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Squawk Box
With Mike Moore
Drill Baby Drill!
Unless the glass slip-
per fits, this squawk is not
directed specifically at Sarah
Palin. It is directed towards
the shortsighted, egocentric
idiots that support gains in the short run,
be dammed the long-term consequenc-
es. Of course I’m talking about the ever
widening slick o’ death bleeding it’s way
shoreward from the mortal man-made
wound deep in Gulf of Mexico waters.
Before I continue, a pause for the
11 souls lost to ‘drilling baby, thrilling’
and to the depths of the ocean…
It was inevitable you know. With
hundreds of off shore oil rigs, a breech was
bound to happen sooner or later. It’s statis-
tical after all. One of the very first words
from BP, after the April 11thexplosion was
to cite the ‘safety record’ of the Deepwater
Horizon platform. A lot of good those sta-
tistics are now, with the rig and its workers
at the bottom of the Gulf, and millions of
unbridled crude deciding whose beaches
and estuaries it will destroy.
So when I hear half-informed,
Pictured are Steven Gillis, Vickie May, Marcus Held, Wendy Stillwell, Billy T Reddish and in front Barry Porter. All are part of the Elvis Tampa
and dare I say half-witted politicians de-
Fan Club in Inverness this past weekend at the historic courthouse where filming of "Follow That Dream" took place. More on page 4.
Inglis Fugitive Former Levy Commissoner
cry their ecologically unsound mantras for
the ‘rescue’ of our economy (by the hands
of an unscrupulous banking system by the
Caught in
way), it really makes me winch. When I
Yearty sentenced to 33 months
overhear the same rhetoric spouted off in
the coffee shop or across the lunch coun-
Alabama
ter, it is just about enough to put me off my
as commissioner by then-
Former District 3 Levy County
chow.
Governor Reubin
Commissioner Sammy Yearty, 63, Gulf
In my circle of entrepreneurial
Askew in 1978. Yearty’s
Hammock, was sentenced by Chief Judge
friends, I’ve suggested more than once
father and grandfather were
Stephan P. Mickle in the U.S. District Court,
Terry Neil Davis,
courting solar technology R&D com-
also county commissioners.
Northern District of Florida in Gaines-
the 47-year-old inmate who
panies; clean technology for the future.
Parker had narrowly been
ville, May 3, to serve 33 months in federal
escaped in December while
re-elected to his second
prison,three years probation and also pay
in the custody of a Citrus
Continued on page 4 - Squawk Box
term in office.
fines in the amount of $10,300. Due to med-
County Sheriff’s Office
Parker, who was
ical reasons Yearty will begin serving his
Be Ready & Safe
(CCSO) detective who had
also convicted of soliciting
sentence after July 5.
transported him to Inglis,
and accepting a bribe, was
After a five-day trial, Yearty was
was taken into custody, April
Hurricane
sentenced by Judge Mickle on April 14 to
convicted on Dec. 5 (2009), along with Dis-
Davis
30, by authorities in Ala-
six months house arrest, five years probation
trict 5 Levy County Commissioner Tony
bama.
and 500 hours of community service. His
Parker, 49, Bronson, of soliciting and ac-
All Hazard Expo
The CCSO had been working close-
probation and electronic monitoring fees
cepting a $10,000 bribe from an FBI agent.
ly with the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS),
were waived due to financial hardship. He
Yearty was also convicted of lying to a fed-
family members of Davis and authorities in
had faced a recommended sentence of 27
eral agent during an interview with the FBI
This Weekend
Alabama, in an attempt to apprehend Davis.
to 33 months in prison. Judge Mickle com-
prior to the trial.
According to Inspector Athen
mented that Parker had returned the money,
Both men were suspended from
Reeves with the U.S. Marshals Service,
Details Page 3
was genuinely remorseful and unlikely to
office by Gov. Charlie Crist on Nov. 5,
Davis was working as a day laborer, testing
break the law again, that he’d had a lapse in
2007, one day after being re-elected to of-
soil. He was paid in cash, on a daily basis,
character.
fice. Yearty had been re-elected to office,
and also given a stipend for hotel accommo-
in every election, since being appointed
Continued on page11- Yearty
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