Florida Hometown Democracy meeting in West Palm Beach

Today's theme was Give Yourself a Vote on Growth.

In the foreground, Katie Mcgiveron of Lake Worth, Chair of Save Our Neighborhood, Inc. Political Action Committee and Vice President of her neighborhood association, Residents of Lake Osborne Heights. Drew Martin, Executive Committee of the Sierra Club Loxahatchee and Supervisor of the PB County Soil and Water Conservation District 2 was also among the attendees.

Others there were people very much involved and dedicated to saving our great State and our home values: former elected officials, folks who had run for elected office, attorneys, news editor, Al Forman who writes the Martin County Defender, and Lesley Blackner, founder of Florida Hometown Democracy to name a few.

I thought the meeting was for south Florida but it only included people from Broward, Martin and Palm Beach Counties. Needless to say, no one in the building profession was there...no developers, no planners, no one from the Chamber of Commerce...no one trying to ruin our State by claiming that development is our only way out of our problems. Reality has proved that over-development has been the cause of our problems and not the solution.

Our goal for this year is to spread the word to Vote Yes for Amendment 4 in 2010 in order to save our quality of life, our home values, our wildlife and our future. Please help us out by going to our newly designed web site, Florida Hometown Democracy.

Also, all of you in the Stuart area, we will be attending the Florida Hometown Democracy meeting in association with The Martin County Consensus, Inc. at the Armstrong Wing of the Blake Library, 2351 Monterey Road, Stuart on October 26 at 6pm. Not only will Lesley Blackner be speaking but Nathaniel Reed, Chairman and Founder of 1000 Friends of Florida. The meeting is free to the public. Hope to see you there.