And why things NEVER change in Walton County!
Between L Jones and Imfield they have 32 years of combined tenure
District 1- -S. Brannon 2008-2012 (maybe longer). -Bill Chapman 2012-2016.
District 2: Ken Pridgen - 2010-2014 (long history in Dist 2 preceded 2010) -Cecilia Jones: 2014-2016. She's also served in District 5.
District 3: -Larry Jones 2000-2012. Is now county administrator. (Also worked for Adam Homes- Driftwood Develop & Waste Management during his tenure as BCC) 16 years of service to WC. -Bill Imfeld Imfeld: 2012-2016. -Bill Imfeld was Finance *Director for WCBCC from 2000-2012. 16 years of service to WC
District 4: Sarah Commander 2008-2018 (not sure of 2006-2007) *10 (maybe 12) years of service effective 2018* District 5: Cindy Meadows 2004-2008 Cecilia Jones 2008-2012 Cindy Meadows- 2012-2016
Collectively the *current* BCC and county admin have a combined Tenure of 58 years from 2000-2016 for Walton County.
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BannedAuthor
It could also be added that Chapman had many many years with the DFS Police Dept and WCSO. Imfield actually started wok in 2000, Commander worked for the BCC prior to being elected and C. Jones had 30 years as a teacher.
Combined they have a total tenure in Walton County Government longer than most of us have been alive!
It should also be of interest to folks that almost everything Larry Jones and Imfield have been involved in with Walton County has been attached to some sort of scandal...Waste Management, Driftwood and missing money that cost the taxpayers a bundle.
I won't even go there about Scott Brannon, his shenanigans are legendary as are the folks he and Tony Anderson/Cecilia Jones are involved/associated with and Kenneth Pridgen was just sort of there at meetings and mumbled approval as instructed. I can't think of anything really that he did as a Commissioner that is notable.
Of the 2 remaining Cindy Meadows is the only one who knows the LDC and Comp Plan and has worked in the best interest of Walton County with the least amount of scandal or tax dollars lost/missing during either of her tenures!
As much as I love & respect Sara I think she has angered the wrong people and I think she will either retire with grace and dignity or she will be ousted if she opts to run again.
Combined they have a total tenure in Walton County Government longer than most of us have been alive!
It should also be of interest to folks that almost everything Larry Jones and Imfield have been involved in with Walton County has been attached to some sort of scandal...Waste Management, Driftwood and missing money that cost the taxpayers a bundle.
I won't even go there about Scott Brannon, his shenanigans are legendary as are the folks he and Tony Anderson/Cecilia Jones are involved/associated with and Kenneth Pridgen was just sort of there at meetings and mumbled approval as instructed. I can't think of anything really that he did as a Commissioner that is notable.
Of the 2 remaining Cindy Meadows is the only one who knows the LDC and Comp Plan and has worked in the best interest of Walton County with the least amount of scandal or tax dollars lost/missing during either of her tenures!
As much as I love & respect Sara I think she has angered the wrong people and I think she will either retire with grace and dignity or she will be ousted if she opts to run again.
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BannedAuthor
Obviously my opinions (actual facts) are not supported by some members the SBA are they @graytonbeachguy ?
Beach Lover
BannedAuthor
Yes it's true the WCSBA is heavily supported by Lloyd Blue, Gary Shipman and others who are backing Tony Anderson's campaign, So of course Phil Good is going to troll this thread as well. No surprise!
Beach Fanatic
Yes it's true the WCSBA is heavily supported by Lloyd Blue, Gary Shipman and others who are backing Tony Anderson's campaignIs this in printed reports or speculation?
BannedAuthor
Is this in printed reports or speculation?
It's on their website.
BannedAuthor
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Larry Anchors
President
Bonnie McQuiston
Vice President
Louis Petit
Treasurer
Cheri Peebles
Secretary
Lloyd Blue
Will Dunn
Jack McTighe
Trey Nick
Cheri Peebles
Louis Petit
William Schissler
Cary Shahid
Steve Springer
Richard Veldman
Paul Vizard
Mike Weimorts
Gary Shipman
Judd Jackson
Larry Anchors
President
Bonnie McQuiston
Vice President
Louis Petit
Treasurer
Cheri Peebles
Secretary
Lloyd Blue
Will Dunn
Jack McTighe
Trey Nick
Cheri Peebles
Louis Petit
William Schissler
Cary Shahid
Steve Springer
Richard Veldman
Paul Vizard
Mike Weimorts
Gary Shipman
Judd Jackson
Beach Lover
That list there says it all......
Beach Fanatic
It's on their website.So heavily supporting something means being on the website or vice versa? Trying to understand how your mind works.
BannedAuthor
So heavily supporting something means being on the website or vice versa? Trying to understand how your mind works.
I think it speaks for itself.
Beach Lover
Who says Blue has to be involved in controlling politicians and influencing them? He does, his hate for meadows is deep seated. Read the non gossip article below that quotes Blue. Wake up people, he was just more openly arrogant until they busted him, now he hides behind any community issue that he can twist people into rallying that they have been screwed by being made to follow the rules.
By Tom Mclaughlin
Story Date: 2006 -May -27 at 12:45:34
Walton political group fined:
Association of Voters agrees to pay for 30 ?willful violations' of state's election code
May 27, 2006 (Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News delivered by Newstex)
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The Walton Association of Voters, an organization former county Commissioner Lane Rees once called "an assemblage of lawyers, lobbyists and old powerbrokers," has agreed to pay a $15,000 fine to the Florida Elections Commission.
In accepting the FEC terms, WAV officials have consented to pay $500 for each of 30 "willful violations" of the state's election code, according to a consent order made public on Friday.
WAV, many of whose members belong to the Walton County Property Owner's Association, raised more than $77,000 in 2004 as an electioneering communication organization. It spent most of it on anti-Rees advertising.
Rees, an incumbent, was soundly defeated that year by 23-year-old Scott Brannon in the Republican primary for the District 1 commission seat.
"I'm very pleased that justice has been served," Rees said Friday. "Hopefully, future elections will be made better and more fair by the action taken by the Florida Elections Commission."
Brannon and Mikel Lee Perry, who also ran for the commission in 2004 but lost, were also investigated by the FEC. Both have appealed fines for election code violations.
Action was expected in Brannon's case when the FEC met on May 18. The outcome of the hearing was not available Friday.
Lloyd Blue, a Walton County attorney and developer who served as WAV's local counsel, said most of the rules the FEC found WAV had violated were technical in nature. His opinion was shared by WAV attorney Jimmy Judkins. "This case was over very technical accounting issues," Judkins said in a press release.
Twenty-three of the charges alleged that the group falsely reported information. Two other charges claimed WAV certified a false campaign treasurer's report. The remaining charges stated that WAV made prohibited expenditures.
Blue said no violations would have occurred if laws regarding electioneering communication organizations had been clearer when WAV was formed.
WAV was the first electioneering communication organization formed in Florida, and there were no clear rules to guide it, Blue said. WAV's founders had to rely on the best guesses of legal experts when raising and spending funds.
Rees has said he thinks WAV was formed to carry out a vendetta against him because its leaders and their financers couldn't control him as a commissioner. He said the group and its lawyers knew or should have known the state's elections laws and he was gratified to see justice done.
"Lawyers, lobbyists and old power brokers duped the people," he said after the FEC found probable cause to investigate allegations made against WAV. "I'm glad to see this is all coming out."
The people who founded WAV and its directors tried from the outset to remain out of the limelight. But the FEC's report reveals that the group was largely comprised of Property Owners Association members. Its board of directors was made up almost entirely of employees of Tommy Sholes Inc., a real estate company.
Testimony presented to FEC investigators indicated the organization evolved from a group of Santa Rosa Beach businessmen who "met occasionally for lunch" into a local powerbroker.
WAV's intervention helped make the race for Rees' commission seat the most expensive ever in Walton County. WAV raised $77,600 and Brannon raised $73,675 on his own -- with a lot of those funds coming from the same donors who filled WAV's coffers.
Rees raised more than $82,000 himself, and said a lot of his funds were used to combat the WAV campaign against him.
Blue told the FEC that he, James Eaton, a lobbyist with whom he shared "real estate interests" and several others regularly met and "discussed local political issues."
During one meeting, Blue, Eaton and others agreed to increase their political involvement according to the FEC report said.
"More specifically, the group was concerned with issues pertaining to the county budget, property and taxes."
By Tom Mclaughlin
Story Date: 2006 -May -27 at 12:45:34
Walton political group fined:
Association of Voters agrees to pay for 30 ?willful violations' of state's election code
May 27, 2006 (Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News delivered by Newstex)
--
The Walton Association of Voters, an organization former county Commissioner Lane Rees once called "an assemblage of lawyers, lobbyists and old powerbrokers," has agreed to pay a $15,000 fine to the Florida Elections Commission.
In accepting the FEC terms, WAV officials have consented to pay $500 for each of 30 "willful violations" of the state's election code, according to a consent order made public on Friday.
WAV, many of whose members belong to the Walton County Property Owner's Association, raised more than $77,000 in 2004 as an electioneering communication organization. It spent most of it on anti-Rees advertising.
Rees, an incumbent, was soundly defeated that year by 23-year-old Scott Brannon in the Republican primary for the District 1 commission seat.
"I'm very pleased that justice has been served," Rees said Friday. "Hopefully, future elections will be made better and more fair by the action taken by the Florida Elections Commission."
Brannon and Mikel Lee Perry, who also ran for the commission in 2004 but lost, were also investigated by the FEC. Both have appealed fines for election code violations.
Action was expected in Brannon's case when the FEC met on May 18. The outcome of the hearing was not available Friday.
Lloyd Blue, a Walton County attorney and developer who served as WAV's local counsel, said most of the rules the FEC found WAV had violated were technical in nature. His opinion was shared by WAV attorney Jimmy Judkins. "This case was over very technical accounting issues," Judkins said in a press release.
Twenty-three of the charges alleged that the group falsely reported information. Two other charges claimed WAV certified a false campaign treasurer's report. The remaining charges stated that WAV made prohibited expenditures.
Blue said no violations would have occurred if laws regarding electioneering communication organizations had been clearer when WAV was formed.
WAV was the first electioneering communication organization formed in Florida, and there were no clear rules to guide it, Blue said. WAV's founders had to rely on the best guesses of legal experts when raising and spending funds.
Rees has said he thinks WAV was formed to carry out a vendetta against him because its leaders and their financers couldn't control him as a commissioner. He said the group and its lawyers knew or should have known the state's elections laws and he was gratified to see justice done.
"Lawyers, lobbyists and old power brokers duped the people," he said after the FEC found probable cause to investigate allegations made against WAV. "I'm glad to see this is all coming out."
The people who founded WAV and its directors tried from the outset to remain out of the limelight. But the FEC's report reveals that the group was largely comprised of Property Owners Association members. Its board of directors was made up almost entirely of employees of Tommy Sholes Inc., a real estate company.
Testimony presented to FEC investigators indicated the organization evolved from a group of Santa Rosa Beach businessmen who "met occasionally for lunch" into a local powerbroker.
WAV's intervention helped make the race for Rees' commission seat the most expensive ever in Walton County. WAV raised $77,600 and Brannon raised $73,675 on his own -- with a lot of those funds coming from the same donors who filled WAV's coffers.
Rees raised more than $82,000 himself, and said a lot of his funds were used to combat the WAV campaign against him.
Blue told the FEC that he, James Eaton, a lobbyist with whom he shared "real estate interests" and several others regularly met and "discussed local political issues."
During one meeting, Blue, Eaton and others agreed to increase their political involvement according to the FEC report said.
"More specifically, the group was concerned with issues pertaining to the county budget, property and taxes."
Beach Lover
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Larry Anchors
President
Bonnie McQuiston
Vice President
Louis Petit
Treasurer
Cheri Peebles
Secretary
Lloyd Blue
Will Dunn
Jack McTighe
Trey Nick
Cheri Peebles
Louis Petit
William Schissler
Cary Shahid
Steve Springer
Richard Veldman
Paul Vizard
Mike Weimorts
Gary Shipman
Judd Jackson
Ouch....Crickets from the peanut gallery now....
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Beach Lover
Who says Blue has to be involved in controlling politicians and influencing them? He does, his hate for meadows is deep seated. Read the non gossip article below that quotes Blue. Wake up people, he was just more openly arrogant until they busted him, now he hides behind any community issue that he can twist people into rallying that they have been screwed by being made to follow the rules.
****HOLY SMOKE****
By Tom Mclaughlin
Story Date: 2006 -May -27 at 12:45:34
Walton political group fined:
Association of Voters agrees to pay for 30 ?willful violations' of state's election code
May 27, 2006 (Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News delivered by Newstex)
--
The Walton Association of Voters, an organization former county Commissioner Lane Rees once called "an assemblage of lawyers, lobbyists and old powerbrokers," has agreed to pay a $15,000 fine to the Florida Elections Commission.
In accepting the FEC terms, WAV officials have consented to pay $500 for each of 30 "willful violations" of the state's election code, according to a consent order made public on Friday.
WAV, many of whose members belong to the Walton County Property Owner's Association, raised more than $77,000 in 2004 as an electioneering communication organization. It spent most of it on anti-Rees advertising.
Rees, an incumbent, was soundly defeated that year by 23-year-old Scott Brannon in the Republican primary for the District 1 commission seat.
"I'm very pleased that justice has been served," Rees said Friday. "Hopefully, future elections will be made better and more fair by the action taken by the Florida Elections Commission."
Brannon and Mikel Lee Perry, who also ran for the commission in 2004 but lost, were also investigated by the FEC. Both have appealed fines for election code violations.
Action was expected in Brannon's case when the FEC met on May 18. The outcome of the hearing was not available Friday.
Lloyd Blue, a Walton County attorney and developer who served as WAV's local counsel, said most of the rules the FEC found WAV had violated were technical in nature. His opinion was shared by WAV attorney Jimmy Judkins. "This case was over very technical accounting issues," Judkins said in a press release.
Twenty-three of the charges alleged that the group falsely reported information. Two other charges claimed WAV certified a false campaign treasurer's report. The remaining charges stated that WAV made prohibited expenditures.
Blue said no violations would have occurred if laws regarding electioneering communication organizations had been clearer when WAV was formed.
WAV was the first electioneering communication organization formed in Florida, and there were no clear rules to guide it, Blue said. WAV's founders had to rely on the best guesses of legal experts when raising and spending funds.
Rees has said he thinks WAV was formed to carry out a vendetta against him because its leaders and their financers couldn't control him as a commissioner. He said the group and its lawyers knew or should have known the state's elections laws and he was gratified to see justice done.
"Lawyers, lobbyists and old power brokers duped the people," he said after the FEC found probable cause to investigate allegations made against WAV. "I'm glad to see this is all coming out."
The people who founded WAV and its directors tried from the outset to remain out of the limelight. But the FEC's report reveals that the group was largely comprised of Property Owners Association members. Its board of directors was made up almost entirely of employees of Tommy Sholes Inc., a real estate company.
Testimony presented to FEC investigators indicated the organization evolved from a group of Santa Rosa Beach businessmen who "met occasionally for lunch" into a local powerbroker.
WAV's intervention helped make the race for Rees' commission seat the most expensive ever in Walton County. WAV raised $77,600 and Brannon raised $73,675 on his own -- with a lot of those funds coming from the same donors who filled WAV's coffers.
Rees raised more than $82,000 himself, and said a lot of his funds were used to combat the WAV campaign against him.
Blue told the FEC that he, James Eaton, a lobbyist with whom he shared "real estate interests" and several others regularly met and "discussed local political issues."
During one meeting, Blue, Eaton and others agreed to increase their political involvement according to the FEC report said.
"More specifically, the group was concerned with issues pertaining to the county budget, property and taxes."
Beach Lover
Almost doubles as the list of contributors on T. Anderson's financial reports on the SOE site. Pretty self explanatory
Ouch....Crickets from the peanut gallery now....
BannedAuthor
Almost doubles as the list of contributors on T. Anderson's financial reports on the SOE site. Pretty self explanatory
Indeed it does.
Beach Lover
I agree GS. HOLY SMOKE!!! That was from 10 years ago. People better wake up!! Because THEY aren't NOW nor have they been sleeping over those years.
Beach Lover
Crickets....Crickets....Where are the SBA and Blue defenders now. Dem's don't be fooled, these same people ran coble-wise to keep you from voting for Meadows. I hope Walton county is smarter than that!
BannedAuthor
Crickets....Crickets....Where are the SBA and Blue defenders now. Dem's don't be fooled, these same people ran coble-wise to keep you from voting for Meadows. I hope Walton county is smarter than that!
My emojo's are still missing in action Patriot Games but I agree.
BannedAuthor
That list there says it all......
Of course it does PG.
For those that "doubt" that's the list or don't understand what the WCSBA (or SBA) is, I'll post a link for you and you can view the list for yourself! Hopefully, that will at least partially clear up the "credibility" issue. Course if that fails you may be a "Blue's Crew" fan and I didn't realize it. Sorry if you're offended..
Walton County Small Business Association
Beach Lover
Of course it does PG.No worries Allen and Lynda we are still hanging out just watching your trash talk so I don't get kicked off you site again for not agreeing with either of you Cindy promoters..I really don't understand why y'all think L blue has so much money I think you are inflating his wealth just a wee bit but,I'm not him so I can't guarantee that!!
For those that "doubt" that's the list or don't understand what the WCSBA (or SBA) is, I'll post a link for you and you can view the list for yourself! Hopefully, that will at least partially clear up the "credibility" issue. Course if that fails you may be a "Blue's Crew" fan and I didn't realize it. Sorry if you're offended..
Walton County Small Business Association
Beach Lover
No worries Allen and Lynda we are still hanging out just watching your trash talk so I don't get kicked off you site again for not agreeing with either of you Cindy promoters..I really don't understand why y'all think L blue has so much money I think you are inflating his wealth just a wee bit but,I'm not him so I can't guarantee that!!
Maybe its time to bring up the whistleblower lawsuit Cindy has got the county in.
Beach Lover
Maybe its time to bring up the whistleblower lawsuit Cindy has got the county in.
The SBA is what's going to save this county from the last 8 years of mess on the south end. I will pick that group well over Cindy's puppets all day.
Beach Lover
Not what we have that's for sure. I feel a change in the wind.
BannedAuthor
I haven't actually "promoted" Ms. Meadows but admit T. Anderson pretty much trashed himself when he got involved with Blue Crew money. Hanging with C. Jones didn't help his credibility in my opinion either!
As for what I have said about Cindy Meadows yes, she's got my vote. I'll compare Cindy's record to a man that has never even attended a BCC meeting against hers everyday of the week and twice on Sundays.
B&B...Beth Bishop ? Is that you darlin?
As for what I have said about Cindy Meadows yes, she's got my vote. I'll compare Cindy's record to a man that has never even attended a BCC meeting against hers everyday of the week and twice on Sundays.
B&B...Beth Bishop ? Is that you darlin?
BannedAuthor
B&B ...Beth Bishop...niece to Cecilia Jones herself?
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