Friday, March 23, 2018

SJC Commission and Planning and Zoning Agency Are All Republicans -- EVERY SINGLE ONE

St. Johns County CommissionVice Chair Paul Waldron seemed a little bit sensitive March 20th when I pointed out that Catherine Hawkinson Guevarra was running for the County Commission seat being vacated by JAY MORRIS, and that both Commission and the Planning and Zoning Agency are all-white, all-male and all-Republican.  Touchy.  They're all politicians -- if they can't stand the heat, they should stay out of the kitchen, as President Harry S Truman said it best.

Not one of these Republicans has the guts to stand up to Sheriff DAVID SHOAR and request audits or investigations of the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office Four Star Association, Inc.  SHOAR has made retaliation into performance art, destroying careers of every single County Commissioner who ever questioned his bloated budget.

Not one has spoken out about the Michelle O'Connell case.  Like five Pontius Pilates, they wash their hands of Open Records violations by corrupt County Administrator MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK and PATRICK FRANCIS McCORMACK.

Not one has requested that the Sheriff, Clerk of Courts and Comptroller, Supervisor of Elections, Tax Collector and Property Appraiser -- our constitutional officers -- submit their budget by May 1 each year, so that we can scrutinize them at the County Administrator's Budget Hearing.

In a letter to the Record, former St. Johns County Commission Chair Mary Kohnke once pointed out that Commission is requiring all board appointments to be Republicans.  The Commission's corrupt 2016 mishandling of Karen Zander's application proves they would rather violate the Sunshine law to stick BRADLEY NELSON back on PZA after his unsuccessful race for Property Appraiser than appoint an independent-minded woman.

Not only are PZA members all known Republicans, but at least three of them are Republican politicians, having run for office as Republicans or worked as political staff for Republican officeholders (BRADLEY NELSON, JON WOODARD and ROY ALAIMO).

How did they do this?  Read civil rights complaint here, including how in 1998, St. Johns County abolished electing five of seven Commissioners from single-member districts, reduced number of Commissioners from seven to five, and requiring all five Commissioners to run county-wide.

This crime against democracy was without benefit of a decennial census, intended to eliminate the possibility of electing an African-American Commissioner and vastly increased the effect of money in politics, allowing beastly big-spending developers to choose Commissioners, which they proceeded to do under THE ISSUES GROUP, run by SYD PERRY, wife of longtime corrupt Sheriff NEIL PERRY (a former Democrat, who directed all county elected officials to switch their party registrations to Republican, anticipating a shift in voter registration as Ponte Vedra built out).

No diversity here, in  corrupt St. Johns County where the heroic late Florida folklorist and KKK infiltrator Stetson Kennedy told me that all KKK members became Republicans, a place that Ben Rich, Sr. told Folio Weekly in 2008 was "one of the last bastions of the Ku Klux Klan."

This is the year that We, the People propose to re-establish democracy in St. Johns County, by electing Democrats like Catherine Hawkinson Guevarra.




Planning & Zoning Agency 

The Board meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the County auditorium at 500 San Sebastian View, St. Augustine, Florida 32084. The Planning and Zoning Agency is comprised of seven members representing all districts, each serving a four-year term, with a limit of two consecutive four-year terms. PZA Rules and Procedures
Staff Contact:
Kyle Doty, Administrative Coordinator
P: (904) 209-0579
E: kdoty@sjcfl.us

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Board Members
Roy Alaimo
District: 5
Position: Member
Term Expires: 06/06/21
E: pza1@sjcfl.us
Jeffrey R. Martin
District: 3 
Position: Member
Term Expires: 10/04/19
E: pza2@sjcfl.us
Jon Woodard
District: 3 
Position: Vice-Chair
Term Expires: 10/04/19
E: pza3@sjcfl.us
Mike Koppenhafer
District: 4 
Position: Chair
Term Expires: 02/21/21
E: pza4@sjcfl.us
Archie B. Wainright
District: 5 
Position: Member
Term Expires: 06/06/21
E: wainrightpza@gmail.com 
Brad Nelson
District: 1
Position: Member
Term Expires:  09/02/18
E: pza6@sjcfl.us
Dr. David Rice
District: 5 
Position: School Board Rep
Term Expires: 07/01/18
E: pza7@sjcfl.us























































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