Former governors offer stern warning about Florida's future
Source: Tampa Bay Times
GAINESVILLE Five of Florida's living former governors met at the University of Florida Friday and offered up a stern bipartisan warning about the future direction of the state.
The governors Reubin Askew, Bob Graham, Bob Martinez, Buddy MacKay and Charlie Crist lamented the loss of environmental protections, the dismantling of guided growth management, and the recent partisan assault on the Florida Supreme Court.
Absent from the panel was former Republican Gov. Jeb Bush. The "Conversation with Florida Governors" was sponsored by the UF law school's Law Review as part of the Allen L. Poucher Legal Education Series.
Askew, who as a Democratic governor in the 1970s ushered in judicial reform and the nonpartisan merit retention elections for the Supreme Court, said he was disappointed that the Republican Party had joined in the push to oppose the three justices up for merit retention. He chided critics who claim that the justices should not be judged by their records.
Read more: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/elections/former-governors-offer-stern-warning-about-floridas-future/1256147
onehandle
(51,122 posts)They might as well declare themselves part of Mississipabamaeorgia.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)There are many of us bustig our ass to get people to vote, and we DID become a blue state last time.
Cha
(297,240 posts)do Not deserve Rick Scott and the teabagger state destroyers. Just like America does not deserve..
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ellenfl
(8,660 posts)MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)I think McKay would remember.
That's a Florida I remember... and where my heart still lies in hopes of returning to some day.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,709 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)and didn't dismantle any growth management laws during that time. Currently he holds no public office, so how would he undermine them now?
Baitball Blogger
(46,709 posts)of Growth Management from the state. And we're not talking about cities that were too concerned about homeowner rights. What they started in the nineties, was finally achieved by the Republican Florida Legislature last year.
no_hypocrisy
(46,110 posts)NBachers
(17,110 posts)"Nearly every American blunder in the last 50 years, in fact, have ties to one Bush or another."
The Secret Problem with Jeb http://nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com/2012/03/secret-problem-with-jeb-why-another_04.html
starroute
(12,977 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)be water front in a few years. Any takers?
lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts)Florida can sink no lower than pRick Scott.
OF COURSE Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are absent. They are waiting for the State to collapse.. then they will swoop in and buy ocean-front property for pennies.
Capn Sunshine
(14,378 posts)Pretty wild accusations there, pard.
lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts).If you did.. you would know that it is a losing preposition.. unless you are politically connected...like Jeb Bush Reality and Marco Rubio Reality.
Mary in S. Carolina
(1,364 posts)Since George Bush vs Gore - I think US citizens automatically give Florida to the Republicans. The Florida system is just so corrupt that individual votes just do not count; in other words, Florida citizens, through their elected officials, allow the Republicans to cheat in order to win.