Voters rescued the City of St. Augustine on Election Day, electing Nancy Shaver Mayor.
Viva!
The democracy that began in 1776 is still alive in a place where our British subjects burned our Declaration of Independence (and effigies of John Hancock and John Adams). in our Slave Market Square.
Why?
We, The People care about St. Augustine.
We love St. Augustine.
Nancy Shaver has lived in St. Augustine for five years and we knew her well enough to elect her, beating the machine.
All neighborhoods and all colors, ages and walks of life united to elect Nancy Shaver our next Mayor.
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I have lived in St. Augustine for fifteen years now, having moved here fifteen years ago yesterday with D. Brian Wallace (our stuff arrived here fifteen years ago this morning).
Soon after moving here, we learned that St. Augustine government was bossed and bullied by big-shot crooks who tried to make art and music crimes on St. George Street, tried to steal the American Legion building from its members, tried to turn St. Augustine into Disney World. They disrespected neighborhoods and citizens. They threatened dissenters with arrest. They gave each other no-bid contracts. They illegally polluted and dump solid waste and sewage.. We caught them. We reported them. We got them fined. City Manager WILLIAM BRUCE HARRISS "retired."
Things seemingly got better, for a time.
But then Mayor JOSEPH LESTER BOLES, Jr. persisted in flummery. He wasted money on trips to Spain and started a Sunshine-violating secretive foundations, including one given $275,000 in city funds. We stopped it, after $100,000 was wasted by the FIRST AMERICA FOUNDATION.
He rammed through special interest favors, including waiver of a $15,000 archaeological excavation fee in a Sunshine violating meeting.
Commissioners Nancy Sikes-Kline and Leeana Freeman rightly questioned and opposed the 450th budget for next year.
Then on September 25, 2014, a date that will live infamy, one of them (ex-Mayor LEN WEEKS) illegally demolished a 210-year old Spanish colonial building.
The St. Augustine Record supinely endorsed "business as usual," backing the piratical incumbent and all his works and pomps.
We, The People, defeated the 1%.
We defeated them decisively last night.
We, The Peoole all love this town.
Let us all make each other a promise to do right and defeat evildoers.
We shall preserve, protect and defend St. Augustine.
We shall preserve, protect and defend St. Augustine from no-bid contracts, profiteers, bid-riggers and price-fixers.
We shall preserve, protect and defend St. Augustine from waste, fraud, abuse, misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, flummery, dupery and nincompoopery.
We shall preserve, protect and defend St. Augustine. from polluters, temple destroyers, from tree-killers, from wetland-fillers and from history destroyers.
We shall preserve, protect and defend St. Augustine from racists, sexist homophobic bigots, from wage thieves, discriminators and retaliators.
We shall preserve, protect and defend St. Augustine from overpaid, underworked political patronage arachnid apparatchiks.
We shall preserve, protect and defend St. Augustine from assorted conmen, mobsters, banksters, schemers, schlocks and schlemiels.
We shall promote healing and forgive the SOBs. Every single one of them -- as long as they stop scheming, stealing and polluting and temple destroying.
We shall watch them all like the eagles whose nest was destroyed by devious developer "Unlucky" Pierre Thompson (grandson of the St. Augusine Record founder).
We promise.
Today is Nancy Shaver's 68th birthday! Happy birthday, Mayor!
Congratulations, Mayor-elect Nancy Shaver -- your late husband, Sean, would have been so proud of you, and so are all of us!
Pollyanna said; "We shall promote healing and forgive the SOBs. Every single one of them -- as long as they stop scheming, stealing and polluting and temple destroying."
ReplyDeleteOh Pollyanna — puhleeeeeze! Forgiveness?????? Methinks we have a case of pre-mature electionjaculation here!
Let's not forget the massive pigdebt here. [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.]
Are ALL of those harmed not deserving of restitution?
And let's not forget that the immoral and illegal Xtrevilist serving unconstitutional laws that have enriched — and are presently STILL enriching — all of these sociopath misfit pigs, do not magically disappear with the arrival of a new figurehead Mayor. The real power in the city resides in John Regan, the man who cuts the paychecks. The man who is headed for the same lavish retirement package that Bill Harris is collecting right now.
Nancy Shavers first order of business is to use her (well advertised and now well known), formidable assesment and organizational skills to tally and present the pigdebt to the city manager John Regan.
There will be no healing until we stop the healing!
Redemption can not begin until we end the sin.
Deception (baloney) is the strongest political force on the planet.