Marg Baker is a Tea Party Republican candidate for Florida State House District 48, which covers parts of Northern Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties, near Tampa. She’s been running a pretty standard issue Tea Party campaign. But lately she’s achieved another level. Marg hits all the right notes – she is a divorced, single pro-family, anti-government [...]
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Rubio Likes Dry Feet, Not Wet Backs
August 11, 2010
NOTE: The title references two US immigration policies. Wet Feet, Dry Feet: …in what has become known as the “wet foot, dry foot” policy, a Cuban caught on the waters between the two nations (i.e., with “wet feet”) would summarily be sent home or to a third country. One who makes it to shore (“dry [...]
Editing The Constitution: Amendment 3
July 12, 2010
Note: Every 2 years, Florida voters get a chance to literally edit the state constitution, as proposed changes to the actual text of the document are placed on the ballot. This post is part of a continuing series. Florida’s 2010 Amendment 3 can be seen as a legacy of sorts of former Florida House Speaker [...]
Teach Your Children Hell: Kemple Leads School Board Money Chase
July 11, 2010
A divorced family man who believes that teachers should have the academic freedom to bring God into the classroom but that they should never, ever, be allowed to mention the theory of contraception, is vying to fill one of the 7 positions on the Hillsborough County School Board, a group which is responsible for overseeing [...]
Editing The Constitution – Developing News
July 10, 2010
Note: The Florida Constitution series of posts is officially veering slightly off course with this post on developing news. However, upcoming posts on all the individual amendments are still planned. Stay tuned. In Florida we saw major developments this week regarding constitutional amendments on this year’s ballot. A gubernatorial candidate has sued to block the [...]
Editing the Constitution: Amendment 1
July 7, 2010
Note: This week Over the next week or two I’ll spend several days and diaries discussing the constitutional amendment process in Florida as well as the specific amendments that are on the November ballot this year. The first part of the series is here. On Monday we learned how the Florida constitution can be amended [...]
Editing the Constitution
July 5, 2010
Florida’s constitution is truly an evolving document. Every two years, amendments are proposed and and those that pass muster with Florida voters are edited into the text of the original document rather than just being tacked on at the end. The current version of our state constitution is full of seamless and not so seamless [...]
Happy 4th! You Have 21 Days Left to Fix Your Voter Status
July 4, 2010
Florida voters face a July 26 registration deadline for primary races. A new website from the Florida Division of Elections allows us to check on our status quickly and easily: ACTION: Check your voter registration status right now. (Florida Voters only) Voter roll purges and database cleanups can wipe people off the rolls wrongly. It’s [...]
No Longer Beating a Dead Horse
June 24, 2010
I give up – there’s really no reason to rally behind the only real Democrat in the Democratic primary race. No Party Charlie Crist is with us on everything except what he’s not with us on and that’s good enough for me, so the primary is officially moot. Look, I will always like Kendrick – [...]