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10 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
The rest of the world is starting to see who we are.

This is powerful, depressing storytelling.
And maybe this Post piece will awaken people in a way previous stories haven't.

But i doubt it. (1/6)
washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…
We've written about this for years.
I've written about this for years.
The "Florida Project" was an Academy Award-nominated film about this exact thing - Orlando's destitute motel class toiling in poverty in the shadow of Cinderella's castle. (2/6)
orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-flo…
Yet nothing seems to open the minds and hearts of leadership in this community -- which continue to subsidize the low-wage tourism industry at the expense of almost everything else. (3/6)
orlandosentinel.com/opinion/scott-…
I thought maybe - MAYBE - a global recession would be the wake-up call we needed ... (4/6)
orlandosentinel.com/opinion/scott-…
... and then the county expressed support for adding another 1 million square feet to the convention center. (5/6)
orlandosentinel.com/opinion/scott-…
I'm guessing the people & leaders of Central Florida who read this story will be saddened, even touched.

And then they will just just turn the page.
Because this has been this community's story for years.

I truly believe we can do better. (6/6)
orlandosentinel.com/business/touri…

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21 May
I read this piece yesterday and didn’t comment on it immediately – because I wanted to think on it.
I did. And I decided this piece isn’t bad because it’s so hackishly partisan (which it is).
It’s bad because it’s just so damn lazy.
It’s just spoon-fed.
nationalreview.com/2020/05/corona…
The author basically says right up top:
He talked with the governor and the governor’s people – and all those people agree the governor’s great.

Stop the presses.
It cherry-picks communities that didn’t have many COVID cases – and completely glosses over places like Miami and Broward that are nationally known hot spots.
Read 10 tweets
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21 Oct 19
Tomorrow, Orange County commissioners will vote on doubling taxpayer subsidies for Visit Orlando - to more than $100 million a year.

That's twice what the county spends on its bus system.

It's twice what Visit FLORIDA gets (to market the whole state).
orlandosentinel.com/opinion/scott-…
This tourism-promotion group is supposed to be a public/private "partnership."
It is not.
At least not mathematically.

The public gave $60 million last year.
Tax records show members only coughed up $3 million in dues.
To promote their own industry, mind you.
Maybe before taxpayers contribute MORE, private beneficiaries should become equal fiscal partners ... in their own slush fund.
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29 Dec 18
The @orlandosentinel editorial board recaps 8 years of @AGPamBondi ... and runs out of room to list all of her flaws, flubs and flat-out legally wrong actions.
orlandosentinel.com/opinion/editor…
Like the time she postponed an execution cuz she wanted to attend a fundraising party … for herself.
Or the time she ousted 2 of her office’s top foreclosure fraud investigators … after the industry they were cracking down on complained about them.
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