LYNNE LARKIN

The season of giving is coming. A special holiday, non-denominational, that gives back all year round.

Election Day.

This is the gift we all need to give.  It’s free, it’s easy, and it means everything to our future.  Let’s not let it slip by this year. 

Local elections are the key to our happy lives, protecting the things for which we have all come to value in our area.  This is how we protect our parks, our trees, our water! Yep, it all starts at home, one vote at a time.

We’ve all been made keenly aware that our little island of green is vulnerable to unbridled growth.  Developers do what developers are allowed to do. They hate restrictions, they fight to make every penny possible, every acre a goldmine. But Vero Beach has always had a majority of people who understand how to keep this place truly golden for everyone. That involves commitment, that means voting.

To digress only slightly, haven’t we all dated a liar in our past? Right? They draw us in with imagined eden, then drop the bomb that really they’re all about themselves. Not uncommon. We learn not to believe every sales pitch, if we want to do well in life.

Same thing in politics, relationships between elected officials and constituents.  Based on lies?  Based on false ideas?  Based on underlying goals we don’t share. Goals like destroying the City of Vero Beach. Who profits? The County, which has far fewer regulations, and even fewer regulations that actually get enforced.  Clear cutting trees for giant buildings like the CVS supercenter at I-95. Then a neighboring building, just as large. Closing in on the residential areas. 

Don’t let the lies continue. Everyone wants lower electric bills. Everyone. But damaging the City won’t get you there. You lose control, you get West Palm Beach. Daytona. Jacksonville.  High population, few trees, and overcrowded everywhere.

Look this election for the people who tell the truth.  The ones who say the laws and the contracts aren’t in our favor for selling.  We’ve been down that road so many times! Think carefully.

And then give your neighbors, your friends, your offspring hope.  No residential highrises. No residential business in home rentals. No destroying our lagoon so we can build more hotels.

The home team is Sharon Gorry, Randy Old, Tony Young.

For old and young, vote Old and Young. And Gorry.