I just learned that a good and decent man, J. Paul Sanderson, who was jury foreman in our landmark 1998 human rights case in East Tennessee died last year.  A modest former insurance salesman J. Paul Sanderson died last year.   Mr. Sanderson was elected as foreman of the Anderson County Circuit Court jury of twelve that found compliant Department of Energy consultant psychiatrist Dr. Kenneth Carpenter, M.D. liable for medical malpractice in Farver v. Carpenter.   Mr. Sanderson was an insurance salesman.  During voir dire, When Mr. Sanderson's name was picked as a potential ..read more

Forest-killing, clear-cutting, corner-cutting developer-Senator TRAVIS JAMES HUTSON is supporting the Florida House Appropriations Committee Chair, conflicted Volusia County's TERRIBLE TORT DEFORMER TOM LEEK for our State Senator.  TOM LEEK has raised $380,355 to date.  TERRIBLE TOM LEEK reeks. Chief Legal Officer for a nest of insurance oligopolists (Foundation Risk Partners), State Representative THOMAS LEEK wants to be your State Senator, running for State Senator TRAVIS JAMES HUTSON's Senate seat. (HUTSON is term-limited  LEEK works for corporate oligarchs and is ..read more

Fun fact: State Rep. TOM LEEK is Chief Legal Officer for a nest of insurance oligopolists, endorsed by Senator-developer TRAVIS JAMES HUTSON. "They will say and do anything. -- J.D. Pleasant, the late photojournalist, about our local burghers, the Establishment in St. Johns County.  These pointless pandering pompous pachyderms have idiosyncratic taste in leadership,  confounding our community since 1998 gerrymandering of County Commission seats, reducting them from seven to five while making all five run county-wide, instead of from single member districts.  State's Attorn ..read more

In the immortal words of the late William F. Buckley, Jr., "Why does baloney reject the grinder?  From The Guardian: Billionaire Leonard Leo rejects Senate subpoena over supreme court gifts Progressive groups hail long-brewed move against influential donor but protest lack of summons for Harlan Crow Martin Pengelly in Washington Fri 12 Apr 2024 07.17 EDT Share The big-money rightwing donor Leonard Leo said he would not comply with a subpoena issued by the US Senate judiciary committee, as it investigates undisclosed gifts to conservative supreme court justices that ..read more

Judicial pollution run rampant, the direct and proximate result of corporate-backed judges on Arizona and Florida Supreme Courts.  You've got to hand it to today's Dull Republicans, who resemble "a baby -- all appetite on the one end and no responsibility on the other," as President Reagan said. Outstanding column by Ruth Marcus from The Washington Post: Opinion  Arizona’s conservatives brought this political nightmare on themselves By Ruth Marcus Associate editor| Follow author Follow April 11, 2024 at 2:52 p.m. EDT Arizona state Rep. Matt Gress (R) speaks to repor ..read more

Controversial ex-Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, SHOAR's wife, LAURA, DAVID SHOAR's consulting firm, SHOAR's mentor and SHOAR's 2016 campaign manager have all contributed money to JAMES PRIESTER, a former deputy whose website pledges "transparency."  DAVID SHOAR, et ux LAURA SHOAR, former City Manager WILLIAM BARRY HARRIS (who dumped a landfill in a lake and ran. street artists and musicians off St. George Street, and LEE OWEN SHOAR's 2016 campaign manager, and SHOAR's "GORDIAN" consulting firm have all been bankrolling the campaign for MR. PRIESTER. SHOAR helped cover up the September 2, 2010 murde ..read more

Once again, Chief Judge Mark Walker has overruled Florida's First Amendment violations.  Our egotistical, erstwhile former St. Johns County Congressman, RONALD DION DeSANTIS, is a disgrace to the human race," as President Jimmy Carter once said of federal tax code.  From News Service of Florida via WUSF:  Federal judge blocks enforcement of Florida's school pronoun restrictions WUSF | By Dara Kam - News Service of Florida Published April 9, 2024 at 5:30 PM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Zolnierek/Getty Images / IStockphoto A federal judge on Tuesday b ..read more

While clear-cutting butchers our trees and forests, here's the Butcher's Bill, to date: CHRISTIAN WHITEHURST, $101,050: https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2024/04/developer-puppet-christian-whitehurst.html ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, JR. , $170,895:  https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2024/04/developer-puppet-roy-alyre-alaimo-jr.html ISAAC HENRY DEAN, $115,725: https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2024/04/henry-dean-campaign-david-shoar.html ..read more

ROY ALYRE ALAIMO, JR, former staffer for and appointee of Governor RONALD DIOD De$ANTIS has raised $170,985: Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Assamese Aymara Azerbaijani Bambara Basque Belarusian Bengali Bhojpuri Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Cebuano Chichewa Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Corsican Croatian Czech Danish Dhivehi Dogri Dutch Esperanto Estonian Ewe Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Guarani Gujarati Haitian Creole Hausa Hawaiian Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Icelandic Igbo Ilocano Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese ..read more

Clerk of Courts BRANDON J. PATTY (right) on election night 2020 with controversial Republican Senator-developer TRAVIS JAMES HUTSON. (left) and Republican County Commissioner and recent Chairman CHRISTIAN (sic) WHITEHURST (center). Charter members of the STS (Smirking Turkey Society), corrupt, corpulent, corporate-coddling County Commissioners ALAIMO, ARNOLD and WHITEHURST: These three corporate cat's paws support overdevelopment in St. Johns County.  Unjust stewards of worker rights and environmental protection -- it's time for them to go!  They've had their turn.  Now it's ..read more