Favorable Press Coverage
Here is an editorial from yesterday's Gainesville Sun:
Looks like a witch hunt
You can also see it in the High Spring's Herald:
Why is tax money being used to go after Grapski?
oh - and good news too - I have been successful in my efforts to reform elections locally - advocating Choice Voting - and as a member of the Charter Review Board of Gainesville I can proudly announce that our REport to the City Commission was strongly in support of adopting IRV (Instant Run-Off Voting - a form of Choice Voting) - and the City did the unprecedented act of adopting several of our recommendations ON THE SPOT last week - including seeking to have the State certify machines for the use of Choice voting in Florida. That is a major victory - that can't get lost while we fight another aspect of voting/elections just north in the City of Alachua.
Charlie
Looks like a witch hunt
July 01. 2006 6:01AM
I am very concerned at what I see going on with regards to certain officials of the City of Alachua, the State Attorney's office, and Charlie Grapski. I wonder why taxpayers' money is being spent to go after a man who is exercising his rights - our rights - to see what our government is doing.
The charge against Grapski of illegally recording Clovis Watson is bogus. Watson is a public official that Grapski recorded during a conversation about public business in his public office. What is more incredulous is that Watson knew he was being recorded. As a matter of fact, public meetings are routinely recorded. Did you know that when a citizen gets up to speak at a City or County Commission meeting, every word is being recorded? Did anyone ask for your consent? No, because it is public business.
Did Watson make the same consent demand of the TV20 crew that videotaped him in various capacities while he was on the public time clock? Has he sought to get them arrested, too? What Charlie Grapski did is not a crime and is certainly not an arrestable offense.
What is the purpose of our police force, our jail and our State Attorney? To protect the government or protect the people? What is going on here?
John Prosser,
Micanopy
You can also see it in the High Spring's Herald:
Why is tax money being used to go after Grapski?
oh - and good news too - I have been successful in my efforts to reform elections locally - advocating Choice Voting - and as a member of the Charter Review Board of Gainesville I can proudly announce that our REport to the City Commission was strongly in support of adopting IRV (Instant Run-Off Voting - a form of Choice Voting) - and the City did the unprecedented act of adopting several of our recommendations ON THE SPOT last week - including seeking to have the State certify machines for the use of Choice voting in Florida. That is a major victory - that can't get lost while we fight another aspect of voting/elections just north in the City of Alachua.
Charlie
posted by Catreona at 7/02/2006 05:04:00 PM
4 Comments:
That wasn't an editorial in the Gainesville Sun. That was a letter to the editor.
Why did you call it an editorial? It isn't the Gainesville Sun's opinion. It was the opinion of one man from Micanopy.
Anonymous,
*I* didn't call it anything. *I* am merely a scribe. The person who wrote the original post called it an editorial. I surmise that either he thought it was an editorial or he made an honest mistake, saying "editorial" rather than Letter To The Editor."
While corrections are always welcome, please recall in future that this blog does not tolerate deliberate confrontation. A civil tone will gain you a hearing for your comments, whatever they may be, far more easily than will belligerence.
I see Mr. Calderwood is at it here with his anonymous posts. You may want to prohibit anonymous posts - otherwise he will be here in his multi-personality persona of debating himself.
Other than that - its great to see all of you and all of your work here.
A Friend,
LOL. Is Mr. Calderwood related to Robert Oler?
Thanks for the tip: but, I'd rather keep this blog as open as possible for as long as possible.
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