No More Ron! This Website is dedicated to educating the public about Brevard County (Florida) Commissioner Ron Pritchard, District 2 (Merritt Island, Cape Canaveral, Cocoa, Avon By The Sea, Cocoa Beach, Snug Harbor, Patrick Air Force Base, Port Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center.)

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Here's a true story ... actually happened, as can be verified by witnesses who are willing to swear out affidavits on these events. I am a neighbor of Pritchard. I live directly across the water from his house and can see the back of his house, as he, can mine.

In Summer of 2004, after moving in to my new house, approximately May-June time frame, a rather unique windstorm blew through our neighborhood one day mid-week. At that time, Pritchard had a tree, on the waterline, fall over into his yard because of the windstorm. It was a cypress tree, approximately thirty feet high. After doing the "neighborly" thing, by helping him drag a large cable across the waterway, I used my four-wheel drive Jeep to pull the tree up from the other side, which was the only way to do it without driving onto his lawn and into his backyard. He and I managed to right the tree. It took us about three hours. He never bothered to thank me, and in fact treated me with hostility even after helping him (I told him the first time I met him, with my wife, that we weren't "Bush" Republicans...but were moderate, Reagan independent voters from California. He didn't like that and he told us so.). I never had anything to do with him after that and felt he was rude.

A few months later, after a hurricane came through (Fran), the tree fell over gain. He came to my house and asked my wife if she'd help right the tree again, as I had become injured from lifting plywood and sand bags---helping other neighbors prepare for the storm---was severely injured and couldn't walk. I told her to tell him to hire someone to do it. He went away.

I called the local tree service and asked them what they'd charge for righting a tree of this size, and they quoted me a rough price of $250-400.

A week later, he came to my house again, and this time brought with him a friend, a guy in a yellow Hummer. Without asking, he and the other fellow, a man named Peroni, a real estate management/ developer, dragged a cable across the water, and this time, using his Hummer's winch, sat on my lawn, and pulled the tree up from my side of the water. This fellow Peroni is constantly at Pritchard's house, as we can see his car parked in the driveway from our side of the waterway.

I found out approximately 8 months later, after I was speaking to the reporter at Florida Today who ran the story about Pritchard taking favors from developers and being caught doing so in the now infamous "Air Pritchard" story, that he'd been cited a fine for taking favors without reporting them--and that he'd appointed this 'friend' Peroni, to a position on the Brevard Land Development Committee, interestingly enough. He never reported the 'favor' to the Florida Election Committee--not to this date--which, as I understand it, requires that any gifts of favors be reported as such, in any amount greater than $100.

And Pritchard wonders why common people don't trust him . . . except those who "buy" him.

Geoffrey Cook
Merritt Island

 

 

 

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