| Ted Turner Now a Floridian
(Note: WAIT! Mister Super-Conservationist just bought hunting and fishing licenses? Does the reader see anything hypocritical in that? Ah, and he has a mere 25,000 acre 'plantation' while helping fund the very groups that are moving ordinary human beings, wholesale, into 'high-density housing' and 'smart growth.' The consummate double-talk, what say?) January 30, 2003 The Associated Press Tampa Bay Online (TBO.com) 200 S. Parker St. Tampa, Fla. 33606 813-259-8010 or 1-800-527-2773 To submit a Letter to the Editor: feedback@tbo.com TALLAHASSEE, Florida - Ted Turner is now officially a Floridian. Turner, the TV mogul who called his apartment atop the CNN Center in Atlanta his official home, now lists his legal residence as his 25,000-acre Avalon Plantation outside of Tallahassee, spokeswoman Maura Donlan said Thursday. "He spends twice as much time in Florida than he spends in Georgia," Donlan said. "His private home at Avalon is, by far, the family home. That is where he spends Christmas and New Year's and Thanksgiving and that's where he married Jane (Fonda)," she said. Turner's accountants had urged him for years to list Florida, which has no state income tax, as his residence, but he resisted because of his connections to Atlanta as founder of Turner Broadcasting and CNN, Donlan said. Turner announced Wednesday he will resign as vice chair of AOL Time Warner Inc. Meanwhile, he already has obtained a Florida driver's license, registered to vote in the Sunshine State and obtained Florida fishing and hunting licenses, Donlan said. |