Rick Kriseman’s tact of taking on the Baker campaign over the environment may be about to back fire.
St. Petersburg, Fl
Opinion by: E. Eugene Webb PhD
Author: In Search of Robin, So You Want to Blog.
The St. Petersburg Mayoral election campaign shifted into high gear over the 4th of July
Weekend with the Baker Campaign and its companion Political Action Committee
Seamless Florida releasing three videos for television, cable and social media.
You can view them here:
From the Political Action Committee Seamless Florida
“The Disaster” (60sec) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78L0-GfW3KA
“The Disaster” (30sec ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18BA8nJomMg
“The Disaster” (30sec ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18BA8nJomMg
From the Rick
Baker for Mayor Campaign
Watch “Green
City”: https://vimeo.com/222916205/e21f1b92eb
It looks like Rick Kriseman’s tact of taking on the
Baker campaign over the environment may be about to back fire.
Add to that the fact he participated in and over saw
the biggest Tampa Bay sewage dump ever by pushing the shutdown of the Albert
Whitted Wastewater Treatment Plant and then repeatedly lied about it.
Kriseman repeatedly brags about the $300 plus million
he has pledged to repair the City’s sewer system, but there has been no
indication of where the money will come from nor any substantive plan as to how
the funds will be spent.
Compare all of
that to former Mayor Rick Baker’s accomplishments during his two terms.
St. Petersburg was designated Florida’s first “Green
City” thanks to Baker’s excellence in programs to conserve water, plant trees (20,
000+), preserve estuaries and sensitive lands, use fuel-efficient technologies,
and provide earth-friendly recycling programs;
In 2008, Baker signed an Executive Order (08-01)
putting in place new green standards for the city to meet, some of which
included:
Creating a carbon scorecard that measures facility
energy use and vehicle energy use in terms of greenhouse-gas emissions;
Reducing energy use by transitioning the city’s fleet
to ethanol and biodiesel vehicles, replacing incandescent lights with
fluorescent lights, and converting street signals and lights to more efficient
technologies;
Requiring new city facilities and renovations of major
existing city facilities to meet U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED-NC or
LEED-EB standards;
Lake Maggiore underwent an eight-year multimillion
dollar effort to treat storm water going into the lake, dredge the muck out of
the lake and return a eutrophicated lake to a healthy state;
Created CityTrails, a pedestrian and bike path system
designed to get people out of their cars - building bike trails and sidewalks
throughout the city with the goal of completing the largest bike path system in
the southeastern United States;
Developed pilot “Solar Park” at Albert Whitted Park,
followed by grants to fund additional solar panels throughout the city.
Baker’s accomplishments and dedication to St. Pete’s
environment are proven. Kriseman's is all lies, smoke and mirrors.
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