State Senator Travis Hutson to Chair Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development. (DBNJ)

The cities of St. Augustine and St. Augustine Beach and St. Johns County are blessed to have elected the incoming chair of the Florida State Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development.   

Appointment just made by incoming State Senate President -- State Senator Travis Hutson (R-Hutson Companies), a developer scion, will chair the Florida State Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development.   

State Senator Travis Hutson (FlaglerLive.com)

Congratulations, Senator Hutson.

This could be huge. 

Transportation, tourism and economic development are three key concerns here.

Overbuilding of large developments, proliferation of ill-planned transportation and infrastructure have clogged our roads and decreased our quality of life.  

Thanks to other-directed political boss, developer puppet Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, Republican Lord of All He Surveys, a legend in his own mind.

Our paradise is being converted into a series of Leviathan Levittowns.  Mobility is lacking because of corporate lawyers dictating the terms of our distorted development patterns.

The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) money must be spent on mass transportation -- we have none here, other than the third-rate Sunshine Bus Company, which keeps Bankers' Hours and is Closed on Sunday, poorly-planned, poorly-routed, with insufficient concern for working people, retirees and the poor 

The lack of decent mass transit in St. Johns County is the direct and proximate result of one-party rule.  

Caught in bad traffic, without affordable transit -- thank our all-Republican local  political machine and bumptious bum bamboozling Boss Hogg, Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, et al.

The Subcommittee can help.

It can also help with line items to help us attract good jobs at good wages with fast internet service, as Chattanooga did.  

The Subcommittee can help.

We can make our tourist economy world class with creation of a St. Augustine National Historical Park and National Seashore, proposed in 1939 by Mayor Walter Fraser, U.S. Senator Claude Pepper and Charles Andrews and Rep. Joseph Hendricks.   There is no substitute.




From Daytona Beach News Journal:

By Mark Harper 

Posted Nov 26, 2018 at 6:10 PMUpdated Nov 26, 2018 at 6:10 PM

  

Florida Senate President Bill Galvano on Monday announced committee assignments for the 40 state senators, including three who represent portions of Volusia and Flagler counties.

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Sen. David Simmons, R-Altamonte Springs, who will serve as Senate President Pro Tempore, will chair the Judiciary Committee and serve on the Appropriations, Community Affairs, Education and Rules committees.

Sen. Travis Hutson, R-St. Augustine, will sit on the Appropriations, Judiciary, Rules, Commerce and Tourism, Infrastructure and Security and Innovation, Industry and Technology committees. He will chair the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism and Economic Development.

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Sen. Tom Wright, R-New Smyrna Beach, will chair the Military and Veterans Affairs and Space Committee. He’ll also serve on the Commerce and Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources, Children, Families and Elder Affairs and Joint Administrative Procedures committees.