The Mayor Of Amity Island Speaks
Oh, I’m sorry, it’s the governor of Florida: Florida tries get out message: No oil on our beaches
Officials in Florida would like the world to know that the state’s 663 beaches and the water that surrounds them are oil free.
A message that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist wants $34.75 million to spread. In a letter to BP, the company at the center of the oil spill problem in the Gulf of Mexico, Gov. Crist asks for the money to start a marketing campaign. This campaign would “counter the negative, widespread and false information potential visitors to Florida are receiving,” a statement from the Governor’s Press Office says.
There is no visible oil on Florida beaches yet, but we don’t know if there is oil in the water, because the state doesn’t want people testing the water. Like most corporatists, Charlie thinks that everything is a public relations problem that can be fixed by a media blitz.
The state is ready to ask for $34.75 million for TV ads, but has a hissy fit when local governments want money to protect beaches and inland waters: DEP questions Okaloosa’s ‘Cadillac’ boom plan. Yes, it could cost upwards of 8 million dollars to do everything the county wants, but the county is trying to protect the one resource that makes people put up with the hurricane season and pay obscene amounts of money for real estate.
