Legislature halts unnecessary road projects
Good news. Florida Legislature gets something right for a change. Of all of the ill-conceived examples of Corporate Welfare in our time, his one flunked the laugh test and the smell test. Thanks for...
View ArticleGary Michael Farmer, Jr. Removed As Florida Senate Democratic Leader. (Miami...
Good move by Florida Senate Democrats in removing their Senate leader, Gary Michael Farmer, Jr. (D-Lighthouse Point). Farmer left his wife to have an affair with a lobbyist. Now he's been removed by...
View ArticleFarmer out as Minority Leader with only three days left in Legislative...
Farmer out as Minority Leader with only three days left in Legislative Sessionby Karen Murphy | Apr 28, 2021 At a time when the Democrats should have been celebrating one of their few successes during...
View ArticleFlori-DUH Chonicles: Why did Florida and other Sunbelt states fall short in...
Bragging for years of their voter suppression techniques, retromingent rebarbative Republicans are attempting to make a Pig's Breakfast of our democracy, with years of continuing voter suppression....
View ArticleFlorida’s ‘shameful’ push to ban transgender athletes could prompt lawsuits,...
Check out the Orlando Sentinel story on anti-trans athlete bill -- latest angry outburst of bigotry from our maladroit, other-directed Florida State Legislature. Lawsuits will follow.NCAA may...
View ArticleFlorida legislature approves measure that curbs mail voting and use of drop...
Not one of Florida's dozens of Republican Supervisor of Elections supported this lousy legislation, but Flori-DUH's dodgy Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS, and his gang of bullies in the Flori-DUH...
View ArticleTransphobic legislature responds to bigotry, once again
https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2021/04/floridas-shameful-push-to-ban.html
View ArticleThe Matt Gaetz scandal takes a strange new turn. (WaPo column, Aaron Blake)
Washington Post columnist Aaron Blake limns the latest allegations in the mushrooming sex scandal involving U.S. Rep. MATTHEW LOUOS GAETZ II, who was on October 21, 2020 Keynote Speaker at the St....
View ArticleFlorida Republicans Pass Voting Limits in Broad Elections Bill. (NY Times)
This bill was supported by St. Augustine's supine Republican State Representative, CYNTHIA WARD STEVENSON, who is up for election next year. I have the paperwork to file to run as a Democrat against...
View ArticleSt. Johns County Board Of Commissioners Won’t Consider Pride Month...
Know your St. Johns County, Florida Board of Commissioners -- Jacksonville NPR affiliate, WJCT News, just broke story about County Commission Chairman's unexplained refusal to agenda or discuss a...
View ArticleSt. Johns County considers taking the 'public' out of the public library...
I signed the petition to preserve the independence of the St. Johns County Public Library. Contracting out is a bad idea. An unregistered lobbyist for a government contractor felt empowered to...
View ArticlePZB Rejects Rezoning for Corazon Property in Downtown St. Augustine
Thanks to PZB for their 3-3 vote denying the rezoning.Thanks to community leader Melinda Rakoncay and Capt. Lee Genauleas, U.S.N. (Ret.) for their zealous documentation of the many reasons to reject...
View ArticleIMPACT FEES LIMITED --- "Florida is a company town for developers. Always has...
Florida legislature's latest legislative legerdemain slashes our ability to charge proper impact fees!That is so wrong "The Villages" zoning is Latest OutrageMy late mentor, Judge Nahum Litt,...
View ArticleGovernor's social media bill is unconstitutional and unwise. (St. Augustine...
I agree with Ari Cohen. As Saint Augustine put it best, "An unjust law is now law all."Our state representative CYNTHIA WARD STEVENSON, supported this unconstitutional law.If elected, I would work to...
View ArticleDeSANTIS shuts out reporters as he signs voting restrictions into Florida...
St. Augustine's state representtive, CYNTHIA WARD STEVENSON, voted for this unconstitutional law. I agree with President Joe Biden, whose spokesperson said this new law is "based on a lie."It was our...
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Disgruntled DONALD JOHN TRUMP & Co. continue lying about the 2020 election. Dull Republicans renewed attacking Liz Cheney because she fist-bumped President Joe Biden at the Capitol last week. If I...
View ArticleFlorida has California problems with an Alabama legislature!
Although the legislature did not make the radical changes in Bright Futures Scholarships, it still indulged histrionic anti-intellectualism (DeSANTIS' base). This was mean and base. Best lede I've...
View ArticleANYONE KNOW A GOOD LAWYER?; REPORT: TRUMP’S INNER CIRCLE IS TERRIFIED THE...
Local St. Johns County Trumpers: My friends, you're misguided and misled by an organized crime and Russian cat's paw who wandered into the White House with hour support. Now you continue supporting...
View ArticleMay 13, 2021 Plea and Sentence for Sheriff DAVID SHOAR's CFO Embezzler, RAYE...
Married to an FDLE supervisor, RAYE ANNETTE BRUNELL was Sheriff DAVID SHOAR's CFO. Over five years, RAYE BRUTNELL embezzled at least $685,756 from St. Johns County Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, an amount...
View ArticleCourt Overturns Fraud Conviction of Corrine Brown, Ex-U.S. Representative....
The full Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has granted disgraced ex-Congresswoman a new trial because Judge Timothy Corrigan dismissed Juror 13, who informed fellow jurors that the Holy Spirit said...
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