Time to vote out cronyism | Letter to the editor
Rick Scott and Adam Putnam are both campaigning for higher office. They both tout what they see as Florida's future, both have a dismal record of overseeing agencies fraught with cronyism, incompetence and antiquated top-down management.
Scott has wasted millions of tax dollars in ill-advised lawsuits and noncompetitive contracts, while allowing two of our most precious natural resources – the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee – to continue their degradation. Adam Putnam seems obsessed with jailing immigrants while deporting those already incarcerated.
Recently the town of Eastpoint suffered from a devastating fire, supposedly from an unattended prescribed fire a week earlier. Perhaps his attention should be on the privatizing of resource management, not private prisons for profit. “Law And Order Putnam” oversaw the granting of hundreds of false gun permits.
Do we really want to continue the cronyism, fear mongering and the waste of the last eight years? Elections are our means of performance evaluations. Let’s use them.
Peter Scalco, Crawfordville, email@example.com