Rep. Ben Albritton

Environment and natural resources conferees go light on details

Published on April 28, 2017 in Statewide by Michael Moline

If you can read a spreadsheet, you might be able to figure out the offer the House made Friday morning on the agriculture, environment, and natural resources budget. If you can’t — well, lead House conferee Ben Albritton wasn’t willing to explain it to you. Albritton distributed a spreadsheet listing the House position, but declined to discuss it. Even when asked by Rep. Loranne Ausley. Sen. Rob Bradley, chairing the hearing, conferred with Albritton — inaudibly, to the audience — then announced:…

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Bruce Ritchie: Is House giving Florida Forever $205 million? Nope

Published on March 30, 2015 in Top Headlines by Bruce Ritchie

Words matter, or they should – at least for journalists. Not necessarily for politicians. Case in point: the Florida House leadership saying that it has $205 million in the proposed 2015-16 state budget for Florida Forever, the state’s land-buying program. Nope, not true. In fact, the House budget proposal doesn’t include a single dollar for Florida Forever, in my opinion, although it seems to have some for land acquisition. How much? We can’t be sure. Florida Forever actually is a…

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