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Comment by Vickie McCormick on May 22, 2011 at 10:28am

Who do we talk to at the City Hall to file a complaint.   The corruption is unbelievable and scary, and everyone is right, this is a wake up call for the 2012 election.    

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on May 22, 2011 at 10:12am

JR, Mr. Brown has 12 reporting violations against him when he ran for office the last time, and so  far, I don't think he has reported the income from the business he owns either or at least had not reported it by May 2nd when the reporting was due on May 1st.  If he has not accurately reported all in kind donations etc, it would not be the first time there was an issue.

 

Comment by J.R. on May 22, 2011 at 10:08am

You can find a list that shows reported donations to Alvin Brown at the Supervisor of Elections website.  It includes donations from the Florida Democrat Party, "In Kind" donations for things such as food for campaign events, and it includes a huge number of small to moderate donations from out of state donors. It does not include the otherwise reported hundreds of thousands in out of state donations or any donations from Al Gore and Bill Clinton, both of whom are millionaires and both of whom endorsed Alvin Brown.

Neither does the list include the enormous dollar value for "In Kind" donations made to Alvin Brown by SEIU, the Service Employees International Union, which is foreign-based in Canada, operates in Puerto Rica, operates in the United States, and is affiliated with numerous other international labor unions around the world. Some of those affiliated foreign unions are listed on the website of the United Nations, who advocate unionization of all workers of the world, as is shown on their website. A former international union official, Anna Burger, who worked her way to the top in the SEIU has now retired from the union and is currently working in an appointed position for the Obama administration. The SEIU had workers here on the ground in Duval County working for Alvin Brown, the costs for which should, I believe, be listed by Alvin Brown as "In Kind" donations to Alvin Brown. 

The same goes for the Organizing for America out-of-state workers who had  paid boots on the ground in Duval County working to get Alvin Brown elected. MoveOn.org. was also here working in that effort.

Some of those union members were at our Tax Day Rally at The Landing, trying to drown out Governor Rick Scott as he was addressing the large crowd. They were standing as close to the stage as they could get with their pre-printed signs and yelling as loud as they could.  That's shows how much they, and the man for whom they were in town doing their protesting, respected the citizens of Duval County in attendance, as well as the Governor of all citizens of Florida, Rick Scott,  his Lieutenant Governor, Jennifer Carroll, who was also present and on that stage, candidates who were in the run-off election, elected county officials, and our honored Veterans.

You owe us an apology, Mayor Brown, you owe us a full accounting of all donations to you and your campaign (direct and In Kind), and you owe us answers to ALL of our questions you didn't answer before the election.

So, let's see a TOTAL accounting for ALL the donations, including ALL IN KIND DONATIONS. We're citizens of Duval County and we have a right to see an accounting for ALL donations given to you. We're also, as citizens of Duval County, entitled to answers to all of our questions you never answered.

So, we're now, post-election, respectfully requesting of you, Mayor Brown, a verifiable total accounting of all donations to you and your campaign and verifiable answers to all of our questions you have yet to answer.     

Comment by Steven D.Upshaw on May 22, 2011 at 9:57am

 An organization, individual, or any entity that reports half truths or the facts other than they actually are is not reporting the truth and is in fact is a liar. And to retract those reports after the harm has already been done is a self admitted cheat.

Comment by Patricia M. McBride on May 22, 2011 at 9:40am

The Bown campaign had a huge amount of money to work with (I wonder if all of it was reported?) and paid "campaign volunteers", and the TU reports it after the election?  I think you should feel partially vindicated Billie but forgive the TU for attempting to fix the election (they did have an impact cause people think the TU is a NEWSpaper and not the first time either)...............NO you can't forgive them.  I also don't forgive them for saying Brown won on issues...........Brown won because of something far different from that and very sad in a way.  And if you look at the list of goodies Brown is keeping, we are going to see our taxes go up and my bet is this year as usual for the max.  He is keeping the Peyton staff, he is keeping Journey, he is into the schools and probably won't use the no cost things Hogan wanted to use, we already know he is in love with the unions, he is in to the downtown and talking about street lights and cleaning up the down town $$$$, he is going to get his pay cut $20,000 .........oh goody only another 59 million 980 Thousand left to go..................and then, there are all those folks who say they will move before we reach a point where they can't sell their house at all, because no one will move here!   Gee, I don't seem to have any cuts, where are all the cuts he is going to make?????? 

 

 

Comment by Carol Griesbaum on May 22, 2011 at 9:30am

I don't know Billie - how "professional" of them to write this "after" the election. I am one of the world's biggest skeptics . . .of course I come from Illinois.

Comment by Phyllis Riik on May 22, 2011 at 9:29am

I would like to believe that it was just  Brown and Democrats but Mr Hogan did say that remark about the burning of a abortion clinic.  Plus, yesterday, one of your top people, Harry Madden, pompously said that he was a Christian and slammed Pope Benedict and Catholic Church.  A lot of tea party people are of many different believes.  I do realize that you are very conscious, Billie, about staying on track about the Constitution and Freedom which is terrific.  But Mr Madden does make a BIG deal of his work on the tea party.

Comment by Louis Willett on May 22, 2011 at 9:28am

We all knew that it was the Obama machine. The Sunday before the election, the last day of early voting showed Corrine and MLK III ther busing people to the polls. Were all these people duly registered in Duval? Did they only vote once? I know these are serious questions that won't be investigated. If it had been a different verdict, the race card and voter fraud investigation calls would be rampant. I also think Hogan didn't make too much of an effort and took it for granted that he would win. He underestimated "the machine" We all better wake up for 2012 or we are doomed.

Comment by Chuck Morrison on May 22, 2011 at 9:01am

What's point of being magnanimous towards the TU when they waited until after the election to publish anything of substance rather than just free commecials for Brown? 

So now they can claim to be "fair & balanced"?  HAHAHAHA

Comment by FCTP on May 22, 2011 at 8:58am

Everyone call the city at 630-CITY and file a complaint.  I saw them too. 

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