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 Lucia Baez-Geller, the Democratic Party candidate running to represent Florida Congressional District 27 in the U.S. House of Representatives. Also in this series, we profile Republican candidate Maria Elvira Salazar. Election Day is November 5, 2024.

Lucia Baez-Geller is a former educator and school board member. For 15 years, she taught English and Language Arts at a public high school in Miami. In 2020, she was elected to represent District 3 on the Miami-Dade County School Board.

Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

Baez-Geller has stated on X (formerly Twitter), “We must also pass legislation to support and speed up our nation’s transition towards renewable energy.”

While serving District 3 on the Miami-Dade County School Board, Lucia Baez-Geller co-sponsored a resolution for the school board to acknowledge the urgency of 100% clean energy use by 2030 and the creation of a task force to develop policy recommendations, accountability processes, and an accompanying implementation plan.

Climate Change

In an interview with the Miami Herald Baez-Geller shared that if elected, she hopes to address climate change. “Look at the heat waves, hurricanes and the weather patterns over the last few years,” she said. “We need to protect our oceans, our water supply and ensure that our community is a healthy place to live.”

For Earth Day, she shared this message reminding Floridians that a commitment to protecting the planet includes supporting policies that combat climate.

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: Coal, Nuclear, Oil, Gas

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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Lucia Baez-Geller on Climate & Energy

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

12 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

15 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.”