Dear Hometown! PAC Members and Friends,

Hometown! PAC thanks you for supporting Hometown! PAC during the 2009 election cycle.

Your financial support assisted Hometown! PAC in sponsoring five (5) events, including three (3) political forums that allowed the candidates to meet the voters and inform them of the candidates' positions on issues that affect all of us who live and work in Key West. You can now watch the video of all these events on this website.

Hometown! PAC also extends its appreciation to the candidates for running for election, to the Key West newspapers for publicizing and reporting on these important matters, to the political pundits at the various forums who donated their time and expertise in questioning the candidates and to all the unpaid Hometown! PAC Board members, advisers and volunteers whose indefatigable energies made the "Meet the Candidates" events and the political forums such a success.

We hope that all of these Hometown! PAC events helped you in deciding for whom to vote. Thank you so much for your support and please vote.

HOMETOWN! PAC

A membership organization created
to promote good government

Recent surveys conducted by the City Manager, the Tourist Development Council and poll-taker Louis Harris have clearly defined what the residents of Key West want our political leadership to focus on - - and accomplish. The public has spoken. The pathways are readily evident. Hometown! Pac will seek out, support and endorse prospective as well as incumbent candidates who will earnestly commit themselves to six objectives that accurately summarize the beliefs, goals and vision of our community’s residents as revealed in the surveys.

Priority Points

• Tax revenues must be invested frugally, wisely and without favoritism. Trust and integrity in public office are the cornerstones of good government.

• What makes a community a good place to live are, in fact, the very same characteristics that attract visitors and strengthen the economy. Public officials must retain and protect the heritage and legacies we have inherited.

• Building codes must be rigorous and diligently enforced as a means of ensuring architectural preservation and responsible development. What distinguishes Key West from other communities is much more than just weather; it is a “look,” a style and a commitment to making sure that the community’s future reflects its past.

• Residents and visitors alike expect clean streets and sidewalks, proper trash removal, well maintained parks, walking and bike paths, policing of vagrants, adequate parking and elimination of needless traffic congestion.

• Aggressive measures to ensure our priceless marine assets: Pristine near shore waters and clean, accessible beaches. Effective collaboration with state and federal agencies to preserve the reef and preserve the fishing and boating industries.

• Key West must retain an adequate inventory of affordable housing for working families and retired elders as well as professionals such as managers and skilled employees, educators, government employees, health care specialists and others. The current exodus must not be allowed to continue.