I’m always so proud of Martin County and so proud of our Sugar Free Martin County DEC.
Here is some of the video from the spring fling
Dave Dew, Martin County Commiteeman
Mary Westcott HIggins
Our friend Michael Kenny, District Director for Congressman Patrick E. Murphy
www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page/portal/xweb about us/governing board
The South Florida Water Management District is directed by nine Governing Board members who set policy for the agency. They reside within the agency’s 16-county region and represent a cross section of interests, including the environment, agriculture, local government, recreation and business. Governing Board members are unpaid citizen volunteers appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Florida Senate. They generally serve four-year terms.
The South Florida Water Management District encompasses two major watershed basins, the Okeechobee Basin and the Big Cypress Basin. The Big Cypress Basin also has a Basin Board, with appointed members setting policy. One Governing Board member also serves as the chair of the Big Cypress Basin Board.
The Governing Board appoints the Executive Director, who directs all South Florida Water Management District activities. The Florida Senate confirms this candidate.”
So the people on the board of South Water Management District are unpaid volunteers. We are volunteers. They are volunteers that are friends of Rick Scott. We get bubka’s.
Why does a group of unpaid volunteers get to make a decision about our discharges, our water, our everglades?
Here is the discussion at the end of the meeting last week about why the land will not be bought.
So i’m good with the attention and the general message. But I’m not cool with giving Everett Wilkenson any attention at all! Just two weeks ago he paid 50 actors 75 dollars and duped them into thinking they were shooting the backdrop for a tea party documentary. I know channel 12 knows this because i personally went over to the news truck last Thurs and told them myself.
read here: https://cyndi-lenz.com/2015/04/07/actors-duped-in-tea-party-protest-at-south-florida-water-management/
“I don’t know anything about people being paid! These are real protestors”
Here is the piece! Again thanks so much for investigating but please don’t give any attention to fake people.Why are we talking about “Land Grabs?” Its a conspiracy theory.
For two years I’ve been begging people to talk to each other in the paper. We are so blessed to have the very best dedicated lagoon team. Now we can send articles to our friends! Our voices and the voices of the Stuart News is intragral to being heard.
So thank you who ever made this happen. (I think the person has the initials E.S.) because now we can talk to each other and reach out even more.
Thanks for publishing my letter.
Thanks to all the people who commented.
#buytheland #stopthetoxicdischarges #saveourdrinkingwater
Water Advocates that are not paid duped actors advocate for the water at South Florida Water Management District.
So here we were back again on April 9. Due to work I missed most of the morning but I was able to get video in the afternoon. I’d like to take the opportunity to say thank you for being able to shoot this video to document the effort to save the lagoon. This is using my camera for the highest good and it also comes with the responsibility of being professional with my work product and I take that responsibility very seriously. I hope others do also. Don’t use your camera to act out, be vindictive and humiliate others.
For those who do not understand why this is so important: The option runs in October to buy this land. This has to be dealt with before May 1. The last video is the discussion by the board after we all spoke.
And this has been the issue. No one is talking to each other. We talk to the board, the legislators, Rick Scott. They have answers but they don’t talk to us. There is no discussion. There is however an enormous amount of frustration.
I think its important to listen to what board believes and address that.
Our friend Aiden Lewey telling us the lesson of the lorax.
Linda Curtis The Death Mermaid Speaks out
Irene
SFWMD April 9 Julie Williams reads Stuart , FL resolution to purchase land into the record.
Stephen Malagodi
Megan Remick
Julia Hathaway
The City of Stuart and St Lucie Resolutions being read into the record
Dr Harvey Hathaway read Sewell’s Point Resolution to buy the land.
Laura Reynolds from Tropical Audubon
Eileen
Gayle Ryan
kenny hinkle jr
John and Ruth Scott from the West Coast
Linda Miller
Jon Ullman The Sierra Club
Florida Audoban
Florida Wildlife Federation
Everglades Law Center
Cristy Costello Sierra Club Florida
Dr Gary Goforth
Dawn
South Florida Wildlife Association
Mark Perry
Our wonderful speakers from the west coast!
Various speakers
Lee Country Resolution
me!
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrP-SCwrVeI&feature=youtu.be
and finally the discussion after all the speakers
I wrote four speeches. One all typed out. 2 more I wrote out on the way to the meeting and the last I wrote on scrap paper. In the end I threw them all away and spoke from heart minus the curse words. Afterwards I cried.
“Thank you for bringing our message home today.”
I havn’t downloaded my video, so thanks to Irene for shooting this nice video of me talking to the Board of Governors at South Florida Water Management.
This week the item was on the agenda. Afterwards Kevin Power’s said for sure he’d be a River Kid. Instead of just moving on to the next subject there was discussion. Not the one we wanted. They want to finish projects.
Years of talking to these people and we will still have discharges probably forever. The Everglades will be destroyed. Our drinking water destroyed. I’m sure they have something up their sleeves about that one and it will include spending lots of money and the cost will be passed on to you.
How dare we ask for clean drinkable water. We have a lot of nerve.
How dare the people of the Treasure Coast ask to have our clean water back.
We passed amendment one to buy this land. How difficult is it going to be in the future to get people to sign on and pass citizen initiatives if the legislature is just going to go what they want to do?
In our next election will people really think about who they are voting for and are they going to put up deeper into this hole of being manipulated by Big Sugar and other Big Business and not whats good for us?
Right now the best thing we can do is pray for a drought.
So here is my message to Rick Scott, our legislature and the Board of Governors of South Florida Water Management District.Stop the discharges. You figure it out! We did everything we possibly could, we got you the money, we got the support, we pulled everyone together. Keep the locks closed. Close them forever. and bring us some oysters. ” Then go home and find us people who can come up with solutions not constraints. Because no one. Not one single person should have to deal with this.
For Immediate Release: Contact Cris Costello, Sierra Club, 941-914-0421 (cell). Julia Hathaway, Sierra Club, West Palm Beach, 202-315-8211 (cell)
Floridians demand Gov. Scott’s appointees initiate US Sugar purchase
Residents will wear stickers saying: “I’m not an actor”
When: Thursday, April 9, 2015
Time: 9 a.m.
Where: South Florida Water Management District Governing Board Headquarters Auditorium: 3301 Gun Club Road, West Palm Beach, Florida, 33406
What: Large turnout to Buy Sugar Land NOW!
Florida Senator Joe Negron (R) said he is planning on introducing legislation asking for $500 million for land purchases, money that could buy U.S. Sugar lands.
Supporters of US Sugar purchase will once again convene at the West Palm Beach headquarters of the South Florida Water Management District to demand that Governor Rick Scott’s appointed water managers purchase 48,600 acres of US Sugar land to restore the Everglades and protect the coasts from pollution. The state of Florida has an option to purchase the land by October, but water managers must take action now for the process to begin.
Last week, actors were paid $75 to attend a Tea Party protest against the purchase.
**VISUALS** Residents wearing “I’m not an actor” stickers. Signs. An enlarged photo of hundreds of Buy the Land supporters from Tallahassee.
Why: The South Florida Water Management District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are dumping more about a half billion gallons of highly polluted fresh water a day into the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers, polluting critical marine habitats and harming communities.
Residents are incredulous that Governor Scott and his appointees will not consider the 48,600 acre purchase option in the US Sugar contract in spite of algal blooms and massive marine die offs that occurred in Indian River Lagoon in 2013 and are now threatening. According to the University of Florida, the land purchase must be considered to stop marine life die-offs.
As polluted water is dumped to the coasts, the Everglades subject of a multibillion restoration project, is starving for water. The solution, according to University of Florida scientists, is to pursue 48,600 acres of sugar land to store and clean the water. Governing board members have largely ignored those pleas and appear intent to allow Big Sugar to walk out of a deal and let restoration evaporate forever.
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
When a person’s free will is taken away it chill’s me to the core. As humans we are morally responsible for our own behavior. If someone take’s away a person’s free will they take away their freedom.
So it cracks me up when people spout off about freedom but have no issue taking that freedom away.
What is to act or choose freely?
What is to be morally responsible for one’s actions or choices?
So last week when Karen Donahue under the direction of Everett Wilkinson called Jason Wool to wrangle up actors to be in a piece that was supposedly to be the background of a documentary for the Tea Party and spun this off for Jason to be the middle man, a huge lie, she took away his free will.
Then when the actors showed up to do their job and hold their signs and yell and make noise based on this lie their free will was taken away.
Stolen. What’s the price for stealing people souls?
Because when you take away free will, you take away a person’s freedom and freedom is what I thought the Tea Party people stood for?
What do you think?
Henry David Thoreau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Thoreau’s writings went on to influence many public figures.
Political leaders and reformers like Mohandas Gandhi, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and Russian author Leo Tolstoy all spoke of being strongly affected by Thoreau’s work, particularly Civil Disobedience, as did “right-wing theorist Frank Chodorov [who] devoted an entire issue of his monthly, Analysis, to an appreciation of Thoreau.”[70]
To ALL my friends:
I just want to give you everyone an update on this situation with this issue with actors protesting at SFWMD last week. Karen Donahue called Jason Wool to wrangle up actors to be in a piece that was suppose to be the background of a documentary for the Tea Party. When Karen put out her add the it said to contact Jason. Karen spun this off for Jason to be the middle man. People responded to Jason, because they know him , because he is a trusted member of the acting community and frequently helps his fellow actors get gigs. He had recently gotten Karen a gig. So Jason thought she was just returning the favor. Fifty people were given what they thought was an acting gig. There were sag actors involved but no sag contracts. And no water was provided as required by SAG. NO WATER!
Karen will not talk to Jason. He has tried to call her and she refuses to talk to him.
So it seems the whole thing was set up by Karen Donahue and
Everett Wilkinson.
But who paid the money to Everett?
“I don’t know anything about people being paid! These are real protestors”
Everett was brought into the meeting and greeted by a friend on the WRAC board. Who was that? And is that person who paid these guys to do this. To trick them.
You have to be a real bottom feeder to do this.
Anyone who knowingly tricks people into doing something by presenting it in a different way is truly a bottom feeder. I
Jason is now receiving nasty emails. They should not be directed at him. Please do not direct your anger at the people who were tricked.
The people you should be harassing is South Florida Water Management to get to the bottom of who hired these guys. I doubt they even care.
We demand an investigation!
I made my call.. Now you makes yours.
Attention: Florida Senator Joe Negron
(850) 487-5032
#buytheland
This past weekend I went to celebrate this little guys celebration of a complete rotation around the sun.
mista sunshine
I drove five hours to Anna Maria Island. The last hour sitting in traffic to get over the bridge to the island. When I got there
I saw this.
Anna Maria Island
I spent the entire day at the beach in that water. It was the first time since 2013 that I could swim in clean water.
This is my house.
What’s wrong with this picture?
This is my letter to the Editor in the Stuart News Today.
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What’s the obstacle? U.S. Sugar wants out of its contract. Instead of selling the land like it agreed to do, it now urges the Legislature to drag its feet until the agreement expires later this year.
We can’t go through this again, and if our local legislators and Gov. Scott turn their backs on us, it is time we turn our backs on them.”
I left you a message at your office today.
We want this:
Not this:
It’s not that complicated. One piece of land will complete everglades restoration, save the water of South Florida, protect our drinking water, Protect the Everglades and for goodness protect and represent the people you are suppose to represent.
Thank you,
Cyndi Lenz and Mista Sunshine
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