JERRY THOMAS CAMERON a/k/a "CONMAN," Retires for Third Time

After a quarter of a decade -- two (2) years and four (4)  months -- as Flagler County Administrator Ad Interim, overpaid, ethically-challenged satrap JERRY THOMAS CAMERON has retired, for the tbird time. 

That's a "good career move," as Gore Vidal once said of Truman Capote. 

The retirement is subject of much hagiography and idolatry by reporter-distorters fou the St. Augustine Record, Florida Times-Union(GANNETT), the Palm Coast Observer and Spot on Florida.  Better coverage on FlaglerLive.com.

JERRY CAMERON was Fernandina Beach Police Chief, who later spoke candidly in several countries, supporting marijuana decriminalization. He once ran for state representative as a Libertarian, defeated by Dr. WILLIAM LEE PROCTOR, Ed.D/, perhaps the meanest man in St. Augustine, who was then Flagler College Chancellor, now resigned without honor in the wake of federal court civil rights litigation involving covers of sexual harassment.

CAMERON was hired as Assistant St. Johns County Administator under MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK, who encumbered the position from 2007 until his 2019 firing. CAMERON would often advise new County Commissioners that just because they were elected, they "did not gain 20 IQ pointss." 

In 2016, CAMERON was defeated by Paul Waldron by seven (7) votes in a closed Republican primary. 

Shocked at the result, Sheriff DAVID SHOAR's drinking buddy, JERRY CAMERON, did not show at the recount by the Supervisor of Elections. (I was there. Such a relief when Paul Waldron won!) With support of a corrupt Sheriff, noted for coverups, how did CAMERON lose? People in St. Johns County are wiser than some of our lazy louche "leaders" may think.

 

1. People remembered Peter Guinta's St. Augustine Rexcord news coverage of CAMERON's two conflicts of interest that contaminated his illegallly ordering a fifteen pound pet dog to be excecuted as "dangerous." (The dog survived but was banned friom St. Johns County for life as a result of an out-of-court settement).

 

2. People were incensed about his blocking records requests related to the September 2, 2010 homicide of Ms. Michelle O'Coonnell in the home of Deputy JEREMY BANKS. CAMERON lied to me and blocked efforts to obtain the water use hourly Johnson Countrols, Inc. "smart water meter" records for BANKS' home at 4700 Sherlock Place, which could have proven that BANKS lied to Deputy Debra Maynard when he claimed he had not just had a shower.

 

 

3. People knew about his sneaky, sleazy, sleight-of-hand efforts to block County Commission support for the St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashorek November 1, 2011, after which the SOB told me it would "nver xome u0 again."

After two hurricanes, conman CAMERON went through the revolving door, paid exttravagantly by Louisiana grifters with whom St. Johns County contracted.  Before he was exposed by the St. Augustine Record,  I saw CAMERON oozing into the St. Johns CountyN Administration Building.  I asked what he was doing and he barked, "None of your business." You were a government contractor, JERRY CAMERON, and we had a right to know.

More recently, burrowed in like a tick in neighboring Flagler County, JERRY THOMAS CAMERON drew raised eyebrows by selling the code-violating "Tires for Jesus" commercial property to controversial Flagler County Commissioner JOSEPH MULLINS, a haughty hick hack fron Georgia, who lost for legislature in Georgia, and whose ethics lapses followed him here,

CAMERON enjoys portraying Revolutionary War firebrand Patrick Henry, in colonial costume, but his actions show he is unworthy to portray Henry, who famously said, "Give me liberty or give me death." 

During a recess at a joint city-county meeting on November 20, 2013, CAMERON told me had read the boxes of documents on the Michelle O'Connell case and consiered it aq suicide. Four days later, The New York Times and PBS Frontline broke the story of the coverup by DAVID SHOAR's defective detectives, including the asswertion that the gun was fired by Michelle O'Connell upside down, and recoviled forward, causing an injury to Michelle O'Connell's eyelid. Guns don't recoil forward, as anyone who has ever fired one knows.

Incurious, inspid CAMERSON'S chauvinistic support and defense of the botched investigation of Michelle O'Connell's murder reminds me of what David Perley Lowe (R-Iowa) said in advancing the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 (the civil rights law we invoke whenever we sue governmental officials at the local and state level): "While murder is stalking abroad in disguise, while whippings and lynchings and banishments have been visited upon unoffending American citizens, the local administrations have been found inadequate or unwilling to apply the proper corrective. Combinations, darker than the night [which] hides them, conspiracies, wicked as the worst felons could devise, have gone unwhipped of justice. Immunity is given to crime, and the records of the public tribunals are searched in vain for any evidence of effective redress." Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S. 167, 175 (1961), quoting Cong. Globe, 42nd Cong., 1st Sess., App. 166-167.