Fetid Flori-DUH Governor RONALD DION DeSANTIS, our former Congressman from St. Augustine and St. Johns County, will be stopped when this bill is passed and becomes law. Let's home the vacuous varmint doesn't 'veto it. We can go a step further by adopting into law the St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore, first proposed by both Senators, our Congeressman and St. Augustine Mayor Walter Fraser in 1939. Read my January 10, 2025 statement to our St. Johns County Legislative Delegation, here: https://cleanupcityofstaugustine.blogspot.com/2025/01/save-our-parks-staugustgreen-ed-slavin.html
Florida Senate poised to pass legislation to protect state parks. Get it done. | Editorial
It's time for the Florida Senate to follow suit with a timely floor vote that will reconcile its bill with the House companion and move the legislation to the governor's desk
UPDATE: Senate Bill 80 has been placed on the Florida Senate's Special Order Calendar for Tuesday, April 29. That means that it has a "high priority and scheduled for expedited consideration during a floor session."
They've been vocal about protecting their state parks since news leaked last August of a Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) plan to allow golf courses, pickleball courts and swanky hotels to be built amid the tranquil natural wonders of Anastasia, Topsail Hill Preserve, Jonathan Dickinson and six other prominent state parks.
The groundswell of opposition resonated throughout the state, prompting the department to withdraw The Great Outdoors Initiative Plan and Gov. Ron DeSantis to first feign ignorance then blow it all off as a left-wing conspiracy.
Floridians didn't stop there. They also made their intentions known during the Florida State Parks Preservation Opinion Project, a collaboration by 17 Gannett-owned newspapers in the state of Florida to rally support behind Senate Bill 80/House Bill 209, legislation to preserve and protect our state parks. From Jupiter to Jacksonville, from Pensacola to Panacea, it was clear that the shared outrage at the idea that their state government would so easily commercialize state parks ran wide and deep.
State lawmakers have apparently gotten the memo. Senate Bill 80, along with its House companion, HB 209, have sailed through their respective committee stops, earning bipartisan and unanimous votes along the way.
The Florida House took the final step, approving its version of the legislation earlier this month in a 115-0 floor vote. After sailing through the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee on Tuesday, it's time for the full Senate to follow suit with its own timely floor vote that will reconcile its bill with the House and move the legislation to the governor's desk to be signed into law.
While the current Senate bill is a good start, the House version has more unambiguous language that makes it clear that no development that threatens Florida's state parks means just that — no. Florida deserves the strongest bill it can get out of the legislature, and state senators should make sure they get it.
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Ronaldo Dion Dishonest can't leave fast enough. Two year term limits for governor would be nice. The executive branch both state and federal is overrated... needs oversight and power limitations. Need suits and remedy for the victims.
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