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!
Monday, November 10, 2014
Last Word, Last Laugh
Tonight, November 10, 2014, I spoke to City Commission, thanking Mayor JOSEPH LESTER BOLES, JR. (and his golfing buddy, Commissioner DONALD CRICHLOW) for their public service.
I asked for a few extra seconds while speaking about Compassionate St. Augustine.
After I left the City's "$30,000"+ podium, BOLES said "I don't mind giving you a few extra seconds because it's the last time in ten years that I will ever have to listen to you."
+ $30,000 That's what indignant BOLES said it cost when he and other-directed WILLIAM BRUCE HARRIS bossed commissioners forbade us to show at the podium, or on camera, the "science experiment" with coquina porosity, showing how rapidly water flowed through coquina (porosity 47-53% in connection with illegal dumping, shooing us to do out of camera range. We forgive you, Mayor BOLES.
Of course, I had the last laugh, and you can hear me laughing at BOLES' barb at this link, here .
The future of our Nation's Oldest City is secure with Nancy Shaver due to be sworn in as our next Mayor at 7:30 pm on Monday, December 1, 2014.
Three cheers for everyone who made this historic day possible.
Oh Pollyanna, sometimes you go waaaaaaay too far!
ReplyDeleteYou thank Boles and Chrichlow for public service? Would you thank Hitler for his public service?
The incessantly ignored and constantly swept under the rug genocide of the street artists, performers, homeless, CIVIL RIGHTS and FREE SPEECH advocates continues in this city to this day! The laws that have impoverished them, eliminated and suppressed them, and sent many of them to early graves are still on the books — today! Laws that were illegally and immorally passed in a transparent on-going pattern and practice of usurpation of the 'rule of law' for selfish gain. Jim Crow like laws just like those used to eliminate and suppress blacks. Laws that eliminate competition so as to control and fix markets; to suppress and control employee wages by limiting opportunity and instilling fear; to steal commonly owned community property for selfish private use and private gain; to raise confiscatory taxes on the residents to fund the city gangster activities; to steer the community into high impact tourism to favor their businesses (tourism, a low brow, knuckle dragging industry that is totally wrong for this community and now has the residents ox on the table); to pay themselves grossly outrageous fat salaries and piggishly lavish retirement packages, etc.
The only difference between Boles and Chrichlow and Hitler is that Hitler had the balls to look you directly in the eye and say, "I am better than you and I want you controlled and oppressed or dead!" Chrichlow and Boles are deceptive ball less weasels that instead clothe themselves in make believe; patriotism, religion, free markets, capitalism, compassion — or whatever platitude serves their theft of the day —all to achieve the same end.
When will this closet fascism (Xtrevilism) end? When people get up off of their knees and end this embarrassingly bogus civility and respect make believe theater.
You need to revisit the meaning of "We" Ed.