From the T&G:
Newspaper sends wrong message with article
Dear Editor,
I read with interest the story about the Camden County trusties in the Jacksonville paper. This tabloid article was very misleading and contains factual errors. Why are they so determined to vilify Sheriff (Bill) Smith and all the great things he has and continues to do in our community?Shouldn't they mention some of the good things the trusties have done? In many cases, this is more than likely the first honest work a lot of these inmates have ever done. I have seen them cleaning up exit ramps on the interstate, cleaning up cemeteries, helping local churches, and have heard of essential work they did for Camden House plus assisted the Salvation Army.
I have only lived in Camden County for two years it seems to me that Sheriff Smith has placed more emphasis on the rehabilitation and helping these inmates to turn their lives around than any other place I have lived. There was no mention of this fact. Instead of telling the whole story, once again, the focus was on the negative and on malicious headline that will sell papers. What about the inmates that read this? What kind of message as a community,(including the newspaper) are we sending them? I feel that we should let them know that what they are doing is important and is honorable work.I think the newspaper's deliberate distortion of this story is shameful. The trusties and all the good work they do does not deserve to be castigated by a cutthroat operation out of Florida.
Lisa Callam
St. Marys
TRSP Review:
Dear Ms. Callam,
Do you think Bill Smith breaking the law to help criminals is OK? You " I have seen them cleaning up exit ramps on the interstate, cleaning up cemeteries, helping local churches, and have heard of essential work they did for Camden House plus assisted the Salvation Army." Take the interstate clean up out of that sentence and everything else he uses the trustee's for is illegal. Unless that cemeteries are government owned. By law these trustees should be working on government property only. And they should not be paid by the taxpayer of Camden County. Yes the drug fund money is the taxpayers money not Bill Smith. I don't care what clueless Charlene says Bill does not own the 911 center and he does not own the drug fund. We the people do.
What would you like the paper to report? The news is that he is doing all of this ILLEGALLY.
Read the law Ms. Callam, and if you still believe Bill is your hero, then by all means vote for him. If you can vote for a criminal more power to you.
"The people of this County do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created." ***The views expressed on this blog are the opinions of the individual that wrote them.
6 comments:
Ms. Callam,
Did Bill Smith grease your palm too? Seems like the only way he can get people to be supportive of him. You haven't been here long enough to really know this piece of garbage.
I think you fell off the turnip truck MS Callum
that letter sounds almost like one maryann printed some months back
Anybody know Lisa Callam? If so, please see that she resumes taking her medications.
Re: Rumor of "stacking the Grand Jury."
To suggest that Sheriff Smith is stacking the GJ, one would also be suggesting that the Clerk of Superior Court, Susan Waldron, is a pawn of Smith. All juror pools are pulled via the clerks office. Are you suggesting that she is a pawn among the many others?
The grand jury is pulled from a pool established by the jury commissioners using a random generator program. The inclusion of what appears to be a couple of ringers is just a coincidence.
And as someone posted, anyone with a conflict on a matter to be presented to the grand jury will be excused for the session.
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