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#4971081 at 2019-01-31 02:16:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6346: Protect Life Edition
Watch the water?
SFWMD: Brandon Tucker, Jaime Weisinger, Federico Fernandez resign as DeSantis asked
The entire South Florida Water Management District board will be newly appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis by March, after three resignations late Tuesday and Wednesday.
The resignations by Tucker, Weisinger and Fernandez came after DeSantis said Tuesday "time is going to run out" before he takes further action against them. He stopped short of saying he'll suspend them, but that would be the next step in a protracted process that ultimately requires the Florida Senate to remove them.
"If you can't make them see the light, you've got to make them feel the heat," DeSantis said, adding his office could take action to remove or penalize them. "We're happy to move into the next phase of this. I hope we don't have to do that, but the bottom line is I have a lot of resources and things in my disposal that I can use."
DeSantis called for the entire board to resign immediately at a Jan. 10 news conference in Stuart, in large part because of two controversial votes they took Nov. 8 to:
Lease land to a subsidiary of sugar grower Florida Crystals on the site of the planned EAA reservoir, designed to curb Lake Okeechobee discharges.
Ask a federal court to end federal oversight of the district's Everglades restoration projects and its promise to clean polluted farm water draining into Everglades National Park, the result of a 1988 lawsuit.
https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/indian-river-lagoon/politics/2019/01/30/sfwmd-Federico-Fernandez-resigns-after-gov-ron-desantis-request/2719433002/