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In It to Win It

(8,231 posts)
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 08:57 PM Jan 2019

Dear Florida legislators: No one cares what you think about Amendment 4. Enact it. Commentary

Florida legislators have a clear track record when it comes to doing what voters tell them.

They don’t.

You passed the “education lottery.”

They turned the funding into a shell game and left Florida schools among the worst funded in America.

You passed Fair Districts.

They spent more than $10 million of your taxes on lawyers, trying to fight your will.

You passed an environmental amendment.

They ignored you again — and then acted surprised when toxic green algae choked the state’s waterways.

You passed a medical marijuana amendment.

Yet two years later, you have a better chance of scoring a dime bag at any local high school than a chronic-pain sufferer has of getting smokable weed at a legitimate pharmacy.

Basically, Florida legislators follow orders about as well as a pet rock.


https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/taking-names-scott-maxwell/os-ne-amendment-4-florida-felons-voting-scott-maxwell-20181210-story.html
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Dear Florida legislators: No one cares what you think about Amendment 4. Enact it. Commentary (Original Post) In It to Win It Jan 2019 OP
Happy that county election supervisors mcar Jan 2019 #1
Florida Has a Long History of Corruption in Tallahassee dlk Jan 2019 #2
This issue should be drmeow Jan 2019 #3
And yet, Florida Legislators keep getting elected brooklynite Jan 2019 #4

mcar

(42,298 posts)
1. Happy that county election supervisors
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:01 PM
Jan 2019

are planning to register eligible voters regardless of the Rs antics.

drmeow

(5,017 posts)
3. This issue should be
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:42 PM
Jan 2019

what candidates campaign on. "Unlike the current [elected position], when the people of Florida vote for a proposition, I will enact that proposition because that is my job as a representative of the voters." Make it non-partisan.

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