St Johns County
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Commissioners’ Voting Records
At the February 6, 2024 Board of Commissioners meeting, Ann Taylor made a public comment, suggesting that the minutes of Board Meetings should include pertinent information about each agenda item that is voted on. Ms. Taylor described the difficulty in conducting an analysis of Commissioner voting records. I suspect she was recounting the challenge of Continue reading
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Blame
We seem to be very angry these days. Among other things, we are angry at the government because things aren’t going the way we want them to. It is a scary time right now because we are being pounded with messages about how bad “the other side” of the government is. “They” are making bad Continue reading
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Should we not believe a law firm’s webpage?
On January 16, 2024 during public comment at the Board of Commissioners meeting, Nicole Crosby made a point that at least the Commissioners should have hired an election attorney and went on to say that Commissioner Joseph did hire an election attorney. Ms. Ann Marie Evans also made a point to say that the Commissioners Continue reading
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It Could Happen Here
Earlier this year, Nassau County settled a lawsuit with Riverstone Properties, Inc. What happened there is a good lesson for those of us in St Johns County who want our Commissioners to reject or slow development. It is important to know about a Florida Statute called the “Bert J. Harris, Jr., Private Property Rights Protection Continue reading
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I am seriously concerned about what is happening in our county
If you haven’t been following, here it is in a nutshell. November 21, 2023. Commissioner Krista Joseph used her Commissioner Comments at the Board meeting to endorse candidates running for three open Commissioner seats and inferred that the woes of the County were the responsibility of three sitting commissioners who are up for reelection and Continue reading
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What if she did break the law?
I have a question for those who are angry about the censure here in St. Johns County. Here is the question: What if she did violate the law? It’s an honest question. Ten-fifteen years ago (maybe longer 😕), the court of public opinion would probably be swayed by a legal opinion that the law was Continue reading
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Who Can/Should Contribute to a Local Political Campaign?
The St Johns County Civic Roundtable is a group of citizens that come together to discuss and influence the quality of life in St Johns County. On January 8, 2024, Commissioner Roy Alaimo was the guest speaker at the Roundtable meeting. The format was Q&A, and the Vice Chair did an excellent job of posing Continue reading
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Define “Proof”
On my third post on December 19, I told a commenter that I would approve the comment about corruption but invited her to provide more than just a hypothesis of corruption. That was met with a list of campaign contributions from another commenter, offered as proof. I responded, “I can see where you might draw Continue reading
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Political Cartoons?
A recent comment on my blog said “any politician who cannot handle a political cartoon (which those memes are) should try another line of work. That comes with the territory, and so does criticism.” This was in response to my describing what (in my mind) would be humiliation on the part of those Commissioners at Continue reading
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Do the ends really justify the means?
You’ve probably heard the phrase “the ends justify the means,” right? Apparently, that phrase is attributed to Niccolò Machiavelli, a political philosopher from the 14-1500s. He did not use the phrase, but much of his writing in The Prince was around achieving “the ends” in whatever way necessary. I would like to think that we Continue reading
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