Over the weekend, Dem vs Dem squared off over issues facing Florida and when the focus turned to crime, I'm uncertain as to which Attorney General hopeful threw human rights under the bridge best...state Senator Dave Aronberg or state Senator Dan Gelber.
As reported by The Daily Loaf: (10/12/2009)
(...)Being Attorney General means being the state’s top law enforcement officer, which means these Democrats certainly want to prove their toughness. They did that when discussing child predators. Both referenced the situation that exists in Miami at the Julia Tuttle Causeway, which over the past two years has become a colony for homeless sexual predators.
Aronberg said he couldn’t imagine a “less safe situation than having an army of homeless, angry sex offenders roaming the streets. This is dangerous. This is putting everybody at risk,” he said.
Gelber was equally uncharitable, saying he recently checked out the camp, “because they all claim to be ‘Romeo-and- Juliet’ cases”(that is a teenager over 18 having sex with somebody under 18). “Almost every single one of them was a 40 or 50 year old guy who has done something absolutely unspeakable to a child under the age of 11. That’s who they are.”
Funny. That's not what Gelber said this past summer.
Let's take a look back, shall we?
LiveLeak (July 2009)
(...)
Even some staunch supporters of residency restrictions have expressed misgivings after witnessing the chaos the ordinances sow. Florida state Sen. Dan Gelber, whose district is home to the Julia Tuttle camp, is adamant about the 2,500-foot rule. A father of three, he recently learned, to his dismay, that a registered sex offender who lived six doors down from him was arrested for masturbating in front of some children. Despite his hardline stance, however, Gelber was aghast at what he observed in his first visit to the bridge in early July--the density of the encampment, the sordid conditions. "There has to be another way," he says...
On second thought, I'd say Gelber did a better job dissing human rights. My guess is neighbor Ron Book keeps him fairly well-versed on Bookville, the unofficial name of the colony which bears the lobbyist's name.
FYI, Senator Gelber. Not everyone under the JT is designated a "predator" by the state of Florida. Next debate, try fact-checking the state registry.
Sir.
