Lawton Chiles
Lawton Chiles
Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr.was an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. A Korean War veteran, Chiles later returned to Florida for law school and eventually opened his own private practice in 1955. Three years later, Chiles entered politics with a successful bid for the Florida House of Representatives in 1958, as a member of Democratic Party...
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Three major fires were growing and threatening about 30,000 residents, ... Thus far, they have not come together. Right now, there is not an immediate threat of them coming together.
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Today is the first of many paydays for our people from the historic tobacco settlement,
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Obviously, this is not something we want to do. This is a little like taking away Christmas, ... It's so dangerous.
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But more than the money, and the reason we really decided to settle, ... was they agreed to take down the billboards and ... quit targeting kids.
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What we are really concerned about is the storm surge and tremendous rains,
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Florida's never had fires like this before, never had a situation where you're fighting the weather like this before. We're having 90 to 100 new fires a day.
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The more lead time we give people, the more it helps,
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We have the power to make the other branches of government really angry,
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With today's agreement, we have pounded another nail in the tobacco industry's coffin,
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That's a lot of years and a lot of experience, but I don't get too philosophical about it, ... Life will go on, even for Democrats.
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How can you raise the level of consciousness on this? How can you get the federal government to take the responsibility? Florida does not have a foreign policy. This is a federal policy or absence of federal policy. It's so clear that we're not being treated fairly. We have to come up with a solution. It hurts your head trying to figure out what to do.
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We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
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You should wake up every day looking for the trouble you can get into.
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The old he-coon walks just before the light of day.