A.G. Gancarski
Gary Koniz finished a distant third in the race in Northeast Florida’s 4th Congressional District, garnering 2.21 percent of the vote.
Days before his latest in a series of electoral drubbings, the NPA candidate made his displeasure known via a mass email to a few dozen people, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, Gov. Rick Scott, Robert Redford, Donald J. Trump, area sheriffs, and at least one representative of the FBI.
The subject: a lack of coverage of his insurgent campaign in an October article written by Nate Monroe in the Florida Times-Union.
The author, Nate Monroe, wrote an article in late October positing that Rep.-elect John Rutherford, who got over 70 percent of the vote.
The problem?
Monroe determined, via an examination of campaign finance and internal polling in the race, that Rutherford was the “easy favorite” to replace Ander Crenshaw in Congress.
“It was Really rude of you to snub me as you did,” Koniz writes. “I am after all a viable and valid Independent Candidate in this Congressional Race with a Working Class Constituency in need of my Representation and my voice in their behalf with a point of view to be ‘reasoned fairly’ before the public.”
Monroe’s failure to interview Koniz was framed in the email from Nov. 7 as a “definite violation” of federal election law and “Illegal Election Tampering.”
“I do therefore firmly request that you immediately print for me a legally addendumed version of your article to highlight my Campaign Profile and Platform write up (as you should have included) along with the other two ‘Establishment Oriented Republican and the Democrat Candidates’ who you seem to feel are the only viable candidates in this race according to your slanted and biased version of our Very important Election Coverage,” Koniz continues, adding that the paper is not Monroe’s “private forum.”
One comment
Gary Koniz
November 12, 2016 at 11:45 am
Dear Mr. Monroe:
Florida Times Union
November 12, 2016
I do respect you and therefore want you to know that I do not harbor any animosity toward you in pressing my Motion directly with The State’s Attorney and The Florida Election Commission for your Violation of Florida Statute 104.061 Corruptly influencing voting — but the point I feel in my heart has to made to you and to the policy of The Florida Times Union in general; “that our politics is very serious business” not to be disrespected.
The Message is important here: That we intend to our Enforce Our Agendas whether elected to Congress to Legislatively Enact or otherwise by Mandate Of The Public. The Goal of our Project, To Create a Modern
Economy and a Model Society upon the earth in name to Social Justice pales beyond the Arena of Politics.
And to add as well, that I always did considered our former and highly regarded Sheriff John Rutherford to be the best candidate by far for the position of our Congressional Representative in the 4th CD; due to his overall leadership and executive managerial experience in capability, and for his Stature of Established Integrity in our Community; and that I had no qualms with you predicting him to be the outright winner of the election about.
You did however totally disregarded me altogether, as if what I had to say and to contribute was not important at all (to you) and thereby to the public at large, to make an informed and intelligent decision on their own about based to an unbiased and fair evaluation of the facts and issues presented in your article; that represented a lot of determined hard work and personal financial sacrifice on my part to bring before the public in our Congressional District; of the needs of The Working Class and how to fix the Economic Problems facing our Nation (and for other Vital Concerns of State to Urgently Resolve;) and affecting everyone that warranted you to have respected.
Let us therefore move forward with a Community Effort to work with Congressman Rutherford while in office.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/226951-cd-4-loser-charges-florida-times-union-election-violation
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