Florida Votes 'Yes' On Biggest Land Conservation Bill Ever

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Florida men took a break from posing for mugshots Tuesday to overwhelmingly vote in favor of, "the largest land conservation measure ever approved in a single state." Florida Amendment 1 earmarks $1 billion a year to conservation efforts, for the next 20 years.

"This is treasure," stated a supporter of the amendment. "A lot of people never get to see something this good in their life."

Approved by 75 percent of voters, the constitutional amendment will repair conservation financing in the state, eroded during the recession. Controversially, it also future proofs that financing, preventing legislators from dipping into the conservation budget during lean times, as they did over the last six years.

Taxes won't be raised to fund all this, instead the bill devotes existing revenue from the state's real estate taxes.

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http://indefinitelywild.gizmodo.com/florida-votes-yes-on-biggest-land-conservation-bill-ev-1656011851

So they vote Scott back in, vote a bunch of republican nut cases back in, yet vote this in as well. Go Figure.

[DonCoquixote]

1. it went over the 60 percent

which is in and of itself an artifical limit done by jeb bush to try and kill things like High speed rail that passed with 50+ percent margins.

Never fear, Rock Scott will find a way to undo this.

[davidn3600]

2. Medical marijuana even got 58% support in Florida

It nearly made the 60% needed threshold and may try again in 2016.

The reason Scott was re-elected was because Crist wasn't all that much more popular. Both Crist and Scott had horrible favorability ratings and the campaign was incredibly negative. The two attacked each other more than explained what they were going to do.

[hatrack]

3. Don't worry - I'm sure Prick will find a way to fuck them on the funding

Maybe a tame judge will rule it "unconstitutional".

[JCMach1]

4. It's a Constitutional Amendment, so can't be that... however, he did weasel out of most pre-K

funding...