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Florida 2010 Amendment Voting Recommendations

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Florida 2010 Amendment Voting recommendations

  • 1. Yes – 2005 Legislature tripled spending limits for themselves to buy votes. End it.
  • 2. No – everyone pays the same, no favorites.
  • 4. No – Where this has been tried, it has been a complete mess.
  • 5-6: No – While the idea here is a good one, the problem is that there are no examples of districts and the groups supporting it are for anything but fair districts.
  • 7: Yes – Groups support this to protect their own group, instead of looking out for the children.

    • Amendment 1: Repeal of public campaign financing requirement.
    Sponsor: Legislature.
    Summary: Voters approved using public funds for campaigns in 1998, to hold down costs. In 2005, the Legislature more than tripled the spending limits. It turned out to be an incumbent protection measure.

    Amendment 2: Property tax credit for deployed military personnel.
    Sponsor: Legislature.
    Summary: Cost about $13 million in property taxes across the state for 2009.

    Amendment 4: Votes required for changes to land-use plans.
    Sponsor: Florida Hometown Democracy.
    Summary: Requires voter approval of development proposals that would change local growth plans.

    Amendment 5-6: New state and federal redistricting standards.
    Sponsor: Fair Districts Florida.
    Summary: Changes how legislative and congressional districts are drawn to make sure they are compact, contiguous, and don’t favor one political party.

    Amendment 8: Revising class-size limits.
    Sponsor: Legislature.
    Summary: The 2002 class-size amendment puts a limit on how many students can be in a class. The new amendment increases the cap and would base the limits on an average by grade.

    Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, Doing the Right Thing, elections, First Amendment

    Kerry, Obama, Biden attack electorate

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    “We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening.” – John Kerry

    Vice President Joe Biden recently urged the party’s base to “stop whining” and “buck up.”  President Obama also urged the party to “buck up.”

    For more please see here.

    Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, Doing the Right Thing, elections, First Amendment

    Hypocrite of Omaha Buffett says Taxpayers need to get over anger

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    “I hope we get over it pretty soon, because it’s not productive.  We will come back regardless of how people feel about Washington, but it is not helpful to have people as unhappy as they are about what’s going on in Washington.”  Warren Buffett, published Sept 24, 2010

    Warren Buffett -the hypocrite who thinks people should pay more taxes themselves and then shelters his income and assets- needs to wake up.  Freedom and big government are incompatible.  Deficit and debt are not the paths to prosperity.

    Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, elections

    Americans have bought into the ultimate doublethink described in Orwell’s 1984

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    “Americans have bought into the ultimate doublethink described in Orwell’s 1984:
    “War is peace; freedom is slavery; ignorance is strength.” Our chains are now
    called “entitlements,” and they are one of the main reasons we so love our
    enslavement. And so long as we allow ourselves to remain ignorant, those
    chains are guaranteed to remain in place.” Author unknown

    Abuse of Power, big government, Constitution, Doing the Right Thing, elections

    NRSC states they won’t support Republican Senate Candidate Christine O’Donnell in Delaware

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    Christine O’Donnell beat Mike Castle for the GOP Senate nomination in Delaware, but the National Republican Senatorial Committee has stated they won’t help her in November. Republican leaders have told Jonathan Karl, ABC News that “They will do nothing to help her campaign. They will not spend a dime on it.”

    The National Republican Senatorial Committee will not be getting “a dime” from many people because of this.

    Calls to the NRSC at 202-675-6000 were not answered and emails to info@nrsc.org have not yet been returned. The more people who call, the more likely we’ll be to get a response.

    You can also register your displeasure on the NRSC’s Facebook page. Let them know that you will not support the NRSC when they are supporting the Democrat in Delaware. Christine O’Donnell has principles, Mike Castle had expediency for power. Without principles you have no guidance expect personal aggrandizement and power. And if your principles are not based in liberty, you will have no one to blame but yourself when your freedom is lost.

    Stand up for freedom, not the same-old politicians. Donate directly to the freedom-friendly, liberty-loving candidates themselves and cut the good-old-boys in Washington out.

    O’Donnell’s website:
    Christine O’Donnell 2010.

    And Facebook.