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To our legislators in Tallahassee who do you represent? Because your not representing us!
Here is a video of 7,000 citizens of the Treasure coast marching to the locks after we were decimated in 2013. I don’t see anything about party. I do however see a lot of people that want this to stop.
It’s really painful to write this stuff. We have an awesome clean water movement. Its made up of a great group of people who never ask about party. Because clean water is for all not just for some. The toxic discharges affect all the people.
Here is party breakdown for Martin County. Republicans: 51,031 Democrats 26,292
| MARTIN | 51,031 | 26,294 | 5,437 | 20,630 | 103,392 |
So this year the Republicans have a super majority and they think they are so well organized that they leave and go out of the sunshine to talk and they bully members of their party to follow “leadership.”
In Tallahassee people are cut off at the knees if they don’t vote as leadership intended and we all suffer. We’re certainly not represented.
I feel like the Republicans in Tallahassee are not even representing their own base. Because their base needs clean water.
So who are you representing when you do this stuff?
Seem’s like Big sugar is totally represented. Because if you represented us the land would be bought and the discharges would stop.
One thing these guys are really good at coming up with a message and repeating it over and over again until you yourself can’t remember whats true. That’s why excellent documentation is so important.
This is an excellent article written by our own Tyler Treadway. Thank goodness for him and our incredible journalists at the Stuart News.
As a reminder Sen. Joe Negron wanted the UF Study and he found the money to do so. Sen Negron waited for this study before saying anything. After all, he insisted it get done. So it comes out and instead of reading it people glom on to what they want. Which is natural.
The problem is the people who are making decisions about our discharges and our clean drinking water are glomming on also.
This article needs to be read by people who are REPRESENTING the citizens of Martin County.
“Statement: Water district board member Kevin Powers at the April 9 meeting noted that none of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan’s 68 projects has been completed and said, “Nobody wants (the discharges to stop) more than me, but we’re not going to get there if we don’t complete some of these projects.”
Fact: The UF study does call for accelerating “the funding and completion of existing and federally authorized CERP projects designed specifically to provide relief” to the estuaries. It also states those projects won’t stop the discharges. That’s going to require “enormous increases in storage and treatment of water both north and south of the lake.”
Statement: A March 28 Miami Herald editorial stated the study determined the sugar land is “among the must-have pieces of land that a winning environmental strategy requires.”
Fact: The study states reducing discharges and meeting the Everglades’ need for more water will “require between 11,000 and 129,000 acres of additional land” between the lake and the national park, but it doesn’t identify what land. “The U.S. Sugar option land may or may not be the right land, but additional land will be needed to achieve restoration,” Graham said.”
You all still have time to listen and learn and turn this around for the people you represent.
#buytheland #sendcleanwatersouth
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