When Florida voters cast their ballots in November's election, they sent a message to elected officials: Protect Florida's natural habitats, including the Everglades, according to The New York Times. But the Florida Legislature has other ideas on how to spend the $750 million pool set aside to "buy, conserve and restore land and water resources."
During November's election, 75 percent of Florida's voters approved constitutional Amendment 1, which was intended to boost Florida Forever, a conservation program "that had been hard hit by state budge cuts," The Times reports.
However, during the current Florida Legislative session, lawmakers shifted money to other programs and projects.
"We don't need to be known as the boarding-land state," State Senator Alan Hays, the Republican chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee, said about the money.
To read the entire New York Times article, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/us/florida-legislature-has-its-own-ideas-for-voter-approved-conservation-fund.html?ref=us&_r=0.
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