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Winter Garden, FL

Will you attend my Gay Days event?

created by: John Rees | Feb 29, 2008

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  • YES!
  • no (my wife will be home)
  • Only if clothing is optional
  • Only if condoms are avail
  • I will bring a friend
  • I will bring a farm animal
  • Only if I get to be on top!
  • Only if I get to be on bottom

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John Rees
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#1
Feb 29, 2008
 
Join us this weekend!
Gerald Jowers
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Mar 2, 2008
 
Can't wait!
Mike B AKA Lil Holis
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Mar 3, 2008
 
I will make sure the city picks up the tab!
Grand Master
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Mar 5, 2008
 
Another FYI, ask some of these guys about thier history of wearing sheets and white hoods!

Roper, Rees, Jopwers and others have klan members or former klan member in their blood lines
WG Old Fart
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Mar 6, 2008
 
WG has a history of racism and klan activity. Some say it is still around (klan).

just look at east WG.
WG Klan and Racism
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Mar 6, 2008
 
In January 1949, Klansmen held a motorcade through Tallahassee, where newly- inaugurated governor Fuller Warren, a former Klansmen himself, denounced them as "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks."

After "Doc" Green died in August 1949, the national Klan splintered badly, with new, and extremely violent, organizations springing up across the South. In Florida, a plumbing contractor named Bill Hendrix chartered the Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and named himself as its head. The Klan's power grew quickly, particularly in Orange County, where its ranks included prominent lawmen, businessmen, and elected officials: Sheriff Dave Starr was a known Klansmen, as were a county commissioner and the city manager of Winter Park. Apopka and Winter Garden were particularly infested: Apopka's police chief, constable and night patrolman all belonged, as did one constable and the justice of the peace in Winter Garden. One businessman estimated that 75 percent of Apopka's male population belonged.

The "Florida Terror"

By 1951, however, the Florida Klan was at a crossroads. Harry T. Moore's Progressive Voters' League had registered 100,000 new black voters in the Democratic Party; NAACP branches were challenging Jim Crow ordinances over the use of public golf courses, swimming pools, and libraries; and the 1951 Florida Legislature passed an anti-mask ordinance by an overwhelming margin. The Klan responded with a rash of cross burnings and floggings from the Florida Panhandle to Miami; Hendrix declared war on "hate groups," including the NAACP, B'nai B'rith, the Catholic church, and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ; and then declared himself a candidate for governor. By the summer, the Klan began trying to roll back progress with sticks of 60 percent dynamite, with so many bombings, or attempted bombings, that the northern press dubbed it "The Florida Terror." The Moore bombing turned out to be the twelfth bombing of the year.

The biggest impetus to the growth of the Klan in the South was the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. As the civil rights movement begin to grow in the 1960s, the Klan responded violently to the freedom rides, sit-ins and mass demonstrations. Florida remained a Klan stronghold, particularly in the Jacksonville area.

Florida Klan Today

During the 1970s and 80s, the Klan splintered into competing factions and its membership declined. That trend continued in the 1990s. Today, although its numbers are relatively small, Florida has one of the more active Klans, and its commitment to racial hatred and prejudice have not gone away.
WG Klan and Racism
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Mar 6, 2008
 
MORE RELATED CORRUPTION

A persistent foul odor: Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves shopping center This project has smelled from the beginning and now it is learned that Sembler has donated at least $5000 to state Representative Randy Johnson's (R-Celebration) campaign on Aug. 11, 2005.

Winter Garden, Florida is about six miles from Orlando. When Sembler Company tried to build a $100 million open air shopping mall the citizens who live out there formed an organization to stop it. See www.stopfowler.com .

There came a point when there was a vacancy on the city commission and it looked like a 2 - 2 tie for and against Sembler's proposal. It was up to the governor to select the tiebreaker. The governor, Jeb Bush, is in Mel Sembler's pockets. In fact Jeb Bush, his wife Columba, and his Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings are on the advisory board for Mel Sembler's charity the Drug Free America Foundation. DFAF is an unindicted criminal activity back when it operated under the name of Straight, Inc. Straight was guilty of all sorts of crimes from criminal child abuse and extortion to fraud. It has left a trail of over 40 suicides by former clients.

The governor tried to appoint a good Republican to the Winter Garden commission but it was learned that this man had lied on his application about being a high school graduate. Sembler opened a web page to let local residents sound off, but the group Stop Fowler reported that some of the individuals who wrote in appeared to be nonexistent!

In 2005, state Representative Randy Johnson (R-Celebration) introduced an Infrastructure Funding Bill for roads, schools and water facilities authorizing funds of $8.25 billion over 10 years. As a compromise for the bill the Florida Senate dropped its insistence on letting county commissioners increase taxes for new roads and schools without referendums, and accepted the House's insistence to bar the state Department of Community Affairs from reviewing land-use changes for projects on rural areas less than 20 acres. As part of the bill developers would have to pay a share on development costs for projects from which they will benefit. When the Johnson Bill passed on May 6, 2005 Rep. Johnson said, "People are going to see mass infusion of infrastructure repair and widening on their roads.'' See Smart Growth Online.[In 1984 a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia found that Straight had falsely imprisoned Fred Collins and ordered Straight to pay him $220,000. Shortly there after Sembler's neighbor Rep. Robert Melby introduced legislation that would allow parents to order their kids into Straight with the force of a court order.]

Thanks to the Johnson Bill Sembler Company had to pay its share of $9 million to widen State Road 50 for his Fowler Mall. Almost immediately Sembler came up with his $ 9 million. Now we have learned that on Aug. 11, 2005, over three months after the passage of the Johnson Bill, Sembler made ten $500 contributions to Johnson's reelection from the following organizations:
Charlie Tinch
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Mar 6, 2008
 
Im there dude.
Gerald Jowers
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Mar 6, 2008
 
Charlie Tinch wrote:
Im there dude.
Charlie, bring your own KY.
Gerald Jowers
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Mar 6, 2008
 
Watch me with my new toys!

YEE HAW

http://www.youtube.com/watch...
John Rees
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Mar 7, 2008
 
We're gonna need a bigger bed!
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Mar 7, 2008
 
Wow! This is gonna be one huge butt bang!
John Butt Banger Rees
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Mar 8, 2008
 
TONIGHT! At my place! Bring your chickens!
John Butt Banger Rees
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Mar 9, 2008
 
WOW! What a GREAT time we all had!

Let's do it again!
Gerald Jowers
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Mar 14, 2008
 
My a$$ is sore but I'll be at the next shin-dig!
Two Cents
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Mar 14, 2008
 
wow, is this the best educated attempt at sarcasism you can come up with......keep practicing.........actually, find something more meaningful to do with your time...life is short, you don't get this time back.......
John McCain
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Mar 17, 2008
 
Two Cents wrote:
wow, is this the best educated attempt at sarcasism you can come up with......keep practicing.........actually, find something more meaningful to do with your time...life is short, you don't get this time back.......
Yor're just mad because you could not get a hook up at the party. Better luck next time.
Charlie Roper
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#20
Mar 18, 2008
 
I heard Joh Rees likes it up the ass
Bert
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#21
Mar 19, 2008
 
Next Gay event will be at my place! The racist Moon Cricket! Yee haw! It's love a moon cricket night!
Truth Master
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#22
Mar 24, 2008
 
my butt is ready!
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