The lobbying firm of the top partner in the secretive corporate law firm hired as St. Johns County Attorney on April 15, 2015, BRADLEY, GARRISON & KOMANDO, which represents developers, including multinational corporate FOUNTAINEBLEAU DEVELOPMENT, brags on its website:
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Rob Bradley has managed a successful law firm representing numerous local governments in a general counsel role. Rob has also served as a county commissioner and state senator. He chaired the Florida Senate Appropriations Committee from 2017-2020. Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Rob to serve on the St. Johns Water Management District, which he now chairs. Rob manages the operations of Oak Strategies and specializes in creating policy ideas and changes to meet our clients’ needs. As a former Senate Appropriations Chairman, he also has unique insights regarding the legislative budgetary process.
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Jayer Williamson served as a county commissioner in Santa Rosa County and was later elected to the Florida House of Representatives. Jayer rose to various leadership positions in the House and chaired the House Infrastructure and Tourism Appropriations Committee. He also ran a longtime family electrical contracting business before joining Oak Strategies. Jayer now manages multiple local and regional clients in Florida’s panhandle for our team, developing strategic plans and guiding them on the best ways to navigate any hurdles encountered in local and state government.
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18 comments:
Secretive because he wants to honor attorney client privilege and privacy rights? There's no proof or evidence for wrongdoing to warrant such a privacy rights violation. You don't like democracy and rights.. move to North Korea. How about they violate your First Amendment rights and bar you from those meetings? Tell everyone that they don't need the liability... defamation and libel.
Our County Attorney should have one client, "We, the People." Not multiple undisclosed corporations, including those with foreign investors who are destroying our forests in the name of greed. Hiring a corporate law firm as County Attorney was a dopey idea. The pompous, perseverating pestilential posts of the sock puppet "Pete" are a symptom of greed and overdevelopment in St. Johns County. There is no attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine protection for government attorneys in Florida. There is no "right" to encumber the office of County Attorney with conflicts of interest. It was a mistake to hire KOMANDO, a mistake to hire his corporate law firm, a mistake to fail to obtain a list of his corporate clients, a mistake to fail to perform a proper background investigation, a mistake to fail perform a proper conflicts check, a mistake to fail to consider other law firms (if we were going to hire a law firm instead of a person), and a mistake to fail too negotiate a contract. Poor, pitiful "Pete" and other soulless, timid, tendentious fans of corporate oligarchs. "They know not that they know not that they know not," as my late friend, client and mentor, EPA Office of Inspector General Senior Special Agent Robert E. Tyndall would say, One-party rule is wrong.
Our County has outsourced legal advice to a law firm co-owned by a registered lobbyist for casino interests, ROBERT MILNER BRADLEY, JR.
One-party rule is wrong. Rule by corporate oligarchs is wrong. As FDR said at Madison Square Garden on October 31, 1936, "I welcome their hatred."
Who is "Pete?"
Who is his father?
What corporation(s) does his father co-own?
How many employees work for that or those corporations?
What is their interest in County contracts and developer contracts?
What potential organizational conflicts of interest exist?
Does "Pete" have any State of Florida professional licenses?
What possesses "Pete" to share hateful violent bloody imagery of two (2) women County Commissioners and two (2) women civic activists?
Does his father know what he is doing? Do the three (3) Commissioners who support BGK becoming County Attorney approve of his posts and vile vicious violent imagery?
Have they given significant encouragement to his efforts to retaliate against First Amendment protected activity?
Do they endorse his abusing threats of SLAPP libel lawsuits and criminal prosecution? See the many posts by "Pete" on this blog.
He doesn't have to give anyone his business records or "evidence that he's NOT engaged in wrongdoing." It's up to YOU to provide evidence that he is engaged in something illegal or unethical. Otherwise, he has reasonable expectation of privacy and rights to do business without being burdened by people with unreasonable suspicion, people just looking for something to use as an argument for his removal or otherwise disqualify him.
His business outside of his contract with the county doesn't render him unqualified or unable to perform his duties, nor is that alone proof or evidence that something unethical is happening. That's a bogus narrative based on no evidence that would confirm it.
We must drive the money-changers from the temple of our democracy. It is time for them to go.
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