A Federal Judge Whacks Jeb

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http://www.counterpunch.com/farago06092005.html

A Federal Judge Whacks Jeb
Spin Machine Busts a Gasket in the Everglades



"A federal judge ruled . . . that the state and federal governments have violated the 1992 Everglades cleanup settlement by allowing repeated excessive discharges of phosphorus into the vast wetlands and failing to meet a key stormwater-treatment deadline."--

Associated Press report last week

Hear ye, hear ye! Come gather 'round the federal district court in Miami.

Quick. Look, before it disappears. The Everglades spin machine is down, little sparks shooting out. Get your cameras. Point and click.

"Florida is today meeting its commitment to the environment and restoring America's Everglades."

-- Gov. Jeb Bush, in literature broadcast by the South Florida Water Management District to taxpayers, May/June 2005.

But U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno ruled that the state continues to violate the law!

View the spin machine, its gears turning lazily around. We're investing billions of dollars in the Everglades! Everything is well! Birds are up!

Quickly. This moment won't last long.

In 2003, Florida Legislature passes the Everglades Whenever Act, but it is all good! Mathematical formulas! Mixing averages! Sugar's pollution is only pollution-sort-of.

The spin machine invents its own reality! Makes bad-tempered governor happy!
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read on, read all about it
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ah, the life of a sugar baron...

and I liked this part: "Thank God for the Indians."