Saturday, October 18, 2014

Former Mayor George Gardner Endorses Nancy Shaver for Mayor, John Valdes and Nancy Sikes-Kline for Commissioner

Guest column: Gardner sees change in 2014
October 17, 2014 | By St Augustine
By GEORGE GARDNER
St Augustine, Fl
Special to Historic City News

As a former mayor and commissioner this is the first year since I left office six years ago that I’ve endorsed city candidates, because it’s the first year there’s been real opportunity for change and progress.

For mayor, Nancy Shaver.

Nancy is the promise of a creative, fresh look at our city’s needs and priorities, and full community engagement in finding solutions.

The last time a newcomer broke through the good old boy system, a decade ago, the results included creation of a neighborhood associations program, construction of a world class visitor parking facility and welcome center, and putting Entry Corridor Guidelines into city code.

The current mayor has controlled the city’s 450th commemoration at the expense of the community. Boles’ contrasting detachment from the community is glaring, as is his stumbling efforts to discredit his opponent.

For commission seat 5, incumbent Nancy Sikes-Kline.

Nancy has been the only consistently proactive commissioner, using her position on the North Florida Transportation Organization to bring needed traffic studies and street enhancement projects to our city, and speaking for our archaeology and history.

For commission seat 4, John Valdes.

With service on city boards for a quarter of a century and contributed time, effort and funding to such projects as the Flagler fountains restoration and War Memorial move, John is best equipped to address needed zoning code modifications.

2 comments:

Clara Waldhari said...

BRAVO, GEORGE GARDNER, not only for your endorsements, but for YOUR work to transform St. Augustine.

We have been in a backward track, a downward spiral, for the past eight years, but like you, I have great hope in NANCY SHAVER FOR MAYOR. We need new direction, a clear voice, no cronyism, and a mayor strong in financial background to HELP our city. NANCY SHAVER IS THAT PERSON.

I also support the hardest-working commissioner at the table, Vice Mayor NANCY SIKES-KLINE. Her commitment to our heritage spans decades. She has ALL issues in the City at heart. She listens and then ACTS. Make no mistake: She is a one-woman powerhouse!

JOHN VALDES is yet another citizen of whom I am so proud. He often works his magic in the background. He will be one dedicated, intelligent, and talented addition to our City Commission. His background in zoning and building in the historic districts of St. Augustine is unparalleled, as are his many, many years of service to all of us on City volunteer boards.

SHAVER -- SIKES-KLINE -- VALDES

warren Celli said...

George Gardner, odious hypocrite system tool who embraced wholeheartedly and continued the gang rape of the residents of the City Of Saint Augustine by engaging in the on going pattern and practice of knowingly and willingly — and openly bragging about — creating a long string of patently unconstitutional repressive Jim Crow laws, now endorses one other proven odious hypocrite and two more wannabes.

Laws that ban Constitutionally guaranteed FREE SPEECH, art, music, newspapers, political opposition, and the homeless from simply asking another human being for a helping hand. These blatantly unconstitutional laws have been selectively enforced by a subservient goon squad police force that uses; intimidation, massive arrests, entering private property without warrants, confiscating, impounding, and trashing into dumpsters lawful newspapers and political protest materials, selectively excessive bail, etc. All of this arrogant lawlessness and violence has been performed under "color of law" with the purpose of terrorizing and instilling fear and compliance in the city's residents. The end result is that the present city government now stands as a self empowered rogue government that stifles, oppresses, and exploits, the resident citizens at will.

This on going pattern and practice of crimes have all been knowingly and willingly committed for the following express purposes; to suppress and eliminate political opposition so as to illegally and immorally control the city government; to demonize and eliminate an entire recognizable class of people (street artists, entertainers, and the homeless — a hate crime) just like blacks were eliminated and suppressed; to eliminate competition so as to control and fix markets; to suppress and control employee wages by limiting opportunity and instilling fear; to steal commonly owned community property for selfish private use and private gain; to raise confiscatory taxes on the residents to fund the city gangster activities; to pay themselves grossly outrageous fat salaries and piggishly lavish retirement packages, etc.

George Gardner, who contributed greatly to the confiscation of the public commons so as to grow the merchant pig trough for gangster tourism with his multi-modal quality of life reducing parking garage scam, worked diligently to give us the divisive, energy dissipating and deflective, limp dick neighborhood associations program, and codifying ever more repression.

George Gardner, odious weasel in a clown suit, who grew the city's Xtrevilist immoral pigdebt exponentially.

Endorsement? Ha! Ha! Ha!

People who vote in such now blatant ruses are the problem!