The most basic principle of conflict of interest prevention is stated in Matthew in the Bible, as well as in United States v. Mississippi Valley Generating Co. (the Dixon- Yates case): a person "cannot serve two masters." See below.
WILLIAM L. PROCTOR is simultaneously:
1. Our State Representative,
2. Chancellor of Flagler College,
3 Was Interim Athletic Director of Florida State University ($250.000/year annual salary).
4. Past chair of the Board of Trustees of Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (about which there have been critical state audits). He's succeeded as Chairman of the Board of Trustees by a longtime employee and close personal friend.
5. A partisan Republican and protege of St. Augustine Republican Chair ROBERT T. SMITH (see below).
Since PROCTOR has been in the Legislature, funding for elementary and secondary education has been slashed while FLAGLER COLLEGE is unscathed.
PROCTOR would rather that sacrifices come from elementary and secondary school children than from the feathered nest of FLAGLER COLLEGE, which keeps buying up property and taking it off the City of St. Augustine tax rolls.
PROCTOR's accepting the FSU Interim AD position was especially obnoxious, taking state money above his legislator's salary.
In the words of former United States Senator Gary Warren Hart (D-Colorado), "you won't get the government off your back until you get your hands out of its pockets."
The de facto Representative from FLAGLER COLLEGE and FLORIDA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND lacks objectivity (eee below) and wears waaay too many hats.
WILLIAM L. PROCTOR event gets cute about his conflicts of interest. For example, when I asked Representative WILLIAM L. PROCTOR about Flagler College's failure to pay much to the City of St. Augustine in Payments in Lieu of Taxes January 15, 2008, he said, "well, you would have to come to my office" where he would "wear his Chancellor's hat."
When I asked PROCTOR June 11th about his conflict of interest (being Chancellor of FLAGLER COLLEGE and voting on educational funding), WILLIAM L. PROCTOR said there were lawyers, doctors and farmers in the legislature who voted on matters affecting their businesses.
When I asked PROCTOR for his legislative correspondence, he's dragged his heels, tried to charge me fees for unrequested copies, and refused to E-mail or regular mail me the disk.
Out-of-touch, hostile REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM L. PROCTOR actually told parishioners of St. Paul's A.M.E. Church that they "have to" re-elect him because of his seniority, if they wanted "anything done."
That is the height of arrogance. What do you expect from a man who runs a "college" without tenure, where liberal professors live in fear of they say anything not in keeping with PROCTOR's mossback ideology -- a place that did not even have a faculty senate until recent years, a place where anyone trying to organize a faculty or staff union would likely be fired and blacklisted?
As the ungentlemanly, uncouth, unkind Republican Lord of All He Surveys, FLAGLER COLLEGE Chancellor WILLIAM L. PROCTOR has a very large chip on his shoulder.
When interviewed him June 11th, he banged his wedding ring on the table and was dismissive and condescending. He acted like Richard Nixon on the Watergate tapes.
With this week's indictment of the County Commission Chairman on bribery charges, St. Augustine and St. Johns County residents are no longer enamored of Republicans who ignore the concerns of middle-class families. We doh't "have to" re-elect people who are abusive, hateful and use dirty tricks to steal elections, habitually throwing their weight around.
We don't "have to" vote Republican, particularly not for one as hard-hearted as anti-union, anti-progressive "MASSA PROCTOR," who has few socially redeeming qualities we can detect. He stated when he first ran that the only reason he ran was to keep the seat held by Rep. Doug Wiles (D-20th) from being occupied by another Democrat. He's got no ideas, and he's a nuisance.
PROCTOR's done nothing to protect state, county, city and special taxing district employees from death and injury on the job -- he and his crony keep government workplaces unsafe out of spite, refusing to correct the mistake the Republican Legislature made in 2000.
PROCTOR chairs a Tourism Committee and has done nothing to advance the cause of the St. Augustine National Historical Park, National Seashore, and National Scenic Coastal Highway.
We can heal the wounds of our City of St. Augustine, our County, State and Nation.
But first we have to get rid of the crony-capitalists like those who favor Wall Street, the weasel-Republicans who have a sense of entitlement to public largesse for their cronies, starting with WILLIAM L. PROCTOR>
It's time for WILLIAM L. PROCTOR to go.
Elect Doug Courtney as our State Representative for the 20th District
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