Rep. JOHN MICA Seeks Federal Funds for St. Augustine City Hall

Rep. JOHN MICA Seeks Federal Funds for St. Augustine City Hall

Seventh Congressional District Rep. JOHN MICA brags of working to bring federal funds to pay for St. Augustine's neglected City Hall roof, for which a grant deadline was missed by City Manager WILLIAM HARRISS, who formerly employed a nephew to work on federal grants. MICA empowers our City of St. Augustine's mismanagement, waste, fraud, abuse and corruption. Rather than answer public questions about its waste, St. Augustine rubber-stamped City Manager WILLIAM HARRISS' bloated City budget. Now St. Augustine wants a federal bailout.
MICA's concerned about sand eroding in front of Ponte Vedra mansions. Meanwhile, MICA voted against the SCHIP children's health care program and voted against raising the federal minimum wage (less than 1/4 of the House of Representatives joined him). MICA pushes for earmarks for favored government contracts.
This Bush toady has his priorities straight from the GOP playbook: class warfare. Government only exists, in MICA's view, to fatten his campaign contributors, whether with government contractors or Ponte Vedra beachfront mansion owners (the sort who think they own the beach and persuaded Republican county commissioners to deed them back the county right-of-way without charge to keep surfers out..
As former Senator Gary W. Hart said, "you won't get the federal government off your back until you get your hands out of its pockets."
Republicans were once fiscal conservatives. MICA's been dancing the pork barrel polka long enough -- anyfederal funds for the St. Augustine City Hall should come with strings, e.g., as part of a St. Augustine National Historical Park, National Seashore and National Scenic Coastal Highway.
Let's not reward WILLIAM HARRISS' waste with an earmark.