Buddy Dyer
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"John Hugh "Buddy" Dyer" is the List of mayors of Orlando/32nd and current mayor of Orlando, Florida, first elected in 2003. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party. Previously he represented Orlando in the Florida State Senate for ten years, including three years when he was the Senate Democratic leader.

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We wanted to save this next generation from the horrible addiction to tobacco and we put a program into place to do exactly that, ... Now we're making huge cuts to that. It's not a good message at all.

This is everyone's downtown, ... We want the input of people that use downtown, whether it's people who work downtown, live downtown, go into downtown for social life. . . . We want them to help us create the transportation vision.

It has become apparent they should probably be packaged as one thing when we go to the county for funding, ... I'm very heartened that the [tourist tax] is on the table.

My main focus is seeing that these projects don't compete with one another for funding, because if they compete, they will all lose.

Somewhat tepid given our responsibility as stewards of land -- land city residents voted to acquire in 1971.

That is why we're doing the most comprehensive transportation study ever on our downtown area.

I think any storm that has the potential of impacting the city of Orlando we are concerned about, ... We are always concerned about a storm that may impact neighboring communities that could cause evacuees to come to the city of Orlando.

Orlando's experiencing a true renaissance in its downtown, a place where you can live, work and play.. with almost $2 billion of new construction, and the catalyst for it all was the Premiere Trade Plaza.

The public needs to have trust and feel good about its public transit system, ... Linda gives the agency the credibility it needed. She has done a terrific job.