Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida

In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!

Thursday, October 08, 2015

"Follow the money": Disclose Clients of Commissioners

"Follow the money."

-- FBI Assistant Director Mark Felt (a/k/a "Deep Throat" confidential source) to

Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward during Watergate, 1972

In 2008, when NANCY SIKES-KLINE first ran for City Commission, she told five of us at The Tasting Room that dumping a landfill in a lake was "a mistake."

Reckon it was a "mistake" that we ever elected her?

Reckon it was a "mistake" that we ever elected the likes and ilk of NANCY SIKES-KLINE, JOE BOLES, DON CRICHLOW, TODD NEVILLE and other-directed, developer-driven City Commissioners who "know not that they know not that they know not," and errantly rubber-stamp unjust decisions by bootlickers on our developer-directed City staff (e.g., DOW PUD)?

I agree with Mr. Thomas F. Reynolds, Jr.: we need a city-county Ethics Commission, with a strong ordinance, to compel disclosures and root out conflicts of interest.