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04-29-2013, 09:25 PM
Joseph Wendt, 2012 candidate for Florida's Soil and Water Conservation Board, netted the largest Libertarian Party vote total in his state, and one of the largest in the nation, running on a platform to defund and abolish the board he was campaigning to join.
"I am going to be blunt, the board is a waste of your tax dollars," Wendt wrote on his campaign website. "It has a budget of about a quarter of a million dollars. What do they do with it? They fund a poster contest, and have 2 full-time employees that act like plumbers and doesn't fix anything. Gee, call me crazy, but I think your tax dollars should and can be better spent. So, I want the County to stop funding the Board."
He realized that it would take more than that to keep taxpayer funds safe, though, and made the next logical step a centerpiece of his campaign.
"We will need to abolish the Soil and Water Conservation Districts," Wendt wrote. "This board has done nothing but waste valuable taxpayer dollars and has the potential to levy taxes for so-called 'agricultural projects.' It won't be easy, since abolition requires either a majority of property owners to sign a petition or the signature of the Florida Secretary of Agriculture, then approval from the state legislature. This will be my long-term goal, a goal that we will reach with the help of the voters."
more: http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/florida-libertarian-joseph-wendt-netted-43-of-vote-on-platform-to-abolish-his-office
"I am going to be blunt, the board is a waste of your tax dollars," Wendt wrote on his campaign website. "It has a budget of about a quarter of a million dollars. What do they do with it? They fund a poster contest, and have 2 full-time employees that act like plumbers and doesn't fix anything. Gee, call me crazy, but I think your tax dollars should and can be better spent. So, I want the County to stop funding the Board."
He realized that it would take more than that to keep taxpayer funds safe, though, and made the next logical step a centerpiece of his campaign.
"We will need to abolish the Soil and Water Conservation Districts," Wendt wrote. "This board has done nothing but waste valuable taxpayer dollars and has the potential to levy taxes for so-called 'agricultural projects.' It won't be easy, since abolition requires either a majority of property owners to sign a petition or the signature of the Florida Secretary of Agriculture, then approval from the state legislature. This will be my long-term goal, a goal that we will reach with the help of the voters."
more: http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/florida-libertarian-joseph-wendt-netted-43-of-vote-on-platform-to-abolish-his-office