OPINION AND COMMENTARY
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Re: the Sept. 3 online story, “Whistleblower who warned about plan to put golf, hotels in Florida state parks is fired.” Gov. Ron DeSantis got caught trying to help his friends and himself with his plan to bulldoze state park lands and insert golf courses, hotels and pickleball courts.
Thankfully, a state cartographer, James Gaddis, was outraged as he was directed to rush the creation of land use maps for the proposal in secrecy. So, he shared his concerns about the potential environmental destruction with the Tampa Bay Times. Of course, Gaddis has now been fired.
True to form, DeSantis is trying to distance himself from the proposal. He called the plan “half-baked” as he tried to convey it was just not ready for public view. Unfortunately, “half-baked” is an apt description of many of the ideas and policies DeSantis has subjected Florida to while in office.
Carol Billups,
Fort Lauderdale
A recent letter to the editor suggests that the Electoral College is outdated and should be scrapped because it gives less-populated states an out-sized role in the election process, including giving them an equal number of senators. If we could resurrect the Founding Fathers, they might agree under current circumstances, but we can’t do that.
To discard the...
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