DeSantis' budget on algae blooms offers plenty of irony

If you live in Florida, you will never suffer from an irony deficiency.

Just look around you. We have real estate developments with names like “The Preserve” and “Wilderness” and “Cypress Trace,” built in places where nothing natural is preserved, there is no wilderness left, and you won’t find a trace of cypress anymore.

Florida’s got more irony than Alanis Morrissette has songs. Oranges are our state fruit, orange juice our official state beverage, and the orange blossom our official state flower, yet oranges are not native to Florida.

And in the political realm, consider this: A majority of Florida voters are registered as Democrats, yet Republicans have controlled the Governor’s Mansion and both houses of the Legislature for more than 20 years. The top GOP officeholders say they’re avowed enemies of Obamacare, yet Florida leads the nation in enrollments for that program.

I was reminded of this basic fact of Florida life last week while reading over Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposed budget for next year, a budget that boasts about what a great job he’s doing protecting the environment.

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