You think I'm making this up. I am not. Manatees. Florida Tea Party? Hates them some manatees.
A Citrus County tea party group has announced that it's fighting new restrictions on boating and other human activities in Kings Bay that have been proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"We cannot elevate nature above people," explained Edna Mattos, 63, leader of the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots, in an interview. "That's against the Bible and the Bill of Rights."
Federal officials "want to restrict the entire bay," she contended. "They don't want people here."
Last week, Mattos, who says she has 800 members signed up on her group's website, and other tea party members picketed outside a public hearing on the new rules. Because they weren't allowed to bring their signs inside, she said, "my anger took over" and she sent a sharply worded e-mail to thousands of tea party members across Florida, urging them to write to Congress to block the Fish and Wildlife Service.
Then, on Tuesday, Barbara Bartlett, who identified herself as a tea party member, told the Hernando County Commission that the federal wildlife agency had no business sticking its nose into Citrus County. But parts of Kings Bay have been a federal wildlife refuge since 1980.
Unemployment? Wall Street greed? Heavens no, that's not important. What's important is getting rid of these SOCIALIST SEA COWS IN OUR FREE MARKET OCEAN.
These people are a friggin' joke. This is the hill they want to die on, removing manatee protections so they can drive their boats faster. This should be Florida's next legislative priority. Idiots. And people ask how it's possible Rick Scott won.
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