Lining up to be next governor of Florida
July 6, 2009
Who the heck is Ed Heeney? He’s a candidate for governor, that’s who. While Democrat Alex Sink and Republican Bill McCollum capture most of the headlines, other lesser-known candidates also grace the 2010 ballot.
Here’s a list of the not so well known, and well-heeled, candidates vying to become Florida’s next governor:
-Michael Arth: Arth, 56, is an author, architect, urban designer from Deland. His biography includes the restoration of 32 homes in a once-blighted Deland neighborhood known as “Cracktown.” The Democratic candidate supports issues including universal health care, equal rights for gays, gun control and doing away with the death penalty.
-Joe “Trinidad Joe” Allen: Key West author and retired teacher, Allen has run for public office three times, once for the Key West City Commission and twice for the Monroe County School Board. He will campaign as a Democrat. He is the author of “Santa’s Key West Vacation.”
-Peter Allen: The Riverview resident, 60, founded the Independence Party of Florida in 2001. The electrical contractor wants third parties to demand an open primary. He says he espouses a conservative fiscal approach. “We can no longer spend what we do not have and expect our children to pay for it,” Allen said in announcing his candidacy earlier this month.
-Ed Heeney, a Republican from Fort Lauderdale has run in previous elections on an anti-gay platform. In 2008, Heeney dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination to take on Sen. Dave Aronberg, D-Greenacres.
-Tim Devine, a Kissimmee Republican, previously ran twice to become Osceola County Sheriff. He first ran in 2006 then as a write-in candidate two years later. In both races, he was defeated by Democratic incumbent Bob Hansell.
-Phillip Kennedy, Democrat, Panama City. No information available.
-Farid Khavari- An economist and author of several books including “Environomics: The Economics of Environmentally Safe Prosperity” Born in Iran, Khavari, now 66, emigrated to the United States in 1977. He runs the Institute for a Zero-Cost Economy in Miami.
-Josue Larose, 28, is a Deerfield Beach resident who is running as a Republican. Larose has also thrown his hat in the ring for a U.S. Senate seat in 2012 and the 2016 U.S. Presidential race.
-Calvin Clarence “C.C.” Reed: A perennial write-in candidate, Reed of Miami has run unsuccessfully for governor in 1990, 1994, 1998 and 2002. In 1996, he was defeated in his quest to become Mayor of Miami. He has no party affiliation and has run in favor of government accountability and against litter.
-Marc Shepard, a former aide to Rep. Barry Silver, D-Boca Raton. A Democrat, Shepard ran for the House District 89 seat and was defeated in the first primary.
-John Wayne Smith: A Libertarian candidate from Clermont, Smith ran unsuccessfully against Charlie Crist in 2006 and was the vice presidential candidate for the Boston Tea Party in 2008. (Not to be confused with the Florida Association of Counties lobbyist who bears the same name.)
By MICHAEL PELTIER
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
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If the reporters would have written about the true performance of Alex Sink and Bill McCollum losing $50 billion in state pension funds, rather than rhetorics, they would have not seen the light of day. For details the readers should go to http://www.KhavariForGovernor.com, and click on Balancing Budget. The site refers to a series of articles written by Sydney P. Freeberg, in the St. Petersburg Times.
I’d like to clarify that John Wayne Smith of the Smith/Henegar Campaign 2010 for Florida Governor – though he is calling himself a “Libertarian” he was NOT chosen as a candidate by the Libertarian Party of Florida “members”.
In 2006 John Wayne Smith ran as an “NPA” No Party Affiliation
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/candidate/CanDetail.asp?account=41869
The Libertarian Party of Florida as a third party use to “approve” Libertarian candidates via votes at its Annual State LPF Conventions by its party delegates.
Because Libertarian Party of Florida 2006 Convention Delegates did “not approve” John Wayne Smith as a 2006 Florida Governor Candidate he had to run as an “NPA” No Party Affiliation.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/candidate/CanDetail.asp?account=41869
He also got fined by the Florida Elections Commissision for not filing a (8/25/06) campaign report.
http://www.fec.state.fl.us/Final%20Orders/2006/107.pdf
http://www.fec.state.fl.us/results/August06.pdf
Among the many reasons John Wayne Smith is not being approved by Florida Libertarians as a candidate is because of his past records of arrests, criminal convictions and even an allegations of child molestation by his daughter Dagney Kira Barnes in 2008 when he was running as a Boston Tea Party Vice President candidate.
-Allegations of Child Molestation against John Wayne Smith-
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/10/boston-tea-party-chairman-charles-jay-is-lying/
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/10/charles-jay-slams-btp-chairman-jim-davidson-florida-btp-disaffiliates-from-national/#comment-19556
-2001 John Wayne Smith Conviction-
http://lakecountyclerk.org/online_court_records_detail.asp?case_id=69748935
1986 – In Ocala Star-Banner – Oct 3, 1986, He admitted to the reporter “I operate an illegal taxi company” … and he was jailed twice for it.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZNETAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kgYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4254,730710&dq=john-wayne-smith+for+governor
John Wayne Smith did not like that Florida Libertarians did not allow him to run as a “Libertarian Party” candidate. So John Wayne Smith helped with the passage of CS/HB 537 – effective Jan 1, 2008 ordered by proposition 11.
What that bill did was take away the voice of Libertarian Party of Florida Delegates [at its Annual Conventions] to approve or not approve Libertarian Candidates to run for office.
At present, any “political kook” can register as a “Libertarian” and then run as a “Libertarian” candidate whether the actual party members approve of this person or not.
But John Wayne Smith has enough “friends” on the Libertarian Party of Florida Executive Committee, that he conveniced them to add his name and Smith/Henegar 2010 website link on Libertarian Party websites despite the objections by many Libertarian Party of Florida members/delegates of him as a candidate at the 2009 LPF Convention.
And those Libertarians want there voice of protest against John Wayne Smith to be heard at the twitter site:
Libertarians Against John Wayne Smith
http://twitter.com/LIBSagainstJWS
John Wayne Smith (of the Smith/Henegar 2010 for Governor)
is not liked by most Libertarians because he’s an embarrassment to the genuine long time Libertarian Party members.
The long time Florida Libertarian Party members want him out because of his angry public attacks of certain party members and his past criminal background.
But also because he keeps quitting and denouncing the Libertarian Party then he worms his way back in after a year or two when there are new people in charge who don’t really know him… and let him back in so he can cause problems all over again.
There is actually some YouTube videos that poke fun at him as a public person and shows how he is (in a sort of parody I guess) with his party changing ways and some of of his “bad” behavior too at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/LIBSagainstJWSmith