So, today City Manager McLaughlin, backed by City Atty Shawn Smith and his legal posse managed to convince the City Commission to vote in favor of giving entitled Bubba-buddy Robert Spottswood/SH5 easement of the public waterfront property Dinghy Beach.

City Mayor Johnston and Commissioner Kaufman may have voted against the Resolution for their own reasons, but neither they, nor the other Commissioners, bothered to call out City Manager McLaughlin or City Atty Smith to correct the misrepresentations in the Resolution the two drafted and approved to defraud the public of the beach. The following Commissioners were especially quick to ignore over 1000 petitioners (you) and a handful of locals with sworn affidavits supporting Florida case law giving public access to the beach, despite being told by multiple individuals for weeks now directly before the meeting, that by signing the Proposal, they knowingly were supporting fraud:

Commissioner Hoover - supported the fraud

Commissioner Davila - supported the fraud

Commissioner Lopez - supported the fraud

Commissioner Wardlow - supported the fraud

Commissioner Weekly - supported the fraud

None of them said one word about poor "defamed" City Manager McLaughlin's misrepresentations or asked City Atty Shawn Smith or Asst. City Atty. Nathalia Mellies why they approved the misleading information in the Resolution. Not one.

Mayor Johnston and Commissioner Kaufman had issues with McLaughlin blowing $2000 of tax dollars on a (worthless) non-bathymetric survey and not following through with plans to go to court to actually have the court decide whose property is where and they voted against the Resolution for that reason, while the "supporters" above had absolutely no problem blowing those tax$$$ at all. Either way, no one spoke out against the lies and for the truth.

The Commission was happily thinking this would all be over, "170 emails and over 2 years on this" they sighed, relieved to think it was now done. But...actions have consequences. And "bad" actions which defraud the public to the benefit of a greedy, entitled private entity deserve "bad" consequences. 

So now that we've started out with a little public "defamation" (i.e. telling the truth and calling out the lies and fraud), let's ramp it up a little, shall we?

Stay tuned...   ;-)