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This was received after an outrageous attempt to claim the CDC was answering the FOIA request of Funding in our State by the sending of a foot high box of “hard copy” as claimed. The hard copy was deliberately eradicated of value when sent.

“When Politics Gets Ugly”

Officer Armstrong

My Reply Sent to Both CDC Headquarters and CDC FOIA, easily able to disprove her claims. This will also be sent To The White House.

Cathy Butler

1095 Ridge Road 5/27/2009

Lantana, Florida

Ms. Lynn Armstrong

CDC/ATSDR FOIA Officer

Office of the Chief Information Officer

(404) 639-7270

Fax: (404) 639-7395

RE: Your Fed Ex’d Letter of May 20^th, 2009 received May 26^th, 2009.

Dear Ms. Armstrong;

It bemuses me first that a letter typed to appear on May 20^th, 2009, took seven days by Fed Ex to be delivered.

I would request a full refund of of Tax Payers dollars from Fed Ex myself.

In the letter you stated you made contact on the 18^th over the inadequacy of the packages your office sent. Inadequate or abusive, it is hard to define on this end. However as you are aware an estimated 5 to 10 thousand disarray of funding sources, not even marked with pages, and coinciding logically with no other paperwork with any close resemblance of order or logical ability for any to define where the CDC money was regulated too in our State is hardly defined as a “hard copy” of my FOIA request.

What was more alarming was your request I have no other contact with any CDC employee. As I told a Senator, that is One for the Books, and I thought I had witnessed many unethical if not illegal acts in our State. You based this request you stated because, allow me to precisely quote you; “FOIA Office staff informed me that you cursed and were verbally abusive on the telephone.” I will confess Ms. Armstrong, my eyes popped open on that one.

So we get a clear understanding of such apparent ‘charges’ by yourself and/or your associates, the law permits me to request under another FOIA of your office, those who made such a claim. As you gather and provide that information, in a timely manner, let me explain to you why I will not follow your orders to have only contact with yourself.

In my 51 years I have experienced more than the majority of the Population would experience several lifetimes over. I do not say that with any lightness.

At the age of 13, I held my dead brother in my arms; tragically killed and mutilated in front of me by an airboat. There is no record of my ever having cussed or cursed or even raised my voice.

In 1995 I left an abuser, and in order to force me back, he attempted to gain custody of my daughter. I can safely say, I courageously faced a slew of those who sought payment to help him meet his end, even to having his employers camping outside my door demanding I return to their spiritually reborn employee. After five years, there never was any record of any sort under the most stressful and dangerous situation imaginable of my ever having uttered a curse word to any party as I fought, and won the case, often doing my own legal work in court. We became known in the State over that case years ago.

He, born again would get his 27^th drinking related driving ticket shortly after, and then his fourth DUI five years later. He would also immediately sue his employer for a non related issue. His rebirth may have prompted his employer being sued to cuss up a storm, but it never produced cursing from me on any record and there were many.

In 2000, my daughter attempted suicide and I learned she had been molested five years earlier by someone we knew closely. Even when our local Department of Children and Families investigator stated she would not have the man arrested because my daughter had not been “raped enough.” We suspect now he got many more. There is no record, Ms. Armstrong, of my having cursed out any person, then or after when I learned of it. None.

In 2002 she was allowed to be stalked on campus by a disgruntled Principle because she was legally listed disabled. The young man terrorized her and me with threats against my daughter constantly after he was baker acted and released. He wrote me emails, he called, he appeared, he mailed packages of blood in the mail. The police would not arrest him fearful the Chief of School Police would get in trouble who was closely tied to the Sheriff Department and Charlie Crist’s Office. You can imagine how I had to jump hoops to finally save my daughter, even to a point a Judge herself ordered the State Attorney to ensure action was taken and hidden reports were exposed so he could be stopped. In what would appear, tens if not hundreds of emails, calls, records, contacts, in not one, of any of them to any party was there ever a record of my having cursed out any person. Including the young man that was eventually arrested, convicted, released and tried again when he got two more young girls immediately after. Not one curse is on record Ms. Armstrong.

In 2004, my youngest sister that I helped raise and carried on my hip as a teenager, went to test drive a new SUV in a park, taking her two daughters, our oldest niece and their friend for the ride. The SUV slid off an embankment, and rolled into a pond. They say my sister died at 32 trying to save the life of her children and our niece in that van. One of her daughters got out. So did the friend. My sister, her youngest child, and my niece died. As I laid in bed at night as we all do going over our loved ones last minutes, and visions of what terror these wonderful people faced in that split second, and realize it must have been a mother’s worst nightmare, as I ran my hand through the hair of my nieces and stood over the solemn final view of my sister’s face in three poetically placed pink coffins, as I am chased by the media for a story line, even to my child’s cell phone, I did not curse anyone, or anything Ms. Armstrong.

When I see her only surviving Daughter attempt to find reasoning afterwards, I did not curse.

In 2005, reacting from the attempted murder by her stalker and the anniversary of her relatives death, my daughter pocketed three pieces of costume jewelry for the first time in her life. We surmise oddly each one represented one piece for each dead relative she so missed. And when the local Sheriff placed her picture as a child up on the police blotter on the internet, though the Judges had changed my daughter’s name legally for her own protection, so her stalker could not find her, and when that act exposed her new name, her address and her whereabouts, I did not curse anyone, or anything Ms. Armstrong and you will find no such record of any such act-though such an act could have once again taken my daughter’s life. And when our state sent me a letter telling me the exposing of children on police blotters in our State, particularly if they are rape victims is absolutely legal and no wrong was done, I did not curse Ms. Armstrong. I simply waited to see if the attacker would get out of jail and find us as he had threatened to do.

When the State erroneously released the stalker out of prison and failed to notify me, he was out, and then subpoenaed myself and my daughter in 2006 to testify against him, because he had gotten two more girls since they released him, likely due to Charlie Crist running for Office and wanting to hide what had transpired, when I lost my job and my benefits over my refusal to not appear as the Company did not want to be associated with such a potentially large case, I did not curse, any person in any record, in any place Ms. Armstrong. When that same Supervisor of that job, provided information having to be given to them under a Family Medical Leave Act and distributed it to the store employees resulting in the abuse of my daughter openly being mocked by fellow employees as the Supervisor was hoping I would react as most parent’s would under such mocking of the molestation of one’s child in laughter, she did not get her way Ms. Armstrong and I did not react with any cursing violence or behavior that warranted my termination. They had to resort to terminating me based on Federal Records of “not following an order” which they admitted to the Federal investigators, such an order had not been given to me as documents showed. I was terminated for not following an order, never given to me yet, I never cursed, any person out as you claim I cursed CDC employees in your letter.

When my daughter reacted to being dragged into court for yet another hearing over her stalker, and ran away in hysterics to be found hundreds of miles away by the police, I never cursed any person Ms. Armstrong.

When the stalker admitted he attacked my daughter, and there were records of other attacks even to blowing up one girl’s truck, and the State failed to put him on the Predator’s list because he was according to the Elected Officials, just doing what ‘boys do’, I did not curse Ms. Armstrong.

I can go on and on. It is clear from your Letter of May 20^th, 2009, you surmise and your employees surmise the Office Of CDC under your directions, have been empowered with such significant importance and value, that the ridiculous sending of worthless piles of papers to attempt to thwart investigations of the Killing of Women in our State, have raised yourself and they, to far greater heights than scores of those I have met in my most adventurous life in half a decade that I would state one single recorded or implied curse word(s) as a symbolic reply of my displeasure of the unfairness of it all by CDC employees. I get the picture Ms. Armstrong of what you and your employees wish to claim I have or would do.

I do not want to burst your bubble, or make your apparently already unsteady ground more shaky , but dear Ms. Armstrong, by comparison, your acts are so far down the long list of who I would have, had I chosen to curse out, picked to break my practice of not cursing, I place it right next to forgetting to send my Father his Birthday Card in comparison to those who not only deserved to be cussed out, and cursed, over the years. Perhaps if you work harder at being more uncooperative and resistant and fabricating of facts, I may gather the extra wasted breath to come up with one or two if it would appease you at some time in the future. Right now, no, I do not think your staff or yourself or worth wasting a cuss word on, no disrespect intended Director Armstrong.

As far as threats, no I do not threaten. Typically I will tell you exactly what I intend to do and then I will do it. If that appears as a threat, then I am sorry your staff or yourself view it as such. I stated, I was going to take the 5 to 8 thousand worthless pieces of paper and fax them to the White House, asking President Obama who is a college Professor and has a large staff at his disposal, if perhaps HE could figure out where the funding were being sent in the State of Florida, because none of us could decipher the results of my request under the FOIA from your office. Now that was not a threat, which was notice of my intentions. There is a difference Ms. Armstrong.

In your letter you informed me to make contact only with yourself in the Future. I am sorry, Federal Laws do not permit you to impose such a demand. The Federal Laws state I can discuss this with any employee, in your office or out of it. Further you gave a contact number to reach you which is a general mail box number for all messages on an answering machine-so much for a request to speak only to yourself and yourself only concerning this per your demands based on that number.

It is very simple Ms. Armstrong. I asked under Federal Law, for a record showing who got what funding in the State of Florida for what reason, under what program by what agent, agencies or person. What was sent to me was far from that request but an act of harassment by your staff of having to comply.

And please, stop wasting Tax payer’s money of Fed Ex’s in order to stop my sending or the files to the White House as it clearly is such an act to protect to own position if it is exposed what your office is doing. Particularly to the new Director.

I would like a list of those who claimed I cursed them or threatened them Ms. Armstrong. You may send that request by regular mail in the immediate future.

Thank You

Cathy E. Butler

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