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
Showing posts with label Florida Lawmakers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida Lawmakers. Show all posts
Saturday, August 26, 2023
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
Labels:
Florida GOP,
Florida Inc.,
Florida Lawmakers,
Rick Scott
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
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
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Corporate Welfare,
Culture Of Corruption,
Florida Inc.,
Florida Lawmakers,
Jack Latvala,
Rick Scott's Florida,
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
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
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Florida Inc.,
Florida Lawmakers,
Marco Rubio
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 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
Labels:
Florida GOP,
Florida Lawmakers,
John Morgan,
United for Care
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
Labels:
Context Florida,
Daniel Tilson,
Florida Lawmakers,
Florida's Right Wing Infestation,
Peter Schorsch
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
Monday, June 23, 2014
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
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:
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
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
Labels:
Culture Of Corruption,
Florida GOP,
Florida Lawmakers,
Rick Scott's Florida,
Will Weatherford
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
Labels:
Daniel Ruth,
Florida Lawmakers,
Rick Scott's Florida
Monday, March 31, 2014
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.”
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>
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.
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>
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