In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Saturday, July 11, 2015
FARCE: St. Augustine Redistricting Hearing, July 12, 2011: Gerrymandering/Reichelderfering
James Madison wrote to William T. Barry on August 4, 1822: "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
Read more:
http://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2015/07/100-days-to-redistrict-congressional.html
http://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2015/07/reichelderfering-as-practiced-in-flori.html
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