I am running for Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County in the November 3, 2026 election. May I please have your vote?
Flooding is increasing. Increased flooding flows from every single proposed "development" here. Mosquitoes flourish amid flooding.
The frequency and severity of storms and flooding is increasing. We must use good science to prepare for the storms and remediate the flooding.
We must protect people from persistent flooding, evidenced by testimony at government meetings.
Whenever a development (sic) proposal is discussed, residents testify about flooding. Too often, our governments are flummoxed, failing to present scientific evidence in response.
Our Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County does its best to apply good science to mosquito control. It has five Ph.D. scientists.
But our St. Johns County Commission has no Chief Scientist, no Chief Economist, and makes decisions substantially unencumbered by good data and good science.
Poorly-staffed County Commissioners rather remind me of what Sir Winston Spencer Churchill said in 1937, "The Government simply cannot make up their mind, or they cannot get the Prime Minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent. So we go on preparing more months and years – precious, perhaps vital to the greatness of Britain – for the locusts to eat."
Mosquitoes are eating us alive. Building "developments" in mosquito swamps is unwise and unscientific. It needs to stop.
Our St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners and our Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County are two separate local government agencies, with their own boards.
SJC abolished its Intergovernmental Relations Committee under controversial former County Administrator MICHAEL DAVID WANCHICK (2007-2019), who sought a County takeover of mosquito control. We, the People stopped him.
Our County must better regulate "development" by greedy "developers," who build homes in swamps, exposing residents to hordes of mosquitoes.
Worldwide, some 1,000,000 people die every year after mosquito bites. My Father was bitten by a mosquito in Sicily in 1943, contracting malaria. We saw his suffering. Due to the effects of malaria, I was born fourteen (14) years later, after my parents prayed to Saint Jude (patron Saint of hopeless causes)..
Our County's "Growth Management (sic)" staff must consult with experts with our Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County and AMCD's scientists and professionals.
Every single "development (sic) order" must include a mosquito control plan. Every single one. No excuses. Protection against mosquito-borne diseases must not be a "hopeless cause."
I am running for Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County (Seat 4) in the November 3, 2026 election. May I please have your vote?
Thank you.
With kindest regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Ed Slavin
Box 3084
St. Augustine, Florida 32085-3084
www.edslavin.com
(904) 377-4998
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