NO RESPONSE. Wonder why? KRIS PHILLIPS' hick hack radio station airs homophobic hate speech by MARTY MILLER, Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair, who on June 13, 2016 said the 49 Gays murdered in Orlando "got what they deserved." No response or apology from KRIS PHILLIPS, who is supported by shadowy PACs in her race for mayor against our beloved reform Mayor Nancy Shaver. FCC is investigating KRIS PHILLIPS. Re-elect Mayor Nancy Shaver, who supports equality, decency and democracy in our Nation's Oldest City, once called "the most lawless city in America" by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: kris
Sent: Sat, Oct 29, 2016 2:12 pm
Subject: Re: Request No. 2016-255: WFOY broadcasts anti-Gay hate speech by Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair Martin Miller -- No Response and No Apology After 136 Days
Dear Ms. Phillips:
1. Please respond today to my June 13, 2016 e-mail and to my followup e-mails (please see below) concerning alleged inflammatory hate speech: the on-air statement on WFOY that 49 Gays murdered in Orlando "got what they deserved," by your twice-daily caller and political supporter MARTIN MILLER, President of the Greater St. Augustine Republican Club. You did not provide me with the tape recording of the WFOY program that MILLER called. Why? You did not make any apology. Why?
2. Your silence for some 138 days is, at best, inculpatory.
3. Your silence is an "adoptive admission" and an "admission by silence" -- admissions that the FCC will likely consider in its investigation of WFOY.
4. As owner of WFOY, and as a candidate for mayor of St. Augustine, why won't you just simply apologize, provide records, or answer questions?
5. Please prepare to answer these questions before FCC and before public fora.
6. We, the People, have a Right to Know, and to discuss with available data whether or not WFOY's license should be revoked for what you have done to our public airwaves, which have been entrusted to you under the Federal Communications Act.
7. Please feel free to call me to discuss this issue today -- it is not going away.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
www.edslavin.com
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From: Ed Slavin
To: kris
Sent: Sat, Oct 1, 2016 9:53 am
Subject: Re: Request No. 2016-255: WFOY broadcasts anti-Gay hate speech by Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair Martin Miller
Dear Ms. Phillips:
1. I wrote you on June 14, 2016 -- some 109 days ago -- about the indecency emitted by WFOY on our public airwaves.
2. On the morning of Monday, June 13, 2016, Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair MARTIN MILLER stated on-air on WFOY that the 49 Gays murdered in Orlando on June 12, 2016 "got what they deserved."
3. You did not respond. Why?
4. You have provided no records. Why?
5. Your silence for some 109 days is inculpatory -- it is both an admission by silence and an adoptive admission under evidence rules. Will you ever apologize?
6. I have filed an FCC complaint against PHILLIPS BROADCASTING, INC. about WFOY's indecency and bias.
7. I now understand that the man who said that 49 dead Gays in Orlando "got what they deserved" -- Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair MARTIN MILLER -- is helping to manage your St. Augustine mayoral campaign.
8. Is that correct? Have you, KRIS PHILLIPS, WFOY and your mayoral campaign given significant encouragement to hate speech? Your impecunious radio station blasts out Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing haters, without balance or reply. When informed that deeply offensive anti-Gay views were broadcast from a local supporter, you ignored me. Why?
9. Were you aware that local races in our town are, by law, nonpartisan?
10. Please call me to discuss today.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
www.edslavin.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: consumercomplaints
Cc: judgelitt10
Sent: Mon, Jun 20, 2016 5:25 pm
Subject: Re: [FCC Complaints] Re: WFOY, St. Augustine, Florida -- Hate Speech Against 49 Gays Killed in Orlando
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
www.edslavin.com
-----Original Message-----
From: FCC
To: Easlavin
Sent: Mon, Jun 20, 2016 2:59 pm
Subject: [FCC Complaints] Re: WFOY, St. Augustine, Florida -- Hate Speech Against 49 Gays Killed in Orlando
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FCC Consumer Complaints (FCC Complaints)
Jun 20, 2:59 PM EDT
Hi Ed
Your complaint provides valuable information and is shared among FCC bureaus and offices to spot trends and practices that warrant investigation and enforcement action. If the FCC needs more information about your complaint, we will contact you directly.
Each year, the Enforcement Bureau takes hundreds of actions on behalf of consumers that result in tens of millions of dollars in penalties. These actions encourage companies and individuals to abide by the law and reduce future misconduct.
Thank you for your help in furthering the FCC’s mission on behalf of consumers.
Easlavin
Jun 17, 11:14 AM EDT
WFOY AM & FM, St. Augustine, Florida:
1. Violates FCC decency rules: On Monday morning, June 13, 2016, at or about 8:30 AM, twice-daily caller Martin "Marty" Miller, President of the Greater St. Augustine Republican Club, stated to radio host Kerry McCarthy that the 49 Gay people murdered at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando June 12, 2016 "got what they deserved." Station owner KRIS PHILLIPS has not responded to my e-mail messages. Broadcaster Kerry McCarthy has not responded to a Facebook message requesting that she call me. Please investigate.
2. May violate FCC payola rules: WFOY does not disclose to its listeners that air time is purchased by political consultants and candidates, including the Kerry McCarthy show and Mike Davis and Troy Blevins show. While there is a disclaimer that their views may not be those of the station owner, KRIS PHILLIPS, listeners are apparently never been told that the programs are pay-to-play or bartered. McCarthy and Davis are past political candidates. McCarthy is hired as a political adviser or lobbyist by candidates and others.
3. Often goes off the air for lengthy periods of time, twenty minutes to one hour. Is this being reported to FCC?
Please note: In 2008, then-candidate Ms. Judith Seraphin and I complained to FCC because we were defamed by one of the station's pay-to-play or barter broadcasters, who used three of FCC's seven prohibited words in lambasting us. Then and now, this radio station:
A. Failed to tape record its call-in programs.
B. Failed to provide a seven-second delay for its call-in programs.
Please investigate.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: kris
Sent: Mon, Jun 13, 2016 12:44 pm
Subject: Re: Request No. 2016-255: WFOY broadcasts anti-Gay hate speech by Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair Martin Miller
Dear Ms. Phillips:
1. Mr. Martin Miller, President of "The Republican Club of Greater St. Augustine," is a frequent caller on WFOY radio.
2. Please preserve, and provide me with a tape recording of, Mr. Martin Miller's telephone call to the Kerry McCarthy Show this morning (June 13, 2016) re: 50 Gays murdered at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando June 12, 2016 "getting what they deserved."
3. Mr. Miller calls WFOY twice per day -- every morning and every evening.
4. On a station that spends much of the day on hate, his hate calls stand out as over the top.
5. Please preserve all tapes of Mr. Miller's calls pendente lite.
6. What steps do you plan to take about anti-GLBT, anti-Semitism, anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim and anti-African-American hate speech on your station on a daily basis?
7. The ancient equitable maxim is, "silence gives consent," or in the 1980s slogan of ACT-UP: "Silence = Death."
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
www.edslavin.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: kris
Sent: Tue, Jun 14, 2016 5:32 pm
Subject: Re: Request No. 2016-255: WFOY broadcasts anti-Gay hate speech by Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair Martin Miller
Dear Ms. Phillips:
1. Your lack of response to my June 13, 2015 e-mail (below) is, at best, inculpatory -- it is an admission by silence and adoptive admission.
2. As the recipient of paid advertisements from our local governments, WFOY a government contractor. F.S. 119. Please provide the tape recording.
3. WFOY has become known as "Hate Radio."
4. As an FCC licensee, you have a duty not to foment hate.
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
easlavin@aol.com
904-377-4998
www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
www.edslavin.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Slavin
To: kris
Sent: Mon, Jun 13, 2016 12:44 pm
Subject: Re: Request No. 2016-255: WFOY broadcasts anti-Gay hate speech by Greater St. Augustine Republican Club Chair Martin Miller
Dear Ms. Phillips:
1. Mr. Martin Miller, President of "The Republican Club of Greater St. Augustine," is a frequent caller on WFOY radio.
2. Please preserve, and provide me with a tape recording of, Mr. Martin Miller's telephone call to the Kerry McCarthy Show this morning (June 13, 2016) re: 50 Gays murdered at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando June 12, 2016 "getting what they deserved."
3. Mr. Miller calls WFOY twice per day -- every morning and every evening.
4. On a station that spends much of the day on hate, his hate calls stand out as over the top.
5. Please preserve all tapes of Mr. Miller's calls pendente lite.
6. What steps do you plan to take about anti-GLBT, anti-Semitism, anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim and anti-African-American hate speech on your station on a daily basis?
7. The ancient equitable maxim is, "silence gives consent," or in the 1980s slogan of ACT-UP: "Silence = Death."
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
904-377-4998
www.cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com
www.edslavin.com
In its very early formative days I was interested in the Tea Party... and then the hate mongering bigot members raised their ugly voices and no one censored them... that's why they are dying and have lost traction with the general public.
ReplyDeleteSung to the tune of "Shot Through The Heart"...
Credibility lost,
He's to blame,
Marty Miller gives the Tea Party,
A bad name...
Nobody loves them,
He's to blame,
Marty Miller gives the Tea Party,
A bad name...
They'll soon be gone,
He's to blame,
Marty Miller gives the Tea Party,
A bad name...
He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will suffer harm.
And if your article isn't enough...today I received a postcard from Sheriff Shoar stating that he endorses Phillips...( postcard was mailed by Phillips not Shoar).
ReplyDeleteJust icing on the cake...open my mailbox and I am assaulted by having to look at Shoar's face...a man who made us the laughingstock of the nation with his corrupt and indept murder investigation of M.C.
The fact that Phillips welcomes Shoar's endorsement ...very depressing!