Published

2 years ago

December 24, 2024

Alice Rush

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 Dot (Dorothy) Inman-Johnson, a candidate running for Seat 2 on the Tallahassee City Commission. Also in this series, we profile candidate Curtis Richardson. Election Day is November 5, 2024.

Dot Inman-Johnson previously represented the people of Tallahassee for a decade as a city commissioner and mayor. Before her time in elected office, Dot worked 28 years in public schools as an educator, and served as executive director of the Capital Area Community Action Agency, a non-profit serving low-income residents in North Florida, for 14 years. In addition to her work serving the Tallahassee community, Dot Inman-Johnson is also an author.

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

While appealing to voters on social media she shared “I’ve worked to protect our canopy roads and opposed ill-advised coal plants. With your help, I’ll push our clean energy goals forward.”

Dot Inman-Johsnon’s campaign website includes her commitment to supporting the implementation of Tallahassee’s Clean Energy Plan.

Climate Change

Inman-Johnson has shared that one of her priorities as a commissioner will be to mitigate the effects of climate change.

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

Dot Inman-Johnson led the Capital Area Community Action Agency as executive director for over 14 years. The Agency administers the capital area Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) which helps low-income families reduce their energy costs through energy efficiency improvements, and the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which helps residents pay unaffordable energy bills.

High-Risk Energy

Dot Inman-Johnson has been an outspoken voice against coal-fired power in North Florida and played a key role in defeating the proposal for the polluting North Florida Power Project/Taylor Energy Center coal plant that Tallahassee would have been a part-owner of had it been constructed.

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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Renewable Energy

Indoctrinating Children into Religion

Published

8 hours ago

October 6, 2026

Alice Rush

All I can say about the me here is that personally I refused, against considerable pressure from my family, to indoctrinate my children into something I myself could not accept.

Is it actually “psychological abuse” to indoctrinate children into monotheistic religion? Whether to take it that far is an open question.

My parents, both atheists, sent my brother and me to Sunday School, as they thought it wrong to cut us off from a modality of growing up in America in the early 1960s. I don’t blame them, but again, it’s not something I was willing to replicate with my own children.

Indoctrinating Children into Religion

Renewable Energy

Republicans’ Last-Ditch Effort to Lie to Voters

Published

11 hours ago

October 6, 2026

Alice Rush

In less than a month, we’re going to learn how many idiots are buying this socialism crap.

Sure, there are people who don’t know anything about the way people live in northern England, New Zealand, Costa Rica, etc. Most of these people couldn’t find these countries on this globe.

But how many can there possibly be?

Clearly, Republicans are desperate, but isn’t asking voters to believe that the Swedes have to rely on the government for their job, salary, and food a bit over-the-top?

Republicans’ Last-Ditch Effort to Lie to Voters

Renewable Energy

America in Collapse

Published

14 hours ago

October 6, 2026

Alice Rush

I got the meme here from a neighbor, but I wonder who actually wrote it. There is a ton of propaganda on social media suggesting that we need to normalize the sociopathic criminality of the U.S. president.

It’s true that not every election is an apocalypse, but 2024 was disastrous for the U.S. democracy.

Yes, the country did not end. But it took a giant leap towards authoritarianism.

Even that’s not the end of the world. Democracies fail with great frequency on this planet. I just never thought I’d be living in the biggest socio-political collapse in the last 2000 years.

In an average week, I meet quite a few travelers here from lands all around this planet. Their most common thoughts on what’s happening here: “We simply feel sorry for you.”