Sunday, August 13, 2017

St. Johns County Commissioner Financial Disclosures Well-Hidden: WAYNE FUSCO Refuses to Post on SoE Website

For some reason, the annual financial disclosures of St. Johns County Commissioners required by Florida's weak ethics law, F.S. 112, are not on the County Supervisor of Elections website.

Unfriendly Deputy Supervisor of Elections WAYNE FUSCO refuses to either put them on the SoE website or put up a notice informing people that they may be found on the State Ethics Commission website.

FUSCO has a history of avoidance, evasion and hostility toward Open Records requests, including attempting to charge people money for records other offices (including the Governor) provide for free.
For years, FUSCO failed to disclose his outside photography work on his financial disclosure forms.

This dull Republican's correspondence is illuminating about the level of corruption in St. Johns County, and the resistance to openness and candor:



-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: wfusco ; voakes
Cc: voakes ; bcc5hdean ; jmoe01 ; commkostka ; thomasfreynolds ; sheldon.gardner ; jake.martin ; jim.sutton ; news ; craig.richardson ; jimwil03 ; judgelitt10 ; waltbog
Sent: Sat, Aug 12, 2017 1:52 pm
Subject: Re: Request No. 2017-437: SJC Commissioner financial disclosure forms

Dear Ms. Oakes and Mr. Fusco:
Please respond.  Please place the Commissioner forms on your website, or append a notice telling people where they can find them.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
To: wfusco <wfusco@votesjc.com>
Cc: voakes <voakes@votesjc.com>
Sent: Fri, Aug 11, 2017 12:14 pm
Subject: Re: Request No. 2017-437: SJC Commissioner financial disclosure forms

Dear Mr. Fusco:
1. I did.  
2. Why won't you be more helpful to people?  
3. You lack a welcoming spirit.
4. Place the records on your website, or post a notice explaining why they're not there, please. Today.
5. Otherwise, voters will assume you're obstreperous, obnoxious and obstructionist. 
6. As RFK wrote to segregationist Senator James O, Eastland, "Repent now, there's still time."
7. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998


-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Fusco <wfusco@votesjc.com>
To: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Aug 11, 2017 9:16 am
Subject: Re: Request No. 2017-437: SJC Commissioner financial disclosure forms

Mr. Slavin,

We are not the custodians of those records. 

Should you wish to obtain them, kindly visit the Commission on Ethics website I provided you earlier.

Wayne Fusco



From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 11:41 AM
To: Wayne Fusco; mwanchick@sjcfl.us; pmccormack@sjcfl.us; mryan@sjcfl.us
Subject: Re: Request No. 2017-437: SJC Commissioner financial disclosure forms
 
Dear Mr. Fusco, et al:.
Thank you.
1. Please place Commissioner disclosures on our SOE website, too.
2. Does any principled reason exist why they're not on SoE website?
3. Would someone kindly provide me with an explanation as to why the information is not there, when it is there for other county officials?
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998


-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Fusco <wfusco@votesjc.com>
To: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>; mwanchick <mwanchick@sjcfl.us>; pmccormack <pmccormack@sjcfl.us>; mryan <mryan@sjcfl.us>
Cc: thomasfreynolds <thomasfreynolds@yahoo.com>; george.gabel <george.gabel@hklaw.com>; waltbog <waltbog@nytimes.com>
Sent: Thu, Aug 10, 2017 11:32 am
Subject: Re: Request No. 2017-437: SJC Commissioner financial disclosure forms


Mr. Slavin,

Annually the commissioners file their financial disclosure form 6’s with the Commission on Ethics in Tallahassee.  
Here is a link where you can research their filings. ->  http://public.ethics.state.fl.us/search.cfm
They are not filed with this office.
 

Candidates running for County Commission file financial disclosure form 6 with this office at the time they file their qualifying papers. They can be found on each candidate’s page along with all other qualifying documents



Wayne Fusco


From: Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 10:11 PM
To: Wayne Fusco; voakes@votesjc.org; mwanchick@sjcfl.us; pmccormack@sjcfl.us; mryan@sjcfl.us
Subject: Request No. 2017-437: SJC Commissioner financial disclosure forms
 
Dear Ms. Oakes and Messrs. Fusco, Ryan, McCormack & Wanchick:
1. Please send me the current County Commissioners' disclosure forms required to be filed annually under F.S. 112. 
2. I could not find them using the search engine on our SoE website.  
3. Our County Attorney and County Administrator's disclosure forms are all on our SoE website and locatable with the search engine. 
4. Why not the Commissioners?
5. Please provide copies of any documents exempting five Commissioners from disclosure requirements.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
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