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Florida Governor, Cabinet Join Chorus for Cypress Gardens.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003

By Christopher Sherman, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 27--TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--Southern belles in billowing hoop skirts, water skiers dripping in red spangle and red T-shirt-wearing hordes spilled out of the Florida Cabinet chambers Tuesday to sing in celebration of the unanimous vote making Cypress Gardens eligible for state conservation funds.

Noting early in the meeting that the menagerie of Cypress Gardens supporters added color and beauty to the Cabinet meeting, Gov. Jeb Bush left no doubt what his decision would be except to ask supporters to limit their comments.

"If you keep selling you may not make the sale," Bush quipped.

But Burma Davis Posey, leader of the grass-roots effort to...

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