Originally Posted by freecia

Is it really a fight between Florida and the CDC, though? It seems to me that the cruise industry complained to a friend that the CDC was being a bully, egged them on to sue the CDC because they didn't want to take on a direct fight. Friend goes and does so while enjoying the media attention. Said friend also wants to be popular themselves and sees a way to gain some followers by banning something the industry could really benefit from to get restarted. Cruise industry is sad the "friend" is doing something which prevents them from monetarily capitalizing from their relationship and showing "true colors" or possibly playing a longer game as is needed when building any large assets takes them a few years & restarting at the same load with more crews isn't necessary, yet. CDC's the more cautious and mature entity who finally came up for air from one of the biggest challenges in their life. It is eyeing them while doing some of the other stuff which went into backlog & clean up the aftermath, hoping they don't create more work. Doing their best to be diplomatic while cautious because they really need a breather before being able to tackle things in the fall and the cruise industry tends to try to cut corners based on many years of experience.

I think it's more a question of what the cruise industry will do. They'll act like a business. Is there anything in it for them to hold a grudge, especially if "friend" hopes to get a promotion and leave his current job in 3 or so years? What if the new position would let them go back to cheaper more polluting oil, dump trash into water, gut the CDC, and have fewer pesky maintenance standards? A possibility of that would probably keep the door open and donations flowing.

A lot of people will vote based on values even to their financial detriment. Those in the very top income brackets simply donate enough to make sure their issues are his issues at some point.