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Sarasota News Leader November 22, 2013 Page 22 work of writers associated with right-wing by County Commissioner Joe Barbetta. Arduin organizations such as the Cato Institute and has close ties to Gov. Rick Scott. the Heritage Foundation to label the entire New College of Florida smart growth moveProfessor of Sociology ment "authoritarian" and Environmental and "elitist." If the board doesn't want to scrap it S t u d i e s D a v i d Laffer was founded and wants it fixed, it seems logical you Brain labeled Laffer b y A r t h u r L a f f e r, would go to an organization or an individual Associates' report an a f o r m e r R e a g a n that is at least neutral on those issues. "ideological rant." He's Administration offihardly alone in blastNora Patterson cial known as "the ing it; even the County Commissioner Sarasota County father of supply-side Commission was diseconomics," accordpleased. Barbetta ing to the website of a said portions of the Tallahassee firm he runs with Donna Arduin, report were of "grave concern" to him, while one of three names suggested for the project Commissioner Christine Robinson said she A graphic explains New Urbanism concepts in the context of the county's 2050 Plan. Image courtesy Sarasota County