Pinellas County, Florida Dump: ‘We’re Not Accepting Storm Debris.’ Ron DeSantis: ‘Yes, You Are.’

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    Pinellas County, Florida, is on a peninsula on Florida’s west coast, across Tampa Bay from the city of Tampa. Hurricane Helene hit Pinellas County pretty hard, and many residents and state workers were left with a lot of storm debris to clean up. There was just one problem: the Pinellas County landfill announced it wouldn’t be open to accepting storm debris.

    Governor Ron DeSantis said, “Oh, yeah?” And now, the Pinellas County landfill is back open to storm debris.

    There are a few details about how or when the Pinellas County landfill was opened; in the press conference on the progress of the recovery, Governor DeSantis responded to a question about the landfill being “cut open”:

    This, folks, is what leadership looks like. The landfill would appear to be essential for the removal of debris that is clogging sidewalks and even roads; the recovery from this storm has to start with clearing that debris, the debris has to go somewhere, and the county landfill is the logical place for it.

    The Pinellas County Public Works Director, Kelly Levi, gave two reasons for closing the landfill to storm debris:

    That second requirement, it seems likely, could be waived by the Biden administration by the stroke of an executive pen, but I think we all know how likely that is. In the first place, Florida is a deep-red state, and seems an unlikely candidate for such consideration by the partisan Biden White House; in the second place, it’s not at all clear that Joe Biden even knows a hurricane has taken place.


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    At least one report states another possible motivation for the closure of the landfill:

    The Biden administration’s response to this event has been distinctly lackluster.


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    In Florida, however, Governor DeSantis is not only on the ball, but it sure looks like he’s not willing to tolerate any Bravo Sierra in getting his state cleaned up. That’s leadership; that’s crisis management. Florida had some bad luck in being in the path of Hurricane Helene, but they sure as shooting have some better luck in that they have Ron DeSantis in the governor’s chair.

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