Petition: Protect the Lawton Chiles Endowment Fund

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The Petition

Governor Crist, Speaker Sansom, President Atwater, and members of the Florida House and Senate:

The Lawton Chiles Endowment Fund provides critical recurring funding for services to Florida's most vulnerable citizens, children and the elderly. Especially now in these hard times, we cannot afford to cripple the fund and endanger those it serves. Selling the fund's assets now at dramatic losses would make it almost impossible for the fund to survive.

Florida needs long-term solutions to the budget crisis, not shortsighted stop-gap measures. Please consider alternatives like eliminating special-interest sales tax exemptions and increasing the cigarette tax to the national average.