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Here is my July 14, 2026 e-mail to Dick Williams:
On Tuesday, July 14, 2026 at 04:05:18 PM EDT, Ed Slavin <easlavin@aol.com> wrote:
Dear Mr. Williams:
1. The late, great U.S. Senator John McCain famously said that our United States Senate needs to get back to "regular order." https://www.npr.org/2017/07/26/539358654/what-is-the-regular-order-john-mccain-longs-to-return-to-on-health-care https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/08/30/john-mccain-senate-speech-regular-order-remarks/1145189002/
2. The milieu for tonight's session is credible election fraud corruption charges by FDLE. https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2026/07/corruption-county-commissioners.html
3. St. Johns County needs to get back to "regular order," too. Don't presume to change the rules for tonight's forum at the last minute. Due to your past receipt of developer contributions, people would perceive your new rule, ex nihilo, as a conflict of interest.
4. Alexander Hamilton once compared New Jersey to a "cask tapped at both ends," with New York at one end and Philadelphia at the other end.
5. Likewise, St. Johns County faces pressures from real estate developers and extractive industries. Our quality of life here is why people move here.
6. We, the People have a right to ask questions, to demand answers, and to expect democracy. Jesus removed the money-changers from the temple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleansing_of_the_Temple
7. We. the People have likewise repeatedly voted to remove monied special interests from the temple of our democracy.
8. We, the People, have a reasonable expectation of probity in our officials, candidates and community fora.
9. Please cease and desist from your reported indecent demand of candidates to trim their sails.
10. Please call me today to discuss your purported coup, belatedly changing the rules of tonight's forum.
11. Mr. Williams, I have good and fond memories of your service on our [St. Johns County Planning and Zoning Agency]..
12 Mr. Williams, please don't attempt to chill, coerce, restrain or intimidate our rights to free speech tonight.
13. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said St. Johns County was the "most lawless" in America.
14. While citizens here have repeatedly won First Amendment victories here, it's like President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said during the Cuban Missile Crisis -- "there's always some poor S.O.B. who doesn't get the word."
15. Please see our St. Johns County Commission Chair Clay Murphy's written response, and St. Johns County Attorney Richard Christian Komando's written response, to my concerns about illegal gag orders, here: https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2026/06/let-freedom-ring-celebrate-independence.html
16. Let freedom ring!
17. Happy belated Independence Day! I look forward to talking to you.
Thank you1
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
www.edslavin.com
(904) 377-4998.
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