Jonathan Dickinson State Park Golf Course

[HalcyonDaze]

The staked vampire may rise from his coffin after thanksgiving.

Sen. Rick Scott Joins Sen. Marco Rubio, Rep. Brian Mast in Urging Florida to Allow Public Commentary on Golf Courses at State Parks Proposal

www.rickscott.senate.gov

Yes, the cynic in me notes that a) that's after elections and b) I have a funny feeling that the percentage of people who think golf and hotels in state parks is a great idea is higher among the snowbird crowd.

 

[greeniguana]

Fun fact: There are more than 200 pickleball courts in the Villages.

 

[HalcyonDaze]

DeSantis blames 'left-wing group' for stirring controversy over state park plans

Saying Florida is not getting in the "golf course business," Gov. Ron DeSantis said plans to bring golf, pickleball, hotels and frisbee golf would go back to the drawing board.

www.wlrn.org

DeSantis will call on DEP to rework 'Great Outdoors Initiative,' says state won't 'take away any green space'

Gov. Ron DeSantis will call on the Florida Department of Environment Protection to rework the state's controversial "Great Outdoors Initiative."

www.wptv.com

https://www.wpbf.com/article/florida-desantis-pauses-controversial-state-parks-overhaul-going-back-tdrawing-board/61999192

I suspect FDEP employees are currently undergoing a new version of the Spanish Inquisition, judging by the amateur hour gaslighting from the governor.

 

[thomschoon]

DeSantis blames 'left-wing group' for stirring controversy over state park plans

Saying Florida is not getting in the "golf course business," Gov. Ron DeSantis said plans to bring golf, pickleball, hotels and frisbee golf would go back to the drawing board.

www.wlrn.org

DeSantis will call on DEP to rework 'Great Outdoors Initiative,' says state won't 'take away any green space'

Gov. Ron DeSantis will call on the Florida Department of Environment Protection to rework the state's controversial "Great Outdoors Initiative."

www.wptv.com

https://www.wpbf.com/article/florida-desantis-pauses-controversial-state-parks-overhaul-going-back-tdrawing-board/61999192

I suspect FDEP employees are currently undergoing a new version of the Spanish Inquisition, judging by the amateur hour gaslighting from the governor.

Kind of a slime ball response, how was it “leaked out” just days before the first public meeting, or were we not suppose to be invited!! Obviously not taking any responsibility, I admit when I make a mistake, I voted for the fool.

 

[greeniguana]

DeSantis blames 'left-wing group' for stirring controversy over state park plans

Saying Florida is not getting in the "golf course business," Gov. Ron DeSantis said plans to bring golf, pickleball, hotels and frisbee golf would go back to the drawing board.

www.wlrn.org

DeSantis will call on DEP to rework 'Great Outdoors Initiative,' says state won't 'take away any green space'

Gov. Ron DeSantis will call on the Florida Department of Environment Protection to rework the state's controversial "Great Outdoors Initiative."

www.wptv.com

https://www.wpbf.com/article/florida-desantis-pauses-controversial-state-parks-overhaul-going-back-tdrawing-board/61999192

I suspect FDEP employees are currently undergoing a new version of the Spanish Inquisition, judging by the amateur hour gaslighting from the governor.

LOL.

Of course the idiotic proposal would've worked if not for the leakers!!! That was the premise of many Scoobie Doo episodes. And FL politics is nothing but one never ending Scoobie Doo episode.

 

[johndiver999]

He is such a slime ball, DEP didn't come up with these plans and strategies to deliberately limit public input without direction from his office.

 

[HalcyonDaze]

Kind of a slime ball response, how was it “leaked out” just days before the first public meeting, or were we not suppose to be invited!! Obviously not taking any responsibility, I admit when I make a mistake, I voted for the fool.

I respect that. I've seen a few people trying to defend DeSantis on social media over this, which leaves them sounding like a spouse proclaiming "Ron would never cheat on me! I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for the crotchless lace panties I found in the laundry, the lipstick stains on his underwear, and the three-figure charge to his credit card at the strip club!"

The older I get, the more I believe in the saying that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." DeSantis has made a big show of being the caudillo of Florida who strongarms the legislature into passing what he wants and firing state employees who don't do as he says, and he definitely still has Presidential ambitions. That press conference was delivered by a man who just f'd around and found out that no, he cannot do whatever he pleases and he does not sound at all chastised about it. A few folks have pointed to his "I am totally fine to just do nothing and do no improvements, if that's what the general public wants" line and predicted he may cut state park funding out of spite; I can't say it would shock me.

 

[HalcyonDaze]

Sadly unsurprising. If it wasn't for this guy, DeSantis might have gotten away with it: State parks whistleblower says he was fired, but had to 'stop the madness'

 

[greeniguana]

Sadly unsurprising. If it wasn't for this guy, DeSantis might have gotten away with it: State parks whistleblower says he was fired, but had to 'stop the madness'

This has been going on for a while and there is a long list of FDEP political casualties, unfortunately. I'm not a GoFundMe person, but I'll be contributing to that one.