Sarasota, you have humbled me.

This is a short post, but worth taking the time to say it.

For quite a few years I have headed out to the coast line in protest of what we are doing to our environment. Most of the time I am accompanied by a small group of like minded people and after a short moment in the sun, we pack up our signs, dust off the sand, and go home.  All to do it again the next time we need to remind everyone how vital the environment is to our existence.

But in all my years of work, never have I seen so many people join hands as they did today on the same beach that I have stood in the past.  Today, no one was labeled a “Tree Hugger” or an “environmentalist wacko” (my personal favorite).  Today, no one was singled out as a part of the lunatic fringe or a communist.  Today, it was just a group of citizens who, as in the words of Commissioner Jon Thaxton, are “mad as hell” for what we are facing in the gulf.  

3000 people joined hands on Siesta Key Beach today.  Over  a million people joined hands all around the world in solidarity to say, “We are mad as hell and we are not going to take it any more!”

Hat’s off to everyone today who took a stand against the direction our country is heading in.  You have my most sincerest admiration.  Not since the 2008 elections have I seen so many people come together for something that they believed in.  The truth is we are not just talking about change, we are the change.  We are no longer asking to take the helm, we are telling those who are standing in front of us to get out of the way.  No more rhetoric. No more theorizing. No more lies.

3000 people stood on Siesta Key beach stood and said “Enough is Enough.”

Sarasota, I have just become your biggest fan!