Very important development in Florida politics.

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If you want to see who is controlling Florida, this short article provides clues:



Hometown Democracy Heads Back to Court
posted by John Kennedy on Jun 11, 2008 6:05:53 PM
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Florida business groups thought they stuck a stake through the heart of Florida Hometown Democracy earlier this year, but the slow-growth ballot initiative keeps finding new ways to spring back to life.

The organization Wednesday asked a federal court to place the measure on the November ballot by effectively declaring invalid the state's petition-review process. Hometown Democracy would require voter approval of changes in plans laying out where new roads, homes and other development can be built officially fell 65,182 signatures short of the state's required 611,009 signatures to make it on the ballot by the state's February deadline.

The Florida Chamber of Commerce and other business groups fought the measure every step of the way, raising nearly $4 million to combat the proposal and even getting state law changed to make it tougher for Hometown Democracy to succeed.

But in April, the organization earned some measure of victory when an appeals court overturned a business-backed state law that allowed voters who signed petitions to take back their support. The First District Court of Appeal ruled the law allowing voters to revoke their signatures is unconstitutional.

Read the fifth paragraph here:

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/

You want to find out who is controlling Florida? Dig up the names of everyone who has served on the Chamber of Commerce in every major city of Florida. If they're lawyers, find out how they've been administering the law. If they're not in control, they're enabling Florida's pseudo government style of operation which in effect creates two kinds of laws. One that applies to the politically connected, and the other to the rest of us. That, in effect, is against the Fourteenth Amendment of the USA.

[jody]

1. The history of fascism in the U.S. is interesting reading for links to Chamber of Commerce, National

Association of Manufacturers, American Legion, et al.

[Supersedeas]

2. thanks for the link -- k&r

[ensho]

3. and School Boards - these people have a lot of power in Fl

and every other state

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4. They're often the same people, aren't they?

Florida's good ole boys have very close ties to government because that's where the money is. Whether you're talking about federal or state grants (or by whatever name you call them), you'll find the good ole boys. Public housing, Charter Schools, you name it, they're there. And someone is always on the inside ready to lobby in favor of some good ole boy developer or businessman who also happens to serve on some commission in some local or county board. Since they're there for the good times, shouldn't they be held accountable when their dastardly deeds go south?

[ensho]

5. yes, agree

nt