Tom Wicker's journalism professor at the University of North Carolina said, "If you're telling a story about a bear, bring on the bear." The bear here in what we call "God's country" is CORRUPTION, my friends.
Reforming St. Johns County starts with you. And it starts with Mosquito Control.
President Woodrow Wilson said we "must make the world safe for democracy."
"The love of money is the root of all evil." 1 Timothy 6:10.
Corruption is the root of all evil in our governments. Everywhere.
I am running for Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County (seat 2) and I would be honored to have your vote on or before November 3, 2026.
I've been investigating, reporting on and exposing corruption since 1978.
From Appalachia to Washington, D.C. to California to Florida, I've investigated corruption and empowered Americans to resist waste, fraud, abuse, discrimination and petty boodling.
Here in St. Johns County, a corrupt former Sheriff was fired by the Florida Senate under Article IV section 7 of our Florida Constitution for corruption. But Sheriff David Shoar's website said for years that corrupt Sheriff Lawrence O. Davis was "exonerated" by our Florida Senate, which removed him from office by 44-2 vote in 1971.
Sadly Sheriff Robert Hardwick, the current Sheriff, abuses our Sheriff's website to pay homage to Sheriff Shoar, who with State's Attorney Ralph Joseph Larizza was culpable in the coverup of the September 2, 2010 murder of a Sheriff's deputy's girlfriend, Ms. Michelle O'Connell. That deputy is still on the payroll in 2026.
County Court Judge Charles Tinlin and U.S. District Court Judge Brian J. Davis both found probable cause that Jeremy Banks committed homicide, killing Ms. Michelle O'Connell on September 2, 2010. Sheriff Shoar declared it was as "suicide" before the sun even rose.
Robert Hardwick was the investigator for the State's Attorney Ralph Joseph Larizza. Investigator Hardwick and his Assistant both thought Banks committed homicide and wanted an exhumation and autopsy.
Larizza conveniently recused himself from the Michelle O'Connell case while Hardwick was at the FBI National Training Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
When Michelle O'Connell's family finally arranged for an exhumation and independent autopsy, it found Michelle's jaw was broken. She was a victim of domestic violence. Her killer remains employed by the County Sheriff and can retire in 2027. It's our money.
We in the reality-based community disdain deception and condemn dangers to democracy, like promiscuous proliferation of FLOCK cameras and wasteful, out-of-control spending on edifice complexes for the Sheriff and Mosquito Control Commission.
We in the reality-based community don't approve of wasteful spending or harmful rhetoric.d
We don't need more overpriced Taj Mahals, no-bid contractsm needless flubdubs oe dishonesty.
Massive cost overruns and self-dealing must stop.
County Commissioners make more than $100,000 per year.
Mosquito Control Commissioners make $400 a month, but voted to give themselves illlgal "Christmas bonuses of $1000, violating Florida law pay cap of $4800/year. Thanks to WJCT/Jacksonville Today and reporter Noah Hertz for publicizing it. It's our money.
In the spiriti of the 27th Amendment, it's wrong for public officials to raise their own pay during their current term of office.
It was good enough for James Madison and it's good enough for St. Johns County.
Let snollygosters go elsewhere.
I am against wasting your money on self-aggrandizement, sweetheart contacts, domestic and foreign travel and conventions without trip reports or valid government purpose.
Both the Mosquito Control Director and the County Administrator, Chinese Americans, both vacation in Communist China each year. Both are imperious, vastly overpaid security risks and treat our local government employees as servants, serfs and vassels.
In the annals of St. Johns County's legendary corruption, in the history of its sins, crimes and torts many at the behest of bootleggers, organized crime devious developers, the case of Trey Alexander Asner is instructive.
Mr. Asner was the County's historic preservationist, but he did his job "too well" for corrupt County officials, who fired him for preserving African-American history (Canright House and the 1953 St. Johns County Jail Annex, where the Rev. Dr. Maartin Luther King, Jr. and some 1000 civil rights protesters were incarcerated 1963-1964). The building is now preserved, but Andrews wanted to demolish it. It's time for her to go.
Paid $360,000/year, maladroit County Administrator Junyao "Joy" Andrews still won't meet with Mr. Asner, and neither will criminally-charged Commissioner Sarah Salley Arnold. Pray for them. Vote for qualified candidates who will stand up to corruption in our town and our time.
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