Florida is now probably lost due to the low information voters just passing an Amendment which will provide a slush fund of approx. $19 billion over the next 20 years which will be primarily to buy more land.
The enviro groups are surely in the midst of some great Gorbasims right now in anticipation of getting their hands on this vast amount of taxpayer money.
Just wait until the already high property taxes start going thru the roof in a few years as more and more land is bought up in a State where already 30 to 40% of the land is already in government ownership.
Over 80% of the state to be in government ownership is their goal, now they will be provided with the funding needed to accomplish it.
Perhaps in the not too distant future Florida will be the able to host the first annual Hunger Games as the high speed rail plans are forging ahead also.
The environmental groups’ goal is to work entirely through NGOs and appointed boards and advisory groups, which act behind the scenes to pass regulations, and recommend projects which are entirely funded by the tax payers.
In our county, in WA, the largest NGO was defunded by the Democrat governor after it was exposed that the NGO was conspiring with developers of a coal terminal to defraud the county where the terminal was to be built by diverting the mitigation funds to environmental projects in other counties.
Something similar was tried in North Dakota. It failed, voted down 4 to 1. I wonder how many other states had similar proposals.