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Apparently if you are a fireman and molest a child, you get 18 months of pay without having to work while your case gets ready for trial.  According to The Times story (Man pleads guilty to sex charge), the Defendant John Bond was put on administrative leave with pay in November 2006.  He was fired on May 23 [2008]?  So that is 18 months free money for nothing?  How can we get that money back?  Why put him on leave with pay?  Isn’t there some administrative procedure to fire someone that commits a felony offense?  Wasn’t there something that he could have done that would not have put him around children?  AND… get this… no jail time.  He almost got to keep his name off the sex offender registry too!  But for Judge Gosselin, he would not have been identified as a sex offender.

I know some cases are just about impossible to prosecute. Sex crimes are the hardest.  I have to believe that the Assistant District Attorney Juliet Aldridge had her back against the wall and got what she could out of the case despite having witness / evidence problems.  But no jail time, no sex offender registry, first offender treatment AND 18 months of pay without having to work!!!!  Its like we were rewarding him for molesting children.

Warning:  Legal Content Follows.  First Offender sentencing allows someone without a felony record to get convicted of a felony and after they complete their sentence they get their record wiped clean.  In all cases, it means that the offender can possess a firearm and vote.  In sex cases that means that after completing their sentence the offender can get their name removed from the sex offender list.  Their records are sealed.  So you might see a nurse that has a felony conviction for prescription drug forgery, a doctor with a conviction for drug possession, get prescriptions from a pharmacist that went to prison for selling illegal drugs, or have your hair cut by someone who committed a vehicular homicide.  Once their probation is over and the record is sealed, you won’t ever know about it… unless they offend again.  It is a good program to give someone a second chance, but it has been stretched beyond its initial reasons for being.

Very nice.  First there was going to be a shortfall for next year’s budget so they needed a tax increase.  Then it turns out that instead of a $1M surplus this year, there is really a $7M shortfall so they need a bigger tax increase.  Then the School Board decides to max out the tax increase to pay for the “lost” money (still taking 2 years to pay the debt off).  Then the superintendent ($250,000 per year) blames a former employee who left almost a year ago (and who denies any knowlege of a budget problem) for the budget crisis and then he “lawyers up” and won’t talk to anybody claiming the School Board was being mean to him and has committed criminal acts.  Then the new CFO announces that another $1.8M is missing.  See the memo here–>School Nutrition Missing Money  How much can get stolen before someone besided me and The Times does something about it?  Sheriff Cronic:  Please call the GBI to start an investigation before the “auditors” clean up the evidence.  You don’t need a search warrant, just ask for consent to search and see who objects.

This is what happens when you let Democrats handle money.  There is never enough to do what they want, and sometimes some money goes missing.  The answer is always to raise taxes so you can pay for their mistakes.

Read The Times here–>$1.8 million in federal funds unaccounted for by Gainesville schools

Want to know why gas prices are so high without getting a degree in Economics.  Read this –>George F. Will - The Gas Prices We Deserve - washingtonpost.com.  Does it bother anyone but me that CHINA and CUBA are drilling off shore from Florida but we aren’t.  What happens if they have a problem and spill some oil?  Who you gonna sue then?  Wal-Mart?