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| 3/24/2017

"If you buy up all that farm land, that means there’s no farming, that means these cities collapse, they basically turn into ghost towns."

-- U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio

Sen. Marco Rubio put Florida Senate President Joe Negron’s Everglades reservoir proposal on life support by saying that the plan wouldn’t get federal money any time soon and would wipe out farming communities by turning them into “ghost towns.”

Rubio was speaking to the conservative Shark Tank blog.

“All this debate is about is on one side of the equation,” Rubio said. “What about the people who live in those communities? What about Pahokee? What about those cities in the Glades communities that are going to get wiped out? If you buy up all that farm land, that means there’s no farming, that means these cities collapse, they basically turn into ghost towns. Shouldn’t they be at the table? Shouldn’t they be a part of this conversation as well?”

Read more at Politico.

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