WHO IS GEOFFREY DOBSON?

Controversial government and developer attorney GEOFFREY DOBSON (right) swears in fourth-term St. Augustine Beach Mayor Frank Charles (left)

1. GEOFFREY DOBSON is the attorney for St. Augustine Beach and other St. Johns County government agencies, as well as developers. Conflict of interest? See interview with DOBSON, below.

2. DOBSON is reportedly an advocate for proposed ordinance prohibiting rentals north of F Street in St. Augustine Beach, which could violate homeowner rights under the Bert J. Harris Private Property Protection Act. See Judith Seraphin letter, below.

3. DOBSON is former attorney for Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County (AMCD), who filaed to research legal issues associated with purchase of $1.8 million helicopter without competitive bidding.

4. DOSBON abruptly quit AMCD after his nonfeasance as AMCD came to light upon the inauguration of AMCD Commissioners Jeanne Moeller and John Sundeman on January 14, 2007. DOBSON blamed this blogger (Ed Slavin) for his resignation, falsely claiming I had "insulted" him.
5. DOBSON allegedly "polled" members of AMCD, violating Sunshine laws.

6. St. Augustine Beach residents are scrutinizing the nature and perforjmance of DOBSON's legal services, such as they are.

7. DOBSON spent AMCD funds investigating critics of AMCD, accumulating over one pound of documents on Ed Slavin, recently discovered in AMCD files. As FOLIO WEEKLY reported, it was DOBSON whom the City of St. Augustine contracted with to provide advice on a survey intended to exclude me from the City of St. Augustine (which DOBSON later told me he did by phone, without examining either the 2001 or 2006 surveys that showed we're City of St. Augustine residetns). We're still waiting for the City of St. Augustine to grant the requested public hearing on this issue, at which DOBSON will be a key witness, impeached for bias because of his mediocrity and failure to perform his job duties fairly and fully at Mosquito Control.

8. Does St. Auugstine Beach need an attorney who is not a doormat? One who does not leave St. Augustine Beach files commingled inside his five boxes of documents of AMCD records?

9. Would DOBSON's time better be spent writing about history instead of making it (e.g., by rubberstamping purchase of a $1.8 million helicopter without competitive bidding, among the most controversial actions ever taken by St. Johsn County government agency in 442 years)?

10. Is it time for DOBSON to ride off into the sunset to Wyoming, about which he left some of his history research in the five boxes of documents recently viewed at AMCD? Are DOBSON's services no longer required by the City of St. Augustine Beach and other St. Johns County government entities?

11, For more on GEOFFREY DOBSON, see our interview:

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12. Also, read how the City of St. Augustine hired DOBSON & BROWN, lawyers for developers, as acting city attorneys, in October 13, 2006 Sunshine violation.



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13. DOBSON's erstwhile law partner, RONALD BROWN, was hired as St. Augustine City Attorney in another Sunshine violation on December 22, 2006, with no prior notice the hiring was on the agenda and without proper EEO search or candidate vetting.
BROWN hired his ex-partner DOBSON to do the putative legal work regarding the location of the home of this blogger, with the apparent intent to frustrate efforts to run for St. Augustine City Commission next year. As my friend J.D. Pleasant says about the political machine in these parts, "they will say and do anything." As JFK said, "politics is a business of knives." Or in the case of Florida developers and their conflicted lawyers also representing government agencies, is it true that "politics is a business of knaves?"

14. It's our money. Is it time for the City of St. Augustine Beach to dispense with GEOFFREY DOBSON's legal services, such as they are? What do you reckon?



Controversial government and developer attorney GEOFFREY DOBSON (right) swears in fourth-term St. Augustine Beach Mayor Frank Charles (left)