Beach road to the left Photo: Ileana Johnson 2018 |
Last year
NGOs used young, beautiful, and half-clad women on the beach to advocate for
legalizing marijuana. This year we were
assaulted by greens urging naïve pedestrians in affluent areas to fill out questionnaires
to save marine life. Tugging at their heart strings, it was an easy sell for
donations to various environmental and conservation groups.
Waiters and
restaurant owners had replaced plastic straws with paper straws – glossy and
expensive signs “educated” us at each table that drinking without a straw each
time saved a turtle.
One day a
mature and well-preserved lady with her husband was high-fiving an elderly New
Yorker wearing a blue t-shirt with her favorite candidate for Florida governor.
They told her, they were very eager to vote early as well for the same
candidate.
I muttered
under my breath the word “commies;” the couple heard me and replied that they
hoped I could not vote. Tangling with total strangers who have no idea what
communism is or how awful it was to live under the communism they yearn to
bring to this country was not my idea of fun on vacation. But I am not one to
back down from an argument with useful idiots who argue and vote for their own
demise. The rich ones think that the scourge of communism will somehow bypass
them only because they are “enlightened-thinking” Democrats who deplore their opponents
with divergent opinions as Neanderthals with pea brains.
As Project
Veritas latest video release revealed, there is nothing American about this
particular campaign, just a run of the mill progressive (read communist)
assault on a “cracker” state as one of the campaign staffers said in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di3WRRHRWlE&feature=player_embedded&fbclid=IwAR20L4DZ4j11AVtvISueOJx6wTl6MONZ5zIum4AAYNjrsNUWNzZPcCvw4-w
Often the
longest and most protracted political battles are the local ones. One determined
resident managed to get on the ballot the three-year long battle over access to
a beach road that had been opened to the public for decades but one hurricane
had blocked one small section and that gave the city planners the idea to give
that section to a rich developer who was planning on building high-rise condos
that could sell for mega-bucks. He mentioned that one nearby condo had sold
recently for $4.5 million.
The locals
had been up in arms fighting to keep this beach road open to the public.
Beach-goers contribute large amounts of revenue to the local economy in the
form of tourist taxes, hotels, restaurant meals, and other vacation amenities.
Mike's rocky strip where he plans a wooden pier for walkers
Photo: Ileana Johnson 2018
Mike lowering the flag at sunset with Dave
Photo: Ileana Johnson 2018
On October
31, the top layers was spread but the bottom part of the mound would have to be
taken away to be used in construction since the scraping of the bucket would
contaminate the sand with asphalt thus rendering it unusable for the beach.
In a soft
but determined voice, he told me that he used to bring his mother to the beach
in a wheelchair every sunset until she passed away. Not having children and a
family of his own, he wants to leave this strip of land to the public trust in
perpetuity so that people could enjoy the ocean. He plans on building a wooden
platform on the rocks to allow wheelchair access to the handicapped and to our
veterans. He hopes that on Tuesday, the voters will resolve the fate of the
beach road in their favor.
The voters
will decide on the charter amendment to preserve county-owned parks, preserves,
beach and water access and waterfront vistas (ordinance no. 2018-036). Currently
the Board of Commissioners has the authority to sell any county-owned property
and to vacate roads and rights of way.
“The
amendment would prohibit the county from selling or giving away any
county-owned parks and preserves, and prevent the county from vacating any road
segments or rights of way along any beach, river, creek, canal, lake, bay, gulf
access or waterfront vistas." https://www.scgov.net/government/communications/county-charter-amendment-summary
Scooter of the Beach
Photo: Ileana Johnson 2018
“Red tide is a common name for
a worldwide phenomenon known as an algae bloom (large concentrations of aquatic
microorganisms—protozoans or unicellular algae) when it is caused by species of
dinoflagellates and other algae. The upwelling of nutrients from the sea floor
from massive storms is most likely the cause of these events.”
But locals blame red tide on individual
fertilizer use and others on the discharges into the ocean of byproducts from a
sugar plant.
I wore my MAGA hat on a recent cruise that just happened to be the annual Oprah Winfrey cruise on Holland America. A woman in dining room at lunch appeared to have lost her appetite since all she could do once she figured out what my pristine whilte cap with metallic gold stitching said could do nothing but stare at me with a hatefilled glare.
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DeleteThere is no escaping politics wherever we go. Floridians have seen the worst of the worst in political commericals and printed pieces. Unfortunatelyu all are negative with few solutions or ideas for a better life.
ReplyDeleteI went to the link about the beach access road and it looks like 2018-036 passed! If that's true we should all take heart.
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