Doea kompromat impair the ability or willingness of reporters charged with reckless driving or DUI to for their jobs without fear or favor? Exhibit A: JIM SUTTON. Exhibit B: LUCIA HELEN VITI.
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Monday, May 02, 2016
Jim Sutton, We Hardly Knew Ye
St. Augustine Record Opinion Editor Jim Sutton's cognitive impairments require expert help. Pray for him.
Those who know and love and respect Jim Sutton feel sorry for him in his dotage.
Sutton's current sloppy style is to talk to an ex-girlfriend, an ex-City Manager or his boss, the corrupt Sheriff or other "hangers-on" and suck his thumb, writing uninformed editorials like the one he wrote on City traffic studies.
Sutton never goes to government meetings.
Sutton's got cognitive impairments that impair his editorial judgment. A once good journalist who exposed corruption, Sutton has a mean streak.
Sutton attacked B.J. Kalaidi and Tom Reynolds last year as "hangers-on," misusing a political synonym for apparatchiks, which they are not.
Sutton even attacked me twice last year, calling me a "conspiracy theorist and political gadfly" and implying I file too many Open Records requests, a view shared by the unaccountable officials whose misdeeds we expose.
Sutton balks at printing a column on official oppression that mentions Sheriff DAVID SHOAR is under FBI investigation. Record reporters have known about that since 2014.
Sutton graduated Flagler College in the early 1970s, working under racist ex-Record Publisher A. H. "Hoppy" Tebeault, a Flagler College Vice President who supervised and censored the Gargoyle, sometimes destroying an entire monthly issue and throwing the layout sheets in the trash. Tebeault's Record printed advance notices of KKK meetings, printed the name and address of African-American children desegregating local schools, resulting in violence, firebombings, firings, unemployment and blacklisting. So much for being pro-family.
In 2014, Sutton was arrested and pled guilty to charges involving drinking and taking Ambien, hitting a telephone poll and a mailbox, and driving off with a man who attempted to stop him on the hood of his car.
Has his plea deal ruined his objectivity?
Is that why he refuses to run a column on SHOAR and official oppression, attacks activists and defends crooks like ex-Mayor JOE BOLES?
Sutton badly needs a referral to a good neurology professor at the University of Florida, a sleep study, an ethics refresher course and a sabbatical.
Now.
Before he commits more journalistic malpractice.
Sutton should not attack activists -- Margo Pope and Peter Ellis praised activists, while Sutton insults them.
Sutton should "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable," and not the other way around.
Sutton should know that Lincolnville is not in West Augustine.
Prima facie evidence of his cognitive impairment is the following letter, and Sutton's louche response:
Letter: Sutton needs a compass
Sutton needs a compass
Posted: April 25, 2016 - 8:49pm
By Marty Lewis
Sutton needs a compass
Editor: I am amazed that, as someone who knows the city well Jim Sutton, that he placee the new Preserved restaurant in West Augustine. Jeez, Lincolnville is the locale! The water mains are in West Augustine but not this new eating place.
St. Augustine
Opinion Page Editor’s note: Marty is correct. I thought business was within located within the West Augustine Community Development Area. It is not.
1 comment:
im convinced jim sutton suffers from dementia
Sutton arrested, charged with reckless driving, leaving the scene
Jim Sutton, 60, of St. Augustine and the opinion page editor for The St. Augustine Record/staugustine.com was arrested early Friday by St. Johns County deputies on a charge of reckless driving - damage to property and another charge of leaving the scene involving damage to property.
Sutton was booked at 4:20 a.m. and released on $1,000 bond at 11:04 a.m., according the St. Johns Sheriff's Office.
According to the sheriff's office report, witnesses saw Sutton's vehicle on Dondanville Road swerving and then hit a light pole. One witness said he was leaving work about 10:10 p.m. and saw a Toyota 4-Runner come down the roadway and nearly hit his truck. A second witness said the vehicle hit a street light and then a mailbox. One of the witnesses alleged that when he tried to stop Sutton's vehicle, Sutton began to drive away while he was still on the vehicle, according to the police report.
The deputy said in his report that he responded to a hit and run call on Dondanville Road with the description of a dark grey Toyota 4-Runner leaving the scene after hitting a mailbox and a light pole.
The deputy said Sutton did not appear to have all of his faculties, but he did not smell alcohol coming from him.
After Sutton was read his rights, he agreed to answer some questions regarding the hit and run incident, according to the police report.
Sutton told the officer he had two alcoholic drinks and went to bed. He also said he took ambien to help him sleep. According to the report, Sutton told the officer that Ambien makes him real thirsty so after he woke up after a couple of hours he decided to drive to Winn-Dixie. According to the report, Sutton told the officer on the way back to the residence he turned down the wrong street, attempted to turn around, and hit a mailbox.
Ambien induces a strong feeling of drowsiness that is intended to help you fall asleep, and stay asleep for seven to eight hours. Alcohol amplifies the sedative-hypnotic effects of Ambien, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. When you drink alcoholic beverages while taking zolpidem, the combination of the two drugs will yield a far more pronounced sensation of drowsiness, as well as other effects. Alcohol will increase the risk and severity of zolpidem's side effects. These include motor impairment, memory loss, dizziness, unusual behavior and slowed breathing, reports the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.