So, I received requests to keep emailing out my daily posts, instead just posting them to the Today’s Cock-a-doodle-doo page of goodmorningkeywest.com. I also learned some people, I remember when I was one three years ago, do not know how to get to a website or open a file page in the menu. And I learned some people do not have computers and/or internet connection, and were keeping up with my emails through their cell phones. So, I will continue to email posts. People who don’t care to receive can mark them as junk mail, and that should block future emailings from me.
Unless your name is Robert Cintron. Poor Robert, no matter how hard he tried to block my emails, they kept getting through. If I had been Robert, I might have wondered if maybe something wanted Sloan’s emails to get through to me, but I never got the sense that Robert wondered that. So I deleted his name from my email contacts list, to ensure he didn’t receive any more emails from me.
Robert is one of three prominent local people, the other two are Key West Citizen Editor Tom Tuell and Monroe County Mayor George Neugent, who say my good amiga Sandy Downs is crazy and a liar, and nothing she says can be trusted. Sandy, who on her own keeps coming up with what strike me as hilarious ads for my campaign, which she runs on her dime in Key West the Newspaper. Sandy, who ran for sheriff last year, and made a lot of people, including Robert Cintron, Tom Tuell and George Nugent, really unhappy.
I campaigned hard for Sandy, and devoted at my expense a lot of space to her campaign on goodmorningfloridakeys.com. Although I often posted stuff she had written or told me, she had no say-so in what went up. Looks to me that what she’s doing now is pretty much what I did for her campaign last year, on her dime, all by her lonesome.
I have found myself lately saying to a few people, and to the powers that be, that maybe Sandy didn’t get elected because too many people were afraid they, or their relatives and friends, would end up in the pokey.
Probably the first new pokey resident would have been outgoing sheriff Rick Roth, for using taxpayer money to lie to the public in newspaper and radio ads. The lie was that the Trauma Star rescue helicopter would not cost Keys residents (taxpayers) any money to use.
I also have found myself lately telling Sandy that she’s our sheriff anyway, working behind the scenes. If you knew what I know, you might agree.
Moving vertically, just as I was about to post this today, a woman in Sippin’ Internet Cafe struck up a conversation with me after hearing I am running for mayor. She said she had decided during the week before the election in her small upstatee New York town (Cassadaga) to run for mayor as a write-in candidate and won something like 120-50. What could I do, but give her and her boyfriend Sloan for mayor campaign T-shirts.
Moving laterally, this morning’s Key West Citizen Editorial is a kudo for the sinking of the Vandenberg today, which I always opposed. Not because I didn’t think it would generate revenue for Key West especially, which I expect it to do. But because I didn’t buy into the argument that an artificial reef will take pressure off our natural reef. It really bugged me to hear that argument, when nobody was saying that what is mainly killing our reef is water pollution, mostly sewerage, about which there is still much to do if we are going to stop killing the reef.
Next today is my “‘chance” meeting at Sippin’ yesterday with “Solar Richard,” who came there looking for Sloan, after hearing from me from three different people, who told him Sloan is the environmental candidate.
Although he was scattered in his speaking and hig-strung, I came away wondering if he might be another Nikola Telsa? Nikola Tesla – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Solar Richard has installed a hydrogen-powered system in a sunshine yellow Avalete Corvette, the only one built for hydrogen power. He sells solar powered (photovoltaic) energy generated at his home back to to energy company where he lives in Tacoma, Washington. He designed solar powered lighting for a big bridge in Tacoma. He is headed next week to Amsterdam, fee and expenses paid, to speak to an international energy conference.
He said he knows how to use solar power to convert sea water into drinking water.
He said he knows how to use solar power to treat sewerage.
He said we can build a solar collector farm in shallow water, about 1/3 square miles in size, more or less, we roughly calculated, that will supply into the present energy grid work/infrastructure all of the power Key West city needs during sunlight hours. Free day time power, thanks to Sol. Night energy would have to be provided the regular way.
He said he has state-of-the-art solar collectors, which he can get manufactured in three different plants. He said these solar collectors track the sun and are sealed marine quality; rising sea water, say a Wilma-like tidal surge, will not damage them. They are easily replaced when they wear out.
He said federal stimulus money will pay for all of this up front, if the State of Florida will apply for it. He is going to see Governor Crist, if he can get an appointment.
When I said there are lots of green-living enthusiasts down here, who want Key West to become a model greening city, he said what better way to do it than to become solar-energy seld-sufficient?
I called City Hall and learned there is a special City Commission meeting tonight. By copy of this post, I’m asking the commissioners and mayor to give Solar Richard 3 minutes at the end.
I will be there to object to Parrot Key’s request to become another transient rental unit condominium project, another one of which we need like we need a dead natural reef.
Sloan for mayor, political advertisement, approved and paid for by moi
Solar Richard Profiled in NYT (27. October 2007, 12:43 by Erik) ~ Here comes the sun …
The New York Times calls Richard Thompson, AKA Solar Richard, a “certified character,” in their profile of the Tacoma man published today.
It’s a nice article about Solar Richard, and we appreciate the linking of green power with Tacoma. Particular positive attention is focused on the effort to light the new Narrows Bridge with solar power:
At Mr. Thompson’s urging, the new mile-long Tacoma Narrows Bridge is on its way to being lighted with solar power, a project toward which the state has contributed $1.5 million. And if all goes as planned, there will be electricity left over to feed back into the city’s power supply.
Kudos to our own Solar Richard for helping keep Tacoma on the map.