July 14, 2000
PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL
Judy Genshaft, Ph.D.
President
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33612
Dear President Genshaft:
Please know how much I am looking forward to your leadership as our new president, and accept my warmest welcome. It is particularly revealing of your vision for us that you have decided to formalize your entrance as president at the International Conference on the University as Citizen: Engaging Universities & Communities, February 21-24, 2001. There is no more critical role for universities: with that belief and burden on my mind and heart, I write this letter to you.
You will find, enclosed,
a letter of 40 pages or so that my father Robert F. Blevins wrote to the U.S. Department of Justice, December 7, 1997. The letter has proven prophetic in many respects and includes this summary:
Woe be to live in the self acclaimed greatest society that has ever been, where a doctor can commit malpractice, the victims try to drop the matter, but the doctor "pushes a button" thus absolutely ruining our lives, and does it with impunity, as aided and abetted by the victims' very own lawyers, the State of Florida, et al. Where am I, in China, or in these United States of America? Such as the foregoing, continues from December 1987 with no escape in sight, save death itself, such was Ruth's escape on January 11, 1997 at 7:35 PM (page 2).
The unlawful system overshadows the legitimate one and seems to have all but overtaken it. As a family, we have found that our best self-defense is to speak out and to expose the wrongdoing, which has always intensified the onslaught, but only up to a point.
Also enclosed, you will find a copy of a letter, dated July 14, 2000, to Donald R. Peyton, an attorney who is running for judge, Sixth Judicial Circuit of Florida. My November 4, 1998 letter to Judge Bray, referenced in the final paragraph, was to protest the real estate fraud of Laymon v. Blevins (CA98-2771) that resulted, ultimately, in the unlawful, forced sale of my father's income property. I courtesy copied Mr. Peyton on the letter so he would know what he was getting himself into. His immediate response was to contact Dean Charles S. Mahan, my boss, and attempt to cause trouble for me here at the University of South Florida, where I serve as Director of Distance Learning for the College of Public Health.
I have taken the liberty of writing this letter on my official letterhead, because I believe as a fully-vested State of Florida employee, it is entirely fitting and proper: anything less would be to unduly diminish the importance of the matters at hand. The unlawfulness I have seen throughout other sectors of state government, primarily in the judicial branch, but not so limited, cannot be allowed to continue, and I have a professional, as well as a personal, responsibility to expose it.
The stakes are much higher now than they were in 1998. Any backlash against me, particularly at this time, and including here at the University of South Florida must be considered as coming from the unlawful elements we oppose-any other assumption would be ill-advised. Governor Jeb Bush is aware of all of the foregoing and much more and has been kept fully apprised. Dean Charles Mahan is also aware and has expressed support in my behalf. I wanted to make sure you, too, know what is going on so you can be prepared if anything unusual arises.
Very truly yours,
Kimberly A. Blevins, M.P.H.
Director, Distance Learning
Enclosures: 2
Cc: Hon. Jeb Bush, Governor, State of Florida
Dr. Charles S. Mahan, Dean, College of Public Health
