Florida Men: State Parks; Abstinence-based Sex Ed

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Florida staffer who leaked plans about golf courses in state parks says he was fired

A Florida state staffer who admitted to leaking plans about putting golf courses in state parks told local media Tuesday he was fired from the state’s environmental protection agency. Jared G…
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Florida staffer who leaked plans about golf courses in state parks says he was fired​


“A Florida state staffer who admitted to leaking plans about putting golf courses in state parks told local media Tuesday he was fired from the state’s environmental protection agency.

Jared Gaddis told the Tampa Bay Times he received a letter from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) over the weekend informing him he was dismissed from his role as a planning consultant, as of last Friday.

The dismissal letter, obtained by the Tampa Bay Times, told Gaddis the department “became aware that you intentionally released authorized and inaccurate information to the public.”

“At least one document was created, authored, and disseminated by you without direction or permission,” it read.

The agency hired Gaddis as a cartographer to make conceptual land use maps for state proposals, he told the Times. The proposals reportedly included golf courses and other developments, including a 350-room hotel at one state park.

His leaking of the plans was not intended to be political, Gaddis said, but stemmed from his concern over the rushed timeline of the plans and the environmental harm they would cause if carried out. …”
 
Sounds like it was a new (maybe temp?) job the guy had been hired to do on a rush basis and I note later in the article he set up a GoFundMe for financial support while he finds a new job, saying he is a single dad who took a risk knowing he could be fired for revealing the plans, so who know his entire story in all this.

But it turned out Florida did in fact intend to develop a number of their state parks with golf courses, pickle ball, hotels and expanded parking and other “more accessible” improvements.
 


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Bordering this wedge-shaped stretch of state forest in Hernando County is Cabot Citrus Farms, a luxury golf resort that’s making upgrades. The company hopes to draw people from around the world to tee off on its courses and fill multi-million dollar homes.

And it wants to expand. Following a request from the company, the Florida Cabinet — which includes Gov. Ron DeSantis — quietly approved giving Cabot Citrus 324 adjacent acres of state forest, some of it harboring threatened species. The Cabinet’s June 12 discussion, which lasted less than 30 seconds, did not mention golf courses nor the state forest where more could be built. There was no debate, no public comment. No mention of endangered wildlife.

In return, Cabot would buy 861 acres of timber land about 50 miles northwest in Cedar Key to give to the state — land that largely consists of rows of planted pines with limited biodiversity.

When asked about the deal, DeSantis has said that the state was getting “better conservation land” in exchange for “less-desirable land.”

… Although the state is receiving more acres than it’s giving away, environmental experts say the parcels are far apart in conservation value. The state forest land is becoming fully restored sand-hill habitat, which shares similar levels of biodiversity to tropical rainforests. It is connected to other land where wildlife like black bears can roam. The land sits where a corridor for wildlife is already narrow.

The land in Cedar Key, on the other hand, is rows of planted pine trees. It’s interspersed with patches that have no trees at all. More importantly, environmentalists say, it is largely disconnected from other conservation land, limiting its value to create longer swaths of preserves for animal habitat. It’s also located in a remote part of the state with less development pressure. …”
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Not a fan. Doesn't work.
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In the age of tik tok and Instagram, these sex ed policies and book banning policies seem antiquated. Do the Republicans not understand how kids learn about the sex stuff these days? It is not teachers or libraries. Limiting what teachers can tell kids is simply giving even more power to the internet to "teach" kids.
 
Calheel said:
In the age of tik tok and Instagram, these sex ed policies and book banning policies seem antiquated. Do the Republicans not understand how kids learn about the sex stuff these days? It is not teachers or libraries. Limiting what teachers can tell kids is simply giving even more power to the internet to "teach" kids.
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Yes but they have to keep up the fantasy that teachers are liberal commies trying to sexualize kids or their supporters might just realize that everything else MAGA tells them is a fabrication
 
Calheel said:
In the age of tik tok and Instagram, these sex ed policies and book banning policies seem antiquated. Do the Republicans not understand how kids learn about the sex stuff these days? It is not teachers or libraries. Limiting what teachers can tell kids is simply giving even more power to the internet to "teach" kids.
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There's also enormous hypocrisy in all of this, as there is no doubt in my mind that the great majority of cultural conservatives (men and women) have had premarital sex. Almost none of the people pushing this were virgins when they got married, and pretending that kids will wait until marriage to have sex is wildly unrealistic. I've used this story before, but the perfect example of the failure of abstinence-only sex ed is Bristol Palin getting pregnant twice by two different guys while earning a six-digit salary to preach at abstinence-only camps. My guess is that many of the parents who insist that their kids take only abstinence-only sex ed courses would be horrified if their kids found out how many times they'd knocked boots before getting married. Just another example of DeSantis pandering to the worst instincts of his voting base.
 
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