Florida Needs Leadership Again

[GoodWitch58]

In Florida's past, great leaders really led - St. Petersburg Times

Give the Ethics Commission what it wants, too.

Don't decide oil drilling until you've heard every study, from every party, and maybe not even then until you've gone to walk on beaches in oil-pumping areas yourselves.

If you really must gamble, don't give away the store to the casinos. Extort them until they scream and threaten not to come. Then get even more for the problems they're going to cause.

Put back the money you took from the Florida Forever land-buying program. Good grief! Robbing Florida Forever? Are you proud of that? Are you going to brag to your grandkids, "When I was in the Legislature, my big accomplishment was killing the money that we used to preserve Florida"?

Think about what's right in the long term. Don't be bullied by the leaders of the Legislature when you know they are wrong, especially in the House. They can't actually kill you. They can hurt your bills, take away your good committee assignment and office and parking space, and generally make you feel like an outsider, but they can't kill you. One day in your old age you will remember this and you will feel good about yourself.

C'mon, do it. For a better Florida.

 

[30ashopper]

Nice article, I wish it had a little more meat on the history and current issues. Has anyone read that book? Worth picking up on amazon?

 

[GoodWitch58]

Nice article, I wish it had a little more meat on the history and current issues. Has anyone read that book? Worth picking up on amazon?

IMO The book is excellent as are all of his books. He is also a dynamic speaker and really knows that of which he speaks. He brings the history of our state to life...and it's not always pretty, but it's real.

 

[rapunzel]

The best line from that article -- Higher fees: conservative. Higher taxes: liberal.