In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
IS FALSE "FACT" STRANGER THAN FICTION?
FALSE STATEMENTS AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE: St. Johns County, Florida Sheriff DAVID SHOAR (Zero): "No corruption" in St. Johns County, Florida
FICTION: Colonel Klink (TV's "Hogan's Heroes"): "No one ever escapes from Stalag XIII."
What courses in epistemology did DAVID SHOAR ever take that lead him to believe that there is "no corruption" here in St. Johns County, Florida? St. Johns County is widely regarded as among the most corrupt counties in Florida (perhaps the most corrupt state of the Union). SHOAR and his predecessor spent more than $606,000 on no-bid contracts for the family uniform company of his bagman, MICHAEL GOLD.
This is a place where our City of St. Augustine put 40,000 cubic yards of solid waste in our Old City Reservoir, a coquina pit lake that is an "open sore going straight down into the aquifer and the groundwater," as former EPA Regional Administrator John Henry Hankinson, Jr. told me five years ago.
This is a place where the City and State sought to bring the contaminated solid waste back to the African-American community of Lincolnville. We stopped them.
This is a place where our City dumped 611,294 gallons of sewage in our San Sebastian River and is fined next to nothing by our corrupt State.
This is a place where our County Commissioners approved most rezonings by developers, while receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from them.
This is a place where a County Commission candidate took free rent for his campaign headquarters from a developer.
This is a place where Sheriff DAVID SHOAR and State's Attorney R.J. LARIZZZ (and predecessor JOHN TANNER) don't give a fig about white collar crime or government waste, fraud, abuse, misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, Sunshine violations, Open Records violations, or any other type of "crime in the suites."
Possibly Sheriff DAVID SHOAR Is laboring under a delusion of adequacy. How can someone in a county this corrupt reckon there is no corruption? Reckon that he is one of the corrupt?
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