Florida DEP Not Allowed to Say "Climate Change."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=
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The investigative reporting outfit called it an “unwritten policy,” which was “distributed verbally statewide” and has “affected” how one of the largest departments in the state, armed with $1.4 billion budget and 3,200 employees, does business. “The irony is clearly apparent,” Korten told The Washington Post on Sunday night. “Florida is a peninsula with 1,200 miles of coastline and when it comes to climate change, we’re the canary in the coalmine. And we’re relying on the state government to protect us and to plan for these changes.”
The report, published in the Miami Herald, was bolstered by the testimony of numerous former employees and e-mails from around the state. Kristina Trotta, who used to work in the DEP’s Miami office, said she was told during a 2014 meeting that she couldn’t employ terms like “climate change” and “global warming.” “We were told that we were not allowed to discuss anything that was not a true fact,” she said. “… The regional administrator told us that we are the governor’s agency this is the message from the governor’s office. And that is the message we will portray.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/09/florida-state-most-affected-by-climate-change-reportedly-bans-term-climate-change/
Because freedom. Freedom from having to hear people say things that are true that might cost important people money.
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Rick Scott presided over the company that was hit with the largest Medicare fraud fine in U.S. history.
So far, as Governor of Florida, he has
- Turned away several kajillion dollars in federal funds for high-speed rail in Florida (because reasons).
- Instituted a program requiring aid recipients to be drug tested (they passed).
- Slashed education funding, then put a little back and patted himself repeatedly on the back for it.
- Had staffers use private e-mail to solicit donations for a museum (oops that's fine just fine nevermind)
- Fired the longstanding head of the state's law enforcement agency for failing to gin up a fake criminal investigation of a political enemy of Scott's
- Had a bunch of cowboy boots emblazoned with the state seal. Because he's such a badass.
As Chris Hayes said, there really is not a less appealing personality in politics in America.
And he's all ours.
where's that Octafish... 
Lots of interesting characters crossover between the two states in modern history. Sometimes I wonder which one has the bigger CIA branch.
