Readers of the St. Petersburg Times this weekend got a graphic look at the face of overdevelopment in our state: the second installment of a photo essay by the newspaper’s Chris Zuppa called “Arrested Development.”
In the two photographs featured so far, Zuppa shows the economic wasteland cut by Florida developers during the real estate “bubble.” A picture is worth a thousand words; Zuppo’s photos are an eloquent statement about how special interests are ruining Florida, and the cycle that will no doubt be repeated unless voters have a say. That, of course, is simply what Amendment 4 does: gives Florida residents a seat at the table and a say on their taxes, economy and growth.
View the online photo essay at http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2010/photo_galleries/arrested_development/
In the two photographs featured so far, Zuppa shows the economic wasteland cut by Florida developers during the real estate “bubble.” A picture is worth a thousand words; Zuppo’s photos are an eloquent statement about how special interests are ruining Florida, and the cycle that will no doubt be repeated unless voters have a say. That, of course, is simply what Amendment 4 does: gives Florida residents a seat at the table and a say on their taxes, economy and growth.
View the online photo essay at http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2010/photo_galleries/arrested_development/
We urge you to share this excellent piece of reporting with your friends, family, colleagues and neighbors. If you have a blog, be sure to blog about it. These are the images that the opponents of Amendment 4 do not want us to see.
Florida Hometown Democracy's "Roads to Nowhere Pasco County and Beyond" is work in progress of failed developments throughout the state: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&source=embed&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=107419183092728904211.00048b963a2262d68074d
Pd. Pol. Adv. By FloridaHometownDemocracy, Inc. PAC, P.O. Box 636, New Smyrna Beach, FL.
