Lauren Book betrayed the survivors of the Parkland shooting and their families.

The survivors did NOT want Sheriff Israel reinstated. But Sheriff Israel is a friend of the Book family, so Book voted to get him reinstated. One of the survivors took to Fox News to criticize Book and said, “Something I’m so disgusted about the last few days is Florida Sen. Lauren Book, someone who has served on the MSD commission. She knew all the facts, watched my sister get murdered, but still voted to reinstate Sheriff Israel. She sold out the community of Broward county and put our children at risk. I’m completely disgusted with Florida Senator Lauren Book.”

“Gary Farmer, Perry Thurston, Oscar Braynon, they were laughing. They were eating candy while these parents are begging them, ‘Please vote in our favor. Please vote in the interest of Broward County.’ But to these Broward senators, it was just a joke.”

“And Lauren Book is the worst out of all of them, because she sat on that commission, and she watched these people get shot, she watched these children die. But simply sold out her community for her own political ambition, and that’s just something that makes my stomach sick. I’m up here in Tallahassee tying to honor my sister, and this girl had the audacity to just go behind our backs and vote against the community of Broward County.”

Instead, Book wasted time trying to compare ME to the Parkland school shooter.

I want to sue her into oblivion, but the Books know that no FloriDUH attorney would oppose them.

Lauren’s lack of response to the Parkland High shooting in particular.

Because of the other shadiness Ron Book is involved in and/or orchestrates in Florida politics, I’m not entirely sure Ron Book would be any different absent Lauren’s abuse. His anti-registrant advocacy is the perfect cover for them. Ditto Lauren – she defers to her victim-hood every time she is opposed on anything.

Read the comments of any news article related to the Books, particularly those that have nothing to do with the registry or sex crime. Either they or their trolls answer every opposition or criticism with accusations of sex criminals or sympathizers.

The person Ron Book hit did sue and they settled out of court for an undisclosed sum. But ol’ Ronal “Stagger” Lee Book dragged it out longer than his DUI case and brought up motion after motion trying to delay the case. The guy was asking only $30k

I still want to sue the Books for victimizing me for YEARS.

Agreed 100%. We should not hold him accountable and he should not hold us accountable. These SORRs should not exist.

If we are not to hold Ron Book accountable for what happened to Lauren, then why is he holding a whole group of Floridians accountable? We had nothing to do with what happened to Lauren. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!

The point of the article is not to criticize the Books. There is nobody on either side of this issue that doesn’t wish every day that what happened to Lauren Book had never happened. Certainly they wish it hadn’t for obvious reasons, and if Lauren hadn’t been victimized we would not be living under these torturous restrictions. Direct accountability for her abuse lies squarely with the nanny. Not with Ron and not with any of us.

“If he hadn’t done XYZ…” or “if we hadn’t done ABC” is not going to change the present circumstances. We can point fingers at him all day long for enacting completely ineffective legislation, for using his money and influence to exercise vengeance, for testifying to false recidivism statistics in order to advance his agenda, for being an opportunist and a general ass, but we should not point fingers at him for what happened to Lauren. That ship has sailed and if he knew then what he knows now, I’m sure he would have had two armed guards supervising everyone within 5 feet of his kid. Similarly, he should not point fingers at us for what happened to Lauren. None of us touched her and many of us never touched anyone nor intended to. The ship has sailed in our past too and I’m sure if we had the benefit of the insight we have today, all our lives would be different.

The only points the post was intended to make are:
SORRs don’t work. Enough time has passed to determine that.
Book is not the right guy to find a solution to the homeless registrant problem in South Florida. Keeping him in that role is stupid. and
The shenanigans that started here have spread across the country and it’s become more blatant. It’s time politicians stopped getting away with it.

The post was a subtle nudge to our sister affiliate in Illinois that what happened here could happen there. If you let the Mayor get away with this BS park without even attempting a lawsuit, this ABSOLUTELY WILL spread like a cancer and God forbid you find yourself in the same situation Florida is in 16 years from now.

If anyone reading this is a member of IL Voices, lives in IL or has any contact there, please step up. We only have enough bandwidth and resources to deal with our own debacle, but can certainly help in any limited way we can.

Many thanks. We are not yet through with these ‘bozos’. Next, we are going after distance restrictions which are totally unsubstantiated.