To save a river, Florida small town’s activists oust every incumbent
I’m back in the Panhandle this week visiting family and while here I felt compelled to check in on the Blackwater River. It’s the first river I ever canoed back when I was in Boy Scouts, so it holds a special place in my memory.
Imagine my surprise to learn that the river had just swamped four politicians.
Or, to be more accurate, river advocates had helped to toss four of Milton’s pro-development City Council members overboard.
“All Milton City Council incumbents lose in huge upset,” the Pensacola News Journal reported.
They replaced them with four people who seem more attuned to the public’s needs than what developers need.
“Clean sweep,” Pam Mitchell of Milton’s Concerned Citizens told me...
