With gulf safe, drilling gets Martinez R (FL)vote

"I wanted to make sure that my vote for ANWR would in no way weaken Florida's protection from offshore drilling, but indeed would strengthen it," Martinez said.

Martinez said he could not have supported drilling in Alaska without the administration's assurances to leave the gulf alone.

"I was very clear" to the White House, he said. "I was clear to my leadership, and that was in the balance as we negotiated into late last night, and early this morning."


In a letter to Martinez dated Wednesday, Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton wrote that the "administration will continue to support the existing congressional moratoria and the presidential withdrawals that prohibit offshore energy development near the Florida coast through 2012."

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/17/State/With_gulf_safe__drill.shtml


people were wondering why he backed this as we are worried about our coast....he made a f'ing deal...........

Fuck everything up and piss off the nation so badly that it votes a Democrat into the WH in 2008 thus handing over a pile of garbage on a rotting corpse to clean up. Then, when the yet to be named Democrat runs for re-election in 2012, the opposition runs around placing blame and demonizing all things Dem...voila!

Looks like a familiar pattern.

bwaahaaaaahaaaaaaa. Boy,is he in for a rude awakening!

I amazed that he even tried to protect Florida from offshore drilling.