SJC CORRUPTION WATCH: "It is only through politics that miracles occur"

Let freedom ring!

Let every vote count.

Let every vote be counted.

One-party rule and oligarchs' planned disenfranchisement of millions of Florida voters: it's not working in 2026.

Do you believe in miracles? 

For the first time in ten years, no "spoiler," no phony write-in person, will close our St. Johns County Universal Primary, now set for August 18, 2026. 

Three cheers! 

The Honorable Victoria Oakes, St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections, so informed our St. Johns County Commissioners at their August 16 meeting.  

One Anonymous whiner posted online, "They're letting Democrats vote!"

Yes, we can! 

It bears repeatin': "They're letting Democrats vote!"

So said an angry Anonymice extremist, actually writing it down on Facebook.

Snidely Whiplash "Jim Crow" law in St. Johns County has failed.  

Curses, foiled again! 

They're crying in their imported Champagne, my friends.

What happened?

Did some wiseguys (or their corporate criminal defense lawyers) wave them away from their usual dirty tricks?

Did criminal prosecutions and ongoing investigations of Ghost Candidates and Phony Sample Ballots make the Owners and Controllers  get cold feet?

You tell me. 

"There is no shortage of shills in St. Johns County." So said retired St. Augustine lawyer Tom Cushman some 20 years ago.

This time, County Commission seats 2 and 4 are to be decided August 18, 2026 in a Universal Primary. 

That's  what we voters intended in amending our Florida State Constitution. 

"It is only through politics that miracles occur.' Near the end of at two-part, six hour play and movie, "Angels in America," that's what one of Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner's characters says, "It is only through politics that miracles occur.'

Yes, America at 250 -- We SHALL overcome! 

Wake up, my friends.  It's 2026.  Time to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 

Let freedom ring.

I learned about no-bid contracts and corruption from my Mother and my Father, who taught me to fight corruption. My Father taught me,  as JFK's father taught him, that "you have to stand up to people with power, or else they walk all over you."

The New York Times reported on June 19, 2026 about the Department of the Interior's botched no-bid contract for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool:  "On Friday night, Mr. Trump blamed at least some of the problems on 'vandalism” by people who he said were out 'to destroy and demean our beautiful work.'"

What a magnificent metaphor for the vandalism of Donald Trump and other developers.

Our Founders pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to establishing a democracy on our shores.  They pledged to create the world's first democracy, "E Pluribus Unum," out  of many, one."

Trump claimed recently there are no limits on his power.  Dangerous. Wrong. Undemocratic. Constitutionalism means limited government. Anything less is unAmerican. It is authoritarian, and beneath the dignity of a free people. No kings here.

We, the People, defeated the Confederacy and its laws allowing ownership of human beings. 

We, the People, defeated fascism.   My father and the 82nd ABN DIVN helped liberate the first French town from the Nazis on D-Day, June 6, 1944 before the sun even rose that day.

"We SHALL overcome," as President Lyndon Baines Johnson said to Congress after Selma.

The late "voice of Lincolnville," Ms. Carrie Johnson led some 300 residents in singing "We shall overcome" on January 10, 2008 at St. Paul A.M.E. Church on the occasion when We, the People exposed and defeated the Jim Crow City of St. Augustine City Manager, William Barry Harriss, who dumped a contaminated landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir, 40,000 cubic yards in West Augustine). 

Today, fascism is back, attacking democracy, with more than 1400 police-bashing January 6, 2021 insurrectionists now pardoned by President Donald John Trump.  Americans see right through them,  at last. 

As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Don't give up.  Don't despair."

Let freedom ring.  "Be not afraid."  (It's in the Bible some 106 times).

"Be not afraid" of juvenile GQP gerrymandering, lying, cheating billionaires and trillionaires.