Time to email Jeb again.
Posted on 05/27/2004 2:38:57 PM PDT by nunya bidness
TALLAHASSEE — The state's environmental secretary got approval from Gov. Jeb Bush and the Cabinet Tuesday to move forward with the seizure of 160 acres owned by a man who refuses to sell it for Everglades restoration.
Secretary Colleen Castille of the Department of Environmental Protection told Bush and the Cabinet that her agency is still trying to work out a settlement with Jesse Hardy, a Collier County man who has refused to sell his fish-farm property the state says it needs for a massive restoration of the Everglades.
If the agency can't work out a deal with him by Aug. 31, it can move ahead with the seizure, she was told.
The agency has offered Hardy as much as $4.5 million, an amount that has steadily increased from roughly $711,000 the state figured it was worth when it first started trying to acquire the land in 2002. Hardy acquired his parcel in 1976 for $60,000. The state said its most recent offer, the eighth it has made to Hardy, was far more than the property is worth now.
Hardy has become something of a folk hero because of his stand against the government's attempt to buy his land. The 67-year-old former Navy SEAL has said he's not interested in moving anywhere other than where he's lived for almost 30 years. His supporters wrote "The Ballad of Jesse Hardy" asking people to "rally 'round ol' Jesse, boys, and answer freedom's call."
Hardy's homestead is part of an area known as the Golden Gates Estate South. If the state acquires the land, it would become part of Picayune State Forest.
(Excerpt) Read more at naplesnews.com ...
Heads up. I heard Jesse on WINK today and it doesn't look good.
Just shoot the guy and burn his house down...
a Navy SEAL might just make that interesting. Start the popcorn.
The State will kill you if you refuse to hand over your holdings.
Thank God we live in a free nation.......
bleak.
That is the sad truth.
Environmentalism trumps property rights. Just ask the government. There is always a judge available to find it somewhere in the Constitution.
Is that you Janet?
Just wait for the government to start refering to the guys house as a "compound". THAT'S when they'll start sending in the troops.
Castille told Bush and the Cabinet that the DEP is still trying to work out a land swap and has identified three potential areas where Hardy could live that would still allow him to continue his tropical fish farming business.
Yeah. Untill the government comes along and decides to use THAT area for Everglades restoration, or whatever they want, and they'll just push him off again.
Bingo!
Ha...Can't fool anybody now 'days...
Time to email Jeb again.
That only works if he is found to have a pot plant on the property. Then the state can not only shoot him and burn the house down, but gets the property for free.
As per my previous post and link on this thread - there are so many unanswered questions here. I am guessing Gov Bush has a headache by now with all this. And, it seems to be one big mess at this moment, though I do not fault him for that. But, it seems to me like the parties need to start over based on what I read in the article link I posted.
Well I certainly fault him for that...Who would you blame, Hillary Clinton???
Your comment makes me wonder what the reaction would be by Jeb or George Bush if some bureaucrat had designs on their HOME.
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