Rick Scott's is going to haunt us for years. If the budget is cut, as threatened, the Barnacle in the Grove is one of 53 parks slated for closure by the DEP Department of Environmental Protection and other agencies. The list was sent to the legislature January 26. Hit read more to see entire list:
The 53 Florida State Parks
1 Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve State Park, Haines City
2 Atlantic Ridge Preserve State Park, Stuart
3 Big Shoals State Park, White Springs
4 Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park, Flagler Beach
5 Camp Helen State Park, Panama City Beach
6 Cedar Key State Museum State Park, Cedar Key
7 Colt Creek State Park, Lakeland
8 Constitution Convention Museum State Park, Port St. Joe
9 Crystal River Archaeological State Park, Crystal River
10 Dade Battlefield Historic State Park, Bushnell
11 Dagny Johsnon Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park, Key Largo
12 Deer Lake State Park, Santa Rosa Beach
# Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park, Gainesville
# Don Pedro Island State Park, Boca Granda
# Dudley Farm Historic State Park, Newberry
# Dunn’s Creek State Park, Pomona
# Estero Bay Preserve State Park, Estero
# Fort Cooper State Park, Inverness
# Fort George Island Cultural State Park, Jacksonville
# Fort Mose Historic State Park, St. Augustine
# John Gorrie Museum State Park, Apalachicola
# Judah P. Benjamin Confederate Memorial at Gamble Plantation Historic State Park, Ellenton
# Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park, Tallahassee
# Lake June-in-Winter Scrub State Park, Sebring
# Lake Talquin State Park, Tallahassee
# Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park, Tallahassee
# Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park, Islamorada
# Madison Blue Spring State Park, Lee
# Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, Cross Creek
# Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park, Woodville
# Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park, Olustee
# Orman House Historic State Park, Apalachicola
# Paynes Creek Historic State Park, Bowling Green
# Peacock Springs State Park, Luraville
# Perdido Key State Park, Pensacola
# Ponce de Leon Springs State Park, Ponce de Leon
# Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park, Jacksonville
# Rock Springs Run State Reserve, Sorrento
# San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park, Alachua
# San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park, St. Marks
# Savannas Preserve State Park, Jensen Beach
# St. Lucie Inlet Preserve State Park, Stuart
# St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park, Fellsmere
# Suwannee River Wilderness Trail/Nature and Heritage Tourism Center, White Springs
# Terra Ceia Preserve State Park, Palmetto
# The Barnacle Historic State Park, Coconut Grove
# Troy Spring State Park, Branford
# Wacasassa Bay Preserve State Park, Cedar Key
# Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, Palm Coast
# Werner-Boyce Salt Springs State Park, Port Richey
# Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park, Islamorada
# Ybor City Museum State Park, Tampa
# Yellow River Marsh Preserve State Park, Holt
10 comments:
I bet there is no shaving of the crooks who now run the State of their salaries
Actually legislators have cut their salaries over 15% over the last 3 years.
What does a closure entail? Does this mean that the property slated for closure will be sold to private entities for possible re-development?
The preservationists are going to breathe down his neck. Can anyone tell me why we needed this piece of Republican crap governing our state? Thank you, bastard Republicans! Too bad you can't all drop dead, and if you don't like it, TOO BAD! Every day is something new with the legit thief!
Hey, this BR didn't vote for him. Shush. A lot of us didn't.
You can't blame the Republicans for Rick Scott. You can blame the system that allowed his company to rip off the American taxpayers for billions and fail to hold Scott accountable for it. Instead of being in jail where he belongs, he took his millions and suckered our majority of non-thinking Floridians into voting for him. Methinks there was also some ballot manipulation along the way.
Until we straighten out the way people are elected in this country, we will be doomed with these scumbag politicians until age and die in poverty and pollution.
I'm sure that the same thieves who took over the Biscayne waterfront next door, Gerry Katcher and company, would be itching to turn the Barnacle into multi-million dollar housing. The fleecing of Miami is a time-honored tradition and no economic crisis should be wasted.
So what are we doing about this list? It is full of environmental and historically important properties.
Why doesn't Scott put his mansion in Tallahassee on the list? It is much less used by the citizens of this state than any of the state parks on the list. At least we can go to the parks and we can't go visit our State mansion.
This is just one example of republican privatization that is about to sweep across our state. School vouchers are about to send private schools into cash surplus city. Revamping the Florida Retirement System, currently one of the most fiscally sound in the nation, will enrich companies offering 401K plans as FRS moves from a defined benefit plan to a defined contribution plan. Moving Medicaid recipients into private managed plans has providers chomping at the bit for state dollars and the list goes on and on. It's not going to be the old Florida we have all come to love and live in anymore!
Remember when they, Republicans, wanted to privatize toll collections on Alligator Alley. You can bet that concept will rear it's ugly head again soon.
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