PHILIP A. McDANIEL a/k/a "PHIL THE SHILL" -- DID REGISTERED REPUBLICAN PHILIP A. McDANIEL MISREAD CARTOON AS ATTACK ON SUPT. JOYNER, GETTING LONGTIME ST. AUGUSTINE RECORD CARTOONIST CANNED IN RETALIATION FOR FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTED ACTIVITY?
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Registered Republican PHIL McDANIEL is a retired advertising millionaire who dabbles in the arts and got his wife a $30,000 no-bid contract for art associated with the $25 million parking garage.
Republican PHIL McDANIEL throws his weight around, writing speeches for Commissioners, attacking dissenters, kissing up to City Commissioners at last year's untelevised budget hearing, telling City Commissioners they are doing a great job.
Is it Republican PHIL McDANIEL who is "offensive," trying to cost political cartoonist Ed Hall his job freelancing for the St. Augustine Record? Is it PHIL McDANIEL who is offensive, recently in such a hurry to shake the hand of County Commissioner J. Kenneth Bryan's brother that McDANIEL stuck his elbow in the stomach of someone who was speaking to the Bryans (never apologizing)?
We understand that cartoonist Ed Hall has been "temporarily suspended" from working for the Record and may be canned as a result of pressures brought to bear by ST. JOHNS COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT JOSEPH JOYNER.
Corrupt NYC BOSS WILLIAM MARCY TWEED didn't like cartoonists either -- he and his minions railed at cartoonist's accuracy, too. If it weren't for those "darned pictures" -- Thomas Nast's BOSS TWEED cartoons -- NYC public opinion might not have been aroused against BOSS TWEED, who might never have gone to prison but for Thomas Nast's political cartoons (which we've reprinted on this blog a time or two).
St. Johns County political apparatchiks are pretty insecure to attack cartoonists.
They are no different than dictators everywhere. Republicans are thin-skinned and can't stand criticism, even by editorial cartoonists.
Contrary to PHIL McDANIEL's ukase, the cartoon makes no reference to St. Johns County. None at all. This humorless hyperbolic hick doesn't understand that there's a world outside St. Augustine. See https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzHdSlsbf7c-7V-n3VPJhV_8NJgI1-xK2lap8O5d92NeKpPzgrSC4jBSmhx-REModCYTHo-2YsNz8fOcLYq1yq9XzYkTQt5XyqogTg81riAo4Iqo7olvU-_tNsxE0Do7nvuVUPiA/s1600-h/keeptrimming.jpg PHIL McDANIEl'S hopelessly provincial.
People should write and call the St. Augustine Record and ask that Ed Hall's cartoon be restored. Call Editor Peter Ellis at 819-3517. Call PHIL McDANIEL, too.
The Herblock Foundation, Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press, Committee to Protect Journalists and other public interest groups should be all over this like a chicken on a junebug.
PHIL A. McDANIEL should hang his head in shame -- this miscreant's the head of the St. Johns County Cultural Council. PHILIP A McDANIEL gets a new nickname -- "PHIL the SHILL." Unless and until he apologizes for being a shill, "PHIL THE SHILL" should consider resigning as head of the Cultural Council.
The word in Russian is "nikulturny" (uncultured). Republican PHIL McDANIEL's mind is uncluttered by complexity and he's no friends of the arts. Call him a Repug thug.
He has no more business doling out money to artists than a bagman has handing out citizenship awards.
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