We already knew that Jeb!’s cynical attempt to overturn the class size amendment would not be decided with its own special election. Democrats, showing a rare bit of spine, managed to shoot down Jeb!’s scheme to gut the voter mandated class size amendment. In an attempt to split supporters of smaller classes, Jeb! proposed raising [...]
Opinion: Notebook: Vote was too good to be true Anyone who thinks honestly about solving America’s health care crisis understands that someday, somehow, the law must require everyone to be insured. For a few teasing moments this week, so did the Florida Senate. During debate on the Medicaid bill, Minority Leader Les Miller of Tampa [...]
Latest news: Appeals court backs tube removal Nine GOP Senators who voted against the a state law designed to interfere with Terri Schiavo’s stated wish to die are facing a backlash from their base. Security has increased at the Capitol to deal with protesters. “I had a bunch of them in my office last week [...]
Led by Jeb!, there’s no question that the GOP hates democracy. Jeb! spurned the high speed rail amendment and fought to have it overturned. He is actively working to undo the class size amendment, and stands by as his legislature waters down the hugely popular minimum wage amendment, and now, as threatened, the GOP is [...]
Those darn citizen initiatives… always cluttering up the ballot with way too many choices. Oh, wait… They argue that the process is out of control. That citizens’ initiatives are choking the state budget. That it’s too easy for the people to amend their constitution. Florida politicians have been making the case for constitutional amendment reform [...]
Priorities: the Republicans in Talahassee who can’t find funds for health care for the needy have managed to dig up $1 million for their weekend Harley-riding buddies: A group that lobbied for the controversial repeal of helmet laws in Florida and now counts more than a dozen current and former legislators as members would receive [...]
SPT House Democrats, usually powerless to stop the Republican agenda, vowed Wednesday to thwart any effort to place questions on the Aug. 31 primary ballot that would make it harder for citizens to amend the state Constitution. The pledge, coupled with the House unveiling its proposals for changing the way the Constitution is amended, ensured [...]
SPT: Florida voters should consider a trio of ballot questions come August designed to make it harder for them to amend the state Constitution, the state Senate agreed Thursday. Under the Senate plan, which still needs House approval, voters would be asked at the Aug. 31 primary election to: Require a 60 percent vote to [...]
One of the least expected bills to emerge from the legislature this year is the reversal of the industry friendly telephone rate increases that the Leg. passed last year. Howard Troxler fills us in: Here is what is happening right now in Tallahassee. Your state legislator is coming under enormous pressure from telephone lobbyists to [...]
Is Jeb! trying to engineer an excuse not to do the voter mandated Pre-K thing this year? We know how he just hates voter initiatives that force him to spend money on people’s needs. Of course, he could just be engaging in a little disingenuous election-year grandstanding: Gov. Jeb Bush said Monday that a House [...]
