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Escambia County Considers Updating Laws To Say ‘Gulf of America’
June 5, 2025
Escambia County is planning to change the wording in county ordinances to “Gulf of America”.
Tonight, the Escambia County Commission will vote to authorize a public hearing for July 10 to find out what the public thinks.
Currently, there are nearly two dozen ordinances — related to Perdido Key, dog parks, littering and more — that mention “Gulf of Mexico”.
The change would follow bills signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in April changing Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America in textbooks and state law.
The county’s sign welcoming visitors to Pensacola Beach was updated to Gulf of America recently.
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26 Responses to “Escambia County Considers Updating Laws To Say ‘Gulf of America’”
This is a TOTAL waste of city/government time/effort, just so they can be a ‘lap-dog’ city to the TEMU TACO and Rhonda Santis. It’s been the GULF of MEXICO since 1550!
How will we present the name change to History loving tourists? Tristan De Luna sailed through the Gulf of America to get here? A place that did not exist yet? Following the dictates of a convicted felon and convicted fraudster and a governor no one can stand will make Escambia County look foolish and weak.
For those afraid that the government won’t be able to care for you in a disaster: prepare to care for yourself now. Why are you waiting? We begin to stock water, paper towels, and gasoline in early spring. Lors of canned goods and propane for the grill. We have several tarps, furring strips, and fasteners put away, and large sheets of visquene in case a window is broken. I also have a generator and chain saws. All of this would be expensive if done all at once, but come on – Hurricane Season comes to the Gulf of America coastline every year! Man up guys, and take care of yourself!
Nothings changed here.
Still the gulf of who cares
John/Pat, Great posts!
molinoresident, keep drinking the juice
Lol. What a waste of taxpayer funds. We have to pay for a stupid vanity project that we didn’t need and will be reversed.
MAGA cheers.
We have a serious infrastructure problem in the county, but spending resources on this is so much more important!
Quit trying to “own” people and solve the people’s real problems.
Replace it on the agenda with this:
What’s the county’s plan if we get a major hurricane and no FEMA?
Where are we storing the 100k blue tarps to hand out? MRE’s, water?
Plan to replace the hundreds of experienced, quality roofers we’ll need but who get picked up when they come here to work?
In fact roof repair waiting lists will be so long we’ll need another 100k to replace worn out tarps
But yeah, get that sign changed (that we’ll soon take down in embarrassment.)
Turn off Fox news for a week, only negative is seeing trump has no clothes…ewww
Um…Weldon…you just called it the Gulf of America!!!
This is a big waist of money. It is the Gulf of Mexico! Stop trying to case problems and act like you bought the Gulf. Again stop the crazy train as I am sitting and watching our country not making any progress and getting ready to implode. Our debit has risen because of the waist of both party’s.. Legal bills crazy money spent buy both parties. Stop the crazy train! Face facts we have a felon as a president. That did not spend any time in jail or probation.. this tells all of the world you can buy your way out of most legal trouble. I believe in giving second chances after your debit has been paid. And the money spent on campaigns are stupid what it could pay off or help the poverty we have in this country. Stop giving the top 1 percent a big tax break. If you have more that enough to buy an election you need to be paying out the noise in taxes. Grow up and be a real great country that we use to.
It is and will always be the Gulf of Mexico,
@bob in baker, guess who else doesn’t own it, Mexico. President Trump is far from a dictator. Just because you don’t like his agenda, doesn’t make him a dictator. The majority of American citizens vehemently disagree with you. Simple fact is that he has renamed it The Gulf of America and that has been codified into law. It should be required to be changed.
That is SOOOOOO silly, and spending money to make all the changes is insane. Just try to make me call it Gulf of America!
Yep. Yep.
I agree that this isn’t anything important.
It doesn’t feed hungry people.
It doesn’t fill potholes.
It doesn’t make housing affordable.
It doesn’t lower taxes or make our Country safe.
It doesn’t lower frustration or raise hopes.
It doesn’t raise the standard of living.
But I guess it’s something to do as silly as it is.
What’s the cost for the name change? On advertising? Signage?
Wow. Doesn’t anyone have the spine to stand up to the petty dictator? The US does not own the GULF OF MEXICO
eSCAMbia county has a thousand problems. This isn’t one of them. Have the developers weighed in yet? After all, they run this county, not our elected buffoons.
Don’t destroy our history.
The Gulf has carried the same name since the 1500’s. (give or take)
The historical name of our Gulf of Mexico is an insult to only one individual. Who knows why? I believe “he” doesn’t even know why. Did any one of us in America prior to the recent election hate the sound of Gulf of Mexico? Couldn’t stand to hear it said in public? Cringe and want to throw up? I’ll answer my own question.
NO! The answer is a resounding, unmitigated, unmistakeable NO.
Don’t let this 21st century King of the Carpetbaggers spit on our venerable Southern traditions. Again. After losing the war, during “Reconstruction”, the Northern Industrialists literally raped the Southern States. One more northern billionaire wants to do it again. Don’t let him.
What a tremendous use of resources and payroll.
Wondering if that will mean the Gulf of North America or the Gulf of South America. You see there are actually two Americas.
The dumbest waste of time and money ever. If only there were important things to consider, say OLF-8.
Love it!!!!
The financial and health situation in my life has improved so much because of this. I’m so glad such pressing and important issues are FINALLY being addressed by politicians.
This is so dumb.
And then the next administration will change the name back. All of this renaming stuff is ridiculous, on both sides.
Awesomeness.
That is awesome