This is haunting me a bit because it could have been stopped if those Tampa juries had listened to those girls.

Turned out that he was convicted in Alabama several years later for SA on a number of women. One story said he had been linked to numerous cases across the southeast. Apparently did his assaults while on temp duty assignments.

Since the paper identified his address as near where I grew up, my curiosity got the better of me, and I looked for whatever I could find from other newspapers about him across time. Had an uncommon name.

I am having the hardest time wrapping my head around the idea that a onetime senator from Florida – Florida! – would say anything to dampen tourism.

Someone save this as a first line for a history of these years.

I dig it.

Where are the FIRE guys? Oh yeah…

Property taxes: because you can’t drive grandma to the hospital and do CPR at the same time.

I’ve been reading Christine Dunbar-Hester’s Oil Beach and liking it quite a bit. Lissa Wadewitz’s The Nature of Borders might also make for great discussion, too, since it deals with US-Canadian fishing laws and Native usages of the salmon fishery.

😁

Isn’t his framing of this as an “ethnic rivalry” just another way of repeating Russian talking points?