A bigly fail
I don’t wanna say I told you so. But this is why The Great DeSanitizer is never gonna be President Of Anything.
No sooner had Trump uttered the words “Gulf of America” than TGDS eagerly included the old gulf’s new name in his emergency cold weather declaration.
As though to say to The Big Guy: Hey, faithful toady over here, Boss!
Presumably in the hope that The Great Orange One would forget that our anti-Ron had the effrontery to run against him.
Dude! He’s never gonna forgive or forget. You had a golden opportunity to put Florida on the map, and you blew it.
I mean, what’s wrong with the Gulf of Florida?
It’s got a beat and you can dance to it. The Free State of Florduh deserves its own geography, right?
And, listen, you’re gonna want to hang onto that name when you declare Floriduh a Banana Republic and leave the union.
So you can finally be the President Of Something.
A Waldo moment
Well finally! A little love for the City of Waldo.
Let’s face it, Waldo is definitely AC’s hard luck city. The DOT turned it into a sterile traffic interchange. Its downtown has all but dried up and blown away. It lost its police department for ticketing too many speeders.
But now comes a little love when woeful Waldo most needs it.
Dude! Great flea market!
This complements of Islands.com.
“In Waldo, start your thrifting and picking at the Waldo Antique Village, a two-level, 20,000-square-foot bazaar just north of downtown on U.S. Highway 301. The building is brimming with dealer booths offering antiques, curios, collectibles, and thousands of knick-knacks alongside salvaged pieces and one-of-a-kind art.”
Plus a shout out for Waldo’s canal, “fresh local produce” and “slower pace and friendly atmosphere.”
Bask in your five minutes of fame, Waldo. You deserve it.
Tea and sympathy for Archer
In case you missed it, Archer stiffed the IRS on payroll taxes, played fast and loose with Wild Spaces and Public Spaces money and, generally, went way, way, way over budget.
Listen, if GNV had done that, our legislative delegation would be howling for a state takeover. The Great DeSanitizer would have already suspended the Mayor. And some rural legislator would be introducing a bill to turn GNV operations over to yet another anti-Ron-appointed board.
But Archer is a red city in a blue county. So let’s not make too big a fuss over this. I mean, it could all just be a bookkeeping error.
“I do think that this is a really unfortunate situation, and they’ve had an unfortunate few years with a bad City Manager, and there’s been a lot of things that have happened. But I’d like to help them get out of the situation as best we can.”
This from a very sympathetic County Commissioner Mary Alford.
Listen, at the very least, elected Archer commissioners were oblivious to gross fiscal mismanagement in the city government they were elected to keep an eye on. This isn’t an “unfortunate situation.” It’s gross dereliction of duty.
If nothing else, voters ought to throw every one of those asleep at the switch rascals out at the first opportunity.
A total eclipse of the sun
Hey, remember when GNV’s was the first utility in America to adopt solar incentives Those were the days, huh?
But that solar stuff doesn’t fly with our Great DeSanitzer-appointed GRU overlords. They’ve been whittling away at, um…let’s just call it solar socialism since the GOP-engineered ousting of the misguided liberal city commissioners who aspired to make GNV America’s Solar City.
So it should surprise no one that the anti-Ron puppets who run GRU have decided to back out of a solar farm deal that has been years in the making.
Ostensibly, they killed the deal because of cost overruns. But if you believe that I’ve got a coal-fired generator I’d like to sell you.
Listen, you don’t need a weather man to tell which way the wind is blowing, energy policy wise. Renewables are out. Fossil fuels are back bigly. The Big Orange One says so, and utility toadies everywhere had better march to the beat of the MAGA drum if they know what’s good for them.
Funny thing, though. GRU may have been a pioneer in the Let’s Give Solar A Chance Movement. But these days it’s the state’s utility giants – the likes of Florida Power And Light, Duke Energy – who are building solar capacity like crazy.
As Bryan Jacob, of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy told The Florida Phoenix:
“Public officials don’t embrace this agenda, but so much of this is driven by market forces. The utilities have seen the costs decrease and the technology improve over the last five years,”
The Sunshine State? Don’t try to tell that to GRU’s Luddite governors.
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