Friday, November 18, 2016

FLORIDA JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSION RECOMMENDING OUR NEXT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IN GRAYROBINSON LAW FIRM OFFICE

Controversial Fifth Circuit State's Attorney BRADLEY KING covered up the Michelle O'Connell case as special prosecutor.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/death-in-st-augustine/
http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/two-gunshots/
Now BRAD KING wants a seat on the Florida Supreme Court.  He's being interviewed on November 28th by Florida's Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission.

The Chair of Florida's Judicial Nominating Commission is GrayRobinson Managing Shareholder JASON L. UNGER, liquor lobbyist (and lobbyist for other regulated industries), a longtime Tallahassee Republican apparatchik.

JASON L. UNGER plans to hold the meeting of  the Commission in his 300 lawyer law firm's office in Orlando.

For reasons of appearance of impropriety, I've asked him to move it to a Courthouse or government building.  He asserts that "logistical" reasons mean the location can't be changed.

What hubris.

He won't explain why he's holding the meeting in his law firm office building, instead of a proper location in a Courthouse or other government building.  I'm sure that the Orlando Public Library or a local University could make available an auditorium, free of the appearance of lobbyist influence.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Unger
To: easlavin
Cc: Cynthia Angelos ; Daniel Nordby ; Fred Karlinsky ; Hala Sandridge ; Israel U. Reyes ; Jason Unger ; Jeanne T. Tate ; Jesse Panuccio ; Nilda Pedrosa
Sent: Wed, Nov 16, 2016 9:53 pm
Subject: RE: Florida Judicial Nominating Commission meeting in office of corporate law firm, GrayRobinson; Open Records request

Mr. Slavin

A thumb drive with redacted applications will be sent tomorrow and a second thumb drive with letters of recommendation will be sent next week. 

I have no ability to place the documents on the websites you’ve referenced but have relayed your request to the Governor’s legal office.

Pursuant to JNC policy, the published Notice of Applicants Sought for Florida Supreme Court Vacancy required the applicants to submit, in addition to the original application, an electronic redacted copy of the original application which excludes all material that is exempt or confidential under applicable public records laws.  Upon your review of the redacted applications, please let me know if you believe an applicant improperly redacted information.

I appreciate your suggestion on the meeting location but, for logistical reasons, we cannot accommodate that request.




From: Ed Slavin [mailto:easlavin@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 1:35 PM
To: Jason Unger
Subject: Re: Florida Judicial Nominating Commission meeting in office of corporate law firm, GrayRobinson; Open Records request

Dear Mr. Unger:
1. Please send thumb drives.
2. Please place all documents on judicial, Florida Bar or Governor's website.
3. Please identify specific F.S. 119 statutory exemptions for each redactions with a Vaughn index.
4. Please answer my question and kindly change meeting location from GrayRobinson offices.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
904-377-4998



Jason Unger | Managing Shareholder
G R A Y | R O B I N S O N

301 South Bronough Street, Suite 600 | Tallahassee, Florida 32301
T: 850-577-9090 | F: 850-577-3311 | D: 850-577-5489
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Unger <
Jason.Unger@gray-robinson.com>
To: easlavin <
easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 16, 2016 1:18 pm
Subject: RE: Florida Judicial Nominating Commission meeting in office of corporate law firm, GrayRobinson; Open Records request
Mr. Slavin,

There is no Florida Judicial Nominating Commission website.  The Florida Bar does have certain JNC information posted on its website, but the Supreme Court JNC has no control over The Florida Bar.   The Governor’s Office is in receipt of the applications and may be placing them on the Governor’s website for easier access.   That link is:


I have redacted applications and letters of recommendation available for inspection and/or copying, or I can mail you thumb drives.    Thank you again.

From: Ed Slavin [mailto:easlavin@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 8:46 AM
To: Jason Unger; 
nildapedrosa@gmail.comcynthiagangelos@gmail.comkarlinskyf@gtlaw.comdnordby@shutts.com
Dear Mr. Unger:
Thank you.  
Please place on the Florida Judicial Nominating Commission website so all can read it.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
904-377-4998


-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Unger
To: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>; nildapedrosa <nildapedrosa@gmail.com>; cynthiagangelos <cynthiagangelos@gmail.com>; karlinskyf <karlinskyf@gtlaw.com>; dnordby <dnordby@shutts.com>; jpanuccio <jpanuccio@foley.com>; ireyes <ireyes@reyeslawfirmpa.com>; jeanne <jeanne@jtatelaw.com.>
Cc: scottopengov <scottopengov@eog.myflorida.com>; pat.gleason <pat.gleason@myfloridalegal.com>; susancoopereastman <susancoopereastman@gmail.com>; jim.sutton <jim.sutton@staugustine.com>; ankersen <ankersen@law.ufl.edu>; hamann <hamann@law.ufl.edu>; little <little@law.ufl.edu>; mills <mills@law.ufl.edu>; rosenbury <rosenbury@law.ufl.ed>; Teresa Barreiro
Sent: Wed, Nov 16, 2016 8:25 am
Subject: RE: Florida Judicial Nominating Commission meeting in office of corporate law firm, GrayRobinson; Open Records request

Mr. Slavin,

I can have all Supreme Court applications for this vacancy (with legally exempt information redacted by the applicants) copied to a thumb drive and mailed to you today.  Please advise as to the mailing address.   I will ask my assistant to create a second thumb drive of recommendation letters and send that to you as well early next week.  Thank you for your patience.




Jason Unger | Managing Shareholder
G R A Y | R O B I N S O N

301 South Bronough Street, Suite 600 | Tallahassee, Florida 32301
T: 850-577-9090 | F: 850-577-3311 | D: 850-577-5489
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From: Ed Slavin [easlavin@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 5:35 PM
To: Jason Unger; nildapedrosa@gmail.comcynthiagangelos@gmail.comkarlinskyf@gtlaw.comdnordby@shutts.comjpanuccio@foley.comireyes@reyeslawfirmpa.comjeanne@jtatelaw.com.
Cc: scottopengov@eog.myflorida.compat.gleason@myfloridalegal.comsusancoopereastman@gmail.comjim.sutton@staugustine.comankersen@law.ufl.eduhamann@law.ufl.edulittle@law.ufl.edumills@law.ufl.edurosenbury@law.ufl.ed
Subject: Florida Judicial Nominating Commission meeting in office of corporate law firm, GrayRobinson; Open Records request
Dear Chairman Unger and  Florida Judicial Nominating Commission members:
1. Why are your November 28, 2016 interviews of Florida Supreme Court applicants being held in the offices of a corporate law firm, GrayRobinson, a 300 lawyer corporate law firm with 13 locations in Florida, representing ?
2. I object to this corporate law firm meeting location as, at best, an appearance of impropriety.
3.  As Juan Ortega y Gasset said, "yo soy mi y mis circumstancias."  ("I am me and my surroundings.")
4. Meeting location is important and symbolic, just like polling place location.   
5. As Adrien Davich wrote in The New York Times Magazine:
Ever since the 2000 election, Democrats and Republicans alike have complained that our voting system is vulnerable to fraud and manipulation. They have scrutinized “hanging chads,” “hiccupping” and “choking” voting machines, miscounted absentee ballots and e-votes that leave no paper trail. Now, though, they may have something more subtle to worry about: the location of polling stations. This year, Jonah Berger, Marc Meredith and S. Christian Wheeler, researchers at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, released a study suggesting that where you vote may significantly influence how you vote.
After analyzing data from Arizona’s 2000 general election, the Stanford researchers found that voters were more likely to support raising the state sales tax to support education if they voted in schools. This bias remained even when results were controlled for voters’ political views and demographics. In a follow-up laboratory study, subjects were asked to vote on a number of initiatives, including California’s 2004 stem-cell-research financing proposition. Before casting a vote, each subject was primed with a picture of a school, church or generic building. Voters were less likely to support stem-cell initiatives when presented with images of a church.
It’s a discomfiting insight: a person’s vote, a hallmark of democracy, may be biased by polling environment. Yet this has nothing to do with dirty politics or foul play. Rather, it’s a fairly basic principle of psychology — the idea that environmental cues can trigger ideas and affect our behavior without our being conscious of it. If you’re voting in a school, then the part of your brain that values kids and education might be activated, whereas if you vote inside a church, your ideas about spirituality might be invigorated. For some people, it seems, a change in location is enough to change a vote.

"Voting-Booth Feng Shui," by Adrienne Davich, New York Times Magazine (December 10, 2006).


6. From this day forward, please hold all Florida Judicial Nominating Commission  interviews and meetings in courthouses or other ADA accessible, neutral, government building.
7. Please send me copies of all the Supreme Court vacancy applications and recommendations.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998


Jason L. Unger - Attorney at Law
301 South Bronough Street
Suite 600
Post Office Box 11189 (32302-3189)
Tallahassee, Florida 32301

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Jason concentrates his practice in the areas of governmental affairs and administrative law matters, and regularly works with the executive branch agencies and the Legislature on behalf of his clients.
Prior to joining GrayRobinson, Jason served as Special Counsel to the Florida House of Representatives. While at GrayRobinson, he represented George W. Bush and Richard Cheney in the 2000 presidential election contest; the Florida House of Representatives in redistricting; the Republican Party of Florida; and members of the Legislature in election law matters. In 2001, Jason was appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Congressman E. Clay Shaw, Jr. to the Florida Federal Judicial Nominating Commission. In 2005, Gov. Bush appointed Jason to the Florida Sports Foundation. Since 2008, Jason has served on the Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission (JNC). He was originally appointed to the Supreme Court JNC by Gov. Charlie Crist, then Gov. Rick Scott reappointed him to the commission in 2011 and again in 2016 for a term through 2019. Jason was also nominated to serve as chairman of the JNC in 2016 for a one-year term.
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Background
Jason was born in New Jersey and has lived in Florida since 1982. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Florida in 1990 and then went on to receive his juris doctor from the University of Florida College of Law in 1993. He moved to Tallahassee from Fort Lauderdale in 1998.
Education
  • University of Florida, B.S.B.A. (1990)
  • University of Florida, J.D. (1993)
Admissions
  • Florida
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
Professional Associations & Memberships
  • Judicial Nominating Commission
    • Florida Supreme Court, 2011-2015, 2016-2019, reappointed by Gov. Rick Scott
      • Vice Chair, 2013
      • Chairman, 2016-2017
    • Florida Supreme Court, 2008-2011, appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist 
      • Chairman, 2009-2010
    • Florida Federal, 2001-2005, appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush and U.S. Congressman E. Clay Shaw
  • National Republican Congressional Committee, Florida Counsel, 2010 and 2016 elections
  • Florida House of Representatives, Redistricting Counsel, 2002 and 2012 cycles
  • Rudy Giuliani Presidential Campaign, Florida Counsel, 2007-2008
  • Republican Party of Florida, Election Law Counsel, 2002
  • Litigation Counsel to George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, 2000 Presidential Election Contest
  • Florida House of Representatives, Special Counsel, 2000
  • Appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush to the Boards and Commissions Review Panel, 1999-2000
  • The Florida Bar
    • Governmental and Public Policy Advocacy Committee
Media Mentions
Civic
  • Florida Sports Foundation, Board of Directors, 2005-2007, appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush
  • Florida Tax Watch, Board of Trustees, 2004-2006
  • National Jewish Coalition, South Florida Chairman, 1996-1998
  • Florida Blue Key
Reported Cases
Significant reported cases include:
  • In re Senate Joint Resolution of Legislative Apportionment 1176, 83 So.3d 597 (Fla. 2012)
  • Martinez v. Bush, 2002 WL 31740366 (S.D. Fla. 2002)
  • Florida Senate v. Forman, 826 So.2d 279 (Fla. 2002)
  • In re: Constitutionality of House Joint Resolution 1987, 817 So.2d 819 (Fla. 2002)
  • Palm Beach County Canvassing Board v. Harris, 772 So.2d 1273 (Fla. 2000)
  • Gore v. Harris, 2000 WL 1770257 (Fla. Cir. Ct. 2000)
  • In re: Constitutionality of House Joint Resolution 25E, 863 So.2d 1176 (Fla. 2003) (NO.SC03-1912)



Jason L. Unger

Mailing Address:

GrayRobinson PA
301 S Bronough St Ste 600
Tallahassee, FL 32301

Phone Number:

(850) 577-9090

Principals:

Accelerated Learning Solutions, Inc.

2636 Elm Hill Pike
Suite 500
Nashville, TN 37214
Industry Code: 611710 Educational support services
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Allergan USA, Inc.

c/o 2350 Kerner Blvd.
Ste. 250
San Rafael, CA 94901
Industry Code: 325412 Pharmaceutical preparations (e.g., capsules, liniments, ointments, tablets) manufacturing
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Association for the Improvement of American Infrastructure

1430 Broadway
Suite 1106
New York, NY 10018
Industry Code: 541611 Strategic planning consulting services
Effective Date: 2/10/2016
Automated Health Systems, Inc

9370 McKnight Rd
Ste 300
Pittsburgh, PA 15237
Industry Code: 524114 Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Canaveral Port Authority

Po Box 267
Cape Canaveral, FL 32920-0267
Industry Code: 483111 Deep sea freight transportation to or from foreign ports
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
City of Hollywood

2600 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, FL 33020
Industry Code: 921110 Executive Offices
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
City of Key West

Po Box 1409
Key West, FL 33041-1409
Industry Code: 921110 Executive Offices
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
City of Tampa

306 E Jackson St
Ste 7
Tampa, FL 33602
Industry Code: 921110 Executive Offices
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Corizon, Inc

12647 Olive Blvd
St Louis, MO 63141
Industry Code: 621399 Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Deloitte Consulting, LLP

215 South Monroe Street
Suite 100
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Industry Code: 541611 Administrative management consulting services
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Dosal Tobacco Corporation

4775 NW 132nd St
Miami, FL 33054
Industry Code: 312000 cigarette manufacturers
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Florida Distillers Guild, Inc

51 Water St
St Augustine, FL 32084
Industry Code: 312140 Distilleries
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Florida Outdoor Advertising Association

314 N Gadsden St
Ste 1
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Industry Code: 813910 Business Associations
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Florida's Vision Quest

167 N Industrial Dr
Orange City, FL 32763
Industry Code: 624110 Child and Youth Services
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
GrayRobinson, P. A.

301 E Pine St
Ste 1400
Orlando, FL 32801
Industry Code: 541110 Offices of Lawyers
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Hartman & Tyner, Inc

831 N Federal Hwy
Hallandale, FL 33009
Industry Code: 711212 Racetracks
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
iPic Entertainment

433 Plaza Real
Suite 335
Boca Raton, FL 33432
Industry Code: 512131 Cinemas
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Jetro Rd, Inc., dba Restaurant Depot

1524 132nd St
College Point, NY 11356-2440
Industry Code: 424400 distribution
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA

270 Park Ave Floor 37
New York, NY 10017-2014
Industry Code: 551111 Offices of Bank Holding Companies
Effective Date: 1/11/2016 (Withdrawn on: 01/27/16 )
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

270 Park Ave NY1-K705
New York, NY 10017
Industry Code: 551111 Bank holding companies (except managing)
Effective Date: 1/28/2016
Meadowbrook, Inc

10 New England Business Ctr #303
Andover, MA 01810
Industry Code: 524126 Direct Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Non-Profit Insurance Services, Inc

1525 International Pky
Ste 2021
Lake Mary, FL 32746
Industry Code: 524210 Insurance Agencies and Brokerages
Effective Date: 1/12/2016
North Broward Hospital District

303 SE 17th St 5th Floor
Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316
Industry Code: 622110 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Orlando Magic

8701 Maitland Summit Blvd
Orlando, FL 32810
Industry Code: 711211 Sports Teams and Clubs
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Promise Healthcare, Inc.

999 Yamato Rd Third Floor
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Industry Code: 623110 Nursing Care Facilities
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Public Consulting Group

148 State St 10th Floor
Boston, MA 02109
Industry Code: 541820 Public Relations Agencies
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
RB Jai-alai, LLC

810 7th Ave
10th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Industry Code: 531390 Real estate asset management services (except property management)
Effective Date: 1/29/2016
rx development associates, inc.

800 Executive Dr
Oviedo, FL 32765
Industry Code: 541611 Administrative management consulting services
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Seavin, Inc

157 King St
St Augustine, FL 32084
Industry Code: 312130 Wineries
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Shands Teaching Hospitals & Clinics, Inc dba Shands HealthCare

Po Box 100161
Gainesville, FL 32610-0161
Industry Code: 622110 General medical and surgical hospitals
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
South Broward Hospital District

3501 Johnson St
Hollywood, FL 33021
Industry Code: 622110 General Medical and Surgical Hospitals
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
Target Corporation

1000 Nicollet Mall TPN 1101
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Industry Code: 452990 All Other General Merchandise Stores
Effective Date: 1/11/2016
University of Central Florida Foundation, Inc.

12424 Research Parkway
Ste 140
Orlando, FL 32826-3257
Industry Code: 611310 Academies, college or university
Effective Date: 1/11/2016



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