"Turtle Stew" author comments on arrest of citizen-activist

[mojogeorgo]

A few days ago I posted a diary entitled "Citizen-activist arrested while investigating election irregularities". Yesterday I received an e-mail from Patricia Camburn Behnke, the author of Turtle Stew, the book Charlie mentioned in this blog entry.

"I wrote this novel about politics in a fictional small north Florida town after covering politics in the area for several years. I began writing it three days after someone left a live bomb at the weekly newspaper where I was covering controversial growth issues (can you say Dollar General and Wal-Mart?). Fortunately no one was hurt so the FBI moved onto more important crimes.

I tried to make the novel as crazy as possible, exaggerating real life events and characters, but in Alachua they continue to write my sequel for me and how do I get crazier than what is happening there right now?"

Read the rest here
http://howardempowered.blogspot.com/2006/05/politics-in-alachua-florida.html

I'm about to leave for work now, and won't be home again until after 8 this evening, so if I don't respond right away to comments on this diary, that's why. But feel free to pass the link along to anyone you think might be interested.

[madfloridian]

1. Site must be busy, will try again later to read it.

Whatever happened about Charlie Grapski? Any conclusion to his case yet?

Thanks for sharing. I may order that book to see if our area is even comparable. I have heard some pretty weird stuff here lately.