A Cramdown To Bailout The St. Johns County Cultural Council

A Cramdown To Bailout The St. Johns County Cultural Council

Cash For Punkers Part 4, Harvest Of Hope Festival 2011 Is Dead

Cash For Punkers Part 4, Harvest Of Hope Festival 2011 Is Dead

Six Degrees Of Separation – Bernie Madoff, Tom Manuel and Ron Sanchez

Six Degrees Of Separation – Bernie Madoff, Tom Manuel and Ron Sanchez

Setting The Record Straight – Ron Sanchez And St. Johns County Debt

Setting The Record Straight – Ron Sanchez And St. Johns County Debt

2nd in a Series – Cash For Punkers Part II “Cheap To Drink”

2nd in a Series – Cash For Punkers Part II “Cheap To Drink”

Judith Seraphin Sees Racists Everywhere.

20 November 2011

Explanation I will respond to Ms. Seraphins guest column, posted here this morning.Ms. Seraphin makes a seminal mistake. She asserts this is an issue of racism. She speaks of the racism that was endemic in this county during the Civil Rights movement. The problem with that is that since the 1970 census, the population has [...]

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A Cramdown To Bailout The St. Johns County Cultural Council

13 February 2011

For years, the process by which bed tax monies have been allocated, especially in Category II has been seriously flawed.  The pool of money CAT II draws from is approximately $1.0 million dollars a year in the current down economy and is projected to accumulate to some $34.0 million dollars over the next 20 years [...]

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Cash For Punkers Part 4, Harvest Of Hope Festival 2011 Is Dead

19 September 2010

The Harvest of Hope Foundation, to avoid a public hearing why they misrepresented attendance figures in their 2010 application, withdrew their application for their 2011 grant.   In an article in the Flagler College Gargoyle, Phillip Kellerman, the founder and president of Harvest of Hope Foundation is quoted: “We wanted to put on a third, but [...]

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Censored By The Record – Here Is My Part In Their One Sided Debate

23 August 2010

Lets be clear, this site is not a news site.  I am not a journalist.  I never claimed to be.  I started this site to attempt to balance the blatant misrepresentations being made by the incumbent and a very organized group inhabiting the Records boards over at staugustine.com. I have been posting counter arguments to [...]

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For You Mentally Challenged Conservatives – Ken Bryan Has Some Help

18 August 2010

Ken Bryan has the unique experience to solve your dilemma.  He knows exactly who you should vote for and  has taken a full page ad in the Ponte Vedra Recorder to “help” you vote for the right Democ…er, Republican…seeing as how he feels you are too stupid to figure things out for yourself.  I have [...]

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Six Degrees Of Separation – Bernie Madoff, Tom Manuel and Ron Sanchez

17 August 2010

In 2006 Tom Manuel and Ron Sanchez were swept into office on an anti-incumbent sentiment. Ken Bryan, running as a Democrat, was defeated by  Ron Sanchez, who, in 2002, running as a Democrat had been defeated in his quest for a County Commission seat.  So, in 2006, success, which had eluded Ron Sanchez as a [...]

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Open Invitation To Commissioner Ron Sanchez

16 August 2010

I had occasion to bump into Commissioner Sanchez last night at an event.  He is quite upset and accused me of misrepresenting his record and not  “placing it in full context”.  I have attached as downloads all of the minutes from 2007 so anyone who wishes to verify the records may do so. I also [...]

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Commissioner Ron Sanchez – Hates Horse Lovers, Loves Punk Rockers

13 August 2010

Incumbent Commissioner Ron Sanchez touts his support of the money losing operations of the Special Events Division of St. Johns County (which manages the Amphitheater) but it seems he does not like people who own horses.  In previous forums, incumbent Commissioner Sanchez has been very quick to skewer the Equestrian Center as a mammoth waste [...]

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Setting The Record Straight – Ron Sanchez And St. Johns County Debt

11 August 2010

Commissioner Ron Sanchez has revolved his campaign around two central themes: He is doing us a huge favor by keeping management of the Amphitheater in county hands. He is not evil – only the previous commission is -  on the issue of the county debt. As we have seen in the previous articles here, the [...]

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Part 3 In A Series – Cash For Punkers, Background

02 August 2010

I was challenged by a comment to point to the misrepresentations made in the FY 2010 Grant Application made by Harvest of Hope Foundation. The issue is whether or not, there was a material misrepresentation in the applications.  Here is the evidence. Attached, here is a copy of the relevant pages of the FY 2010 [...]

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