Showing posts with label Florida Lawmakers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida Lawmakers. Show all posts

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Florida Legislative Report Card Reveals Which Lawmakers Put ‘People First’


Public interest groups Progress Florida and Florida Watch today unveiled their 2023 “People First” Report Card, grading Florida lawmakers on key floor votes cast during this year’s legislative session. The report card’s grades take into account how each legislator voted across a wide spectrum of issues including reproductive freedom, civil rights, public education, government transparency, safeguarding democracy, housing affordability, environmental protection, and more.....MORE

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Florida GOP Steals $1.3 billion From Affordable Housing Trust Funds

For the 10th year in a row, the governor and legislature are proposing to sweep money from the affordable housing trust funds into the general revenue fund to spend on other purposes. Since the start of the Great Recession, that has added up to $1.3 billion. here

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Florida GOP Approves More Corporate Welfare

$400 million in corporate welfare to special interest groups and targeted industries. Taxes would be slashed for boat and yacht repairs, jet fuel for aviation schools and gun club memberships 
among them. 

Florida GOP Jack Latvala of Clearwater, defended the tax cuts on boat repairs. 

They did give us some scraps, cut our cell phone bills by about $20, give back-to-school shoppers 10 days of sales tax free shopping, and lower textbook prices for 
college students.


"Please turn your dead brains back to the "on" position and start thinking critically about what the Legislature is doing. They give you $20 in your left pocket while stealing $100 from your right pocket by forcing you to subsidize their lobbyist friends." Susan Smith

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: The Florida Senate

As the legislative session stumbles to an end, the House and Senate have succeeded in distorting the will of the people beyond recognition. What these Republicans leaders have proven -- by failing to enact what the people expressed through Amendment 1 (that 1/3 of the documentary stamp tax on real estate transactions to be used to purchase environmentally sensitive lands) --  is that they are only concerned about their own security. here

The next time you vote, remember how you have been betrayed.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Florida's Annual Harlot Show And Prostitution Expo

Commonly called the Florida Legislative Session
 Has been such a wowsa so far, Diane Roberts says that we have neglected to pay sufficient attention to the mack daddy in the Mansion. You know, Rick Scott. He’s not governing; he has people for that. He’s running for the United States Senate. here

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Florida INC. - Corporate Owned And Operated

THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE, MARCO RUBIO, HYPOCRISY AND THE NAKED IDEOLOGY OF AN OLIGARCHY here

Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Arrogant. Deceitful. Insulting Florida GOP

These would be a few words (among others) to describe how the Florida Legislature is implementing Amendment 1. This measure to purchase sensitive land for conservation and recreation was approved by 75% of Florida voters last November, receiving more votes than any other item on the ballot. So what is the legislature doing? The exact opposite of what voters just told them. here

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Florida GOP running out the clock

I wouldn't trust a politician to be in control of my medical decisions - but that's exactly what's happening in Tallahassee.

Instead of giving physicians the right to do what they think is best for their patients, they're obstructing access to medical marijuana, making it impossible for doctors to truly fulfill their oath.

This obstruction, right now, is coming in the form of running out the clock.  And in 36 days, should legislature end without a bill, it means an automatic 2 year delay (minimum) before we can pass it at the ballot box and get legislature to implement. 
Over 3.4 million Florida voters said they wanted medical marijuana - and that 
will should not be denied by a couple of hundred legislators in Tallahassee.
I'm going to do what I can to get this done sooner, and if not,
I'm going to help get it passed in 2016.

In the meantime, can you make a small donation to United for Care, make this campaign stronger, and help us keep the pressure on Tallahassee?


We can, and will, get this done.  But so many people would benefit if it gets done sooner.
John Morgan

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Florida GOP is subverting our will on Amendment 1

Funny thing about the “will of the people” in Florida. Even when expressed via an overwhelming majority “Yes” vote on a constitutional amendment, the Legislature can and does subvert it. here

Monday, July 21, 2014

Florida GOP Thinks You're An Idiot

    Lewis' ruling was the equivalent of bare-bottom spanking for the entire gang of Republican rock-throwers. Lewis used phrases such as 
cunning, ambitious and
unprincipled men. here



Saturday, May 24, 2014

GOP Tallahassee Keeps 800,000 Uuninsured

Don't be fooled by Florida GOP legislators who defend their refusal to accept Medicaid expansion money as a responsible conservative position

Friday, May 9, 2014

Florida Ranks 44th In Teachers Pay

 The great work our teachers do, 
But the lack of support they get from our legislature in Tallahassee.
Unfortunately Tallahassee’s got it all wrong.  Florida is ranked 44th in classroom teacher pay; and instead of supporting our teachers, 
Tallahassee politicians 
have gutted education funding.......more>

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Florida GOP To Cost Business Millions

The Medicaid expansion refusal is the doing of one man:
GOP Speaker of the House
Will Weatherford
here

We're losing out on
Seven to ten million dollars a day
tax money sent to the federal government  that other states will now get.
It may be responsible for the deaths of as many as
Six Floridians a day. 

http://www.willweatherford.info
Wake Up Pasco County

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Money Dictates Florida Legislative Agenda

Thursday, April 17, 2014

The Florida Ultra-Right Wing Legislative

This is the same Florida Legislature
that when it isn't crusading against abortion
burns the midnight oil
undermining the state's public education system.”
 Tampa Bay legend Daniel Ruth

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Tallahassee Is Stealing Our Money

Those are local dollars
 Locally-raised money, shouldn’t be used to assist other communities that didn’t have the political foresight to provide for the
care of their most needy residents.”
 Hillsborough County Commissioner Sandra Murman
 
Because Hillsborough’s share is “diluted,” it won’t get as much federal money as it would have, said Tony Carvalho, the hospital alliance’s president  “It’s like forcing them to share their money
with everybody in the state,”......more>
 
“The goal of the formula is to take local public health funds provided by certain communities, and the federal match they earn, and share those benefits with communities that provide no local health funds to Medicaid, and to hospitals that provide little care to Medicaid patients,”
Tampa General spokesman John Dunn

Share, share, share, sounds like  socialism to me.

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Moral Monday Rally At Florida State Capitol

More than 200 people from Jacksonville, Orlando and Miami met at the steps of The Old Capitol in Tallahassee for Florida’s first Moral Monday rally, March 3. The rally was modeled after the giant Moral Monday rallies in North Carolina. Moral Mondays are a response to the North Carolina General Assembly’s extreme right-wing attacks on working people, women, immigrants and African Americans. Facing the Florida legislature's equally extreme right-wing politicians and Republican Governor Rick Scott, protesters demanded a state government committed to justice for working
and oppressed people.......more>

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Florida GOP Welcome Chris Christie

To benefit Gov. Rick Scott's re-election campaign
 He will be in Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando for a series of fund-raising appearances on behalf of the Republican Governors Association.....more>
"We always welcome Gov. Christie to Florida,"
Will Weatherford