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Guest Commentary: Paddling upstream Charlotte Newton. PHOTO PROVIDED Today, we are at the intersection of state power and citizen determination. Our state legislators have restricted our ability to petition the government at the very moment we are watching our waters the lifeblood of our community be degraded and abused to the point of making us sick. Our suggested remedies go nowhere. For all the bluster and hand-wringing on their part, these legislators have choked off citizen input by making it more difficult to mount and win citizen petition campaigns, such as the Right to Clean Water initiative now underway. Facing strong governmental opposition, this initiative has hundreds of residents coalescing around and pressing for a constitutional amendment establishing “that ‘every Floridian has a right to clean water’ and giving legal standing to residents, non-governmental organizations, or government entities to sue in order to enforce or defend such rights.”

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