GOV. CHARLIE CRIST (R-FL) IS A SOCIALIST!!!

Crist has been mentioned as a possible VP for McCain and I'd love for my spin in this story to get some traction. If Florida can do this, why can't the U.S. nationalize Big Oil?

Florida to Buy Sugar Maker in Bid to Restore Everglades
By DAMIEN CAVE and JOHN HOLUSHA
Published: June 25, 2008

LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. - ...a plan for the state to buy the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar was announced Tuesday by the governor and officials of U.S. Sugar Corporation.

... U.S. Sugar would continue farming and processing for six more years before closing the business and allowing 187,000 acres of land to return to its natural state. For its part the state would pay U.S. Sugar $1.7 billion.

The state will buy all the U.S. Sugar land and production facilities, including a new mill and a railroad operation

Governor Charlie Crist said the deal was “as monumental as the creation of the nation’s first national park, Yellowstone.”