Beauty hunter
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Very good suggestion, idlewind.
Thank you. All options should be considered in an important decision like this. Please propose another option and the reasoning behind it so we can be fully informed and not narrow-minded.
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Very good suggestion, idlewind.
Thank you. All options should be considered in an important decision like this. Please propose another option and the reasoning behind it so we can be fully informed and not narrow-minded.I can only assure you that Marti Coley is sensitive to the environment. Like all of us who were born and raised in the Walton and Bay county areas, Ms. Coley admires and wishes to protect the beauty of our area. Poor planning of the past has led to scattered high rise condos and horrible traffic flow in Bay County; however, the Bays have been well-preserved and much of the stormwater concerns regarding the new airport appear to be much ado about nothing.
There has to be more than two absolute camps of develop everything versus develop nothing. While I no longer think there is a camp that wishes to develop everything, there is still a camp that wants to develop nothing. No person living in this area will vote for or allow anything that puts military missions in jeopardy. We all know that Tyndall and Eglin are the backbone of our local economy year round. The same goes for oil drilling and allowing it to negatively impact our beaches. The hands across the sand crowd don't care if there is a solution that allows offshore drilling that has limited impact. They would prefer to cripple the ability of our state and local businesses to explore potential sources of energy to free our dependency of foreign oil. What evidence is there that opening up exploration will destroy our beaches? I am aware of none and these alarmists are hoping to scare others into blindly following their advice.
Again, attend a Marti Coley event. Listen to her broad agenda of making Florida a great place to do business, improving the performance of our schools, protecting military projects in our area, and limiting the size of state government. She has dedicated much of her life as an educator and is an admirable person.
Can you please link to evidence of her Texas oil lobby money? All I find at ballotpedia.org is her top 5 contributors:
FL Police Benevolent Assoc $2,000 21st Century Oncology $1,000 American Resort Development Assoc $1,000 FL Chamber of Commerce $1,000 FL Assoc of Insurance Agents $1,000
I do not see any red flags here....
Did you do any investigation to see if what you hear is true? Mr. Pleat has issued 3 press releases claiming that "Texas oil" has given money to the Coley campaign. I just spent 2 hours on google to find any evidence of this and outside of the Walton County Democrats and David Pleat's facebook page I am afraid any public evidence of this is nonexistant. It does not surprise me that a trial attorney would stretch the truth. If you want this kind of representation in Tallahasee then you will deserve the representation you are getting. It was good for me to learn more about who is supporting Mr. Pleat. I personally will be avoiding Florida Fish House and Harbor Docks Restaurant from now on seeing the company that its owner keeps. Kind of a bummer since the 2 for 1 early bird specials are so good. I never really liked Bud and Alley's anyway so avoiding it will not be as hard.
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Matt J
SWGB
Perhaps you should go to the source.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/candidate/CanDetail.asp?account=50333
09/24/2009 500.00 FLORIDA STATE PAC PROGRESS ENE
10/17/2009 250.00 CHEVRON CORPORATION
Granted I didn't google all of the PAC's that have contributed or the lobbyists, but I'm betting there's more money from Oil interests there.
http://election.dos.state.fl.us/candidate/CanDetail.asp?account=50333
09/24/2009 500.00 FLORIDA STATE PAC PROGRESS ENE
10/17/2009 250.00 CHEVRON CORPORATION
Granted I didn't google all of the PAC's that have contributed or the lobbyists, but I'm betting there's more money from Oil interests there.
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Matt J
SWGB
Marti Coley also claims to represent the rural communities and coastal counties. Oddly 75% of her contributions come from outside of her district. While some of those businesses are simply corporate offices, some are questionable. Why is she accepting contributions from a company like Phoenix University? We already have community colleges, state colleges, and universities in her district. All of those offer distance learning without the predatory lending practices that come with for profit colleges.
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Thank you Andy, Maybe if you have time you could show the pros/cons of ordinary citizen vs. trial attorney. At this point, I would have a tendency to disagree with you, but if you present an angle I might not have considered, it might help give me a broader base from which I could form a decision.
Very good suggestion, idlewind.
John R
needs to get out more
Can you help me a bit? How long does it take from the first weld to realization of refined fuel? Where would the rigs be fabricated? Where would the oil be refined? Where do the support boats sail from? Where are the taxes collected from all the above? How much $$/per barrel will be coming to Florida? How will this industry support Florida?
Matt J
SWGB
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.
