I'm running for 10

[Skot David Wilson]

I just read a post about me over on jaxOutLoud, and have to laugh. It is no secret that I have a record, mostly problems associated with my driver's license and some crap between my wife and I, and some stupidity following my breaking my wrist back in 1991.
No matter what official records say, one truth is that I do not lie. I have no reason to. If anyone takes the time to keyword my name they will find a history of me doing decent things.
I suggest going to a few sites I've posted....
http://electskot.blogspot.com  and  http://yesihavearecord.blogspot.com
and if that isn't clear enough, then by all means call me...
781-9473
I'll be more than glad to meet with you, discuss issues or my past.
I can also give you numbers of some people who have known me for years and know everything about me and love and respect me.
So if anyone wants to make "honesty" an issue, let's talk about the fact that I am honest about everything, my past and all, not trying to hide anything, or having tried to seal my record before running.
Seriously, do you think that I don't know my own record or that it would be an issue?
What is on paper doesn't always tell the whole story, does it.
The Mayor openly lies, yet would you call him honorable?
Mia is under an investigation, as quite a few of our well protected elected officials...
and they screw the citizens of jacksonville every day.
Maybe it is time for someone who fights hard to keep his head above water, who knows what it is like to be semi-disabled and poor to speak up and out.
I don't see anyone fighting for the little guy now, and look at Jacksonville!
4 out of 10 kids with no diploma, a murder rate three times the national average...
kids in poverty, and families living in shelters...
and who represents them, or the working people for that matter...
I have nothing to hide, from anyone....
and if you want to know anyhting about me, just ask.

[jbm32206]

Good luck with your campaign, I know that you're passionate to your cause.

[Charles Hunter]

I think this will be an interesting race, and Skot, I know you will bring up issues that normally don't get discussed - but should.  Have you met Radio Talk Show Host?  He ... well his name says it ... on AM1460.

[Skot David Wilson]

Thanks guys....
Like I said, my number is there and I'm not hiding anything from anybody.
I think if I get in I can do some real good and it won't be business as usual. I'd treat it like a full time job, and would try to get rid of wasteful spending and ineffective programs.
I know I'll catch some flack and have a hard road, but I try to make the world a better place now and have been for a while...
keyword the names of those who'll be running against me... see what they have done..
If I have done as much as I have as a broke, pain-ridden mess, just think if I actually land a job doing that...what I might be able to do.
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[Ocklawaha]

Skot, good luck man. Check in with Andy Johnson at the radio station, I know him and he is good people. My kid enjoyed speaking with you the other day, sorry but I was under downtown!

Ocklawaha

[gatorback]

Our differences aside good luck! You're not going to ask for or put a/c's on each school bus are you? 

[Skot David Wilson]

Platforms, platforms...
first off....
1. Fight against the 262 million gallon a day theft sponsored by SJRWMD...
my alternative, to create an enforcement division with some teeth for water conservation... a law designed to allow watering from 5 am to 10 am, twice a week, even/odd street numbers, with a fine schedule, to make so many damn people stop wasting so much water on their lawns, hopefully a water grid as good as the electric grid (no, wait, better than that grid, which always seems to fail in thunderstorms), and seeing if JAX can bring a company to town, or do inhouse, to make a desalanation plant to sell water to Georgia and Central Florida, and make the production of water a cottage industry while we protect and restore the St Johns...
Do you KNOW how much $$ is in fisheries, and that the Kingfish brings in 11 million a year!
We need to protect that part of our economy as we protect the river.
2. Parental accountability. I don't know if it will fly unless I try, but raise the allowable drop-out age to 18, and follow the KIVA/C.L.A.S.S. styled schools of Monmouth County in Jersey where I'm from (email me for links). 60.5% grad rate is UNACCEPTABLE, and we need real mentoring, adult education, vocational education, corporate sponsors, and more.
want good health care? then attract corporations to Jax, and you can't attract them with how we are educating our kids now.
we need to maybe spend a little more and make sure our kids leave school with an employable education, as education is the root of most of our problems... or lack thereof moreover.
And ENFORCE the laws they started on attendance, and stop suspending kids who are bad with three day vacations and require in school-AFTER school suspensions, and if they don't come and do their schoolwork, detain the parents and force them to be parents instead of allowing this BS!
3. Equitable distribution of city resources, instead of the best going to the richest... talk to me on this....
They revamp good parks and install nice playgrounds in rich areas, and allow the poor areas to get run down...
Cops drive right by hookers and drug dealers in poor areas, and do you think for one second a hooker could walk down a street in Ortega? And we don't need freakin street lights, we need cops on the streets, and we need non-violent offenders doing community service and getting jobs and going to school, and the bad mother effers doing some time!
Incentives to attract "green" businesses here, as that is where the money will be...
A "pay for it with volunteer/community service program, where working families can get daycare or other "freebies" for working for it instead of free handouts...
And a stop to the waste, like these no bid contracts, consultants and $70,000 tailgate parties.

Some of you may wonder about my "record", but try keywording my name on jacksonville.com or on the web and look at what I actually do, despite a bad back, wrist and knee. By rights, I should be collecting disability, but I have my damn pride and want to earn my way, even if I do hurt like hell most of the time.
Today I campaigned in Marietta, where they have streetwalkers and drug dealers and no cops ever stop it much, where the roads are bumpy and you can tell it gets ignored by the city.
Screw that!
It is time we start changing things, and I remember King, and his lazy ass did nothing for our community here, and neither did Mia. I've met with them both, fighting for a long time to make things better around here.
I feel alone in that sometimes, because most people here know that they get ignored by the city and accept it.
I don't
And I think we can do better.
I won't use my seat to fight the school board to get a/c on buses, but I will still fight for that, because I think student violence goes down, and also say how do you tell a kid you care about them then make them suffer in excessive heat and allow an environment PROVEN to promote violence?
I won't seek to raise taxes, and don't like fees, but won't seek to reduce them until we cover essential services, and get more cops and better education.
Some things we need and we have to pay for it, or pay more later.
Besides, the better we make our city, the more good paying corporations we can attract.

And Ock, I'm so behind light rail and good mass transit, but you know that already.
So gang, if you are actually sick of the same old same old like I am, then please consider helping me....
I'm proud that I usually don't ask for help, but smart enough to know when I need it, and if you don't think I'm sincere, spend an hour with me one day and find out just how sincere I really am.

By the way, that picture above, 1,122 DEAD, it is from the 2004 election day at Memorial Park, where I had a quart of oil for every 10 dead soldiers spelling out the total of dead for that day.

So if you want to see someone maybe get elected instead of a "business-as-usual" developer owned joke, then have a little faith in me and help me get in there and kick some ass....

[Radio Talk Show Host]

I think the picture of you with words spelled with quarts of oil says a lot good luck man

[Skot David Wilson]

Thanks!
I've been making flyers and knocking on doors. I figure if I can reach enough people who feel just as angry at how things are and unrepresented as I feel maybe I can get in, and if I do at least be able to voice out on things.
Anger can be a good thing, and while I may have a checkered and colorful past, most of it is filled with me doing good works, and all throughout there aren't any lies.
Art Shad attacked someone, something I haven't.
By rights, he should have gone to jail for simple assault.
Peyton should go to jail for lying.... and yes, it should be a crime...
and there are more than one elected officials who have violated the Sunshine law or done something else worthy of jail......
I think it is time for someone who is staying one step ahead of poverty, who has had to make the choice between paying a ticket or paying JEA to keep the lights on, who lives on one income because his wife is disabled, and who spends his last dollar helping people sometimes.... to sit on a council seat.
King Holzendork has a $275,000 condo on the beach in nassau County... like he cares about any of us working people....
And that's the point. Yeah I have a record, over stupid stuff that money would have easily solved, but when you bust your ass and still can't get ahead, because your back, knee and wrist are shot, and your wife can't work and you have too many bills and nothing there to save you....
I think of all the people worse off than me, who have been left behind and only want the basics in life... but are denied by circumstance.... I get angry.
We have the ability to do so much better, and a duty to.
If you make over $40,000 a year you might understand why I'm running, but if you make under that you damn sure do.
If you make $60-70K a year or better, you might not understand.
And if you're a Peyton or a Wiles or a Harden or a Holzendorf, you damn sure don't get it.
We have some real problems that we've already had more than enough lip service on.
check out http://electskot.blogspot.com and you can see the companion picture to this one here.
I don't understand how anyone making less than $150K a year would want to vote anything other than democrat, unless you have some of the sorry democrats we've been stuck with for too long....

I don't like the extreme right or left, but am more of a "middle of the road" radical.
Maybe my campaign slogan can be "Can't be any worse than what you're used to!"
but my son came up with a good one....
"Looking Out for the little guy"
I think that fits.

[willydenn]

"I don't understand how anyone making less than $150K a year would want to vote anything other than democrat.."

One word:  Principle.

I make nothing close to that and would probably give up a finger before voting Democrat.  I do agree that many of the Republicans have been BAD, but more regulation, bigger government, and higher taxes are things I will NEVER get behind. 

[Charles Hunter]

The GOP is against more government and regulation? the so-called Patriot Act, prohibitions against certain private activities, etc.
And cutting taxes has resulted in huge deficits, that our grandchildren will be paying for.

The old GOP would be appalled at the Not-so-Grand New Party.

[Timkin]

I wish you great luck , Skot, and can appreciate your position

[Skot David Wilson]

We do need to pay for what we need as we go....  I can see bond issues and loans when it is for infrastructure, maybe a few programs that promote real growth, but not operational costs...
Part of why I want in is to get education caught up in NE Florida and make it attractive to "green" businesses to locate here, also the only tax breaks I'd give would be to get those companies here, knowing that if they come just being here would provide revenue and growth...
Don't forget to check out my election website...
Thanks to all of you who understand why I'm running and support me...

[willydenn]

The GOP is against more government and regulation? the so-called Patriot Act, prohibitions against certain private activities, etc.
And cutting taxes has resulted in huge deficits, that our grandchildren will be paying for.

The old GOP would be appalled at the Not-so-Grand New Party.

I can't argue against the Patriot Act bringing about more regulation and expanding govt, however the tax cuts increased govt. revenue as expected.  It is the the ridiculous spending that results in huge deficits.  Both parties are out of control on spending.  I will be voting for the less of two evils, as are most people.  I can argue the fact that the Dems want Socialized healthcare, are against privatizing Social Security (or any solution for that matter), opposed school vouchers, and want to expand the current progressive (Marxist) tax system. 

On the other hand, Bush feels the need to interfere with the market with a "stimulus package."  I should be receiving my government handout in the mail soon. 

....I think I'm moving to either Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, or Australia.  All finished ahead of the U.S. on the economic freedom list.  http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.cfm   

[Charles Hunter]

Interesting about Hong Kong (part of the People's Republic of China) and Singapore (not real bastions of personal freedoms).

Back to Skot - as a member of City Council, how do propose to affect the School Board?