Budget had to be cut to deal with COVID, but DeSantis kept money for new toll roads By Lawrence Mower, Tampa Bay Times
Florida will spend at least $738 million over the next five years on three controversial new toll roads projects under a plan approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis last week.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the state needs to spend its precious tax dollars on critical state needs (education, public health, the unemployed, housing — the list goes on and on) and should immediately stop wasting money on M-CORES. You can weigh in:
Lobby the Task Force members directly:
http://noroadstoruin.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/M-CORES-Task-Force-Members-Contact-Info-1.pdf
Write a Letter-to-the-Editor:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gtnUIYB2SUi76xSRAAQNahpoOrNEqHl9/view
Contact us to help organize a County-by-County Resolution campaign against these toll rolls.
Recent victories against pipelines give us hope that, with sustained efforts against these Roads to Ruin, we will prevail. Never give up!