FL Senate President Mike Haridopolos says President Obama and US Senator Bill Nelson (D-Toast) failed to deliver on their promise to save thousands of hi-tech jobs in Florida. With the shuttering of NASA space shuttle program, thousands of jobs on Florida’s Space Coast will disappear.
Obama and Nelson promised aggressive steps to save jobs on Florida. Instead, Nelson, a former champion of NASA, sits on his hands while the Obama administration doles out NASA contracts to friends in important electoral states.
In an Orlando Sentinel op-Ed piece, Haridopolos recounts concrete steps taken by Florida to save the industry:
“Despite limited resources, the Florida Legislature in 2010 increased space-program funding by more than 600 percent. That level of funding sends a strong message that Florida is serious about not only retaining its status as the gateway to space in America, but building its world markets as well.”
Haridoplos is a candidate for Nelson’s US Senate seat.
Could the inattention of Team Obama and Bill Nelson be more proof they do not expect to do well in Florida in 2012? Someone should remind them of President John F. Kennedy’s challenge that resulted in Americans walking on the moon in July 1969. After all, President Kennedy was a Democrat.
