Guest Column

A building contractor makes a better commissioner

A dear friend and supporter, was kind enough to send the following to me the other day and after thinking about it and asking her permission, I thought I would send it along to you by way of this column.

Vicky C. Oakes
St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections

Dear Editor and Historic City News readers:

The League of Women Voters hosted a great candidate forum Tuesday night for Senate 6 candidates and the Circuit Judge races that appear on the Primary Election ballot August 26th.

Janis Versaggi Williams
St Augustine, FL

Dear Editor:

I have written the following letter to St Augustine Mayor Joseph L. Boles, Jr., concerning his derogatory assessment of the volunteer work done by local residents on the city’s 400th Anniversary in 1965. I would be happy to have as wide a distribution for the open letter as possible.

Two months and $75,000 later, St Augustine’s visioning zombies are still meeting to form goals and prepare for a town hall meeting to be held August 18th. No word yet on a time for that town hall meeting, but the committee steering the runaway train Monday, August 4th, have decided to convene in the middle of the afternoon — when many people who feel forced to pay for this limp and flabby melodrama are still at work.

John Valdes
St Augustine, FL

In January, 2009, I declared that the City of St Augustine needed a zoning regulation review; and, with the economic down turn, we could accomplish the review without the pressure of new projects in the works.

Doug Wiles, Former Member
Florida House of Representatives
St Augustine, FL

Dear Editor:

A recent letter to the editor of Historic City News took the St. Augustine Record to task for its editorial on July 20. The Record outlined the process to replace incumbent Sen. John Thrasher on the ballot for Florida Senate District 6 during the upcoming elections should he be named the next president of Florida State University and subsequently remove himself as a candidate.