C4 is a type of plastic explosive. It is also the IRS designation of certain political action committees that are now springing to life since the Bush Supreme Court gave "personhood" to corporations, unleashing an avalanche of special interest, corporate money against the public. "Destroy Florida" goes by another name, "Free Market Florida". It is the new political action committee launched by the same idiots who brought down Florida Hometown Democracy.
The Florida Independent reports, "Free Market Florida prepares to do battle with environmentalists". Their nominal target is the US EPA and the federal agencies intent to protect Florida's water from pollution unleashed by Big Sugar and unscrupulous county commissioners like Natacha Seijas, who allowed growth to run rampant as kudzu.
The real target is Florida Senator Bill Nelson. "The new group’s address is listed as 610 South Blvd., Tampa, the home of dozens of political committees that operate in Florida and nationwide. A letter on Free Market Florida’s home page from Florida Chamber of Commerce CEO Mark Wilson says the group will help the business community take on “aggressive anti-free market groups”.
Wilson and his buddies, like Florida jackass-in-chief Barney Bishop of Associated Industries, are trying to pressure Senator Nelson to stand up with them, in their effort to kill off the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Emboldened by last November's results, they are intent on destroying what is left of government's capacity to help people. Everything to them that does not have a dollar sign attached is a "job killer". But look at the job they did on Florida during the housing boom: flooding the state with rampant overdevelopment. They called it, then, "what the market wants" and it was a bad dream built on the foundations of fraud.
Well these fraudsters are back, at it. With the Supreme Court in their pockets, independent political committees outspent progressives 10-1 in November 2010. In 2012, you are not going to believe how much money they will throw at the destruction of the public interest. The cynics like those behind Free Market Florida might as well be using the real C4 explosives: they are blowing up this nation's future, wrapped in an American flag and ugly, unrecognizable versions of Christianity. Does Senator Bill Nelson have the guts to stand up to the destroyers, neatly coiffed, suited, and wing-tipped? We'll see, soon enough. (click, 'read more', for the Florida Independent article)
Free Market Florida prepares to do battle with environmentalists
By Travis Pillow | 03.01.11 | 2:08 pm
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A new group claiming that California-style regulation and litigation are crippling Florida’s economy has launched to “take the fight to” environmental groups and other “special interests.”
Officially announced today, Free Market Florida describes itself as “a project of Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy, Inc., a 501(c)(4) organization.”
A political committee, also called Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy, last year ran the campaign against Amendment 4 — aka “Hometown Democracy” — and disbanded in January. A 501(c)(4) is a nonprofit organization that is allowed to lobby and run campaign ads without disclosing its donors. The new group’s address is listed as 610 South Blvd., Tampa, the home of dozens of political committees that operate in Florida and nationwide.
A letter on Free Market Florida’s home page from Florida Chamber of Commerce CEO Mark Wilson says the group will help the business community take on “aggressive anti-free market groups”:
Those who oppose economic development and job creation will say or do anything and, until now, Florida’s business community has had to “gear up” for the multiple battles special interests wage. Now, with FreeMarketFlorida.org, the business community has a permanent effort, complimentary to that of the Florida Chamber and others, which will meet the opposition whenever and wherever they choose to engage. #
Now is the time to take the fight to them.
Apparently that involves fighting EPA water quality regulations — known as numeric nutrient criteria, which the agency created for Florida after a lawsuit brought by environmental groups — and challenging the Department of Community Affairs, which the group describes as “Soviet-style” central planners whose activities should be left to local governments. #
Gov. Rick Scott and committees in both houses of the state legislature are already working on plans to scale back the department’s functions.
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Just a reminder unions have a "personhood" status as well and always did even prior to the recent Citizen United case.
The statement regarding conservative groups outspending liberal groups 10 to 1 does not fully provide the whole picture. Democratic Committees raised about $856 million and Republicans raised $680 million in 2010.
The single biggest outside spender is The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ( AFSCME ) who by the way is supporting Natacha Seijas in her recall, the unions in WI and almost every liberal agenda item of the Obama administration.
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