West Palm Beach, Florida-At 9am this past Thursday, a group of about 70 people armed with signs that read “stop the land grab” and “no to land buy,” as well as with both American and “Don’t Tread On Me” Flags, gathered just outside the doors of the South Florida Water Management District office building to peacefully protest a “controversial” land deal agreement between the state of Florida and U.S. Sugar Corporation.
The group with its “Stop the land grab” campaign is obviously against U.S. Sugar’s 46,000 acre deal with the state, saying that they see the written agreement as being nothing more than an unnecessary “land grab” because they feel that the current restoration deal between sugar farmers and state and federal agencies is “being executed within budget, and on schedule.”
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But while the protest seemed very well organized and drove home the anti-land deal message, the Palm Beach Post reported that a big chunk (50) of those protesters were actually paid actors from Broward country.
According to the Post, the actors were paid $75 each to show up and waive a sign.
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While it seems a bit unethical, the practice of paying volunteers and political mercenaries is nothing new to politics, and considered by many to be common practice. Each election cycle, both Republicans and Democrats, as well as special interest groups, turn to the almighty Dollar to make sure that their respective agendas are well-funded and promoted.
Everglades restoration-supporting groups like the Everglades Trust, who don’t have a beef with sugar farmers, rather the pollution of the Everglades, have also been very active in pushing their to see that the land purchase agreement goes through.Everglades Trust and other groups like them are focused on messaging that Florida’s water supply is at risk of contamination from sugar farm run-off.
The website savingflwater.com spearheads the efforts of Everglades restoration groups of bringing awareness to their campaign to preserve Florida’s water supply.
On the other side of the land buy debate, pro-sugar farmer groups like Florida Citizens Against Waste, are also pushing their clean water agenda, saying that because of the ongoing and successful Everglades clean-up, the water in the Everglades is cleaner than Evian.
Wait, shouldn’t FCAW have said that the water in the Everglades is as clean as Zephyr Hills, and not Evian?
After all, Zephyr Hills is a Florida-based drinking water company.As one prominent and very interesting man would say, “stay thirsty my friends.”
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