Bad week for over-reaching would-be Republican leaders

Bad week for over-reaching would-be Republican leaders

Some of the precinct committeemen and women in the St Johns County Republican Party have drifted so far away from the party platform over the past 15-years, that it no longer resembles the party of Lincoln. We are supposed to be about the inherent ability of the people to be self-governed — not the election of unaccountable, self-serving tin pot Napoleons like we have today.

Beach mayor fined for party politics in non-partisan election

Beach mayor fined for party politics in non-partisan election

In the 1970’s when the Republican Party in St Johns County virtually did not exist (compared to the +90,000 who rally behind the banner of the GOP today) Historic City News editor, Michael Gold, was wearing out shoe leather trying to register as many twenty-to-thirty-year old’s possible to provide respite for other conservative local businessmen who already knew that the Democrats were just not going to be able to represent us.