Just catching up now on the horrific photos and videos coming out of Florida. Looks like Hurricane Ian's damage will dwarf the cost of Hurricane Andrew — and the 2005 hurricanes together.
And the rebuild will take... well, forever. It's not just a question of repairing infrastructure — it's building new: roads, bridges, causeways, the electrical grid (hopefully, underground), networks, etc. For commercial real estate and residential real estate.
This is on top of the "human question" — helping millions of people rebuild their lives.
How will Florida keep its economy growing? How will it keep businesses from relocating to other states? How will it get tourists to come back and spend the sales tax dollars that keep the state budget afloat? It will be a full-time job, period.
So to put the heat on the ever-repulsive Ron DeSantis, Charlie Crist needs to pledge that if elected, he will serve his entire four-year term. Not run off to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada, or any of the other vital stops on the 2024 primary calendar. He will not prep for cattle calls and debates, or spend a single day at the Iowa State Fair. Floridians deserve no less.
And then Crist needs to challenge DeSantis to make the same pledge. Again and again and again. We cats PURR.
P.S. If either Rick Scott or Baby Marco Rubio have (GURK!) 2024 Presidential ambitions, they need to resign their Senate seats for similar reasons. Although surely Val Demings will have beaten Baby Marco by then. We cats PURR again.
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