Alan Brock is Committed to Positive Campaigning and the Issues Facing Wakulla County

Grow Up?
written by Coral , August 26, 2008

I didn't realize owning land was a pre-requisite to sit on the commission ... Guess I should've run since I own land and have a kid? He's not even an outsider ... My grandfather took a commission position in a town he just moved to; the reason he was chosen? Because he wasn't meddling in the good 'ole boy politics ... so what's wrong with Alan, too innocent, too decent, too compassionate, too much experience (at such a young age) with policy and public welfare?
Guess I don't see the negative in this candidate - what are you all looking for?
Coral Schieve

SOME COMMENTS ABOUT ALAN BROCK'S LETTER
written by hughtaylor , August 23, 2008

“Divisive politics are what is hurting Wakulla County.”

First, I would disagree. Elitist and self-serving policies are hurting Wakulla County. That said, if anyone disagrees with Alan Brock, Alan Brock thinks it’s divisive? Not a way to campaign, m’boy. Or govern as a county commissioner (Or to speak of yourself in the third person). There are a number of people concerned with your full coffers, how they’re being filled, the positions you hold when you do, and running for cover and your lack of positions otherwise.

Talking about a position is not having a position.

And when citizens speak to this they’re “divisive?” Agree with me or “I’ll hold my breath until I turn blue?” Pretty immature, that. Was David Murrell right when he wrote, ”Then, he (Brock) went on and on about “the ill-informed, misguided, and shameful ‘vocal minority’”? We’ve had this before—in the water bottling battle as a matter of fact. Allison Defoor, a Republican politician of note, called bottling opponents “fellow travelers.” Both comments are pretty uncivil, divisive, and immature. Is that what you politicians do?

“I am fortunate that I am not only a leader here in our community, but also statewide and nationally”

I was looking for you at the last BOCC meeting to tell you of our concerns and that we would be putting an ad, with our own money, in the paper, speaking to your money, inexperience and positions. But you were absent. Off campaigning nationally, I guess. And the last BOCC meeting was important. But then you might have had to take positions rather than drinking lattes in Denver.

You are not a leader, but a politician. We’ve just had that, much to our regret. Speaking out of both sides of your mouth is not being a leader. A leader would have been at every possible county commission meeting, like Jenny Brock and Mrs. Doyle and Ms. Artz.. We have national leaders. What we don’t have are enough county leaders. You are, however a masterfully connected politician. But picking an open seat and using your connections is not the way to run for local office. A leader would be volunteering on county committees, not statewide party things for personal advancement.

And that’s what is scary.

I, too, would invite everyone to do two things: Go to Alan’s web site and read—actually read—what he says. Or doesn’t say. Then get a copy of his campaign contributions and decide for yourself if we want that kind of money flowing into a local campaign. Big money, out of county money balanced by the $5 and $10 contributions of his “friends.” And that, my friends, is how he gets his "average."

Grow Up
written by Al Shylkofski , August 22, 2008

Alan, Dude get a life, maybe get a wife or whatever it is you do. Maybe you could move out on your own, buy some land down here. Just leave the politics to the grown up's. We need leaders with real life experience. We need leaders that own property and pay taxes here. Leaders who have children in our schools, not a child who went to our schools. We need to know how you feel on the issues not how a survey says you’re supposed to feel. We need leaders who have established roots in our county. I have been here some 18 years and this is the first I have heard of you son. You’re going to have to pay your dues. Go to a few BOCC meetings and see how the grown up's do things. This isn’t the same thing as playing political games with your rich friends from up north.

Vanilla Flavored Candidate Has Head in Clouds
written by Madeleine Carr , August 21, 2008

If Alan Brock has learned anything while he's been part of the Democratic Party he surely is aware that politics are not one flavor fits all. His vanilla sweet attitude that he wants to fix the divisiveness in Wakulla County has me thinking that his head is in the clouds, shrouded in a fog that has him more in touch with the Tallahassee Democratic Party political campaign advisors than local reality. Politics means divisiveness. Nobody in his right mind should think that we can "all get along." The democratic process is not pretty. And please, if Alan Brock should be elected and the water bottling issue raises its ugly head again, will he promise to abstain from voting? Just because his Tallahassee political handlers do not consider this or the health of Wakulla Springs important issues doesn't mean they have gone away. To many of us the bottling plant issue is relevant, as is the amount and health of the water flowing south from Tallahassee. Come to think of it, the political ideas flowing south from the city aren't much better.