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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDear 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 dont.
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 states 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.
They dont.
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 states 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
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mcar
(42,298 posts)1. Happy that county election supervisors
are planning to register eligible voters regardless of the Rs antics.
dlk
(11,541 posts)2. Florida Has a Long History of Corruption in Tallahassee
If nothing changes, nothing changes...
drmeow
(5,017 posts)3. This issue should be
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.
brooklynite
(94,489 posts)4. And yet, Florida Legislators keep getting elected