2008 session: Green or greenwashed?
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May 06, 2008

2008 session: Green or greenwashed?

Trying to decipher whether the 2008 session was “green” or not takes a Pantone color chart. There are spots of leafy green, mottled with the gray-green of hard cash, bright acid envy, and the pallid sheen of greenwash.

With his customary good cheer, Gov. Charlie Crist declared Tuesday the 2008 session, "a banner year on the environment, I dare say."

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-Asjylyn Loder and Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writers

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I'm so sick of this "green" horse sh!t...

ditto

Wow! Think how the carbon footprint of the state is going to be reduced now that child abuse investigators don't, foster care workers can't, and parole officers are no more?????

Wow Charlie - the sexually and physically abused children of Florida thank you - and so do all the unsupervised parolees!!!!

nuclear waste glowing green, I dare say

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