Yesterday, approximately 200 Florida Residents from Tallahassee all the way south to the Florida Keys marched from the Naples Pier the couple of miles to Rick Scotts beachfront home. We had several demands to make on Ricky.
Take action on Climate change, invest in solar and wind.
Throughout his time in office, current Governor Rick Scott has either ignored the issue of climate change altogether, or taken actions to undermine opportunities for climate action. These actions include his signing of a bill eliminating Florida’s Climate Protection Act from state statute – the law designed to meet former governor Charlie Crist’s statewide greenhouse gas pollution reduction targets. Scott also allowed the legislature to dissolve the state’s Energy and Climate Commission, and move the governor’s state energy office to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Initially, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam showed promise on clean energy issues, but recently doesn’t seem willing to stand up to the state’s big power companies. There is no mention of climate or energy on his campaign website. In the end, he has done little to promote conservation and strong renewable energy policies.
Restore the everglades by creating a spillway to allow the clean water in the North to once again be sent south.
The Everglades originally stretched about 100 miles from the southern end of Lake Okeechobee down to the tidal estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Bay. (See Figure VII-1.) The topography is so flat that in the wet season, sheetflows used to average 40 miles wide and 2 feet deep. Even in the dry season, the majority of the Everglades remained wet. In wet years the water fed into Lake Okeechobee would spill over, flowing very slowly southward to produce the Everglades.
End his alliance with
big sugar that is polluting our waters with runoff, fertilizer and other chemicals.
The Times story pointed out that U.S. Sugar has already contributed $534,462 to Scott’s re-election campaign, which I guess makes him “bought and paid for” as well.
In the meantime, Big Sugar has gotten some sweet deals from Scott and the Legislature when it comes to avoiding paying its fair share of the cost of cleaning up the pollution it has poured into the Everglades.
Restore the Miccosukee tribe of Seminoles ancestral lands, the tree islands, as the people have been forced to abandon their homes in some instances due to chemicals poisoning their food and water supply.
During the Seminole Wars in the early and mid-1800s, a small band of Indians was driven hundreds of miles from their homeland to the place the white man didn't want. These Native Americans had escaped forced relocation by the government and wanted to live quietly without disturbance. They were descendants of the Creek Indians, who lived in northern Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. It was the English, upon encountering these natives living along low-lying creeks, who dubbed all the Indians of various Southeastern tribes as Creeks. Later, the band that diverged to south Florida became known as the Seminoles, after a corruption of the Maskoki word "siminoli", which means "free people", since they had never been dominated by the English or Spanish.
These new immigrants, numbering several hundred, had to adapt to a new way of life. They lived in small family groups on tree islands known as hammocks in the midst of the vast saw grass marshes and wet prairies. They hunted and fished from canoes carved from the rot-resistant bald-cypress trees. They harvested cabbage palm hearts and coontie roots, and, where possible on higher ground, they grew corn which they had brought from their homeland. They built "chickees" (their word for houses) to live in. These were relatively open-sided platforms with thatched roofs that kept them dry and were cooled by the same breezes that kept the insects at bay.
Stop
dirty water releases from Lake Okeechobee.
There is an ecological crisis in Indian River Lagoon. Large quantities of water with high levels of nutrient pollution from Lake Okeechobee and the St. Lucie Basin are being discharged to tide, leading to toxic algae blooms in the Lagoon’s waters. There have been numerous, mysterious reports of deaths of Pelicans, manatees, and dolphins in the area. Harmful bacteria have also been detected in some areas, making the water dangerous for human contact.
A parallel story is taking place on Florida’s Southwest coast. Water from Lake Okeechobee and the Caloosahatchee Basin are being flushed into the Caloosahatchee River, and as with the Indian River Lagoon, the discharges are contributing to algae blooms in the Caloosahatchee Estuary’s ecosystem.
End coastal drilling.
Scott's campaign doesn't dispute that he is in favor of offshore drilling and against a constitutional ban -- as long as the drilling is done safely.
And of course stop the Governor from destroying the water supply of South Florida and the Keys by allowing
oil drilling and
fracking in the Everglades
Gov. Rick Scott's six-figure stake in a French energy company is angering environmentalists because the firm is involved in oil drilling in Collier County, near the Everglades.
From wake boarders, fisherman, sunbathers to wedding parties, there were shouts of encouragement and support all along the route.
Everybody there to protest had more grievances than just Scott's environmental policies . The Governor is a tea bagger and will do nothing to help anybody on anything that might benefit some ones life for the better. A real dick!
A video of the March from the eyes of a six year old.
Now we get out the vote.