The
St. Augustine Record viewspaper today published a curiously opinionated article saying I will not be prosecuted for asking for local government records and accountability. Whew! Who knew! Is this a great country, or what?
The defamatory, one-sided article was mislabeled as "news" on page 3 of the print edition.
Even on the editorial page, it could be considered libelous.
I wear city MisNanagement's scorn as a badge of honor.
The backstory: false and defamatory accusations, hateful statements, hearsay, innuendo and leaks from City Manager JOHN PATRICK REGAN, P.E., Assistant City Manager TIMOTHY BURCHFIELD and Police Chief LORAN LUEDERS, former co-workers of St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID BERNARD SHOAR f/k/a "DAVID BERNARD HOAR."
Retaliation for reporting wrongdoing -- including violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, reported today to the Justice Department --
click here.
St. Augustine City Hall's "Bush League MisManagement" (BLM) dumped a landfill in a lake, emitted sewage and semi-treated effluent in our rivers and salt marsh, arrested hundreds of St. Augustine street artists and musicians, and sold the public a pig of poke on our 450th commemoration.
The last straw for BLM was my requesting reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities for the December 1, 201
4 refusal to provide enough chairs for the public when Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy Quince inaugurated Mayor Nancy Shaver was the last straw.
I had requested more chairs for weeks. BLM was insouciant.
BLM City Manager REGAN and staff refused repeated requests to remove staff tables, resulting in 100 people standing, including elders and persons with disabilities. The next day, on December 2, 2015, REGAN said to his HR Director, NANCY RAWLSON, "We have to do something about Ed Slavin." This resulted in a "trespass warning for upper floors of City Hall except for meetings and appointments.
Both Record stories were phoned in by JOHN REGAN (who claims not to have known about the landfill being dumped into the lake), REGAN's direct report, TIMOTHY BURCHFIELD (who did know about dumping the landfill and the lake and Chief LORA LUEDERS (who works for REGAN).
The City of St. Augustine MisManagement remind me of what JFK said about Washington, D.C.: "A city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency."
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called the City of St. Augustine "the most lawless city in America."
We call it "home."
We're reforming our government, and will keep on doing it.
We expect to be treated as citizens, not bothersome pests, when we ask questions. Government must work for us, and not the 1%.
The City of St. Augustine City MisManagement lacks core competencies including ethics, manners, and management and public relations skills (despite City Manager JOHN REGAN's staff nickname as the "Minister of Propaganda," of which he is proud).
Keep asking questions.
Demand answers.
Expect democracy.
Like any good American diplomat, "Don't take no for an answer." 'Smile.
Go to meetings.
Work for Justice for Michelle).
Enjoy our 450th.
For our future, let's pledge our "sacred honor" and keep exposing;
1. Flummery,
2. Dupery,
3. Nincompoopery,
4. Waste,
5. Fraud,
6. Abuse,
7. Misfeasance,
8. Malfeasance,
9. Nonfeasance,
10. Secret meetings,
11. No-bid contacts,
12. First Amendment violations,
13. Sunshine violations, and
14. Open records, document destruction and record keeping violations concealing possible peculation
It's Our Town and Our Time. We're not afraid of Hick Hacks and Their Errors and Few Facts misreporting of MisManagers' defamatory statements and opinions as "The News."
It's all sleaze wrapped in snootiness emanating from two discredited, dodgy, domineering ex-Mayors JOSEPH LESTER BOLES, Jr. and CLAUDE LEONARD WEEKS, JR. et al,, (a/k/a "the kings and queens of St. Augustine").
To retaliate as they did with their false and defamatory article today tells me one thing:
We must be getting close, folks! As Bette Davis would say, "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night."
