| "BOOKVILLE," FLORIDA [aka, the JULIA TUTTLE CAUSEWAY] Miami's Dirty Little Secret IT IS NOT OVER YET! EX-JTC RESIDENTS FACE NEW HOMELESS CRISIS! This page is a collection of news reports, pictures, and articles about the Julia Tuttle Causeway saga. This page last updated: 8/6/2010 |
The Julia Tuttle Causeway/ Bookville News Reel [updated regularly, newer stories on the bottom]
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| Julia Tuttle Picture Links SOSEN/ Ricky's Life Pictures April 2009 -- www.sosen.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=11&Itemid=23 Miami News Herald Slideshow: The Julia Tuttle Causeway bridge community www.miamiherald.com/news/photo-galleries/gallery/1010357.html |
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| SPOTLIGHT ON DISGRACEFUL, CORRUPT FLORIDA LOBBYIST RON BOOK Powerful Florida lobbyist Ron Book is a staunch advocate for residency restriction laws and other anti-sex offender legislation, as well as President of "Lauren's Kids," a proponent of sex offender laws. Book is ALSO the head of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust. So it has come as no surprise Ron Book and the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust has offered up no aid or support for those forced to live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The residents of the Causeway have reported they receive no food or living necessities from the Trust, and even the Trust has admitted in new reports they have helped "only one resident." Ron Book should be fired from the Homeless Trust. While he spends a million dollars on his daughter's elaborate wedding, those entrusted into his care as head of the Homeless Trust starve under a bridge. Contact Ron Book and give him a piece of your mind! Ronald L. Book PA 18851 NE 29th Ave Ste 1010 Aventura, FL 33180 Ph# (305)935-1866 David Raymond, Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, 111 NW 1st Street, 27th Floor, Miami, Florida 33128 Ron Book's criminal record: Ron Book, according to NBC Miami, has faced insurance fraud charge in the '80s and an illegal campaign contribution guilty plea in the '90s. I question whether this man has been rehabilitated as his denial of services to Former Offenders puts money in HIS pocket! And now, Ron Book wants the US Supreme Court to overturn a law prohibiting lobbyists from buying meals and gifts for legislators and requires them to broadly disclose their compensation, violating right to free speech and equal protection. WTF?!? Miami Times Article on Ron Book's Illegal Campaign Contribution Scandal Just another reason why people who live in glass houses should never throw stones. If he's unwilling to forgive then society should never forgive him, either. But if he's "rehabilitated" and should be forgiven for serving his time, then the rest of us should, too! "It's not the first time he has found himself scrambling to put the proper spin on his own image. But this is different. This is going to be far more difficult. Because now Ron Book is a convicted criminal. In the past, he's simply been known as an influence peddler. Today, however, he is an attorney who knowingly violated Florida's campaign finance laws -- not once or twice, but on dozens of occasions over a number of years, in a systematic and willful manner. Book's colleagues in the lobbying business were not shocked. Years ago they recognized a disturbing malady that would periodically overcome Book and others like him, a sudden collapse of the ethical standards upon which the lobbying profession is precariously balanced. They called it the "Ronnie Book Syndrome." People are said to suffer from the Ronnie Book Syndrome when their zeal overtakes them, when their frenetic lobbying leaves no room for sober reflection, when winning becomes so important that right and wrong lose their meaning. Arrogance, overconfidence, and a sense of infallibility are symptoms of the disease. And once infected, the victim will always carry the virus, forever susceptible to another outbreak. Like malaria, it becomes a permanent feature of the afflicted individual. In Book's case, each time he fell prey to the syndrome he claimed he had learned a valuable lesson. But some would say those lessons were quickly forgotten. In late 1985, he came under investigation for allegedly helping to bribe an Opa-locka politician. Book had been caught on police surveillance tapes telling the official: "I'll see that you get paid for your time. . . . I'm there for you. I'm there for whatever you tell me I got to do. How more direct can I be?" The next year Book was arrested for allegedly overstating (by nearly $10,000) the value of his car, which he said had been stolen. That insurance-fraud case dragged on for almost three years, and when it was finally settled -- with Book pleading no contest to a misdemeanor -- the judge withheld adjudication, which meant that Book Ended up with no criminal record. But he has one now -- compelling evidence that the Ronnie Book Syndrome is tenacious... This past September 21, Book pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor charges and was fined $2000. He also agreed to donate $40,000 to charity as an additional punishment. But rather than express remorse at having cynically subverted the public trust, Book asks for sympathy and says he should be given some credit for being man enough to plead guilty and admit his mistakes: "Anyone who says the decision to stand up and accept responsibility was an easy one, I tell them: 'Get in my shoes, get in my clothes and feel it.' I have been pained and I have been hurt. It hasn't been easy. Not at all." The fact is that Book confessed to his crimes not as an act of contrition, not out of a sense of shame, and not because he understood that what he did was wrong. No, Ron Book confessed because the investigation into his criminal activities was about to be exposed in the media." |
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