A Florida political aside: An effort to get the governor to kill a bill.

As most know, I’m pretty involved with politics but post nothing of it here. Here I make an exception because I notice a bulk majority on all sides of the issue are against a ridiculous plan in front of our governor to approve a proposal by our legislature to approve 3 nebulous highways in our state of Florida.

There is no set idea where exactly the three go, how they will be built, what they might be designed as and – most importantly – the actual number of Billions to build three highways that only those that can make a cut of the project want. One of these highways extends to the Georgia border where there is no highway on the other side to meet it!

I hear environmentalists upset and they have reason. There has to be further damage to our water supply to build, specifically the redirected “Heartland” highway. But I think the REAL anger should be to what a sloppy mess this is and how it’s set up to cost us endless supplies of taxpayer cash to build these needless roads. Two of these highways are old projects the people rose against and killed. So, not to leave road builders and their ilk out of the cash flow, the politicians just moved the roads in a different direction! 

There are preposterous numbers being thrown around by the Chamber of Commerce of 4.5 million moving here by 2030. First, the average person who moves to Florida is indigent and aren’t buying a home anytime soon after moving here. Nevertheless, in the Chamber’s logic, we need to pay for these roads which have little residential development but land owners wanting to develop. The politicians and Special Interests want us taxpayers to pay for a mighty expensive driveway to developer yet-to-be-built projects. 

What’s not mentioned is that, by 2030, a good deal of Baby Boomers are gone and we have a far poorer tax paying population that doesn’t drive as much. Something we saw coming 30 years ago. 

The governor has until the 28th, I learned today, to sign this boondoggle. Usually the deadline is later in June, but obviously there are those with hands out waiting for checks to start being written.

So, today i put a call to my pal Ken Culotta and started hammering out some good gag ideas and tonight, with pen in hand, have started drawing the lot. Hope to get these out before Friday and hope others will help get these around.

The push is to encourage Governor DeSantis to kill this bill and not blow Billions for needless highways for special interests when we have hundreds of current existing roads in need of help first or how about some REAL help to those still in tent cities in the Panhandle after Hurricane Michael ….or, better yet, with all that money saved, we all get a tax break!??!!

(By the way, I’m giving just the briefest argument. I can get real nitty gritty as to why these projects are Florida Swamp projects and just how needless they really are.)