Might as well call this Black Thursday, hard to keep up with the bad news.
Rick Scott, after already rejecting Bullet Train funds, is now rejecting $1 million dollars for a database to fight pill mills.
Rick Scott wants to gut the Department of Community Affairs (growth management) reducing staff from 358 employees to 40 and slashing the budget from $779 to $110 million. The DCA is our last line of defense from bad developments.
Land bought for Everglades Restoration, 18,000 acres, may be used by farmers because of budget crunch.
U.S. Rep. Thomas Rooney is trying to gut EPA clean water rules in the name of, he says, 60 national companies like the Chamber of Commerce. Clean water is a job killer he says. What about us? Don't we deserve clean water to swim in and to drink? Don't the fish and manatees deserve clean water to live in?
This post rates my Ick designation.
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I wrote this letter to the editor that was published in Herald today. Rick Scott's a complete DISASTER!!!:
Governor fails us
Gov. Rick Scott continues to mold a harsher Florida with his proposed budget calling for Draconian cuts to public education, child welfare, environmental protection, Medicaid and even public safety (in order to allow for corporate tax cuts). These proposals, coupled with his killing of high-speed rail, rejection of data collection of “pill mills,” ceasing enforcement of consumer-health protections in the Affordable Care Act and alienating the Legislature’s Black Caucus with his comments, demonstrate that, for him, ideology trumps all else. This sets a dangerous and destructive path for Florida’s future.
Scott needs to remember that he won the governor’s race with less than 50 percent of the vote and now governs for all Floridians, not just right-wing ideologues of the tea party.
John Ise, Miami Shores
Here's a good state motto: Florida, the new Alabama! We settle for less!
Scott killed the drug database because it was an invasion of privacy. But he has no problem requiring drug tests for welfare moms. Illegal drugs are bad on both fronts. Why the inconsistent rules?
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