Thursday, November 06, 2014
Elected: Shaver, Sikes-Kline, Neville (George Gardner's St. Augustine Report)
Published by former Mayor George Gardner November 5 2014
The Report is an independent publication serving our community
Elected: Shaver, Sikes-Kline, Neville
Nancy Shaver ended Mayor Joe Boles' bid for a fifth term Tuesday, winning the mayor's seat by 119 votes.
Shaver had 2,650 votes to Boles' 2,531.
Incumbent Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline defeated Grant Misterly 2,878 to 2,084, and Todd Neville beat John Valdes 2,720 to 2,217.
Shaver, a business analyst, promised to gather facts and find solutions, and to involve the community in that effort.
Boles was endorsed by the St. Augustine Record, saying "We'll take business as usual, with Joe Boles on board."
Neville, an accountant, promised "A city focused on core municipal services at the top of its priority list (and) A city focused on customer service to its residents and stakeholders."
Valdes, a veteran of 22 years on several city boards, focused on control of development, updating zoning codes and promoting neighborhood preservation.
Sikes-Kline, entering her second four-year term, ran as "a thoughtful, reasonable, civic leader who works hard for issues people care about."
Grant Misterly, an engineer, focused on zoning, infrastructure and finances.
It was likely the most expensive campaign in city history, Neville topping the contributor list at $43,145 and Boles at $36,111.69.
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Coverage of the mayoral campaign by The Record was "interesting."
News of Mayor-elect NANCY SHAVER'S win did not top Page Oone, but was placed below the Mosquito Control results.
REALLY??!
This has been the most intensely contested mayoral race in almost a decade.
Could it be because The Record endorsed the other guy and is displaying sour grapes.
It's going to be very revealing to see how "objectively" and "fairly" The Record will cover Mayor-elect Shaver.
Wonderful examples of propaganda baloneyspeak in this 'election report'.
The money spent (graft) is center stage with the vote counts and the ever more abstract philosophies that purportedly justify, so transparently now, spending the graft. The graft is normalized by its bold juxtaposition.
That's why they are now called by people of integrity, "buy partisan elections".
But... sigh... people who vote can not complain.
When you play in a known rigged game you only serve to give your good name to validating and legitimizing that corrupt game — you deserve to lose!
Strange that Grafty George Gardner, in a fine example of baloneyspeak, deceptively mislabels the amount of graft spent on the campaign as, "It was likely the most expensive campaign in city history." Have we become so accustomed to the buying of partisans in our elections that we just refer to the process as "expensive" and not graft?
Hmmmm.... even more strange...Grafty George Gardner never mentioned the pigdebt in his "community serving publication". [Pigdebt is the total amount of recompense due to those who have been harmed, financially, physically, and emotionally, by the willful and intentional immoral usurpation of the 'rule of law' by Xtrevilist pigs for selfish gain.]
As I told Becky Greenberg in a recent email;
"New York is known as, "The city that never sleeps." Saint Augustine is fast becoming known as, "The city where people walk on their knees.""
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