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[JaxScriblerians]

Clerk Ronnie Fussell quotes Shakespeare's Hamlet:

"I say, we will have no more marriages"

Read more: http://jaxonpool.com/2015/01/04/i-say-we-will-have-no-more-marriages/

[JaxScriblerians]

The editorial staff of Jaxonpool was on the verge of endorsing Bill Bishop for Mayor on the basis of his willingness to speak forthrightly about the city's major issues, his grasp of the facts, and the support he has received from the Northeast Florida LGBT Leadership PAC. However, the comically quaint white supremacist rhetoric displayed in the mass mailings the Lenny Curry campaign has been surreptitiously sending out has had the unintended effect of making us stop and reconsider.
Read more: http://jaxonpool.com/2015/02/27/lenny-currys-white-supremacist-rhetoric/

[Rob68]

Has noone sat at any of the country clubs around town?....this city is packed full of biggoted racist...most of them call themselves god fearin'...i call it a damn shame..these people even bitch that they have to put up with black people serving them their dinner...hell im suprised they even let blacks on the property if your following whats being said at the table or behind closed doors...post racial America is a joke...the only thing thats goi g to change this is about 100 years of conservatives passing away and hopefully being replaced by modern evolved great grand children

[strider]

So, sorry, Bill Bishop. You are running an excellent campaign: we like your vision for the future. Unfortunately, we now have to stop and reconsider this election in light of a leading politician who is out of touch with the Jacksonville of today. Playing the race card is something straight out of the playbook of yesterday.

Sorry, Jaxonpool, but forsaking the candidate you seem to have determined to be the best for the CITY due to a race issue from Curry, you are showing yourself to be as guilty of racism as you are claiming the Curry camp to be. You are considering supporting Brown simply due to race rather than him being the best overall for the job.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

So, sorry, Bill Bishop. You are running an excellent campaign: we like your vision for the future. Unfortunately, we now have to stop and reconsider this election in light of a leading politician who is out of touch with the Jacksonville of today. Playing the race card is something straight out of the playbook of yesterday. This strategy may well backfire by making the good people of Jacksonville look favorably again upon Alvin Brown.

Sincerely,
Tristan Voltaire

I stand by my assertion that politiks makes intelligent people do really dumb things. 

[johnnyliar]

I don't understand how Lenny Curry's racist remarks makes you flip from Bishop to Brown... this makes no sense.

[jph]

Does anyone have scans of these mailers? I've seen some TV commercials along the same lines but I'd be interested in seeing the mailers you're talking about in the article.

[Jessicapants]

I've also been receiving some pretty inflammatory mailings from the anonymous Curry operatives, even though I do not have a political affiliation. I'm not a fan. They come across as hateful and non-productive. But to speak to the point of the blog post, I'm not sure that the best response to this type of rhetoric is to automatically support the African American candidate as a knee-jerk way to repudiate the actions of these "anonymous" operatives. In fact, I would argue that since you (? I'm assuming that I'm talking to the author here...) are a card carrying Republican, you can and should support Bill Bishop, and by so doing illustrate to the Republican Party that you reject the type of campaigning that the Curry camp has been engaging in. If enough people within the Party reject this type of behavior by refusing to support candidates who engage in it, then they have more impetus to change their tactics.

[Jax native]

The editorial staff of Jaxonpool was on the verge of endorsing Bill Bishop for Mayor on the basis of his willingness to speak forthrightly about the city's major issues, his grasp of the facts, and the support he has received from the Northeast Florida LGBT Leadership PAC. However, the comically quaint white supremacist rhetoric displayed in the mass mailings the Lenny Curry campaign has been surreptitiously sending out has had the unintended effect of making us stop and reconsider.
Read more: http://jaxonpool.com/2015/02/27/lenny-currys-white-supremacist-rhetoric/

This is the weirdest post i have read here, and I've read some weird things.  Sorry, Bill Bishop but we are voting for the black man because the other white man is making him look bad.!?!??

[sheclown]

Lenny Curry, the man, the neighbor who lives down the street, actually is a good guy. In no way is he a racist. I know him to be a perfectly decent man and a good husband and father.

Lenny Curry, the politician, however, is something else. This is what happens when political operatives from outside the city move in and take over a campaign and start controlling the candidate. What the outside people have done to Curry reminds me of that song from 1978 by Melanie, "Look what they've done to my song, Ma." Still, it would be in the best interests of Curry, the politician, if he wants to win, to stop the surreptitious mailings. Why? Several reasons. First, he should stop sending them because they give people the impression that he assumes that everybody in Jacksonville is a racist and that mailings like this are going to help him win the election.

Second, he should stop sending them because, once a person realizes that the Curry campaign is behind the mailings, the implication becomes clear: they make him look like he doesn't know his own city. The mailings give the impression that he imagines Jacksonville's voters to be racist and that he is pretending to be one too. This is where what the Curry campaign is doing gets complicated, like a hard math problem: It's as though the campaign were saying, "You're all racists, and I'm one too." But then, Curry the politician denies that he's the one who's claiming "I'm one too" by saying he's not the one sending the mailers.

What? Say again? Curry's not a racist, he's just pretending to be one? But then, he's not pretending to be one?

hilarious in a sad and pathetic way --

[Jax native]

Okay Stephen, but a little heads up for the newbies.  Even satire should at the least carry some humor.  It's not like MJ is The Onion.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Scriblerian is a satirical writer.

And even for those of us who aren't newbies and know that he's a satirical writer, this last post was so subtle that the satire was essentially lost in the post altogether due to the factualness of it all.   There are flyers going around crediting the rise in CRIME to BROWN.  Maybe not rape specifically, but when have other opinion writers allowed facts to get in the way of a good story?

And when he/she just posted this:

This is not a satirical piece, but the first chapter of a memoir, 12 Things You Can Imagine. It discusses the circumstances surrounding the death of a child in 2013 at Wolfson Children's Hospital.

http://aboynamedaugust.com/2015/02/14/twelve-things-you-can-imagine-letters-to-my-daughter-about-her-brother-letter-one/

it leaves one to wonder whether or not the disclaimer was forgotten.

[Tacachale]

I've always thought it would work better for this user to just add new links to one clearly-marked thread. That way people interested in it could find it easily, and it would reduce the annoyance factor for people who see all these new threads pop up in the feed and expect a real bit of news or new (non-satirical) discussion topic.

[Jax native]

Okay Stephen, but a little heads up for the newbies.  Even satire should at the least carry some humor.  It's not like MJ is The Onion.

I quite agree.  The Scriblerian threads are supposed to be contained in a single thread within the Break Room, but we seem to have lost track of that.  I will go through and collect them back in to a single satirical thread again.

Thanks Stephen,  I'm good with not reading his threads again.