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THE TIMES UNION DOES IT AGAIN: SUPPORTS THE OPPOSITE OF WE THE PEOPLE
In today’s Sunday edition of the Times Union, they printed their endorsements for the local races. http://jacksonville.com/opinion/editorials/2011-03-20/story/our-end...
We were not surprised to see they endorsed Audrey Moran for Mayor. Audrey chose NOT to participate in the tea party vetting process. She did not return our questionnaires; she did not meet with our leadership council for a one on one video interview; she did not attend the Mayoral Town Hall; nor did she post any of her information on our website.
In other words, Audrey Moran (R) shunned the people of the tea party movement and said our voices did not matter. Will she do this if she is elected our Mayor? Tigers don’t change their stripes…do they?
We give credit to Mike Hogan (R), Rick Mullaney (R), Warren Lee (D) and Steve Irvine (I) – all who participated in the FCTP process. Alvin Brown (D) also chose not to engage with the Tea Party – a missed opportunity for him.
This is not the first time the Tea Party Movement has been on opposite sides where our endorsements are concerned. They wrote as many great articles about Alex Sink as they could find all the while slamming Rick Scott. In the primary, Bill McCollum was given favorable articles while the normal “let’s get Rick” articles were published. Guess who won: Rick Scott, the Tea Party favorite.
The newspaper industry is hurting and they are struggling to find a way to reach out to readers. They believe social media might help their cause and they are putting forth the efforts to build their news on that platform. The real issue is this: They are out of touch with the views of most of the people. Most of us – especially in Jacksonville – are not far left liberals. Yet if a visitor picked up our paper and read the headlines, they would think we were. The TU has many fine reporters and some of them are fair and report the news based on facts and not their own personal opinions. We salute them for that and ask them to continue to be true to the principles of great journalism.
It’s time for the TU to re-evaluate its mission and to reconnect with the people of North Florida. If they did that, they would find their readership would improve, their revenues would sky rocket and they could retain their staff -- thereby saving jobs which NE Florida desperately needs.
Tuesday is Election Day. Whoever your candidate might be – we encourage you to VOTE. This is one piece of freedom that hasn’t been taken from you yet. If you have time, call your friends and gather together on the side of the road holding signs for your candidates. Wave and send a thumb up even if someone sends you a middle finger. Smile and wave – kill them with kindness – it really irritates them when you do that! Take a flip camera with you and make sure your signs are respectful.
After you vote, post a picture on Facebook and on our website showing your I VOTED sticker proudly.
Election Night: Contact your favorite candidate and find out where they will be watching the returns. Join them and be ready to pat them on the pat for a job well done if they don’t win or a high five if they do.
The First Coast Tea Party has published our endorsements on our community site at: www.fctpcommunity.org. We hope you will check them out, watch the video interviews, read the questionnaires and make your decisions after you do. You still have time between now and Tuesday to become well informed on all the candidates who chose to participate in our process.
Voting is VERY important. If you don’t believe us, believe Terry Tate. See his message here:
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Comment by FCTP on March 20, 2011 at 11:32am
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Louis: Please read the letter that we wrote to our base about why we endorsed Mike Hogan. You can find your answers there: http://fctpcommunity.org/profiles/blogs/endorsements-1
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Comment by Joanna B McDermott on March 20, 2011 at 11:25am
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Juan Diaz is an amazing young man...he got our votes.
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Comment by Dianne Cosby on March 20, 2011 at 11:10am
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The Florida Times Union DID endorse one EXCELLENT candidate and that is conservative Juan Diaz.
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Comment by dan benefiel on March 20, 2011 at 11:09am
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I am a bit troubled by the endorsement of hogan by the fctp. I love the fctp but this endorsement has me perplexed. Hogan being backed by the labor unions tells me he will not go after the 800 lb gorilla. Without changes to the public sector union contracts we will never get the financial house in order. I will be glad to admit I'm wrong if hogan wins and does what is necessary though.
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Comment by Valerie Sawyer on March 20, 2011 at 10:37am
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Thanks so much, Billie. So many hurting people these days.
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Good grief, they endorsed Jack Webb for District 6...he only helped raise our taxes 18%....we stopped taking the Times Union a long time ago. When you high 5 after raising our real estate taxes, there is something wrong with your character.
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Craigslist is a great place to look for jobs. Try that. We are praying for you Val.
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I lost my job last week. As badly as I need a job, I REFUSE to buy a copy of the T-U for the job ads. Newspapers today are only existing because of things like classified ads, coupons, wedding announcements, etc. People certainly aren't buying them for their news content.
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Our 87 year old mother in law lives with us. She loves reading the paper with her coffee in the mornings. She pays for the subscription. She doesn't agree with their politics. She said, "I watch the obits to see if I'm in there!"
When she is no longer with us, the TU will not be either.
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Your TU paper is going down the same path as our paper did, now it is a very small version of itself and has laid off most of its employee's. I can still go online and get the coverage I want to read, very local info. It is too late to get things to change, the method now is to delete them, make them irrelevant and they will go away. Attend all City Council Meetings and County Meetings, esp. School Board meetings, this is where u get what is really going on. Attend Water Board meetings, Air Resource Meetings and run for local level committees, get an appointment by an elected official, serve on your local Grand Jury. If you have local talk radio get on to speak, keep calling. Keep up the awsome work u r doing.
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