This post is part of a series of blogs examining where 2024 Southeastern candidates for state and federal offices stand on key energy and climate issues.
Note: The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy does not support or oppose candidates or political parties. Links to reports, candidate websites and outside sources are provided as citizen education tools.
In this blog post, we examine the policies and positions of Curtis Richardson, a candidate running for Seat 2 on the Tallahassee City Commission. Also in this series, we profile candidate Dot (Dorothy) Inman-Johnson. Election Day is November 5, 2024.
Curtis Richardson has served the people of Tallahassee as a City Commissioner for 10 years. Prior to his time on the city commission, he presented District 8 in the Florida House of Representatives for four terms until 2008. Richardson’s career in public service began when he was elected to the Leon County School Board after decades of work in education.
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Curtis Richardson recently applauded Tallahassee’s focus on environmental sustainability. In an opinion piece published yesterday in the Tallahassee Democrat, he touts the city’s ownership of “two of the largest solar farms in the country” to represent the city’s desire to be at the forefront of clean energy.
In 2022, Commissioner Richardson spoke out against legislation in Florida that would have reduced incentives for Floridians to adopt solar. In his speech in front of the capitol, he shared how solar can create jobs and lessen the effects of climate change.
Climate Change
In the same opinion piece, Commissioner Richardson shares that another accomplishment of the city is its focus on carbon reduction and commitment to the Clean Energy Resolution by 2035.
Electric Transportation
We were unable to confirm the candidate’s position on this energy-related issue in published media, public records, or the campaign website.
Energy Equity and Energy Burden
We were unable to confirm the candidate’s position on this energy-related issue in published media, public records, or the campaign website.
High-Risk Energy
We were unable to confirm the candidate’s position on this energy-related issue in published media, public records, or the campaign website.
Voting Information
Election Day is November 5. Here are important dates and deadlines to consider, from the Florida Division of Elections:
- Oct. 7, 2024: Voter registration deadline
- Oct. 24, 2024: Vote-by-mail ballot request deadline (5:00 pm)
- Oct. 26, 2024: Mandatory in-person early voting period begins
- Nov. 2, 2024: Mandatory in-person early voting period ends
- Nov. 5, 2024: General Election Day
- Nov. 5, 2024: Vote-by-mail ballot return deadline (7:00 pm)
- Nov. 15, 2024: Vote-by-mail ballot return deadline for military and overseas citizen voters
*Visit Vote-by-Mail and Military and Overseas Citizens Voting for information about deadlines to send a vote-by-mail ballot, to request a vote-by-mail ballot and to return vote by a mail ballot.
** Due to Hurricane Helene, Governor DeSantis has issued Executive Order 24-212 making changes to election rules for some residents of the counties most affected by Helene. Hurricane Milton may affect voting as well. Check here for the latest information.
Find additional important election information here.
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Decent and intelligent people respect the rights of parents to homeschool their children, but there are two reasons for concern: a) socialization, failure to expose children to their peers, so that they may make friends and come to understand the norms of society, and b) the quality of the education itself.
Almost all homeschooling in the United States is conducted on the basis of a radical rightwing viewpoint, normally a blend of evangelical Christianity and Trumpism.
There’s a theory that most people underestimate the positive effects they’ve had on other people.
Yes, that’s the theme of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” but it’s also the core of the 1995 film “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” in which a music teacher who deemed that his life had been a failure because he never completed writing a great symphony, is gently and beautifully corrected. Please see below.
The Positive Effects We’ve Had on Others Are Profound, Whether We Know It or Not
In the early days of 2GreenEnergy, my people and I were vigorously engaged in finding solid ideas in cleantech that needed funding in order to move forward.
I vividly remember a conversation with a guy in Maryland who was trying to explain the (ostensible) breakthrough that he and his team had made in hydrokinetics. When I was having trouble visualizing what we was talking about, he asked me to “think of it as a river in a box.”
“Oh!” I exclaimed. “You mean you take a box full of standing water, add energy to it get it moving, then extract that energy, leaving you with more energy that you added to it.”
“Exactly.”
I politely explained that the laws of physics, specifically the first and second laws of thermodynamics, make this impossible.
He wasn’t through, however, and insisted that, in his office, his people had constructed a “working model.”
Here’s where my tone descended into something less than 100% polite. I told him that he may think he has a working model, but he’s wrong; if he believes this, he’s ignorant; if he doesn’t, but is conducting this conversation anyway, he’s a fraud.
“But don’t you want to come see it?” he implored.
“No. Not only would not fly across the country to see whatever it is you claim to have built, I wouldn’t walk across the street to a “working model” of something that is theoretically impossible.”
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I tell this story because the claim made at the upper left is essentially identical. You’re pumping water up out of a stream, and then claiming to extract more energy when the water flows back into the stream.
Of course, social media today is rife with complete crap like this. We’ve devolved to a point where defrauding money out of idiots is rapidly replacing baseball as our national pastime.
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