Walton County Politics

10/09/2024

The culture of our country starts with the culture of our local government.
Unfortunately both are in decline.

When your local elected county government
Including their appointed managers act in violation of sexual harassment statutes and policies, and do not wish to even uncover the truth behind these actions, we are all guilty.

On Tuesday October 8, the BCC and the citizens heard a letter read by Commissioner Johns detailing a special investigator’s discoveries of
Sexual misconduct with the highest offices oin the county.

If an elected or appointed department head or county manager or anyone else in responsible charge hears of sexual harassment and sits on it is as guilty as the perpetrators.

When these actions are swept under the rug, allowed to continue the victims, many of who. Have either quit or been demoted, will sue the county and individuals involved in the policy violations.

These lawsuits happen in closed sessions. The county ,99% of the time, settles these cases by paying off the victims. These payoffs run into the hundreds of thousands of taxpayer money.

Many times, the citizens never hear of these payments.

Citizens are calling the BCC to do a thorough investigation of these women’s claims and
most likely fire anyone who is a perpetrator
Or anyone who is covering up an incident.

Unfortunately, the department head who is under fire is the HR director. And his supervisor the county manager , may also be involved in the same violations.

The hen house needs purging. The buck stops at the commissioner’s. Their leadership filters down to the employee’s who figure because their boss partakes it’s ok for everyone.

If someone is in violation, the citizen’s tax money should not be used to pay these cases.

I propose these cases are paid for by the perpetrators. This could stop all this in its tracks if one knew they would be financially responsible if they were found guilty.

If you want to see the bcc in its less than finest hour, watch the 10/8/24 meeting at the end around 3:15pm.

09/07/2024

I attended part of the BCC meeting where the bidders for the waste management contract gave their pitches. This is a multimillion dollar contract. One of the presenters indicated his company had a contract to purchase 50 acres around the DFS golf course to develop an RV park as a partnership with the county.

I’ve heard a lot of company pitches for contracts but never heard one that offers to “help” the county basically “save” the golf course
by providing RV parking adjacent the course.

What do you think? Are RV ‘s going to help get the golf course out of the million dollar losses
we are subsidizing to keep it and the bar open??
Should a company get a multimillion dollar contract based on “helping” the county save this money pit??

Comments welcome.

08/25/2024

Election accusations. Many of you may have seen videos made by Chas Galloway under the name John Walton accusing the Curry for Commissioner campaign of sending out 50,000
Postcards. What Mr. Galloway doesn’t understand about elections is anyone can form a PAC (political Action Committee) mostly done by attorneys in Tallahassee who can collect any amount of money over what an individual can give a candidate. So what happens is say someone like Randy Gardner gives the PAC $5,000 or whatever he wants and directs the PAC to have negative postcards sent out to voters . This is all legal and called dark money.
Randy Gardner paid $5,000 to a PAC in Tallahassee to send out derogatory postcards about me when I ran in 2016. You can track these contributions and attorney names by going on the Dept. of Elections website and searching for PAC’s where you will find names of contributors and amounts and who was used to print the mailers.

When Chaz says Commissioner Curry will go to
Jail because of campaign finance laws, he is very ill informed about election laws.

If someone is going to tout themselves as a “political consultant” they need to understand election laws.

08/16/2024

This is the legislator who sponsored the Walton County “take our beach” bill that then Governor Scott signed directed at only Walton County. The bill basically stole our beaches from the public.

The Senate president says condominium laws can be addressed after the November elections and during the 2025 regular session.

08/13/2024

Chuck Wilder does not live in Walton County.
Same as ballot deletion for presidential candidate . Walton should have to live in district at least one year to run for bcc!!
Would you support that???

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s longshot bid for president has become even more unlikely after a judge ruled hat his name should not appear on New York’s ballot, declaring her is not a resident there.

08/13/2024

Racist commissioners Anderson and Nick. I wonder if DeSantis needs to expel them from office. !!!!

A lawsuit accusing three Walton County Commissioners of gender discrimination reveals two more shared racist texts while attending a conference.

08/12/2024

Red Alert

Many of you may have gotten an email from Chaz Galloway
Stating that Barbara Morano had him thrown in jail. No Chaz, Mr. Crybaby,
It is against the law to deface private property ; I.e. kicking and defacing political signs is unlawful. You are being prosecuted for breaking the law. It has nothing to do with your right to free speech or someone reporting you. You reported yourself when you videoed your crime and posted it!!
Read the constitution.
Recording your own crimes and putting them on Facebook is also very dumb. .

We here in Walton county are going to enforce the laws. We are a law abiding country.
We understand you see this kind of crime on tv with no consequences but in Walton County there are consequences.

Home of the free and land of the brave.
If you can’t be a law abindibv citizen, move.

08/02/2024

If you get an email naming the bcc candidates who are for private beaches, it’s false from Chas Galloway. All candidates support a path to public beach access.

07/28/2024

Walton County and District 1 deserve better than a racist.

07/27/2024

WALTON COUNTY and District 5 deserve better.

07/24/2024

No I did not put out any negative info on Aaron Murray who is running for sheriff.
He’s a good man and I am for him.

07/10/2024

Citizens Beware; As published in SoWal Life July 2024.

06/29/2024

It’s heating up out there! Local campaigns that is.
Signs cannot be placed in rights of way.
If there is a Democrat or NPA or write-in candidate in a local race, that primary is closed and you can only vote your party. If only one party runs, as in the District 1 Comission race,
It’s open primary and all parties vote.
In District 5 Commission race, there is a Democrat running, so only Republicans can vote in that primary for that seat.
Confused? Registered. Voters of any party can vote in the general election in November.
Commission races are countywide but serve in the district of residence.

05/25/2024

It’s heating up. The weather and the campaigns.
Stay informed. Vote.

05/07/2024

Walton County take note.

04/12/2024

Elections 2024 Important Dates

Candidates for local offices must declare to run-
June 10-June 14.

Registration and Party Change deadline-July 22
Deadline to request a Mail Ballot-Aug 8
Early In Person Voting: Aug 10-17
Primary Election: August 20

If there is a Dem or NPA candidate, only Republicans can vote in the Rep primary and only Dems can vote in the Dem primary.

County commissioners are elected by countywide vote.

General Election: November 5-Republican winner vs. Dem or NPA candidate.

For detailed info, go to Walton County Fl Supervisor of Elections website.

04/05/2024

You will be getting lots of online information, Mailers, and texts from unknowns because it is election time 2024. It’s too bad there is a lot of
phony, disruptive, false, AI created content being spit out to all of us.

One such “political operative” has signed up to run in District 5 so that he can post nefarious, untrue, and downright ridiculous content against other candidates. You must be a candidate to be able to send out negative information about other candidates and persons you don’t agree with.

Chas Galloway, Aka “John Walton” is one such candidate. While “challenging” the District 5 commissioner, he also writes glowing content about the one he is supposedly running against.
Does he think we are all stupid???

He also breaks state campaign laws by posting lies about other candidates. He says Barbara Morano, who is interested in running for District 5 is a Democrat. Lie #1. She is a Republican.

A disgruntled boy child who is searching for significance is trying to sway your vote by inundating your inbox with content that is laughably misleading and junvenile. He is still looking for that high paying county position by helping Trey Nick, Tony Anderson. Danny Glidewell in their attempt to rule the county.

We are sorry Chas that you didn’t get the life you wanted. There’s still time to clean up your act and work to make the world a better place with acts of charity and kindness. If not, you will find yourself in a dark, dark place.

Good luck to you.

04/02/2024

Today you may receive a petition to the Governor requesting three commissioners resign over various issues; beach privitization being the main complaint.

Now think before you sign. This was written (most likely using Artificial Intelligence AI)
by Charles Galloway aka John Walton, as a
maneuver to get his boys into the seats of Mccormick, Johns and Drake.

We are all in favor of public beaches. What this petition doesn’t mention is the Governor is the one who appoints commission seats that have been vacated. If these three are forced out, the Governor is not going to appoint commissioners who support public beaches. His money supporters are wealthy property owners and attorneys up and down the coasts of Florida.

This petition, while pleading for public beaches, does nothing but demand three commissioners resign so Trey Nick can unseat McCormick, Galloway can unseat Johns, and another crony can unseat Drake.

The way to go after the private beach Legislative
Bill that addressed only Walton County is to appeal the action based on constitutionality.

This is our opinion here at the real Walton Politics.