Tea Party willing to sacrifice $10 million of taxpayer money to sink Crist’s U.S. Sugar land deal

By at 19 August, 2010, 7:05 pm

Tea Party activists who preach fiscal responsibility are willing to sacrifice $10 million of South Florida taxpayers’ money to try to scrap a $197 million Everglades restoration land deal. Tea Party protests failed to stop the South Florida Water Management District from last week approving the contract to buy 26,800 acres of U.S. Sugar Corp. farmland for Everglades restoration. The district and U.S. Sugar plan to close on the $197 million land deal Oct. 11. On Thursday, Tea Party supporters continued their email campaign against the land deal – this time calling for the

district to pay a $10 million termination fee to get out of moving ahead with the purchase. “If we back out, we lose $10 million … but we save our reserves and stop a tax increase,” the cookie-cutter email messages said. District officials, who lead Everglades restoration, have maintained that the U.S. Sugar land deal would not require a property tax increase or drain the reserves in the district’s $1 billion budget.

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Tea Party willing to sacrifice $10 million of taxpayer money to sink Crist’s U.S. Sugar land deal

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