Is unctuous St. Augustine Record reporter Lucia Viti a lapdog for developers and St. Johns County? You tell me. Read her coarse effrontery here: https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2025/06/is-st-augustine-record-reporter-lucia.html
Dear Ms. Viti:
1. I was in the front row, two seats away from SJC Commissioner Ann Taylor.
2. You never introduced yourself.
3. Why would I introduce myself, ma'am?
4. You were not wearing an ID badge. I didn't know you were there.
5. Please see the enclosed evidence about the demolition. Do read the enclosed inculpatory St. Johns County documents about Ms. Andrews' maladroit staff requesting demolition.
6. Last year, during an SJC BoCC meeting recess, after a demolition permit was briefly mentioned in a budget discussion, I quietly advised Sheriff Rob Hardwick to take the matter to the Cultural Resources Review Board, and Sheriff Hardwick was agreeable to doing just that.
7. But County Administrator Joy Andrews' staff applied for a demolition permit instead. Bad judgment.
8. Your odd defense of our County's wrongful conduct is utterly unavailing.
9. For more than 25 years, I have lived in St. Augustine, blogging about pollution, development and corruption, publishing dozens of letters and columns in the Record. In 2006, and was praised by a St. Augustine Record editorial on November 19, 2006, defending me against the local Establishment's attack on my First Amendment rights when we caught the City dumping a landfill in a lake. Editorial: Always important to stick to your guns
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10. However, GANNETT's current disinvestment in our local newspaper and its inept and insouciant approach to defending our First Amendment rights leaves much to be desired. How many people still read the Record?
11. Thus I have asked GANNETT's General Counsel for a point of contact to share my concerns about the St. Augustine Record, No response.
12. The Record was long a supporter of Jim Crow, publishing the address of the home where Dr. King planned to stay (Canright House), while publishing names of Black people who were desegregating local schools.
13. The Record's. pro-KKK coverage led to violence.
14. GANNETT's inexplicable refusal to cover the County's retaliatory illegal firing of SJC Cultural Resources Director Mr. Trey Alexander Asner is consistent with that sordid history.
15. As the late, great Attorney General and U.S. Senator Robert Francis Kennedy wrote segregationist Senator James O. Eastland in 1967 (in a handwritten book inscription), "Repent now, there's still time."
16. St. Johns County's institutional racism nearly led to the illegal demolition of our historic 1953 MLK jail.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
www.edslavin.com
(904) 377-4998
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