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Posted May 24, 2013 08:55 am | Part II
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comments)
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – The May 13th Lake Shore
Hospital Authority meeting continued to bring up
many issues that had been brewing since the
uncontrolled and ill fated real-estate buying
spree orchestrated and begun in 2006 by then
Authority Board member Jackson P. "Jack" Berry.
Today, real-estate values have plummeted. Jack
Berry went from Authority Board Chairman, no
pay, to General Manager of the Authority, a job
which pays almost $100,000 a year. Stuck with a
portfolio of property the Authority can't give
away, Manager Berry is now claiming his
plan-less buying spree was urban renewal, and he
is looking to
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Posted May 22, 2013 08:05 am | Part I
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Columbia County's Lake
Shore Hospital Authority, one of the special
purpose hospital districts that Governor Scott
was thinking about eliminating after he was
elected, lingers on as former republican
political operative and quintessential public
figure, Hospital Authority Manager Jackson P.
"Jack" Berry, finally took some heat from the
Governor appointed board after claiming he
failed to get a recent appraisal on the Shipp
property purchased in a wild property buying
spree in 2006.
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 Lake Shore Hosp Auth: More Abbott
and Costello, Who's on First? Now it’s Jack Berry's cell
phone.
Posted
May 6, 2013 06:55 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – The Lake Shore Hospital
Authority has been one of Columbia County’s best
kept secrets for years. It is an independent
taxing district, run by a governor appointed
board, which is not answerable to the Columbia
County residents and businesses that pay the
taxes and the bills, one of which is the almost
$100,000 a year that goes to former Republican
Chieftain and Hospital Authority Manager,
Jackson P. “Jack” Berry.
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Posted April 22, 2013 02:20 pm | commentary
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
Lake Shore Hospital Authority's (LSHA) Jackson P. "Jack"
Berry is North Florida's quintessential public figure
and public official. He is known far and wide through
political and public careers that span almost four
decades. Jack Berry has failed in quests for public
office multiple times. After being fired he sued the
Columbia County Sheriff in Federal Court for violating
his civil rights and lost. During the presidential
campaign of George W. Bush he bullied two little old
ladies because they
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Posted April 17, 2013 08:20 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Lake Shore Hospital
Authority Manager and quintessential public figure
Jackson P. "Jack" Berry failed to file state mandated
financial disclosures for 2010 and 2011 according to
both the Columbia County Supervisor of Elections Office
and the Florida Commission on Ethics. A recent public records request returned the
following response from the Sup. of Elections Office:
The Columbia County Supervisor of Elections does not
have Financial Disclosures for Jackson P. Berry for the
years 2010 and 2011.
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Posted April 9, 2013 02:30 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Last night the
Lake Shore Hospital Authority Board began
the process of what soon may become the
great Lake Shore Hospital Authority land
giveaway. It considered what to do with part
of the millions of dollars of land it
purchased at the height of the real estate
bubble in the mid 2000's. By June of 2007,
the total purchase or appraised value of the
Authority's land deals was $3,699,320...
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Posted December 12, 2012 04:40 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Monday night's Lake Shore
Hospital Authority meeting blew by in 29 minutes, but
not before Authority Chairman Waseem Khan disposed of
the newly presented Authority "Rules of Protection", and
not before Board member and former bank president, Bruce
Naylor, questioned the propriety of Authority Manager,
"Jack" Jackson P. Berry, commenting to the local paper
about allegations presented on 60 Minutes.
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Posted December 10, 2012 02:15 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – During the past fiscal
year, the secretive Lake Shore Hospital
Authority was presided over by Florida
Representative Elizabeth Porter's Chief of
Staff, Koby Adams. Mr. Adams, in an obvious
effort to protect his friend political operative
and
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Posted September 25, 2012 09:40 am
By Stew Lilker
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
Last night's final Lake Shore Hospital Authority budget
hearing had no surprises. Two members of the governor
appointed board, Bruce Naylor and Laurie Chancy were
missing without explanation for this important meeting.
Also missing was the man that prepared the budget, the
Authority's external auditor and account, Richard
Powell. The Authority's General Manager, Jackson P.
"Jack" Berry, prepared no additional information for the
public, other than a salary comparison and the printed
budget, which, as usual gave no year to year comparisons
of expenditures or revenues.
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Posted September 12, 2012 07:50 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
The following is a notice which is concurrently being
sent to the Lake Shore Hospital Authority, Jackson P.
Berry and others regarding Mr. Berry's pending
litigation against the Columbia County Observer... I am
in receipt of various letters by you in representation
of your client, Jackson P. Berry... I do not waive
the defective notice; however, even before your proper
notice of the pending law suit, I am asking that you
carefully reexamine the alleged issues you seem to have
presented. I have not been served and I am requesting
that you withdraw this meritless action. However, if you
still feel it is necessary to move forward, that we sit
down and try and work this out before walking into a
courtroom, which as you well know is the intent of the
law.
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Posted September 10, 2012 06:45 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Recently, the Columbia
County Observer, the online news source of
Columbia County, North Central Florida and
Florida news, came under attack by the Lake
Shore Hospital Authority's General Manager,
Jackson P. Berry, a quintessential public
figure, former head of the republican party, Jeb
Bush appointee to the Lake Shore Hosp Auth Board
and its past chairman, and present LSHA General
Manager.
Zurich Insurance, the global insurance
carrier, denied Mr. Berry liability insurance
and Mr. Berry is threatening a defamation law
suit, blaming the Columbia County Observer for
his woes. The FL Southern Christian Leadership
Conference told the Observer: "We will stand by
you."
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Posted September 3, 2012 06:00 pm
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL –
Columbia County's Lake Shore Hospital Authority was a
forgotten entity for years until the Columbia County
Observer began to report on what was going on. It was
not a pretty sight. Authority board members and county
commissioners getting contracts; an outside accountant,
who for years has and continues to serve simultaneously
as the Authority's accountant and outside auditor; and a
former Authority board chairman, Jackson P. "Jack"
Berry, who resigned from the Board and months later
became it's part time manager – 24 unverified hrs. a
week for a total package worth approximately $60k a
year.
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Posted August 14, 2012 07:40 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Lake Shore Hospital Authority
Manager, Jackson P. "Jack" Berry, allowed last night's
scheduled Authority budget work shop to begin almost
twenty minutes early even though it was advertised on
the LSHA website calendar as beginning at 6 pm. Unlike in years
past, when there was a little bit of supporting
documentation, Mr. Berry was unprepared for the workshop
and his presentation reflected that. This year the
tentative budget didn't even have a label stating that
it was the proposed budget. The Lake Shore Hospital
Board is appointed by the Governor.
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Posted July 10, 2012 07:55 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Lake Shore Hospital
Authority General Council, Marlin Feagle,
announced at last night's monthly Authority
meeting that Jack (Jackson P.) Berry was dropped
from the Authority's D&O (Directors and
Officers) insurance policy. Mr. Feagle told the
Board that he was having trouble finding anyone
to insure Mr. Berry... "frankly it doesn't
look like it [insurance] is going to be
available for Mr. Berry..." Mr. Berry, a
quintessential public figure in Columbia County
since the 70s, blamed the internet. "Google my
name and you'll see what's there." The Observer
did.
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Posted June 12, 2012 08:45 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Columbia County's
Lakeshore Hospital Authority has proven time and
time again that it does not represent the people
who foot the bill for its existence, the
taxpayers of Columbia County. Last night, this
Governor appointed board out did itself by first
banning public comment and then flaunting the
fact that the General Manager, past Republican
chieftain and political operative, Jackson P.
(Jack) Berry, could facilitate a secret
procurement process for professional services
without the knowledge of this handpicked board.
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Posted April 9, 2012 11:59 am
COLUMBIA COUNTY, FL – Lake Shore Hospital
Authority's Jackson P "Jack" Berry, the overpaid
past Republican Chieftain whose political
appointment put him at the helm of a job created
just for him, that of General Manager of the
Authority, continues to dig in and not make
agenda material available on the internet before
its monthly board meetings. With the support of
the Authority's Board members, the Authority
continues to be the only municipal corporation
in Columbia County that refuses to make its
agenda information readily available to the
public before its meetings.
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 Columbia County, FL (Posted March 12, 2012 08:28 am)
Lake Shore Hospital Authority General Manager,
Jackson P Berry, was finally busted in April of
last year by the LCPD for illegally parking his
gas guzzling truck the wrong way in the street,
something he had been doing with impunity for
two years. In court documents recently
discovered by the Observer, Mr. Berry cried to
the judge, complained of selective enforcement
by the LCPD, and persecution by the Observer,
but where are the invisible cars he told County
Circuit Court Judge Tom Coleman about?
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Columbia County, FL (Posted October 11, 2011 07:30 am)
 Half
way through last night's Lakeshore Hospital
Authority Board meeting, after telling the
Authority Board that he wanted to spend
$9,000 of taxpayer money for furniture so for
profit companies could use the Authority meeting
rooms for free, Authority Manager Jackson "Jack"
Berry told the Board he was having issues with
the Authority's City water bill. He said,
"There's no way on Gods green earth we'd be
putin that much water out. I've tried to explain
this to the City of Lake City, it's like talkin
to the wall."
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Columbia County, FL (Posted August 10, 2011 01:20 am
| updated 08:50 am)
Neither the Governor appointed Lakeshore
Hospital Authority Board, nor its unqualified
and overpaid Authority Manager, “Jack” Jackson
P. Berry, disappointed Monday evening during
their yearly meaningless budget workshop. As in
prior years, there were no yearly budget
comparisons, power points or charts showing
revenues and expenditures over time. The Board
and Mr. Berry clearly felt that his monotone
reading of the budget was good enough for them
and the working families of Columbia County. Of
course, no one on the Board asked any questions
and the only discussion was about raising taxes.
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Columbia County, FL (Posted July 12, 2011 02:40
pm)
 This
story begins on June 13, 2011, when the
Lakeshore Hospital Authority decided to move
ahead with a 200 car capacity parking lot for
HMA/Shands employees. Columbia County taxpayers
will pay to build the parking lot and then the
Authority will lease the property to HMA/Shands,
apparently for nothing, giving them a free
parking lot. Hospital Authority Manager "Jack"
Jackson P. Berry explained to the Board that the
lot would be fenced and parking would be on the
grass. He said, "My estimated cost would be
around $35,000." (Photo: Jack Berry)
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Columbia County, FL (Posted July 11, 2011 01:50
pm)
The Lakeshore Hospital Authority runs its
business like a dirty little secret and has for
years, conveniently forgetting that its business
is the public's business.
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Columbia County, FL (Posted July 11, 2011 12:55 pm)
Sunday, July 10, the Palm Beach Post ran an article
describing the management style of
Florida's Gov. Rick Scott, the hospital industry and the
1.7 billion dollar Medicare fraud
which occurred when the Gov was in charge of HCA and
Solantic. The latest slight of hand
with LSHA reimbursements to HMA/Shands; the
unaccountability of the Gov appointed
Authority Board and its unqualified good ol' boy
manager, "Jack" Jackson P. Berry make this
mandatory reading.
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Columbia
County, FL (Posted June 16, 2011 12:55 am)
After the Monday, June 13, 2011 Hosp Auth meeting,
the Observer met with Ms. Reeves in her son's living
room, where Ms. Reeves told your reporter, " I just knew
it wasn't going to do me no good to stand up there in
front of them. They are all good old boys up there."
¶ When the Observer asked, "How do you pay for your
medicine now?" Ms. Reeves replied, "I don't take it. I
can't afford to pay for it." (1
comment)
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 Columbia County, FL (Posted
June 15, 2011 05:55 am)
Monday night at Columbia County's Lakeshore
Hospital Authority, cancer survivor Saundra
Reeves, addressed the surprised Governor
appointed board and the Authority Manager,
"Jack" Jackson P. Berry. A visibly shaken Ms.
Reeves asked, "I want to know why Jack Berry can
discriminate against a person getting care? I am
a cancer patient. He said there is nothing he
can do for me. All I need is a primary care
doctor... Jack Berry hung up on me. I need to go
to the people above him. He told me nobody's
above him."
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Columbia County, FL (Posted May 13, 2011 11:05 am
| updated photo: 11:45: am)
Appointed by
the Governor and now managed by the $100,000 a
year overpriced and ill equipped Board appointed
manager, repo man and past Republican chieftain,
"Jack" Jackson P. Berry, the Lake Shore Hospital
Authority Board, now chaired by Rep. Liz
Porter's Chief of Staff, Koby Adams, has become
one of Florida's premier rogue public
authorities. (Observer file photo: Koby Adams)
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 Columbia County, FL (Posted
May 09, 2011 05:55 am)
When it comes to plain old good ol' boy
cronyism, Columbia County's Governor appointed
Lakeshore Hospital Authority Board takes a
backseat to no one in Florida. The words and
actions of both the Board and the newly
appointed full-time $100,000 a year, ill
equipped, and well connected ex Republican
Chieftain, Jackson (Jack) P. Berry, should put
everything these folks do into question. With
the real unemployment figures in Columbia County
approaching 20%, it is difficult to imagine how
a 48% profit on his health insurance premium
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Columbia County, FL (Posted April
25, 2011 07:05 am)
The newly crowned $100,000 a year Czar of the
Lakeshore Hospital Authority, former Republican
chieftain and good ol' boy, Jackson P. Berry,
just can't seem to get it right. Even though the
Lakeshore Hospital Authority has ample off
street parking, Mr. Berry found it necessary to
park his giant gas guzzler the wrong way and in
the traffic lane this past Thursday – again.
This time the
Lake City Police Department gave him a ticket.
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Columbia County, FL (Posted
April 11, 2011 09:30 am)
Trying to
better his life, Hal DuPriest has been working
since he was 12 years old. Even though
qualified, his indigent care card, was pulled by
Columbia County's former repo man and
unqualified part time authority manager, Jack
Berry. Mr. DuPriest told the Observer: My income
is $550 every two weeks. I have a 15-year-old
living with me. The school is the most important
thing to me now, besides my daughter. This is a
safety net for me... I get a little bit of food
stamps for my 15-year-old. For extra money now I
pick up cans and sell the metal." (Photo:
Hal DuPriest)
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Columbia County, FL (Posted March 24, 2011 010:10 am)
Yesterday afternoon, Columbia County proved once
again that when it comes to good ol' boy
wizardry, the County hasn't lost its touch. At 2
pm, a committee consisting of Hosp Authority
Attorney, Marlin Feagle, Hosp Auth Financial
Advisor - Accountant - External Auditor, Richard
Powell, met with Columbia County Bank President
and LSHA Board member, Bruce Naylor, to decide
how much the unqualified – unverified former
Republican Chieftain, Jackson P. Berry, was to
make, as he transcended from board member, to
part time employee, to a full time employee, in
a job created by the County's good ol' boys,
just for him.
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Columbia County, FL (Posted
March 15, 2011 10:00 am)
Columbia
County's good ol' boys didn't miss a beat last
night at the Lakeshore Hospital Authority's
monthly meeting. In a county where good
government has always taken a backseat to
political expediency, cronyism and bullying, the
Authority did not disappoint when it went off
its agenda, at the urging of Board Chairman Koby
Adams and appointed Columbia County's bad boy
and former Republican chieftain, Jack Berry, to
a full-time position for which he has
continually demonstrated he is uniquely
unqualified.
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 Columbia County, FL (Posted Nov
9, 2010 12:59 pm)
Last night's Lake Shore Hospital Authority meeting
proved once again that when it comes to paying attention
to the contract of a Columbia County good old boy, all
bets are off. Former Republican chieftain, Jack Berry,
who back-doored himself into a part-time position paying
60 + thousand dollars a year for 24 hrs a week, is now
looking to go on the public dole full-time.
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Columbia County, FL (Posted Nov 6, 2010 02:22 pm)
It should prove to be interesting at Monday
night's Lake Shore Hospital Authority monthly
meeting. Obama style financing and Columbia
County's infamous Jack Berry top the Authority
chart... ¶it will be interesting to see how much
public money Mr. Berry and the Authority plan to
pump into these UF clinics to support UF's
private patients.
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Columbia County, FL (Posted Sept 20, 2010 09:00
am)
The budget also does not include actual
expenditures making it impossible to determine
how close the hospital authority came to its
proposed budgets... At last week's budget
hearing, Authority Chairman Vann explained that
Charles Briscoe (photo) had a private audience
with the Authority's Outside Auditor - Inside
Accountant Powell... With the Hospital Authority
floating on a sea of cash, it is obvious why
there haven't been any public explanations of
the kind that Charles Briscoe received
privately.
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Columbia County, FL (Posted June 15, 2010 01:15 pm)
It was business as usual in Columbia County last
night as the good old boys of the Lake Shore
Hospital Authority dug in and turned their backs
on going out to get the best deal for the
residents of Columbia County at the County Owned
Hospital, Shands at Lakeshore... Lake City
Medical Center's Attorney, Stephen Ecenia's
(photo) explanations of the law fell on the
usual deaf ears.
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Columbia County, FL (Posted June
3, 2010 09:15 am)
Columbia
County's Lake Shore Hospital Authority is
entering a new phase with the recent acquisition
and partnership between leaseholder
Shands and
Hospital Management Associates. Lake Shore
Hospital Authority Chairman Marc Vann and
Authority Manager and former Chairman Jack Berry
spoke to the Observer regarding the
merger/takeover and the new lease agreement.
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Columbia County, FL (Posted April
13, 2010 07:45:am)
It was business as usual last night at the Lake
Shore Hospital Authority... when the Hospital
Authority picked the pockets of Columbia
County's working families to benefit the past
Republican Chief,
Mr. "Free – White – and Over
21" himself -- Jack Berry, hiring him as what
appears to be the nation's only part time
hospital authority manager. The hospital
authority... (2
comments)
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Columbia County, FL (posted
March 18, 2010, at 09:05 am)
Ex Republican Chief, Jack Berry,
got a bye instead of the boot, when Columbia
County's Lake Shore Hospital Authority Board failed
to consider its past chief's education references
and his inadequate resume, when it considered him
for a job that only months ago he used to do for
free.
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Columbia
County, FL (Posted March 9, 2010 at 09:55 am)
No one was surprised last
night when the former Columbia County Republican Chief
and Hospital Authority Chairman, Jack Berry, was hired
by his old board to be the Authority's first paid
manager, just months after resigning from the Lake Shore
Hospital Authority. The Authority has two employees.
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Columbia
County, FL (Posted Feb 16, 2010 at 01:00pm)
In August of 2009, Lake Shore Hospital
Authority Chairman, Jack Berry, began laying the
groundwork to establish the position of a part
time Hospital Authority executive director. He
told the Authority Board, at least the two who
showed up at the budget work shop, "You would
probably want whoever does that position to...
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Columbia
County, FL (Posted Feb 8, 2010 at 08:20am)
During the Lake Shore Hospital Authority December 14,
2009, regular meeting, newly installed Hospital
Authority Chairman, Marc Vann, decided that it would be
a good idea for the Hospital Authority to have a self
appreciation dinner on the tax payers' tab. This dinner
was to include the Board members, the LSHA staff and
everybody's spouses.
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Columbia County, FL (posted
January 19, 2010)
by Al Cimaglia
I
have been bound to a wheel chair my whole life and I can
assure you that to me and my wife, who can now only get
around in a wheel chair that ten feet can be like a
mile. Unfortunately, it appears that the local agency
that is responsible for seeing that the requirements of
the ADA are followed, the city of Lake City, has dropped
the ball and has for years been turning a blind eye on
this whole situation.
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Former LSHA Chairman, Jack Berry, had no problem
showing his distain for ADA requirements or the
Observer.
Columbia County, FL (posted
January 11, 2010)
Former LSHA Chairman, Jack Berry, along with his
protégé, Columbia County Commissioner, contractor and
LSHA construction manager, Jody DuPree, didn't much care
about the American's With Disabilities Act during the
renovation of the old county jail, which became the
new and unnecessary headquarters of the LSHA. The new
regime under the leadership of Chairman Marc Vann is
doing a little better, but not much. (1
comment)
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Columbia County, FL (posted
August 28,
2009)
Columbia County’s iron fisted Lake Shore Hospital
Authority (“LSHA”) chairman, Jack Berry, has
demonstrated that for him, the letter and the spirit of
the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”) doesn’t have
much influence. Mr. Berry’s secretive and totalitarian
rule has left the handicapped and physically challenged
as second class citizens at the LSHA campus in Columbia
County.
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Columbia County, FL (posted
August 18,
2009)
Lake Shore Hospital Authority (“LSHA”) Chairman, Jack
Berry, a man who claims that he gets his “orders from
the Governor,” hit a new low in a career of disregarding
the rights of others, when he called the Lake City
Police Department to come to the Hospital Authority to
remove the Observer for listening to a meeting. (file
photo)
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 Columbia County Florida
(posted Oct. 13, 2008)
Part 1
The Observer told the Board: “There
are thirty thousand tax payers in the county that could
have questions about how the authority is run. My
question is, when they have a question and they come to
this board, how do they get an answer? You will not
answer any questions now from the public, which is
something new in my tenure of watching public officials.
I’ve never seen this before.” ¶ Chairman Berry sat silent, lips
pursed, as the Observer asked, “I guess you’re just not
going to answer?”
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Columbia County Florida (posted Oct. 13, 2008)
Part 2
As Columbia
County’s Lake Shore Hospital Authority floats on a sea
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Glynell Presley of the NAACP said, “In
this day and age it is absolutely incredible to
think that someone appointed by the Governor
could say something like that. One must wonder
if Mr. Berry can see what is going on in America
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of money, Chairman, Jack Berry, former chairman
of the Columbia County Republican Party, former law
enforcement officer, and the losing party in a lawsuit
where he kept suing two County Commissioners for
testifying against him in court, showed his character
once again at the monthly meeting of the Lake Shore
Hospital Authority (the Authority) on October 6th by
disgracing all Americans and especially people of color.
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The Observer asked, “Mr. Chairman
is anybody allowed to answer any of these questions at
these meetings?”
Board Chairman, Jack Berry answered, “If
they’re free, white and over twenty-one.
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