Friday, May 30, 2025

Who guards the guardians?

The Roman satirist Juvenal asked, "who guards the guardians?"

We have two government officials who are hired by County Commissioners -- the County Administrator and the County Attorney.  Who evaluates them, and how?  We will find out for you.

May 29, 2025

Subject: RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO and "JOY" ANDREWS performance evaluations

Dear Chair Joseph, et al:
1. Would you please be so kind as to send me all performance evaluations for St. Johns County Attorney RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO and County Administrator "JOY" ANDREWS?  
2. If you contend that none exist, please provide any informal evaluations and kindly cite any law, ordinance, policy or contract provision exempting them from accountability for their actions and omissions. 

 On Friday, May 30, 2025 at 10:19:58 AM EDT, Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com> wrote:



Good morning:
1. Please respond, send the requested records today, and place them on the County's website.
2. Enough delays. 
3. In the interests of "transparency," the Administrator's mantra, We, the People expect much better from our County government.


13 comments:

Pete said...

It's called... you got no actual proof or evidence for any sort of wrongdoing... and he was appointed through democratic means. That's too bad for some that mobs don't get to decide everything if they don't like democracy. Perhaps they should move to Myanmar or Syria.

Ed Slavin said...

Your usual unctuous repetitive falsehoods. Not moving. Not taking you seriously. A punk with a pizza. Pitiful. This post is about performance appraisals. Being a rich spoiled Ponte Vedra viperous vituperative vicious varmint, "Pete" misses the point. We have a Right to Know. Your pal RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO was hired illegally. You are a chauvinistic. Job announcement never invited law firms to apply. Smirking turkeys suggest that I move? Your affectation of support for "democracy" is, at best facetious. Are you in love with RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO? Strange romance?

Ed Slavin said...

See "The Strange Romance Between John L. Lewis and Cyrus Eaton," by Nat Caldwell and Gene S. Graham, Harper's Magazine, December 1961.

Ed Slavin said...

I met Pulitzer Prize winning investigate reporter Nat Caldwell while I was working on a Fund for Investigative Journalism Grant as a Georgetown School of Foreign Service undergraduate in 1978. Nat won Pulitzer Prize for exposing United Mine Workers of America collusion with coal operators to suppress small mining companies.

Pete said...

Illegally? More bogus claims. They voted on it... that's that. Get over it man. You make stuff up when things don't go your way!!!!

Ed Slavin said...

Based on hundreds of defensive and aggressive posts on this blog, and his hateful file artwork attacking four wonderful women criticizing KOMANDO, I call out pestiferous, perseverating, pusillanimous "Pete" for his effrontery, threats, angry bloody "artworks" and dangerous animus. I call out "Pete" for the many posts of "Pete" in defense of RICHARD CHRISTiAN KOMANDO's hiring. "Strange romance," indeed. Perhaps the etiology relates to underachieving "Pete" undeserved win in a biosolids case? You tell us, "Pete." What do your father and mother think of your "artwork?" What would JNC think? What would JQC think?

Ed Slavin said...

Please read Restatement of Contracts, 2d, sec 178, "Contract Violations of Public Policy." Hint to pestiferous Anonymous "Pete" and his pal, RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO: we don't follow the Napoleonic Code here. This is the United States of America. Contracting out the County Attorney job to a dodgy corporate law firm headed by a casino and high-rise lobbyist for FOUNTAINEBLEAU DEVELOPMENT (ex-Senator ROBERT MILNER BRADLEY, JR,, chair of SJRWMD) and incoming Florida House Speaker SAMUEL PAUL GARRISON, is a stench in the nostrils of our Nation. Might explain why draft of the Comprehensive Plan included a provision allowing for high-rises in St. Johns County. The developer shills' sins have found them out.

Ed Slavin said...

Who is "Pete" and what agreements, understandings and relationships does he have with RICHARD CHRISTiAN KOMANDO and the secretive corporate law firm of BRADLEY, GARRISON & KOMANDO, P.A. and the principal in the lobbying firm of OAK STRATEGIES, both headed by ex-Senator ROBERT MILNER BRADLEY, JR.?

Ed Slavin said...

"Pete" is inarticulate. "Get over it?" That is not a response. Neither is it response to order me to move to other countries. So unsophisticated. So crass. Who is "Pete?"

Ed Slavin said...

Dodgy flibbertigibbet "Pete, is a perseverating pestilential, petty, angry, disgruntled, yappy, unhappy authoritarian sock puppet who won't identify himself. "Pete" and other sock puppet names spread unhappiness, bloody misogynist sexist artwork, and threaten $LAPP libel lawsuits in retaliation for First Amendment protected activity. It has done so for multiple months. "Pete" cries crocodile tears on behalf of grownups who have not authorized him to be their sibilant silly spokesperson. What a lugubrious goober. Pitfiul.

Ed Slavin said...

Who is "Pete" and why does he protest so much about First Amendment protected activity on our County government in general, and our unctuous County Attorney and his corporate law firm in particular? Eh?

Ed Slavin said...

From Merriam-Webster Dictionary: "Flibbertigibbet is one of many incarnations of the Middle English word flepergebet, meaning "gossip" or "chatterer" (others include flybbergybe, flibber de' Jibb, and flipperty-gibbet). It is a word of onomatopoeic origin, created from sounds that were intended to represent meaningless chatter. William Shakespeare apparently saw a devilish aspect to a gossipy chatterer; he used flibbertigibbet in King Lear as the name of a devil. This use never caught on, but the devilish connotation of the word reappeared over 200 years later when Sir Walter Scott used Flibbertigibbet as the nickname of an impish urchin in the novel Kenilworth. The impish meaning derived from Scott's character was short-lived and was laid to rest by the 19th-century's end, leaving us with only the "silly flighty person" meaning.

Ed Slavin said...

For months, poor pitiful perseverating "Pete" has refused to give his real name. Hundreds of comments. No substance. Puff, blow and bravado. Imprecations of defamation. "Pete" evidently didn't learn the IRAC method in his classes in crassness at Trump University. Why do we tolerate these haughty Anonymice sock puppets perpetually threatening with their tedious termagant comments? Go away, troll.