commissioners
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Should political candidates stand on their own?
Political candidates often have campaign managers whose responsibility is to find the right media to share their candidates’ words. They don’t typically write the candidates’ words or fashion their political stance. And then, there are some who do just that. The campaign manager There are two candidates running for County Commissioner who are working hard Continue reading
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What are you going to do differently?
St Johns County has three Commissioner seats up for reelection, and the campaigning is already lively. It appears that there is a particular campaign focus – overdevelopment. The current Commissioners are being blamed for too much development which has put stress on our schools, our roads and our infrastructure. As I read statements from the Continue reading
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A Great County is St. Johns!
St Johns County Board of Commissioners Chair Sarah Arnold spoke to John Bachman at Action News JAX this week to share how the Board is working to deal effectively with the significant growth of the County. She opened the interview by saying, “The secret is out,” meaning, they’ve found out how totally great it is Continue reading
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What IS the agenda?
Yesterday, I posed a question about Commissioner Joseph’s comments related to the County Administrator contract. I asked, “What could possibly be so pressing to need to discuss how to oust an Administrator at the same time the contract is being approved?” That question continues to puzzle me. Everything about the discussion during that agenda item 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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Sometimes subtlety just doesn’t work
In the past few blog posts, I have shared concerns about what I see happening in St Johns County. I intentionally did not mention names because I wanted to be subtle and not to use the same nasty tactics I was seeing play out in social media. You see, there is a fight going on Continue reading
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