office. That they are doing all they can to discredit Sandy is hardly any great surprise. I understand the scoffers and maligners’ dilemma: if Sandy is telling the truth, where does that put them? Right. It puts them where they try to put her: they are crazy or possessed by the devil, or both.

So believe Sandy, or not. It’s your choice to make. If you believe and want to help her become sheriff, she needs petitions signed to qualify her to be on the ballot. You can find a petition form at her campaign website: sandyforsheriff.com. You will see in the middle of her home page a file to click on, which takes you to her petition, which you can copy and print, then fill out longhand and mail to Sandy at the address provided. The same petition soon will be in a “Sandy’s petition for sheriff” menu file of goodmorningfloridaykeys.com, the website that apparently is blocked out of the Monroe County server. If you read just that home page, you will see why it is not going over well with the Monroe County government. You will see it even better, if you read all the menu files on Sandy at goodmorningfloridakeys.com.

Sandy had nothing to do with my decision to make this post, except in providing what she wrote as part of her life with God and campaign for sheriff. I was told in dreams and other spirit ways to make it. I was told she is God’s candidate. But don’t believe me. Arrange to have her examined under polygraph by a proven examiner not affiliated with the Sheriff’s, Florida Department of Law Enforcement and State Attorney’s Offices. Use a polygraph examiner the F.B.I. or DEA or US Attorney use. If Sandy fails, I pay for the test and the examiner’s expenses. If she passes, you pay.

Sloan Bashinsky, non-partisan county commission candidate, District 3

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Meanwhile, open chess tonight, starting 7 p.m., all levels of play, Sippin’ Internet café, 424 Eaton Street, between Duval and Whitehead Streets, Old Town Key West

Email exchanges with former Democrat now Republican county commission candidate Carlos Rojos, mostly, prompted by my recent Devil’s.Advocate and FlaKey.Drivel posts. In the Devil’s Advocate post I said my experience has been that when someone I barely know tells me he will never lie to me and I can trust him, I can expect to have a bazooka shoved up my ass. Sloan

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i do not own a bazooka.

-Carlos

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Figure of speech Carlos, which you know. FYI, after posting yesterday’s FlaKey.Drivel, I just happened to run into someone who has been very active in Key West politics for a very long time. Very active. Very visible. Very concerned about Key West, its future. Not a developer’s acolyte. Very One Human Family, in my experience. This person said you are Cortex’s boy. If he said this, other people are hearing it, too, and lots of people will be hearing it because of who this person is and who he runs with. I hope you are not Cortex’s boy, Carlos. For your sake, for the Keys’ sake. What we need here are candidates and public officials who truly want to put the Keys and the ordinary Keys Joes and Janes first, for a change. Are you that kind of person, Carlos? I hope so, but so far I just don’t see it. I wrote yesterday about what you have shown me, so far. And I got clobbered pretty good yesterday evening by what could be described as a bazooka. It came at me straight out of the spirit, right into my body. Hit me in the rear, exited in the front, just below and to the right of my navel, where I had the MRSA sore for a few weeks, which had healed. Pretty spooky. Sloan

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P.S. The fellow I mentioned in my first email to you this a.m. said word has it that you are Cortex’s boy. He did not flat say you are. My mistake.

I later received an email from Sam Kaufman, the text of which is included below, along with the text of my reply which pertained to you. Sam is my friend also, and my personal attorney. We ran some deep channels together since meeting in the spring of 2001.

Sloan
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Sloan:

Carlos and his family are friends of our family and he is a good person. That is what I know. I am neither a Republican or Democrat. He is new to politics and has not the background knowledge that you do. Of course he wants to win, that is the American way, no? My family is supporting Carlos.

You run not to win, in an unorthodox way. I appreciate the means being the focus rather than the ends. Too many focus only on the ends.

Sam

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Hi, Sam. I appreciate your input. I imagine I will get similar from others.

I regret how it started off with Carlos and me, and maybe he wishes he had started off with me differently. So far, he strikes me as someone who says and does what he feels will gain him advantage, even if he shades the truth a bit. Like . . . a politician.

I was told by Jimmy Weekley yesterday, who is not yet campaigning for Heather because he’s been offered an advisory position with Hometown PAC, and he can’t do both without having a conflict, that Carlos is Cortex’s boy. If Jimmy told me this, it has to be getting around, even if it’s not true.

I told Carlos about this in an email this a.m., replying to his email to me about yesterday’s post, FlaKey.Drivel which I was truly reluctant to put up. Perhaps you can tututor Carlos some. He needs it, and I seriously doubt he’s going to get it from the Republican big whigs, or from the people he and I were with day before yesterday, one of whom is a pretty good friend of mine — Jim Hendrick.

Sloan

I also sent Sam a p.s., clearing up what Jimmy Weekley had told me about you and Cortex.

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JIMMY WEEKLY IS CORTEX’S BOY, SLOAN, AND YOU CAN TELL HIM I SAID THAT. I CHECKED MY ATTIC, UNDER BY BED, IN MY CAR, AND EVEN IN THE CRAWL SPACE UNDER MY HOUSE. I DO NOT HAVE A BAZOOKA. I AM ALSO VERY ANGRY THAT YOU CALL ME A LIAR, A DEMON, AND THAT I SMELL OF SULPHUR.

I STAND CORRECTED, SLOAN. YOU AND I ARE NOT ALIKE AFTERALL. MY BAD.

CARLOS

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I have had many, many people angry at me over the years, Carlos. Some got over it, some didn’t. I told quite a few stories about that on my websites, and imagine I will tell more such stories. The work I do is not geared toward trying to make people like me, even though a few do like me, despite what I do, say, write, am, etc.

I was spiritually bazooka’d yesterday evening, and it left an exit wound, and perhaps even more than one. This happens frequently in my line of work: I get involved with someone, someones, and say or write something unexpected and unwelcome, and am attacked in such ways, and other ways. The people involved don’t know any of it is happening, or that they have anything to do with it, unless I tell them, and they then don’t believe it. Sometimes I tell, sometimes I don’t.

I’ve written about this phenomenon a few times at goodmnorningkeywest.com, and plenty about Melchizedek and their dealings with me, all to alert and/or inform readers about what my life is like, and what it might be like for them to have dealings with me, especially if they are public figures, who have no right to privacy. But then, neither does anyone in the Kingdom of God, where everything is totally transparent.

I don’t know who are Cortex’s boys, but I might find out as this campaign progresses. I am shown everything I need to know, when I need to know it, if I don’t already see it. I passed what Jimmy W. said about Cortex along for your information. I did not publish it generally, and I will not, absent clear indication from my spirit controllers to do so.

One thing about me, Carlos, is that I really will never knowingly lie to you, because if I do, I will get the living shit beat out of me by the Melchcizedek. If I mispeak unwittingly, I am corrected more gently and I fix it. Like I corrected this morning what Jimmy told me. Rest assured, if I am shown he is one of Cortex’s boys, you and he both will hear about it, and others too, I imagine.

I did not tell you something Jimmy told me, which I had already heard, which he said he was told to him personally by friends of Morgan. Morgan wants to run for Sonny’s seat as a stepping stone to running for Ron Saunders’ seat in the state legislature. Is this going to happen? I don’t know. Could it happen? Sure it could happen.

Morgan surprised all of Key West twice by beating Jimmy twice. You may not know this, because it was a good while ago that I last published it to goodmorningkeywest.com. In the summer of 1995 [actually 2005], in dreams, I was told Morgan would beat Jimmy, even though I did not yet know Morgan was even in the Mayor’s race. The way it was put was there would be no more weeklies, and a pastor was elected. I went online, read Key West Citizen, saw Morgan was running. Morgan was a pastor, so I knew he would beat Jimmy Weekley several months before it happened.

Jimmy nearly won the last mayoral without a run-off. Then Morgan and his machine got into gear and made an amazing comeback, despite my smearing him all over the Keys for being in bed with Mario. I was, frankly, astounded that Morgan beat Jimmy the second time. But then, I had been told, no more weeklies. Were I you, I would not be so flippant about Morgan entering the county commission race. I’m certainly not.

If Morgan get’s Sonny’s blessing, and Mario’s, then I imagine he he will get the nod and help of local Republican Chair Carey Goodman and her parents. And then the support of God only knows who and what else. If you get smeared with running with Jim Hendrick, who is a good friend of mine, and smeared with his very good friend Pritam Singh, it probably will not help you in this race.

Another thing about me, Carlos, is you can trust me to do what I say I will do, and you can trust what I say about my relationship with the Melchizedek, even if you don’t believe any of it. I will write a great deal in the ensuing months, leading up to Nov 3, about many things. Many rocks are going to be turned over and whatever is underneath allowed air to breath.

It won’t surprise me if I’m bumped off before it’s all over. But then, I wrote a few times on both websites that any candidate for public office who is not prepared to be bumped off does not have what it takes to do the job correctly. Somehow, Carlos, I don’t see you being prepared to do what might get you bumped off. And in that way, too, we aren’t much alike. The only living person I know who is anything like me is Sandy Downs. The only person I personally know, besides me, being put through the paces by Melchizedek, about which you asked me.

Welcome to God and politics, Carlos. I hope it turns out to suit you better than it has suited me. I imagine Sandy would second that, if she was in on our dialogue.

Sloan

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Sloan,

This is my last communication with you. Go play with heather. She needs you.

Carlos

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Very shortly after I sent the last email above to Carlos, the fellow who had told me about Morgan wanting to run for the county commission came by Sippin’ on his bicycle. I ran outside and caught him at the stoplight on Duval Street and told him what Jimmy Weekley had told me. He said Carlos came from out of nowhere and he may well be Cortex’s boy. He also said Morgan may now live in Commissioner Dixie Spehar’s district, and if that is so and he runs, it would be against Dixie. I reminded him of what I was told about Morgan last year by a fellow very involved in Key West politics, which he repeated only a couple of weeks ago: That Morgan receives a salary from a local church, which is receiving substantial contributions from a developer to funnel to Morgan. It is believed this developer is Cortex. My friend keeps saying this is known all over Key West. I don’t know if it is or isn’t, but, as I told the fellow last night, I tried last year to get the State Attorney to look into this rumor about Morgan, because if it is true, campaign contribution limits were being skirted. It would have been very easy for Mark Kohl to verify or debunk this rumor, but I received no reply and he did nothing as far as I know. Maybe I should not be surprised. Mark, too, is a Republican. He, too, is running for re-election.

As for me playing with Heather because she needs my help, I told the fellow on the bicycle last night that Heather would have been very hard for Carlos Rojos to beat, and she might be very tough for anyone to beat. She did a great job with FIRM, I said, and a lot of people were helped by it. The fellow nodded agreement, and said he had heard Carlos had told someone that the architecture business wasn’t too good right now and he needed more income and that was why he was running for the County Commission. The bicycle fellow added that he was hearing Commissioner Sonny McCoy is going to run again. If so, it will be him, Carlos, Heather and me running for that one office. I sort of hope Sonny does run. It will be fun watching him and Carlos and the Republicans bazooka it up leading to the Republican primary in August, while Heather, an unopposed Democrat, and I, non-affiliated, prepare for the general election in November.

Sloan Bashinsky, non-partisan county commission candidate

Political cartoon, er, advertisement, written, approved and borrowed, and paid for by me

DeeVon Quirolo, founder of Reef Relief, had a recent article in Key West Citizen about waste water treatment and disposal, in the southeast Florida area mostly. Pretty disturbing article mostly, which prompted me to write to her about the reuse of Keys treated waste water for both irrigation and drinking, because I am convinced safe and adequate drinking water soon will be the #1 concern of all Keys people, and perhaps of all people in southeast Florida.

I told DeeVon that maybe three years ago I was told by John Jones, Assistant Key West City Manager, that KW’s treated wastewater, which was being pumped into the ground, had less bacterial count, but more particulate count, than water being piped into the Keys from the mainland. And that I’d recently read in the Citizen about a California city using its treated waste water for drinking. I seconded her deep concerns about water pollution of the Everglades, Bay of Florida and East Coast Florida ocean water. And said I feel all new construction in the Keys should be required to install cistern systems that cover all fresh water needs, like used to happen in the old days in the Keys, and that we build a few desalination plants scattered through the Keys.

DeeVon replied that diesel plants use a great deal of fuel, and Orange County, California is using treated wastewater for drinking and she isn’t entirely convinced it is safe. She said KW’s treated wastewater is not safe to drink. I get water advice from someone else who is very active in southeast Florida water issues, and he said he has very high regard for DeeVon, who has been very active in this area for a long time. Just below are more recent email exchanges with her about drinking water.

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DeeVon,

Was told in a dream to write to you about this from Sonny McCoy’s most recent column in Key West the Newspaper, which came out yesterday (Friday).

“Presently, the State requires that Keys’ wastewater be treated to tertiary purification, which means the removal of fine particles, nitrates, and phosphates. In other words, it is purer than the water you get from your kitchen tap but, unfortunately, it is then released into a deep injection well. We’re working to preserve this treated effluent for irrigation and other comparable uses.”

If, as Sonny says, it is purer than the water we get from our kitchen tap, why isn’t it being piped right back into the drinking water by Keys Aqueduct Authority?

Sloan

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because it is not as clean nor does it meet drinking water standards. best, dv

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Sonny was mistaken?

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big surprise. he is after all just human….best, dv

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Thanks, DeeVon. This is a pretty big mistake for a county commissioner to put into a newspaper with a pretty big circulation. I’m a new kid on the block about this subject, you have experience and credentials. Perhaps you will write a letter to Key West the Newspaper setting the record straight?

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Key West the Newspaper receives copies of my posts.

Sloan Bashinsky, non-partisan county commission candidate

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