Because we really do love the City of St. Augustine, we must clean it up.

Because we really do love the City of St. Augustine, we must clean it up.
MAYOR GEORGE GARDNER's campaign yard signs beg voters to support him for Commissioner because they (or he) love St. Augustine.
We all do.
That's why we need reform, not empty promises.
For four years, GEORGE GARDNER never delivered on his many promises of reform.
Instead, GEORGE GARDNER's empowered and enabled:
A. ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION AND CRIMES (as in the City's 20,000 cubic yards of dumping in our Old City Reservoir -- "clean fill" does not include bed springs and the entire contents of an old illegal city dump on Riberia Street);
B. CITY GOVERNMENT WASTE (including a $50 million budget, with 22% increase in the general fund and $22 million underutilized parking garage);
C. CITY MANAGER WILLIAM B. HARRISS, refusing to discuss the need for an Inspector General and internal controls;
and
D. PREJUDICE AND BIGOTRY, as in:
1. GARDNER's unconstitutional May 23, 2005 vote against flying Bridge of Lions (BOL) Rainbow flags, a violation of the First Amendment violation that was reversed by United States District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. June 7); and
2. GARDNER's June 13 vote to ban all but government flags from our BOL, preventing St. Augustine community groups from ever again flying flags on BOL to commemorate their events.
As Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote, when "government becomes a lawbreaker," it promotes disrespect for the law, and anarchy. Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 478 (dissenting)(1928). As Dr. King said (see below), is this the "most lawless" city in America?