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SunRail friends, foes turn up the volume
State legislators got two very different samples of public opinion on the $1.2 billion SunRail commuter rail proposal that awaits a key Senate vote Wednesday.
First thing Monday morning, the project's leading opponent in the Capitol, Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, e-mailed her Senate colleagues a summary of critical editorials in 10 different newspapers all over the state (the pro-SunRail Orlando Sentinel did not make Dockery's cut-and-paste piece, which she headlined "Florida Newspapers Say No to SunRail deal.") See Dockery's full e-mail here.
Later in the day, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, chairman of the Central Florida Commuter Rail Commission, answered with his own piece to all 160 lawmakers, listing "many statewide organizations" backing SunRail. Among them: Florida Chamber, Florida High Speed Rail Authority, Florida League of Cities, Florida Transportation Commission, Floridians for Better Transportation. But most of the groups listed are local in nature, such as the Friends of Lake Jessup and the playoff-bound Orlando Magic NBA team. Read Dyer's e-mail here.
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