The Charlie Crist Money Trial

The Palm Beach Post created a web site where can can search Gov. Charlie Crist's 2006 campaign donations. You can search by contributor's name, donation amount or town. I checked $500.00 donations from Tampa and got several pages of contributors listed alphabetically. I noticed Republican sugar daddy J. Norman Estes has been giving Crist contributions through several Northport Services officees. I really like to know how heavily Estes is plugged into Florida politics. The Arkansas Department OF Human Services terminated Northport Health Services provider agreement.

Mutuality is discerned from the arbitration clause in the Agreement, which is analyzed in light of Northport’s business. As a nursing home, Northport reaps virtually all the benefits of this distinctly one-sided agreement, because Northport is free to seek judicial relief for any claims that it is likely to have against residents, while residents are precluded from bringing any significant tort action that they are likely to have against Northport. Additionally, residents give up the right to any protections afforded by ombudsmen, and may even give up the right to have involuntary discharge hearings as provided by state and federal law. Northport gives up virtually nothing because it retains the right to sue for any foreseeable cause of action it may have against a resident. Residents, however, give up important substantive rights, including the right to sue Northport for significant injuries, the right for an heir to sue for wrongful death, and perhaps even the right to have an involuntary discharge hearing as provided by federal and state law. And Northport may modify the Agreement whenever it wishes simply by changing its handbook. Residents have no modification authority at all, and because Northport can unilaterally modify the terms, residents even give up the right to sign any amendments before the amendments take effect.