http://www.ziki.com/en/jacob-mcneill+838514 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:49:01 +0100 120 My aggregated content at ziki.com http://www.ziki.com/en/jacob-mcneill+838514/post/beverly-hills-dentist+13814330 Divided by emotions and science, Pinellas County commissioners made a decision to stop adding fluoride to normal water in a group of tense 4-3 votes.
A drive by dentists to oust two commissioners behind the move has arrived not surprisingly.
Not as predictable: Implications that Commissioner Ken Welch, a fluoride supporter, is aiding dentists' tries to unseat his colleagues, Nancy Bostock and Neil Brickfield.
A sequence of emails reveal several local dentists' call to donate to Welch's re-election as a "cornerstone" from the effort, ways of lobby for a about face the fluoride decision, and biting criticism of Commissioner Norm Roche, a fluoride critic, as a possible "uneducated fool."
Amid that, dentist Johnny Johnson of Palm Harbor wrote that he attended a Welch fund-raiser and was seeking potential election rivals for Bostock and Brickfield, Republicans who voted against adding fluoride.
"We must ROCK & ROLL!!! Help!!!!!" Johnson wrote.
But when he hit send Jan. 27, Johnson inexplicably emailed the process to Roche.

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Roche browse the email and saw proof a political campaign involving one colleague (Welch) against another rather than further discussion about improving dental care within the county.
"I cannot and will not - either directly or indirectly - be connected with any opposition effort against any of my Board colleagues," Roche warned in the Sunday email.
Roche, a Republican who recently joined the county's Election Canvassing Board, cited that role being a legal requirement for distancing himself from the activity related to political campaigning.
Roche failed to return an email seeking comment, and Johnson wouldn't normally consent to be interviewed in regards to the email.
Brickfield expressed surprise to possess read that Welch could may play a role inside a campaign against him.
"There's long been a culture around the Pinellas County Commission that incumbents don't get involved with races with incumbents," said Brickfield.
The dentists never have registered a political action committee, however they have met regularly about how to upend the vote. Most health experts credit fluoride with helping improve oral health for decades.
The audience split without success to back a referendum to overturn the fluoride votes. Welch, a fluoride supporter and also the board's only Democrat, opposed a ballot measure as risky. He's caused it to be remove the 2012 election is a referendum on fluoride.

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"I'm not organizing some other campaign, I'm organizing my own campaign," Welch said. "Other candidates are coming forward in their own business, and it's really not a secret that the removing fluoride is a big issue within this county."
Johnson attended Welch's campaign kickoff Jan. 26, and wrote that Welch's "first point" as part of his speech was fluoride. Johnson recommended lining up experts to fulfill with commissioners to higher explain fluoridation. Younger crowd urged contributions to Commissioner Karen Seel, a Republican who backed fluoridation, and Welch.
Another attendee, Mark Weinkrantz, a Democrat on East Lake's fire commission, said Welch never spoke about an agenda to oust Brickfield or Bostock.
"As far as Ken being associated with any operation? I know Ken has preferences who he'd assist, I know anybody would," said Weinkrantz.
At Welch's campaign kickoff in the Hangar Restaurant in St. Petersburg, Johnson met former state Sen. Charlie Justice, a Democrat, whose expected run for your commission spawned from anger over the fluoride vote. Johnson also attempted to touch base with former lawmaker Janet Long, another Democrat considered prone to run for commission following the fluoride votes. But she wasn't around.
They might face Bostock and Brickfield, respectively.
After Johnson's initial email, rhetoric escalated. Roche chided dentists' commitment to helping poor children when most don't accept Medicaid patients. Johnson replied with an apology and worried the email would impugn the dentists' effort as "poor and under-handed."
Then dentist Ed Hopwood of Clearwater - who denies any Welch involvement organizing opposition - upped the ante against Roche.
"He is definitely an uneducated fool who's playing the political game to the best of his ability," Hopwood wrote, zinging Roche if you are "incapable of getting past senior high school."
Concluded Hopwood: "Hang inside, we will be better off when Roche is no longer at work."
Roche is up in 2014.
Bostock brushed off of the re-election threat, saying she will defend her vote as providing people with "individual freedom" to select whether or not to consume fluoride.

But after acrimony dominated the commission this year, she desires a more civil tone before November's election.
"We don't really need this all type of infighting," she said, "because it won't serve anyone."]]> Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:49:01 +0100 tag:ziki.com,2012:/article/13814330