Vote today to improve our community, state and Nation for future generations

Vote to improve our city, county and State (for you, your children and future generations). Here are my suggestions:
Congress: Navy veteran Heather Beaven will be the only woman veteran in the House of Representatives. CEO of a Florida non-profit, she’s helped educate at-risk students in workplace skills, improving peoples’ lives. She’s running against 17-year incumbent JOHN LUIGI MICA, who embarrasses us with is dysfunctional behavior, including head-butting an ABC News cameraman asking about his paryting with disgraced Tom Delay. Mica’s earmarks are quid pro quo: he must be replaced. Ms. Beaven cares about people like us. Mica’s a phony, cynical prawn of lobbyist-sharks for Big Oil. He supports offshore drilling (and once supported drilling in the Everglades National Park). Cowardly John Mica refuses to debate Heather Beaven. Wonder why?
Governor: Alex Sink -- an experienced businessperson who protects us as Florida’s Chief Financial Officer. She’s pposed by HMO multimillionaire Rick Scott, whose firm paid a multi-millionaire who paid $1.7 billion to settle Medicaid fraud charges. Alex Sink will be Florida’s first woman governor.
Attorney General: Dan Gelber, a second generation prosecutor, fought for people like us in the Florida Senate. Gelber promises to prosecute government corruption, working with federal prosecutors. The FBI says Florida is our most corrupt state. Dan Gelber says, “Enough!”
State Senate: Debra Gianoulis, veteran journalist, is running to restore balance and fairness and protect education from Tallahassee’s hare-brained schemes. She’s running against arrogant incumbent lobbyist-partisan-directed John Thrasher, former Speaker of Florida’s House of Representatives.
State Representative: Doug Courtney, an MBA computer software developer, is running to restore sanity and common sense to a State House of Representatives full of gridlock and dishonesty. He’s running against William L. Proctor, 78, the incumbent, who supports offshore oil drilling one mile from our coast.
Anastasia Mosquito Control Commission of St. Johns County (AMCD): Cathy Brandhorst, an enlightened, energetic, retired pesticide company owner. She has already helped reform AMCD, reporting mishandling of toxic materials as a citizen-activist. She’s running against former AMCD education specialist Gina LaBlanc, who wants to waste money, reverse course and buy an expensive helicopter and Taj Mahal building. It’s our money. Let’s continue efforts to use natural pesticides instead of carcinogens as much as possible and not waste money on flubdubs.
St. Augustine Beach City Commission:
Undine Pawlowski, a lawyer who represents people like us. She’s running against Hester Longstreet, who won’t explain what she meant about those divisive “family values” ads.
Ed George, former mayor, supports environment protection and believes government is a service, not a business. He’s opposed by multi-millionaire Gary Snodgrass, retired nuclear powerplant human resources manager and Board director, who brags of “cutting healthcare,” allegedly misled older workers about pension benefits and whose company put sleeping Wackenhut security guards in the ready room at nuclear powerplants, resulting in $65,000 in NRC fines.
St. Augustine City Commission: William Leary, retired environmental policy advisor to Presidents Clinton and Bush at CEQ. He helped protect the Everglades, served admirably as a wise member of PZB. Expect him to help save St. Augustine, grow our tourist economy and protect human rights and our environmental and historic heritage. Leary’s opposed by hate website proprietor Michael Gold (f/k/a “Michael Tobin”), who raised $250,000 for Sheriff David Shoar in 2004 and received nearly $700,000 in no-bid uniforms from the City of St. Augustine and St. Johns County Sheriff .
Amendments 4,5&6: Please vote to restore integrity in land use planning and redistricting. Let voters approve comprehensive land use plan amendments. Let’s end wasteful, dishonest “gerrymandering” practices. Voters should pick our legislators (and not the other way around)!