It is easy to get roiled up over King’s past behavior but to me, there is a much more serious concern.
December 18, 2017 through December 29, 2017 I am reposting the most viewed articles from 2017 This one is from November 2017
Opinion by: E. Eugene Webb PhD
Author: In Search of Robin, So You Want to Blog.
As the Rick Baker Campaign and his Political Action
Committee raised the spector of Kevin King’s past, the emphasis seemed to be
more on what King did in contrast to how that impacts the present
circumstances.
I have had only two dealings with Kriseman’s Chief of
staff.
The first was a telephone interview that went terribly
wrong following this Post: Sunday December 22, 2013 Kriseman and King - Will it
work? right after he was
appointed as Kriseman’s Chief of Staff and
resulted in this Post A
Not So Casual Conversation with Kevin King.
The second was a very unpleasant confrontation at the
first Pride event after Kriseman’s election when I was taking some background
pictures. King, who is notoriously camera shy, confronted me as to why I was
taking pictures, asked me if my retirement was paid by the City (it is not) and
wanted to know where my “money” came from. All of this in front of my wife who
was accompanying me. I just laughed at him turned around and walk away and then
turned back and shot a few more frames.
As the Kriseman administration wore on my former coworkers,
and managers would simply roll their eyes when I asked about King, but the
official response was “no comment, or simply you cannot trust him.
It is easy to get roiled up over King’s past behavior
but to me, there is a much more serious concern.
Rick Kriseman is a seasoned political veteran, and he
knows King is a liability.
When I questioned Kriseman before the 2013 election
about Kevin King, he became openly angry and threatening when I brought up the
King issue.
Why would you drag along an ill-tempered ticking time
bomb if your goal was a successful political career?
So, what is the relationship between these two?
There have been a lot of calls for King/Kriseman to
open the Records on King’s Juvenile sex solicitation charges, but I am not sure
that would do any real good.
Some much more revealing questions would be:
Who was King’ s attorney of Record?
Kriseman and King spent a lot of time in Tallahassee
together. What lobbyists did they work with? Where did they hang out?
In the interim between Kriseman’s stint in the Legislature
and his election to the Mayor’s office what was Kevin King doing, and was he on
Kriseman’s payroll?
I could go on.
The issue here is not about Kevin King it is all about
Rick Kriseman’s character.
This whole mess shows the true face of Kriseman’s
competency and honesty. Kevin King now oversees an area where would not be hired,
he is only there because his buddy is the Mayor.
King should have never been added to the City Staff, he
should never have become a parked political operative on the taxpayer’s dime
and to put him in charge of educational policy goes further than ignoring the
public’s Pier pick. It is like standing on the steps of City hall and giving
every St. Pete citizen and parent the finger.
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King’s actions are abdominal, but Kriseman made
the decision to put him on the City Payroll.
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King made the decision to solicit juveniles, but
Kriseman made the decision to put him in charge of educational policy.
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King typifies everything that is wrong with
local government: privileged, over paid, protected, incompetent, and morally
unfit for the job.
But, he is Kriseman’s guy and if Kriseman gets
reelected you get four more years of Kevin King, four more years of lies, and
don’t bother to express your opinion, because they just don’t care.
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