Grunwald

Michael Grunwald

In this passage it seemed to hit me close to home. One because I am from Florida so I believe every Floridian should care about the everglades and also because I have family down in homestead.  Grunwald was correct when he was talking about the everglades being right on the border of homestead. I believe it they never built anything by homestead; it would just be the single one lane road to the keys surrounded by the everglades. One quote that I liked a lot came from DeFoor “DeFoor sensed that south Florida’s interest groups were like drunks at the end of a bar fight. Their arms felt heavy, and they wanted an excuse to stop slugging” P81.   Both of her sides that she needed went on to support the governor’s funding bill. Many people were iffy if they wanted to support this million dollar project to save the everglades, or at least protect it. Another quote stood out to me that really hit the spot for me and I think others that read this section. “If the Everglades was really Americas Everglades, as the Florida senators kept calling it, then a threat to the Everglades was Americas Business” P82.

With people finally backing the project to protect the everglades, and the airport on hold it was finally time to see what their first steps would be. The last quote I found was my favorite “All of a sudden, we come along with the romance of the everglades” P92. To me and obviously to Warner, we knew that without this bill to protect the everglades that it would soon dwarf and not exist anymore. The funny thing to me is, that they stopped with the airport in Homestead but a couple years later went on to build an Air force base, where my brother-in-law is station. It just seemed a little ironic to me, that both parties got what they kind of wanted in the end. All and all Grunwald was a nice passage to read, just didn’t enjoy all the politician talk, not really my favorite thing to read about. 

 This is a picture of an arial view of the  Air force base in Homestead

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Michael Grunwald

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