Tampa Releases Jill Kelley E-Mails:"Hostess with the Mostest" Edition
Posted on Fri Nov 16, 2012 at 08:09:56 PM EST
Tags: Jill Kelley, David Petraeus (all tags)
The most excellent adventures of the Real Housewives of Tampa continue. Today's installment: Jill and Natalie's White House excursions. We even get a new unnamed player: the White House lawyer who invited them.
More interesting: Mayor of Tampa Bob Buckhorn has released his e-mails with Jill Kelley. The latest is Nov. 14, in which she refers to Paula Broadwell as a stalker and a criminal. What a name-dropper. In one, she calls Gen. Petraeus "Dave" . In another she knows that Gen. Allen will be calling her at 1:00 pm. that day. You can read them here.
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In October, 2011, Kelley tells the Mayor she'll be in Washington the coming weekend with David Petraeus. In another, she tells him she'll be sure to give "the Director" his regards. When she returns, she sends him an email about her weekend at the Petraeus' for his 59th birthday, referring to Petraeus as "Dave."
In January, 2012, she writes she is in Washington having dinner with Gen. Petraeus and Gen. Allen. In March, she writes she just got of the phone with Gen. Petraeus and Admiral Harward during which they discussed some "potential crises" that she will need the Mayor's help with, just as he will need her help. The crises seem to relate to a radio station and "Bubba the Love Sponge." She tells the Mayor she has a "First Amendment lawyer" who may file suit and Gen. Allen will call her at 1 pm. She also says she is receiving emails from both Petraeus and Allen about this. What is the crisis at the radio station? Apparently, something to do with Koran-burning.
There's an email from someone about Jill Kelley's three year term expiring on a board. It says Jill was a "wild-card appointment" of the (prior) Mayor's, and "has not been active or effective."
In May, 2012, she writes the Mayor that she is hosting VIP's from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal, through authority of the State Department. After the event, she will serve them a 15 course dinner at her place.
By July, 2012, the Mayor's responses get a bit chilly. "Sorry, I'll be out of town" he responds to a few of her invitations. In September, 2012, he writes her about why she did not get an appointment. He says the position required "a different skill set."
On October 26, 2012, she invites him time to a stone crab dinner at the Yacht Club with Adm. Harwood. She got no response. On November, 6, she invites him to the next Yacht Club stone crab dinner event, and a birthday party on her lawn for her daughter's birthday on Sunday. He declines.
The scandal breaks and she continues to reach out to him. On Nov. 8, she tells him she was in D.C. the past weekend -- at the White House "with her friends in the Administration" and she is "glad Potus got reelected!" (She and her family are Republicans.)
On Nov. 12, Mayor Bob gets a google alert for the City of Tampa that says "Jill Kelley" is identified in the Petraeus scandal.
On Nov. 13, she writes him asking for help with the paparazzi.
The coup de grace is her last email to Mayor Bob on Nov. 14, again complaining about the media. She sends a copy to Abbe Lowell. (my emphasis below.)
I wouldn't care - if they got the facts right and focus on the criminal that stalked all of us. But the truth will one day prevail.
Nonetheless, my family has been put through the ringer, and my kids are scared.And to put insult to injury, your police dept gave the local 911 tapes to the press! My home address and cell phone number is played on them. I have been receiving threats all night, by people that now have my cell phone number.
I cannot understand why your dept would release my address and cell number, and make me and my daughters in harms way.
I'm not sending my daughters to school today, and my husband slept at the hospital, because its just gotten too difficult to even pull out of our own driveway. And now, I have to deal with people calling me with threats.
I'm scared and cannot believe what my City - in which I have contributed so much of my love, time, money and leadership, has now
done to me and my innocent family.Sincerely,
Jill
Hostess With the Mostest: A hostess who is an over-friendly, social butterfly, constantly offering food and drinks. Dates back to at least 1957 and a play by that name with Shirley Boothe.
Now that she knows that all e-mails to public officials in Florida are subject to release under Florida's open records laws, I suspect she will choose another method of communication. Letting her lawyer speak for her would be a good start.
Update: On one of Jill Kelley's trips to Washington, she flew with Gen. Allen on a military plane.
Update: WTSP has all the police reports for the calls the sisters made to police over the years. In one, Natalie accuses her ex-husband of being a terrorist sympathizer. She accuses him of threatening to kill her and take their child out of the country. She says he has $5 million and once made her watch child p*rn.
In one of the longest reports, 18 pages, about a battery complaint against her ex-husband, a reference is made to a 302 page report compiled as a result of her complaints. I don't think we've seen the report, but the custody judge stated in his ruling that none of her allegations against her ex-husband were true. She said the battery happened outside of court when her ex-husband and his lawyer struck her with paperwork.
In another report in which she reported her ex-husband sent someone to spy on her, when the officer asked her to try and get a license plate next time, she told him that's their job, not hers.
In 2004, Jill's husband Scott took time to call and report some kids had stolen $5.00 in change overnight from his car which was unlocked in his garage. A few years later, Natalie and the nanny reported bicycles were stolen from the Kelleys' garage. Other neighbors witnessed the juveniles in the neighborhood. Four were apprehended and taken to juvenile detention. But when the police tried to contact Jill and Scott to get the make and model numbers of the stolen bikes, both said they were too busy at work to talk to them and never followed up. One bike was a Trek worth $400.00.
Below are links to the reports issued by police for each call.
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