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!
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
"The Untouchables" vs. "We, The People" of St. Augustine
Our Nation's Oldest City is like "Chicago, writ small." St. Johns County may be the most corrupt in Florida, exposed by The New York Times, PBS Frontline, Dateline NBC and Dr. Phil.
$3.5 million spent on 450th Commemoration contracts. A 211-year old building illegally destroyed without permits.
Like Al Capone in Chicago, ex-Mayors JOE BOLES and LEN WEEKS reckon themselves "Untouchable." No Inspector General.
No Ombudsman. Unqualified "audits" by the same firm that has "audited" the city's books for three decades, a firm that has not shown current qualifications from annual government audit training.
We want answers. We want the truth. We're going to get it.
There are more of us than there are of them, history is on our side, and in the words of James Madison in 1822, "Here, the people rule."
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