"She was terrible to work for," said beloved longtime local radio broadcaster Al Brennan of KRIS PHILLIPS, WFOY radio station owner, who is running for mayor of St. Augustine.
"She was just atrocious. She never got along with anybody," Brennan said.
Brennan says PHILLIPS is "uncaring" and "does not give a damn about anyone but herself -- she's a self-aggrandizing narcissist."
"KRIS PHILLIPS doesn't give a damn about the people," Brennan said.
As to her running for Mayor, Brennan opined, "KRIS PHILLIPS looking for some way to make extra money, probably."
A popular local newsman and radio personality, Al Brennan worked at WFOY for decades.
PHILLIPS bought local radio stations WFOY and WAOC from Shull Broadcasting in 2006.
PHILLIPS fired Mr. Brennan in 2009.
PHILLIPS stiffed Mr. Brennan for thousands of dollars of his 25% commissions on December 2009 and January 2010 advertising, as detailed in his County Court complaint filed in 2012.
After PHILLIPS refused to pay him what was owed him, former WFOY News Director and Sales Consultant Brennan filed a lawsuit on August 1, 2012 and eventually settled for $800, accepting PHILLIPS offer, with the case closed on January 14, 2013.
PHILLIPS BROADCASTING was represented by lawyer PATRICK CANAN.
Neither PHILLIPS nor CANAN has responded to e-mails requesting comment. Wonder why?
Go look at the Court file -- SP12-1539 Al Brennan (Alfred Theodore Vincent Brennan, III) v. KRISTINE PHILLIPS and PHILLIPS BROADCASTING, LLC. , heard by the Honorable County Court Judge Alexander R. Christine, Jr.
Mr. Brennan's initial complaint includes all of the invoices for all of the ads that he sold and which he alleged PHILLIPS refused to pay him for -- the ads include ten (10) government entities paying for public service announcements (PSAs).
How odd.
FCC requires radio stations to run PSAs, so why are taxpayers paying for them?
Here's the list of the entities that Brennan sold Christmas music and other November and December 2009 ads to, which his lawsuit alleged PHILLIPS refused to pay him his 25% commission:
Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County, Canan Law, St. Augustine Police Department, Cold Cow, Congressman John Luigi Mica, First Coast Technical College, Flagler College, Flagler Hospital, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bruce Maguire and Associates, Mayor Joe Boles, Nettles Fine Jewelry, Rowe Family Eye Care, St. Augustine/St. Johns County Board of Realtors, San Augustin Eye Foundation, St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar f/k/a "Hoar," St. Johns County Tax Collector Dennis Hollingsworth, St. Johns County Solid Waste Management, St. Johns County Utility Department, St. Johns Housing Partnership, St Johns Family Dentistry, St. Johns County Election Supervisor Penny Halyburton, attorney Tom Cushman, United Way of St. Johns County and Zippy Auto Body Refinishers.
Excerpt;: "A popular local newsman and radio personality, Al Brennan worked at WFOY for decades."
ReplyDeleteWhat a hoot! What a joke! Al was only popular with the chamber, the business community and the crooked cops that he daily fawned over with his on air servile flattery in order to sell more advertising and make more Judas money.
The "beloved" Al incessantly demonized and disparaged street artists by introducing any news about them as "Oh those PESKY street artists are at it again." I can still hear it ringing in my ears today! Then he would go on to parrot Len Weeks comments that it was a "circus down there on Saint George Street". Merchant comments at the time always included; lazy, shiftless, bums, clowns, etc.
"Beloved" Al (like all corporate owned and controlled menticide inducing local media sell out personalities of today) vigorously fanned the flames for his Judas money.
It is truly heartbreaking that he got stiffed! (sarc)
Al was an integral part of the Jim Crow proximate cause murder, oppression, and tyranny, that is still going on in this city today!
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Wage theft and elder financial abuse are wrong. Kudos to Al Brennan for suing KRIS PHILLIPS and blowing the whistle on her works and pomps.
ReplyDeleteForgiveness is like a muscle -- if you don't exercise it, it atrophies.
Now the people who opposed you know that:
(1) the WEEKS/BOLES/SAPD suppression of artists and musicians is unconstitutional, thanks to you and others litigating in federal court, Warren.
(2) the WEEKS/BOLES/SAPD suppression of artists and musicians has made St. Augustine a dull place -- "our streets are not lively," as Mayor Nancy Shaver says.
Embrace your new allies, knowing that we are winning victory after victory.
Forgiveness requires a heartfelt admission of guilt and apology Ed.
ReplyDeleteI see none here.
Neither an apology nor an admission of guilt is required by me for me to forgive someone.
ReplyDeleteWarren, I think your concept of forgiveness differs from mine.
Perhaps yours is influenced by the Baltimore Catechism?
Shall we call you the Archbishop? (Ted Kennedy's nickname for his onetime Chief of Staff).
Former Democratic Presidential nominee George Stanley McGovern said in one of his speeches to Democrats in St. Augustine that holding grudges is bad for your health -- he said after three months, if he wasn't able to do something about the person in quo, he let it go.
To promote healing here in St. Augustine, I reckon that it helps to forgive people for what they may have said or done one, two or three decades ago -- even if they don't fall on their knees and beg.
Al Brennan was done wrong by KRIS PHILLIPS. I never heard his broadcasts to which you refer, but it seems that WFOY has always been pay to play, particularly under PHILLIPS.
Yes Ed, we have a different viewpoint on forgiveness.
ReplyDeleteForgiveness given lightly to all tends to make one careless and opens the door to further deception as many times it is used as a Trojan horse. An overexercised muscle can cause great discomfort and lasting pain.
The Baltimore Catechism influence is long gone from my psyche.
That is good good advice from McGovern, I do let grudges go, but it is wise to remember the skin patterns of the poisonous snakes one encounters along the trail of life and alert others to those patterns.
It is my clear recollection that Al Brennan took great joy in his castigation of the street artists and a seemingly greater pride in his being a toady suck up member of the powers that be — the self anointed elite Jim Crow oppression is OK KKK crowd. You know of whom I refer.
If you truly want to promote healing here in Saint Augustine you must shun the gangsters that have hijacked our government, rather than validating and legitimizing their corrupt power with your forgiving attention.
They care Jack Squat about your forgiveness. They do however relish, like the insecure psychopaths that they are, your attention that authenticates their co-opted power.
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There once was a Tennessee judge about whom I reported on as Appalachian Observer Editor. The judge's friend Sheriff Dennis O. Trotter went to federal prison for four years as a result of an FBI investigation, stimulated by facts, overt acts and some fifteen deputy-witnesses I encouraged to contact the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the FBI. The afternoon of Sheriff Trotter's arrest in 1984, the judge told me that I was "worse than a burglar because I steal people's reputations."
ReplyDeleteFifteen years later, that same judge presided in a medical malpractice case against DOE's pet psychiatrist in Oak Ridge, who ruined my client's career as a radiation protection technician, falsely calling her paranoid, delusional and psychotic for supposing there were environmental problems at K-25 uranium enrichment plant, then a Superfund site, where she had seven times as much cyanide as a healthy nonsmoker would have in her body.
During recesses, the judge would reminisce in his chambers to my client, her husband and opposing counsel about my reporting. Finally, I said, "you know, your honor, to err is human and to forgive is divine." The judge responded, "Well, I must be one divine SOB then."
The jury ruled for my client and was upheld on appeal. The judge and I forgave each other, and we helped make history for worker rights in East Tennessee.
Al Brennan is a victim of wage theft and age discrimination. I am honored, humbled and grateful for his truth telling. It will help handily defeat the Establishment's effort to usurp democracy and inflict an unqualified, unethical person on as Mayor of St. Augustine.
In politics, like law, yesterday's adversary becomes tomorrow's friend. Catch the wave of tolerance.
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"In politics, like law, yesterday's adversary becomes tomorrow's friend. Catch the wave of tolerance."
ReplyDeleteAll of life is politics Ed, law is one of its greater deceptions.
Catch the higher wave of accountability and respect.
"You kick the dog you own the bite."
That said, I appreciate your efforts and wish we had a hundred of you in this crooked city.