Bev Harris crashes LePore retirement party and creates mayhem over FOIA request

["Pete Klammer" <pklammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Where does thiswoman buy her pants? =0) I want to buy
her a drink!

> Fun and Games in Palm Beach County
> 
> 
> Black Box Voting files Public Records lawsuit
> against Palm Beach County
> 
> NOV 30 2004: Today's lawsuit was filed naming
> Theresa LePore as defendant,
> citing her for failure to comply with the Black Box
> Voting public records
> request of Nov. 2, 2004.
> Black Box Voting filed the lawsuit this morning in
> Palm Beach County, served
> it per Florida law on LePore's attorney. Black Box
> Voting then made a
> surprise visit to the podium at the Florida State
> Association of Supervisors
> of Elections meeting held today in Orlando, where
> LePore was scheduled to
> make a speech on records retention.
> We went in through the kitchen, using a
> reconassaince map provided by a
> colleague, led by Kathleen Wynne dressed as hired
> help. Black Box Voting
> investigator Kathleen Wynne, in black jeans and a
> white polo shirt had
> earlier traveled through the route to the back
> entrance to the supervisor's
> meeting, nodding to the waiters.
> "Very nice, very nice," Wynne said authoritatively.
> Wynne led Bev Harris and Andy Stephenson through the
> back way without
> raising so much as an eyebrow, since she looked like
> hotel staff.
> Harris went onto the podium and introduced herself
> to the crowd. "I know I'm
> interrupting. This will only take a minute." She
> turned to LePore, "Since we
> can't get your attention any other way, I'm serving
> you with a courtesy copy
> of the lawsuit we served on your office this
> morning."
> LePore glared, turned her back on Harris, and
> refused to take the lawsuit,
> so Harris set it on the table in front of LePore.
> Stephenson stood up in front of the crowd of perhaps
> 200 Florida elections
> officials.
> "This was a courtesy call on Ms. LePore for failing
> to produce public
> records," he said. "For any of you who have not
> complied, we have more of
> these coming."
> Black Box Voting has identified 13 Florida counties
> who have earned
> litigation due to failure to comply with public
> records requests.
> The elections officials erupted into deafening
> shouts, boos, gavel-pounding,
> and then Wynne stepped up smack dab in front of the
> crowd, took a sturdy
> stance and panned the crowd with her video camera.
> "This is what democracy looks like," she said, as
> the officials scowled and
> shouted for the sergeant at arms.
> Unfortunately, the sergeant at arms was nowhere to
> be found. (Perhaps
> imbibing in the Sequoia Voting Systems lounge, just
> down the hall? We may
> never know.)
> Harris, Stephenson and Wynne made haste out the back
> door, but accidentally
> tripped a loud screeching alarm. The meeting broke
> up and people fanned out
> all over the place seeking to capture the rude
> individuals from Black Box
> Voting.
> Black Box Voting went to the meeting because it was
> on the official schedule
> as a speech by LePore on retention of election
> records. LePore seems to have
> been retaining records too aggressively, by failing
> to provide public
> records to the public. Unfortunately, it seems that
> the agenda was changed,
> unbeknownst to Black Box Voting, and instead of a
> speech it was to be an
> event honoring LePore prior to her retirement (she
> was voted out of office
> by Palm Beach County residents), and congratulating
> her on surviving so many
> lawsuits.
> LePore has one more lawsuit to go.
> # # # # #
> 
> 


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