Saturday, October 01, 2016

MAYOR CANDIDATE KRIS PHILLIPS NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR WFOY ANTI-GAY REMARKS AFTER 49 ORLANDO MURDERS

109 days ago I wrote WFOY radio station owner KRIS PHILLIPS and have received no response re: St. Augustine Republican Club Chair MARTIN MILLER stating 49 Gays killed in Orlando "got what they deserved." No response. No apology. Here's the correspondence:




-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: kris ; kris ; pcanan
Sent: Sat, Oct 1, 2016 9:53 am
Subject: Re: Request No. 2016-255: WFOY broadcasts anti-Gay hate speech by Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair Martin Miller

Dear Ms. Phillips:
1. I wrote you on June 14, 2016 -- some 109 days ago -- about the indecency emitted by WFOY on our public airwaves.
2. On the morning of Monday, June 13, 2016, Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair MARTIN MILLER stated on-air on WFOY that the 49 Gays murdered in Orlando on June 12, 2016 "got what they deserved."
3. You did not respond.  Why?
4. You have provided no records.  Why?
5. Your silence for some 109 days is inculpatory -- it is both an admission by silence and an adoptive admission under evidence rules.  Will you ever apologize?
6. I have filed an FCC complaint against PHILLIPS BROADCASTING, INC. about WFOY's indecency and bias.  
7. I now understand that the man who said that 49 dead Gays in Orlando "got what they deserved" --  Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair MARTIN MILLER -- is helping to manage your St. Augustine mayoral campaign.
8. Is that correct?  Have you, KRIS PHILLIPS, WFOY and your mayoral campaign given significant encouragement to hate speech?  Your impecunious radio station blasts out Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing haters, without balance or reply.  When informed that deeply offensive anti-Gay views were broadcast from a local supporter, you ignored me.  Why?
9. Were you aware that local races in our town are, by law, nonpartisan?
10. Please call me to discuss today.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: consumercomplaints <consumercomplaints@fcc.gov>
Cc: judgelitt10 <judgelitt10@gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 20, 2016 5:25 pm
Subject: Re: [FCC Complaints] Re: WFOY, St. Augustine, Florida -- Hate Speech Against 49 Gays Killed in Orlando

Thank you.

With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998


-----Original Message-----
From: FCC <consumercomplaints@fcc.gov>
To: Easlavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 20, 2016 2:59 pm
Subject: [FCC Complaints] Re: WFOY, St. Augustine, Florida -- Hate Speech Against 49 Gays Killed in Orlando

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This ticket (#1041872) has been updated.
FCC Consumer Complaints (FCC Complaints)
Jun 20, 2:59 PM EDT 
Hi Ed
Your complaint provides valuable information and is shared among FCC bureaus and offices to spot trends and practices that warrant investigation and enforcement action. If the FCC needs more information about your complaint, we will contact you directly.
Each year, the Enforcement Bureau takes hundreds of actions on behalf of consumers that result in tens of millions of dollars in penalties. These actions encourage companies and individuals to abide by the law and reduce future misconduct.
Thank you for your help in furthering the FCC’s mission on behalf of consumers.
Easlavin
Jun 17, 11:14 AM EDT 
WFOY AM & FM, St. Augustine, Florida:
1. Violates FCC decency rules: On Monday morning, June 13, 2016, at or about 8:30 AM, twice-daily caller Martin "Marty" Miller, President of the Greater St. Augustine Republican Club, stated to radio host Kerry McCarthy that the 49 Gay people murdered at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando June 12, 2016 "got what they deserved." Station owner KRIS PHILLIPS has not responded to my e-mail messages. Broadcaster Kerry McCarthy has not responded to a Facebook message requesting that she call me. Please investigate. 
2. May violate FCC payola rules: WFOY does not disclose to its listeners that air time is purchased by political consultants and candidates, including the Kerry McCarthy show and Mike Davis and Troy Blevins show. While there is a disclaimer that their views may not be those of the station owner, KRIS PHILLIPS, listeners are apparently never been told that the programs are pay-to-play or bartered. McCarthy and Davis are past political candidates. McCarthy is hired as a political adviser or lobbyist by candidates and others. 
3. Often goes off the air for lengthy periods of time, twenty minutes to one hour. Is this being reported to FCC?
Please note: In 2008, then-candidate Ms. Judith Seraphin and I complained to FCC because we were defamed by one of the station's pay-to-play or barter broadcasters, who used three of FCC's seven prohibited words in lambasting us. Then and now, this radio station:
A. Failed to tape record its call-in programs.
B. Failed to provide a seven-second delay for its call-in programs.
Please investigate.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: kris <kris@1240news.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 13, 2016 12:44 pm
Subject: Re: Request No. 2016-255: WFOY broadcasts anti-Gay hate speech by Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair Martin Miller
Dear Ms. Phillips:
1. Mr. Martin Miller, President of "The Republican Club of Greater St. Augustine," is a frequent caller on WFOY radio. 
2. Please preserve, and provide me with a tape recording of, Mr. Martin Miller's telephone call to the Kerry McCarthy Show this morning (June 13, 2016) re: 50 Gays murdered at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando June 12, 2016 "getting what they deserved."
3. Mr. Miller calls WFOY twice per day -- every morning and every evening. 
4. On a station that spends much of the day on hate, his hate calls stand out as over the top.
5. Please preserve all tapes of Mr. Miller's calls pendente lite.
6. What steps do you plan to take about anti-GLBT, anti-Semitism, anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim and anti-African-American hate speech on your station on a daily basis?
7. The ancient equitable maxim is, "silence gives consent," or in the 1980s slogan of ACT-UP: "Silence = Death."
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
www.edslavin.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: kris <kris@1240news.com>
Sent: Tue, Jun 14, 2016 5:32 pm
Subject: Re: Request No. 2016-255: WFOY broadcasts anti-Gay hate speech by Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair Martin Miller

Dear Ms. Phillips:
1. Your lack of response to my June 13, 2015 e-mail (below) is, at best, inculpatory -- it is an admission by silence and adoptive admission.  
2. As the recipient of paid advertisements from our local governments, WFOY a government contractor.  F.S. 119.  Please provide the tape recording.  
3. WFOY has become known as "Hate Radio."
4. As an FCC licensee, you have a duty not to foment hate.  
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
904-377-4998


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: kris <kris@1240news.com>
Sent: Mon, Jun 13, 2016 12:44 pm
Subject: Re: Request No. 2016-255: WFOY broadcasts anti-Gay hate speech by Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair Martin Miller

Dear Ms. Phillips:
1. Mr. Martin Miller, President of "The Republican Club of Greater St. Augustine," is a frequent caller on WFOY radio.  
2. Please preserve, and provide me with a tape recording of, Mr. Martin Miller's telephone call to the Kerry McCarthy Show this morning (June 13, 2016) re: 50 Gays murdered at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando June 12, 2016 "getting what they deserved."3. Mr. Miller calls WFOY twice per day -- every morning and every evening.  
4. On a station that spends much of the day on hate, his hate calls stand out as over the top.
5. Please preserve all tapes of Mr. Miller's calls pendente lite.
6. What steps do you plan to take about anti-GLBT, anti-Semitism, anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim and anti-African-American hate speech on your station on a daily basis?
7. The ancient equitable maxim is, "silence gives consent," or in the 1980s slogan of ACT-UP: "Silence = Death."
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998



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