Rep. Detert Quotations

We'll see what he (Rubio) wants to do with that issue next year.

We have a problem in Florida and a lack of money generally prevents you from solving a problem. We have the money, we just have to think of creative solutions to solve the problem.

Last year we did this bill, and it became a train. This year, we hope to just have a home run.

Obviously, under current statutes cases are being dropped. That's the Legislature's fault. We weren't very clear.

If we have only one incident or outbreak in Florida, that would likely trigger national attention and have a chilling effect on the tourism industry.

If we have one bad food incident, it would take us a decade to overcome the bad publicity.

I think the developers have found a flaw in the law and crawled through the crack. The flaw is the unsolicited offer.

Spring training brings $450 million a year to Florida. We built the field of dreams and they came. Now we need to fund the maintenance of the facilities or they will go. Let's keep baseball in Florida.

We built the field of dreams and they came. We now need to fund the maintenance of facilities or they will go.

We built the field of dreams, and they came.

While it looks like a good thing for mobile-home owners, it's a cost shift from the developers and the state over to cities and counties.

Anyone can make the poll come out in their favor. It's how you ask the question.

There's always this preconceived notion that paying for sports with tax dollars is frivolous. It's the business that Florida's in, where I always like to say we're kind of the glamour business.

The law reads that it would have to financially benefit only him. It doesn't benefit only him. It benefits large groups of developers.