#Reubin Askew

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Florida Governor DILFs

Bob Graham, Bob Martinez, Jeb Bush, Charley Eugene Johns, W. Haydon Burns, LeRoy Collins, Buddy MacKay, C. Farris Bryant, Claude R. Kirk Jr., Doyle E. Carlton, Millard Caldwell, Fuller Warren, Rick Scott, Daniel T. McCarty, Wayne Mixson, Reubin Askew, Lawton Chiles, Charlie Crist

[primreaperstuff]

The funny part is that the guy's real name was Joseph but he got the nickname "Bum" because when he was a kid, he was obsessed with the local fire station across the street from his childhood home. He would constantly stalk it and ask firefighters to do stuff for him, hence he was the "little bum" ("bum" is an American slang term for asking for free favors-- most commonly to "bum a cigarette" meaning to ask for a cigarette). He kept up this behavior as an adult.

The way the guy presented himself is striking too to say the least. Dude loved his bright red suits with rose-tinted glasses and gold jewelry, complete with a golden fire axe that he wore on his tie. He also had a lime-green Ford Galaxie 500 (basically a very weird mid-tier sedan decorated like a luxury car) labeled "El Jefe" ("the chief" in Spanish). And he smoked massive cigars. And he performed elaborate Santeria rituals on his car's fender during local highschool baseball games for good luck.

He was also noted for an incident where he jumped into a canal shortly after extinguishing a fire, believing the canal to be a swimming pool, and had to be rescued because he couldn't swim.

His disappearance probably related to his involvement in marijuana and cocaine dealing, which got started when the economy went south in the area. Surprisingly, this was pretty normal in Key West in the 70's-- people tended to view it as just a career some people had, like shrimping, rather than this big bad thing. It was so not stigmatized that this man could be seen selling drugs in the open right outside of his office as fire chief. Really, people were probably more unhappy with the charges that he embezzled state funds, which he beat thanks to a sketchy counsel that included his nephew. But Florida Governor Reubin Askew (another "yes really"-ass name right there) was tough-on-crime and especially tough-on-drugs. He collaborated with the DEA to launch Operation Conch, a sting operation dedicated to busting drug dealings in Key West. Informant Titus Walker and agent Larry Dollar (disappointingly inferior names, although there is something to be said for getting done in by the Dollar) got Bum Farto to deliver cocaine and he was officially busted.

Farto lost his beloved Ford Galaxie that day, and went on to have a speedy trial where he was easily found guilty. On the eve of his formal sentencing, he told his wife he had business to take care of in Miami and drove off in a Pontiac LeMans. The car was found abandoned near Miami, but Farto was never seen again. It's thought by US authorities that he briefly settled down in Golfito, Costa Rica (where the US embassy reported an attempt to renew his passport) but left in 1979 when there was a crackdown on fugitives in the area. Many of the locals of Key West believe he was murdered for knowing too much, like Titus Walker was. His attorney is noted for wearing a custom T-shirt that proclaimed that Bum was in Spain and doing well, but that has never been substantiated.

Basically, the man was a fire-station obsessed thief who tried to use a random canal as a swimming pool despite not being capable of swimming. His prized possession was a car straight out of a cartoon, and he dressed like a 90's pimp more than 20 years before the 90's began. He practiced Santeria rituals to help the local high schools win baseball games. He dealt drugs in public but needed a sting operation from Governor Sideways Sandwich to be busted. And then he just straight up vanished into thin air.

This guy isn't a Star Wars background character-- he's a fucking Gravity Falls protagonist. Fucker was in Weirdness Town, Oregon where he impersonated the local recluse for 30 years and punched trigonometry in the face. This is facts, fight me.

Sources:

https://www.dannydutch.com/post/the-mystery-of-bum-farto-key-west-s-drug-dealing-fire-chief-that-vanished

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/bum-farto-key-west-fire-chief-mystery

https://fieldethos.com/the-legend-of-bum-farto/

Star Wars ass name

[lboogie1906]

Dr. Claud Anderson (September 2, 1935) was the State Coordinator of Education for Florida under Governor Reubin Askew during the 1970′s. After productive social change projects in Florida and driving President Jimmy Carter’s Florida mission to an accomplishment in the state, Carter assigned him as the Federal Co-Chairman for a Commission of lead agents in the southeast states. He drove a commonplace commission that upheld and composed financial headway projects for lead delegates in those states.

The fish business, which by then was all wild catch, was a huge regional community. The undertakings he financed made positions and associations in the Southeastern states. He taught at all levels of tutoring. He was the head of two monetary improvement organizations for the city of Miami and a huge coordinator and facilitator for the 1988 DNC.

He manufactured Waterland Fisheries, Inc., a Seafood handling plant he chips away at Maryland Eastern Shore, to go about as a delineation of PowerNomics guidelines. WFI can convey 1,000,000 pounds of live incredible fish yearly in a controlled indoor environment. It is the greatest tank-farming office in Maryland and one of the greatest in the country. He had ownership in radio stations, including the one he gathered and worked in Tallahassee, retail food outlets, and private turn of events. He is head of The Harvest Institute, a research association that investigates, methodology improvement, guidance, and advancement to fabricate the power of Black America. The foundation for Harvest Institute programs are Dr. his books, Black Labor, White Wealth: A Search for Power and Economic Justice and PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America.

He addresses constantly business get-togethers, schools, places of love, and social relationships on the monetary, social, and political game plans he proposes. His books have all been raving successes, are for the most part examined all through the US, and are used as perusing material in various universities and optional schools. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[positivemotivation]

LGBTQA history June 7:

1954 - computer scientist, mathematician and legendary World War II codebreaker Alan Turing died of self-inflicted cyanide poisoning. Turing was instrumental in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis and thus win World War II. In 1952, Turing had been convicted of indecency for conducting a romantic relationship with a man, and was sentenced to chemical castration. Turing committed suicide three years later. In 2009, 55 years after his death, the British government released a statement apologizing for the “appalling” treatment Turing had received, and in 2011, Turing was officially pardoned of the charge of indecency.

1977 – A referendum in Dade, County Florida, forced by pressure from fundamentalist Christians singer Anita Bryant, husband Bob Green and their “Save Our Children” organization, repeals the new county ordinance prohibiting discrimination on basis of sexual orientation. It was the first major battle — and defeat — in the struggle for gay civil rights in United States. It was also the first successful use of “child molestation tactics” by anti- gay forces and set the pattern of attack for the remainder of the 1970s and into the 80s. The following year Florida Governor Reubin Askew signed a law prohibiting gay men and lesbians from adopting children. That law was cited to also prevent lesbians and gay men from having custody of their own children. Bryant faced severe backlash from gay rights supporters across the U.S. She lost singing contracts and endorsements and was removed as spokesperson for the Florida Orange Juice Commission. The Miami-Dade gay rights ordinance was reinstated in December 1, 1998, more than 20 years later

[floresm19-blog]

In 1963, Wilbert Lee and Freddie Pitts, two African American men, were sentenced to the death penalty for a crime they did not commit. The two men were wrongfully accused of killing a gas stations attendants. The two men were beaten by police officers severely causing them to have knots the size of lemons on their heads, which is how officers were able to simply make the men admit to the crimes they had been accused of committing. There was not physical evidence that linked the two black men to the deaths of two white men, but because Lee and Pitt had plead guilty and there was an “eyewitness” they were sentenced to death. The only reason that they had not been executed for the alleged crime they committed was because later a man confessed to the crime of the deaths of the two white men. After this happened, the same eyewitness that had allegedly seen Lee and Pitt kill the two white men, had changed her statement in favor of Lee and Pitt. This lead to the state Attorney General admitting that the state had unlawfully made evidence and therefore were given another trial, which even after all evidence pointed against them committing the crime, they were convicted and sentenced to death again. They were not released until 1975 when Florida’s Gov. Reubin Askew pardoned them, by then they had been in prison for 12 years and on death row.

[vbartilucci]

On a related (and rather pathetic) note, after John Young made this comment over a "hot mic" and it received significant attention on Earth, the governor of the state of Florida, Reubin Askew, actually issued a statement to the press in an effort to protect his state's massive citrus industry. The governor went on the record to assure the public that the astronauts were not drinking real Florida OJ up there, but rather their flatulence issues were because NASA instead used an an artificial orange-flavored substitute drink.

And no, contrary to popular belief, the Apollo astronauts did not drink Tang branded beverages in space, though the Mercury and Gemini crews did. The Apollo crews drank an artificially flavored orange drink (sometimes other fruit flavors as well) that was made specifically by NASA for the Apollo longer duration flights and was designed to be quite high in potassium. Multiple Apollo astronauts complained about flatulence issues that they attributed to the drink's high potassium levels.

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[historysisco]

On This Day in History January 19, 1977: While today the term “Global Warming” has become commonplace, this was not so in 1977 when it seemed that the weather flip-flop in Florida and Alaska. 

In Florida, the first recorded snowfalls occurred in such hot spots as Miami, Tampa and Orlando causing citizens to run for cover looking for warmth. The temperature was so much a cause for concern that Florida Governor Reubin Askew called for a “State of Emergency”. 

Up in Alaska, the warming effect caused its own problems. Outdoor hockey games were cancelled due to melting ice, the streets normally icy were wet with an uncommon sight: slush. Even in places like Barrow, the temperature was a balmy zero degrees instead of the below zero weather usually felt in this Arctic town. 

I wish I could make this up folks, but sometimes you just can’t.

For Further Reading:

35 Years Ago Today: Snow In Miami! from the CBS Miami website dated January 19, 2012

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Former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew Dies At 85

Former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew Dies At 85

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew, who guided the state through a period of school busing to achieve integration in the 1970s, died early Thursday. He was 85.

Ron Sachs, a former aide, told The Associated Press that Askew died surrounded by family members at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare.

Askew rose from obscurity in the Florida Legislature to become the Democrats’…

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FORMER FLORIDA GOV. REUBIN ASKEW Dies

Former Florida Gov. Reubin Askew died early Thursday. He was 85. His family issued a statement Wednesday saying that he was admitted to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare on Saturday. Over the past three months, he has suffered from aspiration pneumonia, hip surgery and,…