"Back to the drawing board?" "Back to the drawing board?" After being delegated authority to meet and negotiate a proposed contact, and after promising a public Sunshine meeting that I could attend, our St. Johns County Commission Vice Chairman CLAY MURPHY FAILED TO NEGOTIATE A COUNTY ATTORNEY CONTRACT. Read his April 11, 2025, 10:25 PM text message to Ed Slavin: https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2025/04/clay-murphy-failed-to-negotiate-county.html
St. Johns County Commission Vice Chairman CLAY MURPHY FAILED TO NEGOTIATE A COUNTY ATTORNEY CONTRACT.
Read his April 11, 2025, 10:25 PM text message to Ed Slavin:
Ok Ed, it’s late and I’m tired. I have not negotiated the contract. I took the old one, added things I thought were important and cleaned up language I thought needed cleaning up. This is a simple contract of employment. I think it’s a good one but it’s only a frame work. The contract will be firmed up at the BOCC meeting. If there are things you want to see added, bring those ideas with you Tuesday. If there are things in there you don’t like. Being (sic) those issues Tuesday. If we get something that both side agree on we will vote. If not we will go back to the drawing board for another try.
This is about a hundred grand savings a year to the county and we get a top tier attorney to boot.
No sick leave
No workers comp
No vehicle allowance
No employee tax
No social security payments
No training allowance
203k per year
It’s a win for the county.
And no I will not debate you on this tonight. I’m tired and I’m going to bed. See you Tuesday
27 comments:
Taking private emails and posting them online is a violation of trust and courtesy. If there are people who don't email you back, that's why... along with the credibility issues stemming from the unfounded claims made over and over again regardless of actual truth value.
Vice Chairman Murphy sent me a text message. Not a "private e-mail." Once again, sock puppet "Pete" shows his ignorance and willingness to say, post or do anything in defense of the indefensible. We don't need to hire Speaker-designate SAMUEL PAUL GARRISON's law firm as our County Attorney. Who is "Pete?"
Vice Chairman Clay Murphy's text message to me was not private, and not an e-mail. No sock puppet will give me orders. Overbearing "Pete" sounds like a trust fund baby interested in defending the ruling classes in St. Johns County. "They will say and do anything," as my late friend and mentor, photojournalist James David Pleasant, said it best. "Pete" is intellectually dishonest. He won't even say his real name. Wanted to meet me at a Mosquito Control Commission meeting, then. lied about it. He never showed up (after I reminded him that SJSO deputies now have body-worn cameras). So what does "Pete" think of KOMANDO's proposed contract? Did "Pete" help write it? Cui bono? (Who benefits?)
Yeah you're sharing communication that was meant for you and someone else only. You can write about it with good conscience but posting communication that's implied to be between two people is in bad taste and doesn't foster a trusting relationship. He should send you nothing because of that.
Says who? Why does "Pete" care? Overbearing troll. The SJC County Commission Vice Chair did not call the text message confidential. Neither do I. Overbearing "Pete" supports hiring as County Attorney of a dodgy corporate law firm, co-owned by a former State Senator and current Florida House Rules and Ethics Committee Chair and House Speaker-designate. Who is "Pete?"
Uh, yeah, a text or email it's implied that it's between two people and private unless you've told the other person that it wasn't. Nice try though.
Proof and evidence that the lawfirm is "dodgy" is because you say so... but that's about it. That's defamation and libel. If they could prove damage was done then you'd owe them money. Only your insignificance protects you from suit.
You're wrong, "Pete? The text is about public business. Vice Chairman Murphy wrote a text message to a citizen-journalist about our public business. Why would "Pete" have me keep it secret? What is it about the text that m makes pestiferous "Pete" seethe with indignation and rage? "Why do the heathen rage? (Psalm 2). "Pete" won't even give his actual name. "Secrecy is for losers, for people who don't understand the value of the information," in the words of the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
"Implied?" Are you kidding me? What's the source for the latest ukase from ""Pete?" Query Where did "Pete" study law? Trump University? Harrumph. Not implied. This is public business. The April 11, 2025 10:25 text from Commissioner Murphy to Ed Slavin is a public record. It is communication from a public official to a citizen-journalist, It's covered by our Florida Open Records law. "Not private." Privileged "Pete" wants to privatize our County Attorneys' office to BRADLEY, GARRISON & KOMANDO, a dodgy, secretive corporate law firm that is co-owned by a former State Senator (ROBERT MILNER BRADLEY, JR., current Chair of the St. Johns River Water Management District), law firm.managed by BRADLEY's wife, a current Florida State Senator (JENNIFER BRADLEY) a firm that is co-owned by current State Rep, SAMUEL PAUL GARRISON, who is the current Florida State House Rules and Ethics Committee Chair and who is the 2026-2027 Florida Speaker of the House-designate. So telling that "Pete" wants to silence public debate on this proposed contract against public policy. See Restatement of Contracts, 2d, sec. 178 (Contract Violations of Public Policy). Commissioners would do well to follow Commissioner Murphy's suggestion. Yes, they should indeed go "back to the drawing board." They should reject the proposed sweetheart contract,. So telling that a sock puppet "Pete" wants to chill my quoting a text message from the SJC BoCC Commission Vice Chair, Clay Murphy, who was delegated (by vote of 3-2 )authority to hold a public negotiation meeting on that contract -- a meeting that Clay Murphy never scheduled or held. Enough secrecy. Enough flummery, dupery and nincompoopery. As Woodrow Wilson would say, "Open covenants openly arrived at."
"Pete," who claims he is not a lawyer, claims that my use of the word "dodgy" is somehow "libel" or "defamatory." Truly insignificant, ignorant pestiferous pestilential pitiful "Pete" claims that it was "libel" and "defamatory" for me to call the secretive corporate law firm "dodgy" when it seeks to be our County Attorney and won't disclose its corporate clients That dawg won't hunt. "Pete" also claims that it is somehow wrong for me to quote Commissioner Murphy's text message about our public business, a proposed County contract to outsource the County Attorney job to the law firm of BRADLEY, GARRISON & KOMANDO, P.A.. That dawg won't hunt, either.
Does "Pete" possibly know the difference between "smug" and "superior?"
You take public business up in public or it's not. That was a private communication at the time, and you took it public which isn't respectful and doesn't foster trust. Again, writing about the contents is socially acceptable if done in good taste. Sharing the content of private communication isn't tasteful or the epitome of socially appropriate behavior.
You're doing public business in private? Hmm. Isn't that the same thing you complain about constantly?
Yeah you don't have actual proof and evidence for them being dodgy so that opens you up to suit. And if you attack them too strongly they probably would sue you based on the contents of this website.
Is that how you feel simply because of conversation with someone? Take some responsibility for your own emotions. I've simply asked for proof and evidence for your claims and pointed out wrongdoing in your conduct.
Not "private."
"Pete" did not respond about the difference between ""smug" and "superior." So will tell you: "Pete" may always be "smug," but he will never be "superior." What a louche lugubrious goober, as lugubrious a goober as ever made a chair squeak. Owners and controllers of deforestation are gobsmacked by the fact that Commissioner Clay Murphy suggested we go "back to the drawing board." They can't handle the fact that We, the People expect to see the Rule of Law. I shall never forget the day when I told Commissioners considering the tree protection ordinance that we "expect a miracle" As I walked back to my seat, I saw controversial County Attorney Ad interim RICHARD CHRISTIAN KOMANDO roll his eyes. KOMANDO, like "Pete," May always be "smug," but he will never be "superior."
Not "private" e-mails. It was a text message about our public business, sent to a citizen-journalist. "Pete" contends that he is not a lawyer, but he still perseverates about legal concepts like privacy and defamation. "Pete" is a troll, a sock puppet, an angry figment of his own imagination, who "know not that he knows not that he knows not," in the immortal words of my late environmental whistleblower client, the late EPA Inspector Criminal Investigator Robert E. Tyndall.
Correction: to borrow the words of my mentor, friend and former client, EPA Office of Inspector General Senior Special Agent Robert E. Tyndall's words, the sock puppet in quo ""knows not that he knows not that he knows not."
Read my 2020 obituary tribute to Senior Special Agent Robert E. Tyndall on this blog, here: https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2020/01/fbi-hud-epa-senior-special-agent-robert.html
I posted several comments since you made that comment and you've not posted them. You're either careless or dishonest.
Ladies and gentlemen, there is no drawing board anymore. We beat her.
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Another offensive image. Get help.
Look who's lecturing us about trust, courtesy and a good conscience! What a joke. Pete has no conscience whatsoever and would make his artistic expressions come true if he could. He certainly is JUDGEmental, isn't he?
See April 14, 2025 Nicole Crosby column from Times-Union, here: https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2025/04/st-johns-county-residents-want.html
See April 14, 2025 Nicole Crosby column from Times-Union, here: https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2025/04/st-johns-county-residents-want.html
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