Folio Weekly re: St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore

Death Wish
“Kill this proposal, put a silver bullet between its eyes
and drive a wooden stake through its heart.”
— How the St. Augustine and St. Johns County Tea
Party proposed dispensing of an idea by activist
Ed Slavin to combine all public land in the county
into a national park and seashore.
Slavin, who presented his idea to the St. Johns
County Commission last week, initially laughed
about conspiracy theories that his goal was massive
land grab. “Yeah, we take their underwear, too,”
he quipped. “Their toasters and their cars.” But at
a meeting at which opponents compared Slavin to
Adolph Hitler and Hitler’s minister of propaganda
Joseph Goebbels, County Commissioners did the Tea
Party’s bidding, voting the proposal down 5-0.