Leadership Quote by Corrine Brown

Economic anxiety dressed up as hospitality. Corrine Brown’s line is a small masterclass in how politicians translate local business interests into civic virtue: “enjoy it” sounds like sunshine and theme parks, but the real verb doing the work is “depends.” Central Florida isn’t being described as a community with a tourism sector; it’s a place whose “economic survival” is tethered to the steady inflow of outsiders with disposable income. That phrasing quietly turns tourism from a choice into a necessity, and necessity into leverage.

The intent is practical and transactional: remove friction that keeps visitors away. “Be able to get to the State” is bureaucratic code for infrastructure dollars, airport access, highway expansions, disaster recovery, or even post-crisis messaging meant to reassure nervous travelers. Brown isn’t just selling Florida; she’s selling federal attention by framing mobility as lifeblood. If tourists can’t arrive, paychecks vanish. The stakes are jobs, tax revenue, and the political fallout that follows.

The subtext is also revealing in what it doesn’t say. Residents appear only as beneficiaries of visitor spending, not as people enduring crowded roads, rising rents, low-wage service work, or environmental strain. Tourism is treated as an unchallenged good, not a trade-off. The line works because it’s hard to argue with: who’s against people “enjoying” a state? That’s the rhetorical trick - smoothing a contested economic model into something that sounds like simple, wholesome access.