By Jonathan Webber
Conservation Campaign Manager
Published March 14, 2011
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In the stream of news on the "Golf Courses in State Parks" bill that was withdrawn on Friday, this one might be the most intriguing: , by Scott Maxwell of the Orlando Sentinel. Palmer's golf course design company released a statement last week lambasting the state for planning to use public lands for the courses and then for not accepting competitive bids to determine who gets to build them.
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Readers described it as a betrayal of the public trust. Environmentalists, led by the Ä¢¹½Av Society, called it an assault on what should have been protected land. And supporters of the free market blasted it as a painfully obvious attempt to rig a business deal in an already overdeveloped industry.The King Tees Off, 1953
