Gov. Ron DeSantis has demonstrated for so long, in so many ways, how he’s the anti-Republican. He’s truly the worst governor in Florida history which, after Claude Kirk, is definitely saying something.
DeSantis has clearly demonstrated how the party that has taken control of this state is the “Republican” party in name only.
They bear no true resemblance to the real Republican party.
As president, he established approximately 230 million acres of public lands between 1901 and 1909. He promoted what we now know of as the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources.
With the ill-fated proposal to put hotels and golf courses on public lands, someone or some companies clearly would have benefited at a cost to the public.
One can only guess who DeSantis planned to have operate hotels and the golf courses. And what will Florida get out of it? It doesn’t take much imagination.
Further proof that the Republican Party is a fraud.
How ironic that the idea (since withdrawn) of putting golf courses at Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Hobe Sound comes from the “Department of Environmental Protection.”
Talk about an oxymoron. I have been hiking and camping there for more than 30 years and the idea is absolutely abhorrent. This is the last piece of scrub habitat left to view of the old Florida.
Don’t let them do to our state parks what happened to the Ag Reserve in Boca Raton. The only explanation that comes to mind is greed.
A majority of Broward County commissioners appear to be on a mission to turn Broward into a toxic dumping ground through their efforts to expand the Monarch Hill landfill and a second proposal to build a plastics-burning incinerator west of Pembroke Pines.
Despite the fact that the dump in Coconut Creek releases toxic methane and PFAs, known as forever chemicals, into the groundwater and air in densely populated areas surrounding North Broward, they are relentless in their pursuit to massively expand it.
A plastics-burning incinerator just west of Pembroke Pines would make life hell for the residents of Pembroke Pines and cause irreversible harm to the Everglades and to the wildlife there.
Factor in the bomb trains and trucks, carrying highly explosive LNG from Hialeah to Port Everglades, and in the blink of an eye Southeast Fort Lauderdale could end up like East Palestine, Ohio, site of a disastrous trail derailment, as corporations profit from exporting fracked gas overseas.
Fracked gas, or natural gas, permanently pollutes aquifers and soil in the areas surrounding the fracked wells. There’s nothing natural about this extraction process, which injects highly toxic carcinogenic chemicals into the earth using massive amounts of precious groundwater.
It’s pure madness to risk turning Broward County into a toxic wasteland. A saner option calls for an aggressive Zero Waste plan with these principles: recycle, reuse, reduce, rethink and redesign. The commission has the power to stop this reckless agenda.
In a country of more than 336 million people, where approximately 160 million are eligible to run for president and meet the three requirements of being a natural born citizen, age 35 or older and have lived in this country for at least 14 years, all we can come up with for candidates are Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
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