On August 14, 2006, City of St. Augustine Commissioners will discuss taking away citizens' rights to elect our Mayor, by referendum.
As Henry Kissinger once responded to a bad football call by standing up and exclaiming, "on vot theory?"
Come speak out at the City Commission at 5 PM at the Lightner Museum and City Hall, 75 King Street. Fill out a speaker card. Democracy cannot a spectator sport any longer.
The measure is opposed by Mayor George Gardner but supported by several other Commissioners unlikely to be elected Mayor. Are they effete and insensitive elitists who think the gavel belongs in front of them? Do they think the people of our City are as unenlightened as those who burned the Declaration of Independence here in 1776 (along with effigies of John Hancock and John Adams)?
Are the developers, herders and controllers responding to the election of the putative reformer, George Gardner, in hopes of preventing a reformer from ever becoming Mayor again?
What do you think? Speak out.
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