If approved by the legislature, this budget will set in stone Governor Bush's environmental legacy. |
It seems to give kind of a very open-ended permission ... to basically manage the ranch for an economic purpose. It's lost the balance between economic and ecological. |
It used to be that we really were opponents on a lot of policy issues. We weren't listening to each other. |
It's a great budget for the environment, it really is. It's more money than they've ever put into the environment. |
It's a local project that got a big chunk of money and then had problems. Members don't forget that. |
Money changes everything. Especially when you have a lot of it. For Governor Bush, I think you're seeing him looking to burnish his legacy. |
Most environmental decisions are based on science and we should not substitute a political decision-maker for science decision-making. |
She did a lot of good stuff for us then. |
The increase they're looking for appears to be more than they would probably get. |
The Legislature should stop second-guessing the will of the voters. |
There's an ongoing kind of resistance movement to Babcock. But I don't think they have the juice to deliver. |
We recognized Florida ranchlands contained some of the best environmental lands in the state. It's better to have agriculture than a mall or housing. |
We should let the ranch be economically sustainable but also ecologically sustainable. |
We spend more time opposing bad bills now than we did in the past. The Legislature is awful compared to what it used to be. |
We're not exactly in a great position to go and say we want more. |