POLL: Property Tax Constitutional Amendment
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Tell us -- and your legislators -- how you plan to vote on the property tax constitutional amendment.
For more information about the proposed amendment, read the full article here.
CIVIC Launches New Interactive Website
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With today's launch of the CIVIC website, Florida finally has a source for innovative, centrist ideas and accessible political information. The new site will provide Floridians with an opportunity to interact with decision-makers and voice their opinions, encouraging and assisting them in greater civic involvement.
As an incubator for centrist ideas and a legislative watchdog ensuring greater sunshine and accountability, CIVIC will be a partner for ordinary Floridians. It will bring attention and focus to common sense ideas and offer solutions to languishing state problems. Committed to a more balanced political discussion in Florida, CIVIC will be the state's primary source for innovative policy proposals and plain-language information about what's happening in state government.
The CIVIC website provides information on current events, mechanisms for citizens to make their voices heard, forums for discussion of issues and policies, and a clearinghouse for the development of real solutions to our state's most critical problems. In short, it will be a single-source location for innovative policies and unbiased political information.
Please comment and tell us what you would like to see CIVIC offer.
Making Florida relevant in the presidential primary
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For years, voters in both parties have been concerned about their inability to have a voice in choosing presidential candidates because Florida's primary is held so late in the game. And as the 4th largest state and an indisputable bell-weather of the national landscape, it just seems to makes sense for Floridians to participate in this crucial stage of electing the president.
Now, Florida leaders are talking about moving our primary much earlier. In spite of threats from both national political parties, the effort has garnered bipartisan support. Republican governor Charlie Crist has voiced his approval, and a House bill that would move our primary to within one week of New Hampshire's has passed two committees with unanimous votes. HB 537 will now head to the floor for a vote by the full House once session convenes in March.
But opponents say that front-loading the primary system will only increase the huge sums of money already spent in presidential campaigns. They argue that it will tilt the system too far in favor of candidates with high name recognition and huge campaign war chests.
If you'd like to voice your opinion to the legislators who will likely be the next to vote on the issue, you can click here to contact the members of the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee.