As anyone who has been following my blog knows, Andy Johnson, former member of the Florida House of Representatives, stole $3,500.00 from me, and despite the fact that I won the court case and have a lien on his house, he refuses to pay me back. You can read the full and sordid details about his underhanded dealings here.
And then in an even more sickening plot twist, he actually lied about it to a reporter despite the fact that I have a stack of documentation that proves everything I’ve said. You can read about that here. I don’t know if it’s an over-active sense of self importance on his part, or a mental illness that makes him actually believe his version of reality, but there you have it. It’s Andy Johnson’s world. We’re just living in it.
And what an ironically warped world it is. His motto is “Never neutral. But always fair.” If Andy Johnson were fair, and as progressive as he purports to be on his radio show, he wouldn’t be screwing me over in this blatant fashion. I’m just a little fish in this big pond of ours, and who are the progressives out here to defend if not the little fish? Clearly this man is a phony.
I really have pretty much given up on the concept of ever seeing my money. Instead I’ve made it my mission to tell my story about this man to as many people as I can. And I have definitely been successful there. Of the over 17,000 views my blog has received to date, far and away the most viewed entries are the ones I have written about Andy. The word is spreading.
I’m sure it has spread to potential advertisers, too, so I suspect he would have been out a lot less money if he had just chosen to do the right thing and pay his judgment as any law abiding citizen would. Instead, through this blog I am the gift that keeps on giving, and frankly that gives me a great deal of satisfaction.
Don’t get me wrong. I’d much rather get my money so I could delete these poisonous entries from my blog and forget this man even exists, as I feel these posts taint the overall good I attempt to do here with my writing. But I won’t hold my breath.
I am considering contacting the people who currently advertise with him next. I think it’s only fair that they know exactly whom they chose to endorse. Of course, that means I’ll have to listen to his radio show, and that makes me sick, in spite of the fact that our politics are ironically similar. It’s just that knowing what I know about the man, I find the sound of his voice and the image he attempts to project to be distinctly galling.
I do have another card up my sleeve. It occurs to me that by having this lien on Andy’s house, I essentially own a piece of him. (Talk about galling.) This is having a negative impact on his credit as well as on his reputation. And since the lien increases in value by six percent a year, it’s actually a nice little investment. Currently that original 3916.00 lien, which includes court costs, is now worth at least $4,856.00. (I have no idea if that interest gets compounded.)
Why is this a good investment when the man has no intention of paying me back? Ah, but here’s the beauty of it. There are companies out there that will buy judgments. Granted, I won’t get more than 50 percent of the money, and that’s being very optimistic, but I would get the satisfaction of knowing that they would most assuredly collect. And since Andy didn’t voluntarily do the right thing and I had to resort to this method of getting this judgment satisfied, I would feel guilt-free about continuing to spread the word for all eternity. Crime definitely does not pay. So sad.
This could all go away if Andy would just pay up. Barring that, I suppose I’ll have to engage in a bit of modern day slavery. Does anyone want to buy a piece of an overweight, overblown, former politician? I have here a judgment that’s currently worth $4,856.00. I’ll take $2,400.00 for it. Cash on the barrel head. You pay, I walk away, and you have all the fun you want after that, as will I. The family has at least two vehicles you can go after. Come and get it!
Doesn’t he look all puffed up with his own self-importance?
Actually, that’s the bad karma chewing him up from the inside out.
The View from a Drawbridge 
I do wish you knew someone in power that could bring you monotary satisfaction. If you could get it all, it might give you enough to get a foot up and breathing room. Best case, Maybe you could relocate to the mountains. Surely out of the 17,000 there is someone with legal knowledge or pull that could help. Believe me if I had it I would give it.
Thanks Carole! I appreciate that.
Ho Ho Andy Johnson has a FB page and he is petitioning Change.org for the removal of District Attorney Angela Corey. Could this not be used against him some how? Maybe the District Attorney could help remove Andy Johnson.
I’ve actually spoken to the State Attorney’s office, and while they agree that what he did most likely constitutes fraud, they won’t pursue it for such a small payoff. They have much bigger fish to fry, apparently. And as sick as it makes me, I do agree with most of Andy’s polititcs. I would love to see Angela Corey gone, too.
Andy’s off-air phone is 904-568-0769. email: downtobusinessandy@ yahoo.
As much as it would give me a chuckle if someone contacted him about this, they’d have to take a bath in tomato soup afterwards to get the stink out, so I wouldn’t recommend it.
I bet he used your money to buy crack
Looking over my shoulder from DEEP in the land of I-haven’t-said-a-word-to-get-myself-sued-for-slander-or-defamation and giving you a look of sharp disapproval. But I love you anyway.
he can’t hold my idiocy against you…
Which is why I didn’t delete it. 🙂
thanks
I definitely sympathize. I have had no own run-ins with this man and shudder at ever having to encounter him again. But perhaps you should re-evaluate the politics about which you agree with him. Liberalism, progressivism, socialism, etc. is all about stealing through government and rewarding the favored with the proceeds. .
I am sorry you have had to deal with him too. And we’ll have to agree to disagree on the political front. My beliefs have absolutely nothing to do with stealing and rewarding the favored. If anything has to do with that, it’s Republicanism. But I suspect neither of us are going to budge on this one, so let’s just agree to disagree.