JFK won the Pulitzer Prize for "Profiles in Courage," eight biographies of courageous United States Senators with honesty and integrity.
We need more leaders like John Quincy Adams, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, JFK, RFK and MLK.
I salute Commissioners Leeana Freeman and Vice Mayor Nancy-Sikes Kline for their questions and "no" votes September 8, against a half-baked, ill-explained and undeveloped $938,000 FY' 2015 budget for our 450th celebration. The weight of wisdom, authority and public opinion was against it. Failure to give detailed budget justifications required a "no" vote. We need a new mayor.
Meanwhile, not one elected official or clergyperson has yet joined more than 172,000 people who have petitioned for an inquest into the September 2, 2010 shooting death of a St. Johns County Sheriff's deputy's girlfriend, with the deputy's gun, in the deputy's home, shortly after his girlfriend ended the relationship. Florida's controversial Governor Richard Lynn Scott on September 9, 2014, abruptly left a Fruit Cove pizzeria without speaking to Jennifer O'Connell (Michelle's sister), who was next in line to speak with him.
The New York Times, PBS Frontline, NBC News Dateline, ABC News Good Morning America, the St. Augustine Record have all verified Ann Schindler's original reporting in Folio Weekly. Michelle O'Connell"s case demands an FBI investigation. Now.
The deputy's attorney allegedly telephoned the Record's editor after midnight September 9, threatening litigation over a reader's comments. American journalists must not be swayed by intimidation, coercion, threats, fear or ignorance (or fear of ignorance). The attorney's website includes three verifiable material false statements (church deaconship and professional association memberships). We deserve the truth. Please report it.
As RFK said, "It is not enough to allow dissent, we must demand it, for there is much to dissent from." The whole world is watching what we do here.
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
904-377-4998
P.S. Folio Weekly ran most of the letter and covered the coverup!
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