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Who Said That?

"It would be nice if we had cash to play, but we don’t."

-- Hendry County Administrator Charles Chapman

As mountains of garbage piles up from Hurricane Irma, counties across Florida say that companies they hired to remove debris won’t show up because they can make a lot more money doing the work in South Florida.

Officials in six counties -- Alachua, Hendry, Indian River, Manatee, Orange and Sarasota -- all complained to the state Thursday about problems with companies that refuse to haul debris.

Read more at the Tampa Bay Times.