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By ANDREW SKERRITT
Published February 5, 2006
Gill net fishermen were pretty much voted out of business a decade ago.
Airboaters see themselves as part of that endangered culture, but vow not to suffer the same fate.....
..... Phil Walters, president of the Florida Airboat Association, is closely monitoring the debate.
Walters displays his Confederate flag sticker on his pickup; he hunts hog and gator and everything else that's legal. He uses the term redneck to describe folks like himself: rural, agrarian, live-off-the-land folks. But he's a different breed of airboater. He figures that for airboaters to hold on to their way of life, they need to get out of the water long enough to learn another sport: politics.....
Here's the rest: http://www.sptimes.com/2006/02/05/Columns/Navigating_political_.shtml
Published February 5, 2006
Gill net fishermen were pretty much voted out of business a decade ago.
Airboaters see themselves as part of that endangered culture, but vow not to suffer the same fate.....
..... Phil Walters, president of the Florida Airboat Association, is closely monitoring the debate.
Walters displays his Confederate flag sticker on his pickup; he hunts hog and gator and everything else that's legal. He uses the term redneck to describe folks like himself: rural, agrarian, live-off-the-land folks. But he's a different breed of airboater. He figures that for airboaters to hold on to their way of life, they need to get out of the water long enough to learn another sport: politics.....
Here's the rest: http://www.sptimes.com/2006/02/05/Columns/Navigating_political_.shtml
