HEATHER BEAVEN FOR CONGRESS

I'm supporting Heather Beaven for COngress.

A Navy veteran, she'll protect veterans from an abusive DVA. A leader of education for at-risk youth, she'll help reform education.

An opponent of offshore oil drilling and unsafe cleanup practices, she'll help hold Big Oil accountable for its crimes and torts.

JOHN LUIGI MICA is the worst Congressman in Washington. Endorsed by the St. Augustine Record, he's a national disgrace.

MICA personifies the corruption of long incumbency in Congress.

The number of reasons for voting against JOHN MICA are limitless. They include
MICA's head-butting of a news cameraman; his support for offshore oil drilling off FLorida's coast (even for drilling in the Everglades National Park); his spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars on euphemistic "meals with constituents" (his restaurant and bar bills), his accepting campaign contributions from earmark beneficiaries; and his opposition of a minimum wage increase for U.S. workers outside of Florida (after Florida raised its minimum wage with 3/4 of the votes in 2004),

MICA takes credit for every project in his District. It matters not whether he had anything to do with obtaining the project, MICA"s there with his mug and pinky room in every photo, at every politically-timed ribbon-cutting and groundbreaking, often for projects whose funding he voted against.

MICA refuses to debate Heather Beaven. WOnder why? Because Faye Armitage kicked his ass in their only debate in 2008, and MICA can't handle the pressure.

Watching MICA walk out of the PBS studio in Orlando two years ago, following the debate with Faye Armitage, MICA looked crestfallen.

IF MICA won't debate Heather Beaven -- stiffing more than one dozen fora where both were invited -- MICA is unworthy of consideration for re-election to Congress.

MICA's arrogance bespeak a 9-term incumbent badly in need of replacing.

As Ronald Reagan said, politicians, like diapers, need to be changed frequently, and for the same reason.

It's time for JOHN LUIGI MICA to go to K street with the lobbyists he says number among the finest people he ever met. It's time for St. Augustine to be represented by a competent, working representative in Congress -- vote for Heather Beaven.