VoteWater Executive Director Gil Smart speaks with South Florida Water Management District Governing Board member Cheryl Meads during a May outing on the St. Lucie River. Photo: Leah Voss

At VoteWater we believe the voting public holds the key to cleaner water in Florida. YOU can vote for clean-water candidates; YOU can demand accountability. 

But it’s also important to make our case to decision-makers directly. That’s why we meet with and testify before elected and appointed officials at the federal, state and local levels. We ask them to support good proposals and oppose bad bills; we forge relationships to ensure the clean-water cause always gets a hearing.

Yet we remain unafraid to call out politicians who take “dirty money”; officials who do the bidding of special interests; and those who use “ghost candidates” to limit voters’ choices.

We take our role as watchdog seriously; our supporters demand it. And so this is our pledge to you: We will use every tool in the toolbox to fight for cleaner water and political accountability.

We’ll do our part — so you can do yours.

Gil Smart, Executive Director

VoteWater

Smart, right, speaks with state Rep. John Snyder during a February trip to Tallahassee. Photo by Leah Voss.

P.S.: Have you completed and signed this year's petition for the proposed Florida Right to Clean Water Constitutional Amendment yet? Stop by the VoteWater office at 3727 SE Ocean Blvd., Suite 200A in Stuart to pick up a petition — or head over to the Right to Clean Water website to print one at home.