A real grassroots candidate in Florida. Great website, good pic.

This is what Grassroots is about. She is running for an office that is important for our environment, and most people never heard of it. She has a great picture up, and a well-organized site. I believe she used to be columnist or reporter for the St. Pete Times. She is a Dean Dozen, an unusual office to get national attention, but I think it is good.

http://www.susanclary.com/
Soil and Water Conservation Districts
SNIP..."President Franklin D. Roosevelt recommended the enactment of soil conservation district legislation to the Governors of all States in February 1937 in response to the devastating soil erosion conditions that existed in America in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Rather than have federal and state governments big-foot landowners and force them to protect private lands for future generations, the proposed act suggested establishing districts to direct and manage soil erosion control programs. Local citizens would participate in planning and installing conservation practices. Each district would be empowered to decide its community’s needs. Personal contact with individual landowners would encourage maximum cooperation.

Hugh Hammond Bennett, sometimes called the “Father of the Conservation Movement,” organized the first Soil and Water Conservation District in the U.S. in August 1937."END SNIP