On April 7, 2025, I wrote Florida State Representative Judson Sapp (R), asking him to help St. Johns County with its proposed hiring of a corporate law firm to be our St. Johns County Attorney.
Dear Rep. Sapp and Ms. Robbins:
1. I am still waiting on St. Johns County to respond to my several related records requests from February 17, 2025 (seven weeks ago -- 49 days!)
2. SJC is engaged in "massive resistance." Cui bono? ("Who benefits?")
3. I have repeatedly asked SJC to agree to mediation by Ms. Pat Gleason, AAG and Special Counsel to the Florida Attorney General for Open Government. No response.
4. Would you be susceptible of contacting St. Johns County to inquire as to the status of my requets?
5. Rep. Sapp, would you kindly consider supporting legislation to assure that the position of County Attorney cannot be delegated to a corporate law firm, with undisclosed private clients benefitting from certain misguided elected officials' "influence?"
6. In our system of checks and balances, including our Florida Constitution Article I, Section 24, adopting with 3.8 million votes in 1992 (83%) our Sunshine and Open Records laws, the position of St. Johns County Attorney must always be held by a living, breathing natural person licensed by the State of Florida. No corporate law firms are desired or required.
7. Our Founding Fathers are watching what we do here.
8. Would you please consider requesting a State Attorney General's opinion on this issue?
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There is no public benefit to hiring a corporate firm as the County Attorney for St. Johns County.
Thank you for all that you do, Ms. Robbins and Rep. Sapp!.
With kindest regards, I am,Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
www.edslavin.com
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More:
1. Under the "non-delegation doctrine," in Justice Cardozo's words, it is "delegation run riot" to delegate a core government function (County Attorney) to a corporate law firm? You tell me.
2. No scholarly research on this question has ever been provided to the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners by the law firm in quo, which demands we outsource our St. Johns County Attorney position to a private law firm, BRADLEY, GARRISON & KOMANDO, P.A., in which the future Florida House Speaker (and current Florida House Rules and Ethics Committee Chair) is a named partner.
3. The non-delegation doctrine is alive and well, as it was when the United States Supreme Court overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act, which wrongfully delegated rulemaking functions to private iindustry. See, e.g., A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495, 551, 553 (1935)(Cardozo, J., concurring)("the Sick Chicken" case); Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan, 293 U.S. 388 (1935)(the "Hot Oil" case); Carter v. Carter Coal Co., 298 U.S. 238 (1936)("Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935" delegation of price-fixing to private parties).
4. No contract has yet been presented. But SJC County Commissioners voted 3-2 in support of this contract violation of public policy. Restatement of Contracts, 2d, sec 178 (Contract Violation of Public Policy).
6 comments:
They hired one man who was qualified and who would be benefit because of his social network. Hopefully you didn't email people trying to convince them otherwise, because that would undermine your credibility.
"Pete" perseveatring about our exercise or our sacred First Amendment rights to engage in protected activity, Go away, troll. You will never chill our free speech rights. "Why do the heathen rage? (Psalm 2).
Yeah you have a right to spew conjecture and conspiracy theories for sure... but you don't have a right to libel and harassment of Mr. Kommando, and don't have a right to his private information, and don't have a right to be taken seriously if you make claims without actual proof or evidence attached. Like a priest, you have the right to fool an irrational mob but that's about it.
"Pete" sounds like an anti-Catholic bigot, a confused, deluded trust fund baby defending the excesses of the ruling classes in St. Johns County. "Pete" has contributed nothing to the betterment of SJC. "Pete:" is a sick sock puppet. Pray for "Pete" to try tolerance. "Pete" and his pointless repetitive posts are the sign of an angry man who doesn't have the courage to sign his own name to his dumb 'ole posts. "Secrecy is for losers," as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it best, "for people who don't understand the value of the information. When "Pete" talks about "privacy" for public officials with conflicts of interest, one should ask whether or where he studied law -- Trump University?
I know I know. We also ask for proof and evidence for the supernatural and get nothing as well. Then get accused of "hate" for suggesting that supernatural phenomenon are bogus claims as well. We see the kinds of minds that these claims arise from, irrational minds, and wait endlessly for a plethora of bogus claims, fiction as fact, rationalized by "First Amendment rights."
"Secrecy is for losers" unless it's someone who is allied with you, like the completely anonymous poster who regularly chimes into defend your refusal to offer proof and evidence for claims, you'll not call them a loser for posting anonymously although technically you just did.
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