Florida Gov. Crist environmental policies under fire

Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's environmental policies are under fire from "Freedom Works", a conservative Washington D.C. "policy group" that "recruits, educates, trains and mobilizes hundreds of thousands of volunteer activists to fight for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom." The group is headed by former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey.

They have organized a petition opposing Gov. Crist's initiatives to fight global warming:

Most people who voted for Nancy Pelosi expected to get extreme left-wing public policy. But when people heard Charlie Crist's promises to follow in the conservative legacy of Jeb Bush and voted for him to be governor of Florida, they didn't expect to get Nancy Pelosi.

Yet just months into office, that's exactly what Gov. Crist is becoming, by embracing the Nancy Pelosi agenda on global warming. It's a series of mandates on Florida businesses and citizens that will drive up energy costs without benefiting the environment. Even worse, Gov. Crist is advancing the Pelosi agenda through decree, without a vote in the state legislature.

At least the right-wing extremists are bipartisan in their opposition to saving the planet. (By way of th Florida Politics blog.)