A four-way race for the lone St Augustine City Commission seat to be contested this year, has drawn responses from each of the candidates to a questionnaire that were posed by former mayor George Gardner and provided to Historic City News in today’s St Augustine Report.
Ken Bryan’s apologists at the St Augustine Record and outgoing commissioner Mark Miner want voters to think that this publication, in league with the St Johns County Republican Executive Committee and the Freemasons, are circulating misinformation about a potentially violent and abusive man who sits on our commission — temporarily as Chairman.
Chairman Carl Youman announced to Historic City News reporters that the St Johns County Airport Authority has received the “2012 General Aviation Airport Environmental Project of the Year” award by the Florida Airports Council.
Historic City News in St Augustine has learned that today, following the departure of Commissioner Mark Miner to attend Warrant Officer Flight Training, the St Johns County Board of Commissioners has appointed Commissioner Ken Bryan to act as interim chairman until the end of November 2012; at which time the Board will appoint a new chair.
Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes reminded Historic City News readers today that one full week of early voting starts tomorrow at six locations across St Johns County.
Not too long ago in St Augustine and St Johns County, candidates for local office used “home grown” strategies to help bolster their campaigns and gently persuade voters to show up on Election Day to “pull the lever” so they could win — thanks to technology, today Historic City News finds that it’s more like rocket science.
Yesterday morning, Historic City News reporters in St Augustine awaited the results of a simulation of processes that actually happen during the day, and into the evening, on Election Day; while they were recreated in the office of St Johns County Supervisor of Elections, Vicky Oakes.
The Republican primary campaign between Mike Weinstein and Aaron Bean for a newly redrawn Jacksonville seat in the Florida Senate this summer is really a political proxy fight for a future Senate presidency.
