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Interestingly though, Shapiro does state: "If you want to read the report I <br />will make it available to you". At the County we were interested in reading <br />the report. Mr. Burke emailed Shapiro asking for a copy on August 23. <br />Shapiro replied the same day writing that it would be available "in the next <br />couple of days". Having heard nothing from Shapiro Mr. Burke emailed <br />back on August 30. Shapiro replied September 1, replying in part: "I have <br />spoken with the key authors of the report and at this time they have asked <br />me not to send the report directly to you". <br />Shapiro goes to a meeting he cannot talk about attended by attendees he <br />cannot disclose upset about a report he will not share with us written by an <br />anonymous author and vetted by leading scientists and environmentalists <br />who are not disclosed. <br />What do we know about Shapiro? <br />1. Shapiro states: "Clearly I have a political ax to grind." <br />2. In Kramer's race against me for the County Commission, Shapiro <br />gave Kramer a $950 in-kind donation <br />3. On August 23, Shapiro had a letter to the editor published on TCPalm <br />in support of Kramer for County Commission. <br />4. And in his own words, Shapiro is not an "...environmentalist or an <br />expert in any way when it comes to issues of our ecology" <br />5. But Shapiro does have a "media background", which he used to try to <br />get Kramer elected to the County Commission. <br />While Shapiro would not send the County a copy or the report, the County <br />did obtain one and Mr. Burke notified the Florida Department of <br />Environmental Protection about Shapiro's allegations. <br />Given the nature of the report and its context, released two days before <br />early voting, written and vetted by undisclosed people championed by a <br />supporter of my opponent, this should have ended things and would have, <br />had 32963 not published a story about it. <br />While the story itself is written at the same level as Shapiro's email, it will <br />serve to address some of Shapiro's allegations about Spoonbill Marsh. <br />The article is from the October 6, 2016 issue of 32963. The 32963 article <br />on the Spoonbill Marsh runs under the headline "Environmentalists call <br />zG`-l_ I I <br />