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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 12:33 PM Dec 2016

So Trump wants to ditch Air Force One. Where have I see this before?

Oh yeah. Right here in Florida. Frauds-turned-Politicians of a feather flock together.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/commentary/


Florida needs its plane back, governor

By Douglas C. Lyons

But, you made a campaign promise, and you kept it. Back in 2010, you said you'd mothball the state's aging fleet of planes and graciously use your own. The idea was to show Floridians that you were fiscally responsible in saving taxpayers' money.

So, you dumped our old eight-seat Cessna Citation Bravo jet and nine-seat King Air turboprop, and you graciously offered to replace them with your very own Raytheon Beechjet 400. You even pledged to pay the expenses of operating the plane out of your own pocket.

*****

No doubt you put your jet to good use, even as you left an open-government controversy in your wake. You're don't make your travel plans public, and you won't disclose who travels with you. The press still grumbles about your plane and its shroud of secrecy.

Take that story the Tampa Bay Times did on you and that hush-hush trip to meet with Big Sugar lobbyists at the King Ranch in Texas. It's not like you told anyone you were going. The papers discovered the trip by examining Texas state hunting license records.

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So Trump wants to ditch Air Force One. Where have I see this before? (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 OP
The difference is that Air Force One has defensive measures rzemanfl Dec 2016 #1
But he did love the movie Air Force One! He should have known! Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2016 #2
Love the clip. Thanks. n/t rzemanfl Dec 2016 #3
"It was a movie" TreasonousBastard Dec 2016 #4
That's hilarious tammywammy Dec 2016 #5
Lol! demmiblue Dec 2016 #6

rzemanfl

(29,556 posts)
1. The difference is that Air Force One has defensive measures
Tue Dec 6, 2016, 12:36 PM
Dec 2016

not found on private planes. Drumpf is so fucking ignorant it makes me want to puke.

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