Susie Wiles, Trump's chief of staff, is controversial

Susie Wiles, chief of staff of President Donald J. Trump, has a controversial and quick proposal of Florida supervisory authorities who swap the 600 acre in St. John's County, a private developer as “outrageous” and a “Wolf in Sheep's Clothing”, who is proposed on Sunday as “outrageous” and a “wolf in Sheep clothing ”.

Wiles, who has decades of connections to the Northeast Florida, demanded members of the acquisition and restoration council-one dark group of bureaucrats and political representatives, to the headlines about the controversial land agreement in order to coordinate the “land robbery”.

Wiles' intervention, in view of her proximity to national power, is remarkable, but corresponds to many prominent personalities in the region who have either mobilized publicly or quietly to defeat the potential land transaction.

The expression of hundreds of hectares of land within the Wildlife Management area in Guana River to a neighboring private developer NUR as a generic LLC with non-mentioned development plans for the location-ignited the protests over the weekend and focused on other unfortunate suggestions of the administration officers last year to build and build on a sensitive flow.

“Guana Preserve and his beauty, familiarity and serenity have been woven into the structure of our communities and is indeed a treasure in northeast florida. To even enable this country, which is outrageous and completely contradicts what our community wishes,” said Wiles in a statement to the tributary.

“Chosen and appointed leaders should vote against this development wolf in sheep clothing and preserve this extraordinary natural premium.”

The developer, who was only identified as Upland LLC in documents (and was generally rumored that they are connected to the Dream Fasers' houses, which the company contested in a statement by the Tampa Bay Times), offered the countiness of around 3,000 hectares of around 3,000 hectares of around 3,000 hectares of land in St. Johns, Lafayette, Lafayette, Osceola and Volusia. Dep employees came to the conclusion that the trade would offer a “positive net protection performance” because it would give the wild corridor of the state, a network of millions of parks, wildlife management areas and forests, more than 2,000 acres.

The acquisition and restoration council will take advantage of the Guana land on Wednesday. The speed and the lack of details have contributed to recharging with distrust and anger compared to the proposal.

“Florida's nature reserves are not simply kept in confidence for the public until a developer wants them,” Audubon Florida said about the proposal and found that the swap on paper provided five hectares for everyone what the state would act, all “light on details”.

Wiles' national reputation focuses on her indispensability for Trump, but long before this relationship she was known in Northeast Florida as a moderate republican with special interest in the environment. In the late 90s, who worked as chief of staff of the former mayor of Jacksonville John Delaney, Wiles helped to lead the Preservation Project, a large -scale program for land control, to protect the environmentally friendly areas. She and her family lived in Jacksonville and St. John's County.

Over the years, Wiles became a confidante of several mayors of Jacksonville, political donors and two governors in Florida. One of these governors – Ron Desantis – ultimately displaced Wiles from his inner circle and opened a widely known crack between the two, who continued to color the relationship between the president and the governor of one of the nation's most populous states.

Wiles's opposition to the country exchange takes you to a choir of the non -partisan leader who are concerned about the proposal.

The governor and the cabinet would have to deregister the land exchange. It is not a little irony that it caused such outrage in St. Johns: Desantis represented this area in the congress.

Nate Monroe is the Executive Editor of the Tributary. It can be reached at Nate.mone@jaxtrib.org.

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