“It was the first time DeSantis has spoken publicly about the issue. The “Great Outdoors Initiative” was announced last week by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and called for building three golf courses at Jonathan Dickinson State Park, a stretch of undeveloped land north of Palm Beach popular for its trails and birding.
The plan also proposed building new lodges with space for hundreds of guests at Anastasia State Park near St. Augustine and Topsail Hill Preserve in the Panhandle. The latter has sand dunes that the state park service describes as “especially remarkable because they are untouched by development.”
DeSantis said Wednesday that “a lot of that stuff was just half baked,” and he accused a “left wing group” of leaking the proposal. The Department of Environmental Protection touted the initiative on social media, so it’s unclear what DeSantis was referring to as a leak. His office did not return a request for comment.
After several days of public outcry, the organization that had proposed the golf courses to the environmental protection division withdrew its plans.
Many of the state’s highest-ranking Republicans, including U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott and two members of DeSantis’s cabinet, condemned the plans and also the rush by the DEP to get them approved.
Public meetings were scheduled to take place this week in cities across the state and last only one hour. Members of the state panel that approves such plans would not have been present at the meetings, according to the letter signed by Scott and others.
“None of them were going to be present to actually hear the community’s comment and hear how the community doesn’t want this,” Republican Congressman Brian Mast, whose district includes Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Martin County, told ABC News. “You have to have transparent government that’s paying attention to the people, not a government that doesn’t.”
Mast said a golf course at the park would happen “over my dead body.”
Democrats seized on the unpopular plan — more than 100,000 people signed a petition protesting the proposal for Jonathan Dickinson State Park — to say DeSantis is out of touch with regular Floridians.
“Floridians of all political opinions can agree on one thing: we have to protect our state’s natural beauty from overdevelopment,” Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried said in a statement.”
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DeSantis pulls plug on controversial plan to pave over state parks
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The drug business in Chester County changed when Democrats took Chester County.
It wasn't just Chester County flipping to Democrat. The Mafia that controlled the CCRC no longer controls the drug business.
Now motorcycle gangs run drugs. SEE:
Friday, October 19, 2012
Democrats need to take over Florida as a first step to cleaning up Florida.
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Chester County’s wealthy wanted to preserve our rolling hills. So, we got a very good for land wild land preservation Chester County Planning Commission:
New Agricultural Landscapes Design Guide Released
Posted July 19, 2024
We are excited to share that the Chester County Planning Commission has completed its sixth and final Landscapes Design Guide: The Agricultural Landscapes Design Guide!New Agricultural Landscapes Design Guide Released
Posted July 19, 2024
On drugs Chester County was different. When the Mafia controlled drugs Chester County Government was an actor in Mafia business. Drug money paid the Lawyers who represented drug dealers at the Chester County Courthouse.
I think Rubino had to know SE Pennsylvania-South New Jersey mob boss Anglo Bruno.
S.A. Rubino, Long A Power In Chesco
Theodore S. A. Rubino, 77, a self-made millionaire and the predominant power broker in Chester County Republican politics for two decades until he was convicted of extortion in 1977, died yesterday at Bryn Mawr Hospital. He had lived in Malvern.Mr. Rubino, who entered politics as a Malvern Borough councilman in 1955, was chairman of the Chester County Republican Party for 12 years and chairman of the county commissioners for seven.He rose to prominence at a time when county bosses could wield considerable power, said William Lamb, the current head of the county’s GOP…..Although Mr. Rubino had held no official position in the county GOP since 1977, his tight reins on the county’s political patronage system can still be felt.“You need only look around the courthouse today to see how many people’s careers Ted helped,” Lamb said, adding that for the last decade Mr. Rubino ”had been a friend and an adviser.” The county GOP considered him to be the party’s chairman emeritus, Lamb said.Senior U.S. District Judge John B. Hannum, whom Mr. Rubino succeeded as county GOP chairman in 1964, said: “He was an exceptional man and a great friend. He had been sick a long time, though, and maybe this is a blessing.”….The son of an Italian immigrant quarry worker, origins that helped him maintain an easy rapport with the county’s rank-and-file voters, Mr. Rubino considered himself an anomaly among the fox-hunting gentry who controlled the county before him.“This is real WASP country,” he once said. “Somehow, I just never belonged.”Despite never being fully accepted by the county’s Republican traditionalists, he did acquire power and wealth.And controversy frequently followed him.Through real estate speculation, his ownership of the Knickerbocker Landfill near Malvern and his association with a Paoli insurance firm, Mr. Rubino, a lifelong bachelor, was a millionaire by the early 1970s…..Mr. Rubino’s first public troubles began in 1970, when state officials reported that hazardous wastes had been dumped, apparently illegally, at the landfill he owned with his brother. Knickerbocker was closed for a week in 1971 but was not shut down permanently until 1979, despite efforts by local environmental groups to have it closed sooner…..Public controversy also swirled over the state’s $1 million purchase of part of his landfill for a stretch of the Route 202 bypass.Though the legal division of the state Department of Transportation cleared Mr. Rubino of any wrongdoing in the case, public outcry caused enough pressure that he decided not to seek re-election to his county commission post in 1975.Still, he was re-elected that same year as party chairman without opposition.Then, in 1977, Mr. Rubino pleaded guilty to having extorted $6,400 from architects who were awarded a $130,000 contract to convert a former West Chester hospital into a county government annex….As part of Mr. Rubino’s plea agreement, prosecutors read into the record statements that the FBI had taken from businessmen and politicians who had dealt with Mr. Rubino. They indicated that he had established set prices for those doing business with the county, ranging from milk supplies to the leases on court offices. Some of the money went to the county GOP.As vice president of the Huggler Insurance Agency of Paoli, Mr. Rubino also received commissions from county contracts that he personally directed to the agency.
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Harvey Legree was related to the Chair of Chester County Republican Committee Area 14 Richard Legree which included the City of Coatesville.
Harvey did what Omar in the series "The Wire" did.
"HARVEY AND SYLVIA MEET AT JAMES ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL IN COATESVILLE,PA.
JAMES ADAMS WAS A SEGREGATED SCHOOL.
SYLVIA HAD ALREADY HAD A CHILD (THOMAS LEGREE) FROM A PAST RELATIONSHIP.
SYLVIA STRUGGLED IN THE TENTH GRADE TAKING CARE OF HER CHILD AND TAKING CARE OF HER SIBLINGS WHICH FORCED HER TO QUIT SCHOOL IN THE TENTH GRADE.
DURING THE DAY HARVEY WOULD TERRORISE THE STREETS OF COATESVILLE, WEST CHESTER, PARKSBURG, DOWNINGTOWN, AND SOME PARTS OF PHILADELPHIA AND FOUND TIME TO SPEND WITH SYLVIA IN-BETWEEN HIS REIGN OF TERROR.
IN-BETWEEN ROBBING DRUG DEALERS AND RUNNING HIS GANG (THE CAPONES) HARVEY STILL WENT TO SCHOOL EVERYDAY AND PLAYED VARSITY BASKETBALL WHICH EARNED HIM A SCHOLARSHIP TO NEBRASKA."
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https://harveylegreeproductions.com/life-on-lifes-terms
“Legree was arrested for drugs twice in 2002 and got out of jail in 2004. He produced the stop-snitching DVD, "The Sequel" in January 2005. The movie, which started circulating a few years ago, shows men with guns, drugs and cash in Coatesville.
The stop-snitching campaign has hit cities nationwide and is intended to discourage witnesses from giving police information related to crimes. The intimidating efforts to get people not to cooperate makes it harder for investigators to solve crimes, according to police.
Council members Ed Simpson, Kurt Schenk, Robin Scott and Stephanie Smith Dowridge said they were unaware of Legree's involvement with the stop-snitching DVD. Smith-Dowridge said that if she had been aware of it, it would not have affected her vote.
"We have to encourage people to change from the negative to the positive." she said.
Councilman Martin Eggleston said he was aware of it but believed that Legree was moving in a positive direction.
"Legree is turning into a different direction and I commend him for that," Eggleston said.
After the council meeting, Legree spoke about the new movie.
The negative publicity from the DVD made him want to focus his attention on positive projects, he said. He acknowledged the snitching movie encouraged illegal behavior.
"Everyone makes mistakes," he said. "Everyone should be given a second chance."
Legree said the new movie will be about a guy who went to jail like he did. He said he went to jail because someone snitched on him. In the new movie, Legree said, people who get arrested cooperate with the police and and tell them about people doing illegal things.
The new movie will be distributed by Mondre Boggs, who owns a recording studio in Downingtown.
"He's trying to go into a whole other direction, and I'm trying to enforce that," Boggs said.
Boggs said he would not be helping to promote the stop-snitching video.
One person featured in the stop-snitching movie has since been arrested for attempted murder.
"I've never murdered. I never will. But (snitch on) me and I'll get you killed," said a man in the DVD, who authorities identified as Duron Peoples on the DVD.
Peoples faces three counts of criminal attempted homicide and related offenses for allegedly shooting Jonas "Sonny" Suber on April 1, 2006. Peoples is awaiting trial. Suber's hand and chest were grazed during the shooting, according to reports. After several months of investigating, the U.S. Marshal Fugitive Task Force arrested Peoples on Dec. 18, 2006, in Phoenix, Ariz.
Between the first shooting and Peoples' arrest, Suber was shot and killed at the front door of his Coatesville home on Oct. 21, 2006. The investigation continues. No arrests have been made.”
As a small boy I looked forward to visiting Sante and Concetta Giunta Piscoglio at Christmas. There was a large Lionel Train layout in the basement.
Sante Piscoglio once lived in a 1920s style stone home overlooking Coatesville at the top of 13th Avenue. Sante ran Scotch Whisky from Canada to Chester County Common Pleas judges.
He got 2 pops in the back of the head at 8th Avenue & Harmony Street.
When the Mafia switched to much easier to run heroin law enforcement & political connections were already in place.
It’s universal. The war on people to profit on drugs.
CIA in Vietnam ran H using U.S. Air Force.
WEALTHY PHILLY NARCOTICS DETECTIVES???
LIKE THIS GUY IN AMERICAN GANGSTER:
ChesCo DA Bill Lamb’s witness Daniel Joseph’s murdered while in witness security for fingering 2 PA State Police & ChesCo FBI selling heroin.
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