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Longtime Hendry County Commissioner Janet Taylor published a scathing condemnation Wednesday of incoming Senate President Joe Negron’s plan to buy up farmland south of Lake Okeechobee.
In a blog entry for the Huffington Post, Taylor said the proposed $2.4 billion land purchase was “a plan designed to benefit the wealthy at the expense of another proud African-American community.”
Negron’s plan involves buying up about 60,000 acres of land south of the lake to store and treat water that will later be pumped into the Everglades and not the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers.
The $2.4 billion price tag would be…
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