William Stephen (Dare?) Griffin

[icarus]

This is straight up libel. You guys probably shouldn't be printing this stuff just because you are panicking about the lawsuit he's filed against you.

Curiosity got the better of me and I checked the Clerk of the Court and no suit open yet .... but should make for some interesting side reading

[edjax]

Anybody recall that fairly unflattering story the Times Union ran about Mr Dare many years ago?  This kind of seems be following down the same road as I recall.

I believe it was a Folio Weekly cover story.

It was titled "Truth or Dare?"

Really thought it was the T-U.  Quite some time ago. At least 15 years ago.  But possibly you are right on he Folio

[thelakelander]

That "Truth or Dare" article was published in Folio Weekly in 2007.  I know because we have a copy of it.

[Jagsdrew]

I was told there would be cake

[lastdaysoffla]

Anybody recall that fairly unflattering story the Times Union ran about Mr Dare many years ago?  This kind of seems be following down the same road as I recall.

I believe it was a Folio Weekly cover story.

It was titled "Truth or Dare?"

For the past 20 years, Stephen Dare's projects have followed a reliable pattern: grandiose expectations, scaled-back reality, eventual debt. Gifted with an original turn of mind and a storyteller's ability to memorize. Dare has inspired others to believe him in his ability to breathe life into Jacksonville's urban neighborhoods. But his critics paint him as a con artist and a cheat. And many who've worked closely with him contend Stephen Dare's main project is to promote Stephen Dare.

[Noone]

Does Putnam county know about any of this?
SOUTHWEST welcome to the SOUTHEAST

The benefit of this forum was and is to share tactical and organic posts that evolve into a positive outcome for everyone.
Does anyone now feel sorry for the you know who guys?

I love MJ.
It is frustrating and hard enough to participate in our legislative process in Jacksonville over the years and the MJ team at the time was cutting edge with posting solid info and blogging. I miss that. It is frustrating to attempt to offer something on this forum and then to have it just pulled. Then to hope that you quote someone else's post and just add a +1

For what it's worth 2017-160 is new active legislation that in my opinion WILL restrict Joe Q. Public in our Duval county legislative process. I was at the 3/13/17 Ethics Commission meeting where this was discussed. No one was there. Nobody from TU, FOLIO, BUSINESS JOURNAL, MJ,  DAILEY RECORD, RADIO or TV. etc. etc . Etc.  WHY?

When we have a total collapse of Ethics where then do you turn to restore the Public Trust?

MJ was a forum where you believed it happened.

[Downtownparks2]

Congrats guys. All of this rumor mill bullshit is straight out of the Dare playbook, including the lawsuit threats, the character assasination, and the rumors that, while having flakes of truth, are mostly bullshit.

As an original MJ poster, I believe Dan and Ennis are above board, and telling the truth, and wish MJ, UC, and any other project they do nothing but success.

Onward and upward MJ!

[KenFSU]

Does anyone now feel sorry for the you know who guys?

My sympathy tends to go out the window when the "you know who guy" reaches out to my place of employment at 1:30 in the morning to try to personally bash me based on a rather innocuous mEsSaGe bOaRd CoMmEnT.

But then again, what do I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[acme54321]

Does anyone now feel sorry for the you know who guys?

My sympathy tends to go out the window when the "you know who guy" reaches out to my place of employment at 1:30 in the morning to try to personally bash me based on a rather innocuous mEsSaGe bOaRd CoMmEnT.

But then again, what do I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Say what?

[Lunican]

Please send any harassing messages from Stephen to metrojacksonville@metrojacksonville.com.

[johnnyliar]

Does anyone now feel sorry for the you know who guys?

My sympathy tends to go out the window when the "you know who guy" reaches out to my place of employment at 1:30 in the morning to try to personally bash me based on a rather innocuous mEsSaGe bOaRd CoMmEnT.

But then again, what do I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Dang, this is so juicy.

[JPalmer]

[Bill Hoff]

Does anyone now feel sorry for the you know who guys?

My sympathy tends to go out the window when the "you know who guy" reaches out to my place of employment at 1:30 in the morning to try to personally bash me based on a rather innocuous mEsSaGe bOaRd CoMmEnT.

But then again, what do I know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have a similar story.

Around 2008/09, I had just moved moved back to Jacksonville and taken a position at a large oncology medical center. My supervisor at that time was active in the community and turned me on to MetroJacksonville. He participated in the forum discussions on occasioon.

One afternoon, the Director of the medical center was contacted by Mr. "Dare" by phone, where he complained about my supervisor due to a disagreement on the forum, and tried to get him fired. It was pretty shocking, but thankfully unsuccessful.

My impression in recent years was that Mr. "Dare" had toned down his shtick, at least enough to get credible institutions to trust him. Ie, appearing on a local news show, part of a Alvin Brown steering committee, spending time with reputable community leaders, etc.

Then late last year, a friend informed me he was going around telling people that I was somehow key in starting ModernCities.com, and was doing so as an attack on him personally. Of course, that was ridiculous and I was never involved.

If it wasn't sad, it'd be funny.

[Lunican]

We've had many reports of this kind of behavior and removed his ability to see any private member info years ago. Thankfully, this hampered his ability to contact people. Unfortunately, sometimes people reveal their identities to him voluntarily.

[funwithteeth]

I once got a long, scolding MySpace message* from him because I commented on someone else's MySpace post about him. Apparently, everyone who commented on the original post got one, too

My own personal interactions with Dare have never extended beyond being in the same room as him on a number of occasions, but I was certainly aware of his reputation.

*Yes, MySpace. This was some time in the mid-aughts.