Re: Jeb Bush...
Originally posted by snapperbait:<br /> <br /><br />Hey 12Footer.. Before you vote for Jeb again, have a look into the Scripps deal here in PB county....
MIKE BRANOM<br /><br />Associated Press<br /><br /><br />ORLANDO, Fla. - Although Scripps Research Institute chose Palm Beach County as the site to build its second biomedical research facility, all of Florida also will reap the dividends, representatives of Scripps and the governor's office said Tuesday.<br /><br />Leaders from central Florida's business, research, education and economic development communities, plus a handful of lawmakers, were told that partnerships across the state would soon follow the arrival of the country's leading nonprofit biomedical research institute.<br /><br />"Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas," said Arnold LaGuardia, Scripps' executive vice president. "And we intend to pick your brains."<br /><br />Scripps officials noted the cluster of jobs created around their original campus near San Diego, Calif.<br /><br />State leaders say they expect Scripps to help create 6,500 jobs over the next 15 years.<br /><br />Gov. Jeb Bush said the institute's facility expected to be built in northern Palm Beach County should generate $1.6 billion in additional income and boost the state's gross domestic product by $3.3 billion over the next 15 years.<br /><br />The institute, based in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, is known for groundbreaking work in leukemia, ovarian cancer, Lou Gehrig's disease, Alzheimer's disease and AIDS. It has become internationally recognized for research into immunology, biology, chemistry, neuroscience, autoimmune and cardiovascular diseases and synthetic vaccine development.<br /><br />Scripps' roundtable discussion with the central Florida interests was the research institute's first visit outside South Florida since last week's announcement that Scripps was opening a new facility.<br /><br />The roadshow, a joint production between Scripps and the state's Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development, continues this week in Tampa, Gainesville, Jacksonville and Pensacola.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Palm Beach County commissioners agreed Tuesday to invest up to $200 million to help bring the Scripps Research Institute here, with the money paying for a temporary biomedical research site, land and buildings.<br /><br />The county will pay for the deal by issuing revenue bonds, which are repaid by county revenue other than property taxes.<br /><br />Bush and Scripps officials wanted the commission's commitment as they head into a special legislative session Monday. Bush will ask lawmakers to approve spending an additional $310 million on the deal in the session.<br /><br />Most commissioners praised the effort, and said it would help Palm Beach County overcome its dependence on the tourism and agriculture industries.<br /><br />Addie Greene, the only commissioner to vote against the proposal, said she thought the requested subsidies from county taxpayers were too great for the promised jobs.<br /><br />Central Florida finished behind West Palm Beach County in wooing Scripps, although the bidders didn't know who actually was the biosciences firm interested in expanding in Florida.<br /><br />At Tuesday's meeting, representatives from the University of Central Florida and Orange County admitted to their disappointment, but vowed to work with Scripps.<br /><br />"You win some, you lose some," said George Rodon, Director of Economic Trade and Tourism Development for Orange County. "But this is good for the state of Florida."<br /><br />Scripps, established in 1924 through a gift from philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, employs 2,900 people in La Jolla and is the largest institute funded by the National Institutes of Health. It is the home of three Nobel laureates.<br /><br /><br />
Well allrighy then... sounds like a great investment to me so far (unless you know something I don't).<br />As fot Evergaldes restoration, you're on the same page as me. He caved to everyone (both wacko environmentalists and big sugar), and that had to allmost impossible to pull-off. But whichever side of this boondogle you are for, the state is taking it in the end from the feds.<br />But the tax level has yet to reflect any of the bad stuff it should,given the rate of deficits you report. so on that, I'd have to call you on. (again, unless you can show me otherwise).
