I-75 interchange study canceled -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

This earmark is grossly illegal. When is someone going to hold the people in office accountable?

".In 2005, Young waited until after the House and Senate passed a transportation bill, but before the president signed it into law, to rewrite a passage that would have granted $10 million for an interstate in Florida. "

qoute "Local officials never asked for federal money to pay for the interchange, but Lee County leaders voted in June to go forward with the study anyway. It would have been paid for by a $10 million earmark put into the federal budget by U.S. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, who made it clear the money could be used only for the Coconut Road interchange study."

A 10 MILLION DOLLAR
'S T U D Y'!????

..... either this is a miss-qoute OR
'Houston we have a problem'

A Senator from ALASKA is concerned with a south Fla road issue?Put an R or a D in front of their name, most all the same, arrogant empty suits, mis-named our leaders.

At the invitation of the congressman from the district, Connie Mack, Mr. Young visited Florida Gulf Coast University for a meeting on the Interstate and other transportation questions. Afterward, Mr. Young went directly to the fund-raiser at the Hyatt Coconut Point.

His campaign records show that he received more than $40,000 in contributions on one day around that time, mostly from southwestern Florida developers and builders. Mr. Aronoff gave $500 to Mr. Young’s campaign and later gave $2,500 to Mr. Young’s Midnight Sun political action committee.

The invitations to the event listed as hosts Mr. Mack, a business group called the Southwest Florida Transportation Initiative that includes Mr. Aronoff’s company and two executives of other Florida developers.

Asked in a telephone interview who had organized the fund-raiser, Mr. Mazurkiewicz, the consultant, said he was then at another fund-raiser with a member of Mr. Mack’s staff who would know.

“Aronoff,” the staff member told Mr. Mazurkiewicz, within earshot of his mobile phone.

“Just some local businessmen,” Mr. Mazurkiewicz said into the phone. When pressed, he confirmed that the staff member had named Mr. Aronoff. Later, Mr. Mazurkiewicz called again to list the names on the invitation.

The Aronoffs, major Republican donors, gave more than $200,000 to Republican candidates and political committees in the 2006 election. Their business, the Landon Companies, is best known for building mobile-home parks. But it also operates a real estate development business in Florida.

Daniel Aronoff has taken over active management of the company from his father, Arnold Y. Aronoff, who had a checkered career in Florida real estate. In 1979, Arnold Aronoff was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to mail fraud in a scheme to sell Florida swampland at an inflated price.

Connie Mack is in cohoots with these people, if he is re-elected his fraud and stealing will be taken to a higher level and he wont be as stupid to get caught so blantantly next time...boot this kid out....

oh and you'll love his new study group to the tune of 90 million...Red Tide...
Pollution, phosphate at core of red tide problem
Toxic red tide outbreaks are getting more intense, longer in duration and seem to be fed by pollution flowing down some of the state's most protected estuaries.
Scientists studying red tide at the request of Lee County, the City of Bonita Springs and other Lee municipalities said Monday that pollution run-off and poor water management practices are at the root of harmful algal blooms that have killed marine creatures and driven off tourists.
Larry Brand with the University of Miami told a crowd of about 100 at the Three Oaks Convention Center in Estero on Monday that recent research points to Lake Okeechobee and phosphate mines as the top red tide culprits.
Price told the crowd that everyone living in Southwest Florida is contributing to the pollution problem on some level.
Scientists studying red tide at the request of Lee County, the City of Bonita Springs and other Lee municipalities said Monday that pollution run-off and poor water management practices are at the root of harmful algal blooms that have killed marine creatures and driven off tourists.

Ignores the biggest polluters. Florida PEER's analysis of the 14 Florida corporations currently designated as Significant Non Compliers (SNCs) of industrial and domestic wastewater discharges shows that not a single one has a current DEP enforcement action against it.(SNCs are companies that have had multiple violations over extended periods
The biggest offenders are Connie Mack's biggest contributors...I smell something fishy from here..

A state that is becoming a welfare state, quickly!

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