Schiavo Judge To Be Honored

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Schiavo Judge To Be Honored

By LISA A. DAVIS ldavis@tampatrib.com
Published: May 2, 2005

NEW PORT RICHEY - Pinellas- Pasco Circuit Judge George Greer, who was thrust into the national spotlight and scrutinized by pro-life advocates during the Terri Schiavo case, was a consistent judge who followed the law, colleagues say.

His professionalism and integrity was punctuated by the way he handled the Schiavo case, said Alan Scott Miller, a New Port Richey lawyer and member of the West Pasco Bar Association.
As part of Law Week, which kicks off today, the association will award Greer, 63, its Special Justice Award.

``He's getting this award for all of his contributions on the bench, not just the Schiavo case,'' Miller said. ``It's like a lifetime achievement award for an actor.''

Greer will receive the award during a banquet Thursday at the Heritage Springs Golf and Country Club, 11345 Robert Trent Jones Parkway.

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[HomeschoolrsRUs]

He may be "rewarded" here on earth, but the devil WILL get his (real) due one day, from the One True Judge worthy of honor.

[DeclinetoState]

According to http://www.renewamerica.us/news/050325greer.htm, he has a checkered past:

George Greer is a 63-year-old probate judge of the circuit that covers Pinellas and Pasco Counties west of Tampa Bay. He was born in Brooklyn in 1942, and his parents moved the family to Dunedin, FL in the Tampa Bay area just after World War II (St. Pete Times, 3/18/05)

Greer attended Largo High School in Clearwater, FL, and was cited for hunting without a license in 1959, when he was eighteen, and for underage drinking in 1962. Greer attended junior college in St. Petersburg for two and one half years, and then went to Florida State University in 1962. While at FSU, Greer was a housemate of future Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, who transferred to the more academically demanding UCLA. Greer graduated from FSU in 1964, and obtained his law degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1966 (St. Pete Times, 3/18/05).

... Greer became politically active in Pinellas County, and ran for Pinellas County Commissioner in 1984 at age 46, challenging the County Commission’s lone Democrat, because Greer opposed Pinellas County’s plan to build a domed stadium to attract a major league baseball team. Greer won this race very narrowly, yet the stadium was later built, and is now known as Tropicana Field (St. Pete Times, 3/18/05).

Greer became well-known as a County Commissioner with close relations to powerful developers in Pinellas County during his eight years as a County Commissioner from the beginning of 1985 when he took office (he was elected unopposed to the Commission in 1988) until he left the Commission for his current judgeship in early 1993. His first reported embarrassment as a Commissioner was the infamous Coopers Point scandal, which has plagued Pinellas County taxpayers for almost twenty years http://www.thestraights.com/articles/coopers-point.htm (http://www.thestraights.com/articles/coopers-point.htm)); Tampa Bay Independent Media Center.

Coopers Point was a mangrove swamp in Pinellas County, which the city of Clearwater had a chance to buy for use as a city park. In 1987, Clearwater’s environmental management director, Michael Kenton, refused to buy the land as a park, and instead approached the Sembler Company to have that developer buy Cooper’s Point for $1 million, with Kenton contributing $15,000 of the purchase cash. Sembler paid Kenton a management fee of $50,000. Just two months later, the Sembler Company and Kenton tried to sell the newly purchased land to the City of Clearwater for $2.6 million, even though Kenton could have bought the land for the city for $1.6 million less ten weeks earlier (“http://www.thestraights.com/articles/coopers-point.htm (http://www.thestraights.com/articles/coopers-point.htm)”).

The St. Petersburg Times exposed the scandal, but the Pinellas County State’s Attorney James Russell decided he could not prosecute, for the laughable reason that Kenton was a state employee, and thus the state ethics commission should handle the matter as a civil problem. Russell refused to prosecute the incredible Kenton conflict-of-interest violation as a criminal matter. Kenton only had to pay his fee as a state ethics fine (“www.thestraights.com (http://www.thestraights.com/)”).

The Sembler Company then hired George Greer’s 1984 campaign aide Timothy Johnson to lobby his old boss George Greer, IN ORDER TO GET PINELLAS COUNTY TO BUY THIS WHITE ELEPHANT PROPERTY. The county had evinced no previous interest in buying the swamp, but in 1989, the re-elected Greer allowed his former aide Johnson to talk Greer and the other commissioners into paying Sembler Company $1.3 M in county money for the land (EVEN THOUGH THE COUNTY RECEIVED NO OWNERSHIP INTEREST), with Clearwater paying the remaining $650K of the $2 million (St. Pete Times, 12/5/89). The Coopers Point park did not even open until 2002, after another $372,406, due to a need for massive maintenance, and then only on certain days for small groups (“http://www.thestraights.com (http://www.thestraights.com/)”).

[ThomasIsUnderrated]

This is sick!

[Longhorn_Platinum]

"He's getting this award for all of his contributions on the bench, not just the Schiavo case,'' Miller said. "It's like a lifetime achievement award for an actor.''

:unsmile: That's just pure biss. This is an endorsement of Terri Schiavo's murder, pure & simple. Whatever he might have previously done is overshadowed by that one case.

[ThomasIsUnderrated]

:unsmile: That's just pure biss. This is an endorsement of Terri Schiavo's murder, pure & simple. Whatever he might have previously done is overshadowed by that one case.

:ditto:

[CzechPrince]

Schiavo Judge To Be Honored


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[MSGT]

Tis but a short time that we live. His "honor" perishes with him.

[Teenager]

His professionalism and integrity was punctuated by the way he handled the Schiavo case, said Alan Scott Miller, a New Port Richey lawyer and member of the West Pasco Bar Association.
As part of Law Week, which kicks off today, the association will award Greer, 63, its Special Justice Award.

``He's getting this award for all of his contributions on the bench, not just the Schiavo case,'' Miller said. ``It's like a lifetime achievement award for an actor.''

This is total BullScrap. Like Longhorn said, it is an endorsment for legal murder.


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[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Greer attended junior college in St. Petersburg for two and one half years, and then went to Florida State University in 1962. While at FSU, Greer was a housemate of future Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, who transferred to the more academically demanding UCLA. Greer graduated from FSU in 1964, and obtained his law degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1966 (St. Pete Times, 3/18/05).


Okay, this TOTALLY answers it for me . . . he started out great by attending FSU, but THEN he got his LAW DEGREE from University of Forget-An-A? What an idiot . . . you don't start out as a nole and end up a gator unless you have LOST what brains you had, and used the void left between your ears to get a law degree from UF.

In all seriousness, he is an EMBARASSMENT to the Florida University system, an embarrassment to the law, and an embarrassment to humanity. If there ever WERE a reason for me to finally acquiesce to believing the theory of evolution, he would be the summary proof.

May God have mercy upon his soul --- that's the only place he'll find it.

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Amen sister Homes

[Taylor]

This is sick. Greer doesn't deserve the award.

[DeclinetoState]

Greer, 63, is a Southern Baptist, a Republican member of the religious right, who recently quit his church after his pastor suggested "it might be easier for all of us."

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Friends say the Brooklyn-born Greer, who moved to Florida at age 4, takes controversy in stride. And he has faced controversy before. In 1998, he denied a woman an order of protection against her husband because she hadn't listed any of his acts of violence. He stabbed her to death a few days later.

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/41675.htm

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

From the article quoted by DeclinetoState:
"Greer, 63, is a Southern Baptist, a Republican member of the religious right, who recently quit his church after his pastor suggested "it might be easier for all of us."


I want to see proof of this (by the media supporting documentation). For some reason I'm having trouble navigating old threads tonight, but I KNOW I read the article about this. The pastor WANTED to talk to Judge Greer about this issue, and was going to try to call him or write him about setting up an appointment to meet together. Before he could do so GREER resigned from the church - - later he told people (his "supporters") that he felt like he was forced out of the church. That is just not true according to the Pastor.

The mainstream media ALWAYS twists words and stories. I haven't ready ANYTHING, ANYWHERE showing the Pastor SAYING it might be easier for everyone if Judge Greer left the church. This is political spin at it's worst, IMHO.

[Apollo5600]

There should be a law against political incest and masturbation.