Florida Governor Rick Scott is running scared, as the natives become more and more restless over his disastrous environmental policies that are ravaging our beautiful and fragile watery environments.
In Venice, Florida, Scott, who is in a closely contested Senate race against Democratic Senator Bill Nelson, was booed out of the Mojo’s Real Cuban restaurant in the ruby-red county of Sarasota—only to face an even larger, angrier crowd when the coward fled out the back door.
Venice, along with other southwestern Florida communities, has been hard hit by a toxic red tide, which, although a natural occurrence, has been supercharged by agricultural runoff and subsequent discharge from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers, which carry the pollution to both Florida coasts. Horrified and tearful citizens up and down the Gulf Coast have watched as red tides spread over 1 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, obliterating beloved manatees and the rest of our treasured marine life. The red tide has slowly inched north, where it has now begun to bring to the metropolitan Tampa Bay area the same death and economic misery that has been ongoing in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico since the beginning of the rainy season.
Florida’s renowned sugar-white sand beaches, now fouled by dark and toxic seaweed and rotting marine-life carcasses, are not the only victims of Florida’ s corrupt and pro-pollution GOP-controlled government. The tourism industry has been hit hard by vacation cancellations, resulting in empty hotels and restaurants, all the while crippling the paychecks of waitresses and waiters, as well as those of deep-sea fishing captains and others dependent on a clean and flourishing marine environment for their livelihoods.
In the below presser, a campaigning Rick Scott is proud as he can be about his water-quality record as governor. Gosh! He is a special kind of dick.
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