Oh BULLSHIT !!! Tim Mossgrove

UPDATE: Apparently this "accidental burning popcorn" is a new way that fire depts have found to make some dinero. Jesus Christ. Google it. Actually PLEASE use other search engines before they disappear.
EXCERPT: At our Civic Center buildings we continue to see a high number of instances of employees burning microwave popcorn and triggering the building smoke alarms. This is a serious issue which requires Fire Department emergency response, building evacuation, and resetting of building systems. Each evacuation causes disruption to City services for at least 30-40 minutes and has considerable actual costs to the City. It also poses safety and security issues, especially at the Justice Center which includes jail facilities and active courtrooms.
In May, we had the most recent building evacuation at the Justice Center due to burnt microwave popcorn. This is the eighth time in less than three years that we had to evacuate 400+ persons from Justice Center due to burnt popcorn. We have also had multiple evacuations of 300+ persons at City Hall and Seattle Municipal Tower due to burnt popcorn
This is just one check out the other links. These guys are ... money-grubbers.

Okay I've worked in like ... ENOUGH places that have microwaves .... EVERYONE knows who is making popcorn. Everyone. And everyone knows it. For God's sake. This is in Brooksville, HOTBED of illegal, illicit, immoral and downright CRIMINAL officials. (hey lemme hold your pain pills, man)

Yeah, it's kinda hard for me to believe that this ONE guy: the firechief .. is the ONLY public official who would "CERTAINLY NOT" try to intimidate the mayor. Of course not.
There's 20 or so people in the building. Out of that --- 2 were busy. That leaves 18. Surely some of them can be 'cleared'. Likely what happened is one of the swell firemen or their wives or etc... slipped in to the building and turned the microwave on for 20 minutes or so. AND, who evacuates a building with no smoke???? (not to mention the so uncanny it's canny TIMING)

UPDATE: And LOOK: they remodel with fire just like Tampa !!!

Oh and LOOK ! He uses the Blair argument :
Taking food from the mouths of his children. His wife does not want to work. There's more but I'm sick of reading it.

If you read the website linked below for da official Brooksville stuff and suches you'll see some familiar names. Big surprise there. It's statewide. It's a cancer on the whole of the southeast. Thank you so much for what you've done to what used to be paradise.....

I don't understand -- with a nearly indicted (retired in a timely fashion) chief of police, a fired city manager, a fire chief spending over his limit .... what the hell is the problem with the MAYOR taking this for what it is??
An out and out threat.

You're lucky I'm here, lady.

Yeah, DONT WE KNOW IT.

They've burned down THREE houses in my own family. And threatened to burn THIS one AGAIN. Boy, yeah, man, we're SO lucky they're around.

Are people really THIS naive??
I guess so. I was and still am.

Madam Mayor --- it was a threat. If you don't see it maybe you know about it. Maybe the threat is just for the people of the community of Brooksville.

Family member born there. Loved that place. Last few times I visited it looked depressed and anxious. Had a tense feel to it. Needless to say I wasn't too suprised to see that they've had a great deal of trouble there with their public SERVANTS. I'll link it up if I can find it fast.

God love COLLEGE PROVOSTS. When all else fails they WILL step in and save your ass. Thank you madame provost !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (spent the whole day doing something she fixed in about 7.5 minutes) HELL YEAH !!!

Burned popcorn clears City Hall (gimme a break,mon)
Brooksville's fire chief, who was there to see the city manager, ordered the evacuation.
By AUSTIN BOGUES, Times Staff WriterPublished August 15, 2007
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BROOKSVILLE - As people lined up in the heat outside of City Hall on Tuesday afternoon, some aimed glares at Fire Chief Tim Mossgrove. (cause they KNOW, DUDE. We ALL KNOW and we're F'ING SICK of it.)

The chief had just walked up the stairs for what was expected to be a long and perhaps intense meeting with City Manager Jennene Norman-Vacha on financial matters when the building's fire alarms went off.

Norman-Vacha, who was on the phone, came out of her office confused and looking at Mossgrove. The chief told a receptionist that the building needed to be cleared.
As 20 or so people baked in the summer heat, some wondered: Had Mossgrove ordered a fire drill to strengthen his hand in dealing with the city officials?
"Absolutely not," he replied.
The culprit was much less sinister: microwave popcorn.
Evidently, someone using the break room in the Hernando County Property Appraiser's office on the third floor had left a bag in the microwave oven a little too long.
Workers returned to their areas shortly after the evacuation, although some were a bit miserable on the third floor because none of the windows open. A few oscillating fans tried to disperse the pungent smell.
Rather than suspecting a power play, Norman-Vacha said she was comforted by Mossgrove's presence during the evacuation.
"It's a good feeling to step out and see your fire chief right there," she said.
As for who burned the popcorn, no one was claiming responsibility. "I think they're a little embarrassed," said Chief Deputy Appraiser John Emerson.

Austin Bogues can be reached at abogues@sptimes.com or 352 754-6117.
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by connie
08/15/07 09:58 AM
not that hard to microwave popcorn IS IT. what is going on with the county building pop corn episodes? EDITOR, LETS GET SOME MORE IMPORTANT NEWS PRINTED.
by Joe
08/15/07 09:55 AM
You mean to tell me that someone in that office does not take the time to read the instructions on making popcorn. Normally, 2 or 3 minutes is sufficient. Anything more is asking for trouble. What an idiot?
by Teri
08/15/07 08:34 AM
This is hysterical! But hardly news...
by ff
08/15/07 08:18 AM
This made the "news"!!! Wow.


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IF you WANT -- recall the C's and save your wetlands:

I noticed Vox talking about recalling the Hillsborough County Commissioners so I did some surfiing to see what was available for education.

I found numerous links and it appears as though a resident merely has to file affidavits of recall and begin collecting signatures. Possibly another way is to start a 'recall petition' and begin collecting signatures and the affidavit then stems from this action.

Here are some instances I read about which I felt were pertinent to share.



Cass County recall of two commissioners (Nebraska)



This one is in Colorado:


Petitioners Al Head, Joe Goecke, and Mike Gordon had until midnight tonight to submit a minimum of 3,950 valid signatures in the recall petition of Commissioner Bill Patterson. An attorney representing the petitioners and Al Head submitted the recall signatures today at 11:32 a.m. at Montrose County Clerk’s Office.

County Clerk & Recorder Fran Long determined upon a brief review that there are 5,585 potential signatures. The Clerk’s Office will begin the official validation and certification process of the signatures starting Wednesday, August 1. The method used will be the exhaustive method where every signature is verified. The County Clerk’s office has 10 working days to complete the certification process and determine "sufficiency."



I checked and Montrose County reports the following statistics on it's website:


Welcome to Montrose County in beautiful Southwest Colorado! Our thriving community is home to 37,500 neighbors.





It follows that if 3850 signatures are required than it's likely that only ten percent of the residents would be required for a recall of a commissioner, then a recall election would be held.





In Hillsborough County I found the following statistics within Wikipedia: Hillsborough County is a county located in the U.S. state of Florida. The 2000 population was 998,948. As of 2006, the population is 1,177,060 [1]. Its county seat is Tampa, Florida6. Hillsborough County is the largest county in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area

So, it's possible that approximately 100,000 signatures would be required.



Here are some more counties who recalled their Commissioners:

This is a good one named Recall Alice who 'raised our taxes through the back door'. Hillsborough County can relate.

This is an interesting opinion by the County Attorney regarding a recall in Kansas.

ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINION NO. 99-32
Mary Ann ShirleyGreenwood County Attorney311 N. MainEureka, Kansas 67045
Re:
Elections--Recall of Elected Officials--Grounds for Recall; County or District Attorney to Determine Sufficiency of Grounds
Synopsis:
The grounds in the petition seeking the recall of the Greenwood County Commissioner are set forth with sufficient particularity as to allow the Greenwood County Commissioner an opportunity to prepare a statement in justification of his conduct in office. The veracity of the allegations contained in the recall petition is to be determined by the electorate, not the county attorney. Cited herein: K.S.A. 25-4302; 25-4320; Kan. Const., Art. 4, § 3.

Finally, this just in: It seems that in a town close to hear there was a very recent recall. This article cites the Florida state law which holds that 'approximately 15% of the registered voters" have to sign for a recall. That might be considerably less than 100,000.

REDINGTON BEACH - A special recall election will be allowed for Commissioner Sam Maniotes.
The county notified the town Thursday that enough valid voter signatures were collected to force the election.
State law requires the signatures of 15 percent of active voters to trigger a recall, which is 170 in Redington Beach, Acting Town Clerk Marie Hamilton said.
Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark verified 193 of the 205 signatures submitted to her Wednesday.
Among the complaints against Maniotes - which he has denied - the citizen recall petition charged him with neglect of duty, malfeasance and creating a hostile work environment for town employees.
The recall committee initially filed a similar petition against Commissioner Leslie Peck-Epstein but had to withdraw it because under state law, she cannot be recalled until this fall, when she will have completed one-fourth of her elected term.
The town now must formally notify Maniotes of the recall. He will then have five business days to decide whether to resign or to allow the recall election to go forward. He could not be reached for comment Friday.

From the Hillsborough County Vote Site statistics suggest that approximately 93,000 signatures would be needed for a recall.


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This could be a double-edged sword if a small group of citizens got together for vendetta purposes; unlike the people of Hillsborough County who seem to have valid reasons to demand a recall of representatives who are not pursuing the best agenda for the County and all of the residents.


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Mario, Elliot, and Gordy started a march from Chicago to DC. It wasn't a march with rides in between nor was it a march funded with stays in plush hotels; it was a march started with a dream and a belief in the People of our Country. Right now that dream is struggling. Places that they reached out to have not responded. Their car to carry their gear is gone. Their resources are low. As our youth speak out to us for help, we must be there. Below is a list of places needed for hosts. If you know of someone near those areas, please reach out to them. Register as a host on their website as soon as possible so they know they will not be left on the streets. A warm place to sleep and a hot meal is all they ask. People to walk beside them. Grassroots America is not just an organization, but an idea. An idea with a belief in the people across our nation that support peace, denounce prejudice and torture, and above all, places the power in the people, not our government. If not you, then who? I will be joining them in Baltimore MD, Laurel MD and on to College Park in their walk. Everyone that is planning on coming in for all the events starting September 11, will you come join in their walk on September 8th to help them reach DC? "We do not march out of hate. We do not march out of abandonment. We march out of hope, provoked out of sadness for the Nation we love. It is a Nation that our forefathers, and with them, our own soldiers, died to protect. It is a Nation degenerated into a prison of fear and silence that is the current administration. It is a prison of deceit and half-truths, and a trail of unaccountability that is so long it pales the very length of this march. We march to Washington in the name of the Constitution, in the name of the Soul of the People that inspired it, both of which are hijacked by the conspiracies and unilateralisms that History will infamously know as the Bush regime." Mario, Eliot and Gordy

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Where will you be September 15?

I'll be standing with the Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Council of Arab Americans, Muslim America Society Freedom Foundation, Veterans for Peace, and military family members, like myself, as we confront Gen. Petreaus when he delivers his report to George W. Bush and congress on September 15. Those that sacrifice the most for this war realize the importance of September 15. We live with this occupation everyday.

When we turn off our televisions, our radios, close our papers or books, the war rages on for ourselves, friends and family. Every politician in Washington DC has said wait until September 15. Wait for the report.

As they waited, more of our sons and daughters died. Iraqis saw their country ever more devastated while tens of thousands more became displaced in their own country.The wait is over.

The Gathering of Eagles is mobilizing on September 15 to try to intimidate us. The Department of Interior is threatening $10,000 and more in fines for lawfully advertising for this day. The forces are mobilizing to try to silence us as General Petreaus gives his report. As he calls for years more of war. The streets of DC cannot be silent on September 15.The streets of DC cannot be filled with warmongers as they spread their hate.

September 15 is our day, the day of the peace makers, to denounce their policies of war, denounce their occupation and denounce their hate as we strive for justice in our streets.

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Secret Spy Rooms:
That's life without civil liberties

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If you sent an email in 2003, there's a good chance your government grabbed a copy of it. That's because in 2003, the National Security Agency set up a secret, 24-by-48 foot room in a downtown San Francisco telecommunications building to tap into one of the nation's largest Internet data hubs and illegally retrieve millions of emails and other communications.1 This is not a conspiracy theory; according to the sworn affidavit of an AT&T technician, this actually happened. Tomorrow a federal court will hear two lawsuits against the NSA's unconstitutional "special project." The arguments will be long and drawn out, but in a sense our own Congress has already made it moot -- just before leaving on vacation they voted to make the administration's spying programs legal.2Congress will re-consider that legal protection in just six months, so we need to show them NOW that this is not the behavior we will accept. No more secret rooms siphoning off our e-mails and telephone calls.

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TrueMajorityACTION is joining with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, MoveOn and other major national groups in the American Freedom Campaign, which will be an ongoing project to protect our civil liberties and roll back the damage that has already been done by this administration. Members of those groups, and other citizens around America are already signing on to words like those above.In six months, Congress will have an opportunity to overturn the wiretap bill. Let's make sure they do the right thing then and every other time. Let's take our country back,
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1. "Lawsuits May Illuminate Methods of Spy Program," Washington Post, August 14, 2007.

2. "House Approves Wiretap Measure," Washington Post, August 5, 2007.

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