For years Weldon represented a Florida congressional
district that included parts of the Canaveral National Seashore (specifically,
the Brevard County zone; Congressman John Mica represents the more northern
parts). During his tenure, Weldon
authored the infamous “Weldon Amendment” to a US Department of the Interior appropriations bill, prohibiting any funds going to the Department if they would be used in any way to establish a
clothing-optional beach in violation of Brevard County law.
For its part, Brevard County prohibited nudity which is a shame because Playalinda Beach (the portion of the CNS around parking lot #13) has a rich tradition for skinny-dipping that goes back decades. People still swim and sunbathe in the buff there, but they get no signage supporting the practice. They potentially face an occasional fine if Brevard Sherriff’s personnel have nothing better to do than issue citations on a given day.
The important message for today is that it would probably NOT be a
good thing for nudists if Dr. Weldon---he is a physician, which has always made
his phobia with the naked human body a puzzle to us---replaced Senator
Nelson. Currently, to do so Weldon would
need to win the Republican primary and then defeat Nelson, a former astronaut.
Winning the Republican nomination currently means defeating two challengers:
US Representative Connie Mack (son and namesake of a former US Senator from
Florida) as well as George Lemieux, who served a brief tenure in the Senate as
a replacement to Sen. Mel Martinez prior to the election that put Marco Rubio
in office.
Those who value nude recreation in Florida would do well to
see that Dr. Weldon remains in the full-time practice of medicine.
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