Some 'environmental groups' get co-opted when they accept funding. Don't expect any Amendment 4 endorsement from 1000 Friends of Florida. After all, when they list the hated St. Joe Company, A Phosphate Company, Law Firm Greenberg Traurig, Babcock Properties, Florida League of Cities, Glatting Jackson and Nestle Water (they pay next to nothing to bottle millions of gallons of our water) on their donor support page, you know endorsing Amendment 4 just ain't going to happen -- too radical for corporate folk.
Yes, with a donor list like that, and there are many other questionable donors, 1000 Friends of Florida would never support Amendment 4 in a million years. I would suspect Audubon of Florida is in the same boat with Corporate Sponsorship. Just know the most pure of heart environmental Land-Use Attorney - Richard Grosso - supports Amendment 4. That is a badge of honor.
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I have been a member of 1000 FOF for years. My membership and modest contributions can't hold a candle to what sponsors give, But I do represent the average individual. I guess my membership will stop if FOF does not support amendment 4. I fear it won't bother FOF at all. But if a lot of us cancel our memberships, maybe we can get their attention.
Grosso's endorsement means more to me than all the corporate sponsors in the world. Grosso has been in the trenches and knows how the public is unfairly treated in CDMP changes. He speaks volumns to me.
Amendment 4 is not needed.
...said the person who has never been part of a map-change battle.
What is needed is urban planning to be taught in public schools so voters can decide for themselves when they are getting played. I thought public education was supposed to produce fellow citizens you'd be comfortable walking into the voting booth next to you, but so many local elections are about land use issues (one candidate is "pro-growth" while the other is "pro-residents"), NEITHER candidate has progressive planning ideas, and I know most voters can't tell the difference, which scares me. Seems like a failure of our education system to produce responsible voters.
Where are you pie in the sky people coming from? Here is a remedy and you want perfection. The elected officials are mostly morons and they make decisions that impact us for generations. Why can't the public be trusted to ratify their decisions since the people are the ones that have to live with them.
We must stick them with quills, it's the only way!
I thought Babcock agreed to sell 70,000 acres to the state, never to be developed, to develop the remaining land according to Rural Land Stewardship, the most environmentally sensitive and restrictive regulation in the state. How did they get lumped in with the "growth machine?" Aren't they the good guys?
As far as teaching kids in school, how about some history. Perhaps then, they would understand about the Great Depression, the Robber Barons, anti trust laws, previous housing bubbles, campaign finance reform, grid locked government....you take your pick. It's all in there. Do we teach this stuff? No, we teach social studies.
I agree with Genius, lots of elected officials are morons.
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