Taxpayers in the City of St Augustine have been some of the harshest critics of what they see as mismanagement, fraud, waste and abuse surrounding more than $4-million dollars in public spending; much of which was paid to employees, contractors, and those insiders who profited from “sole-source” contracts, private meetings held outside of Florida’s Government in the Sunshine Law, and political cronies of the pseudo-elite carpetbaggers who conspired to line their own pockets and enrich their own lifestyle from what should have been a joyous celebration of more than four centuries of Spanish influence by the families whose ancestors persevered in order that we could hold a 450th Commemoration.