Shutting out your Libertarian self on this issue. The Libertarian view is all about recognizing that this issue can't properly be managed by the government. Also, "there is nothing in the amendment that doesn't protect parent rights," that's a good thing for parents' rights, then, yes? Go GATORS! ,WESGATORS
Just looking at the trends in polling, registrations and turnout so far in Florida, I'm guessing #4 is going to narrowly fail to get the necessary 60% support.
I’m generally against Constitutional changes and the over-use of these amendments. and so anything I don’t firmly agree with which changes the law, I usually vote no. And so I voted yes to Amendments 3 and 4, and no down the board, even though I agree philosophically with the principles of several.
No, it's about women's rights. You know, that subgroup you don't consider to be real people or citizens deserving of the same rights as men.
Yeah you want men in Women’s sports and bathrooms. I’m more into women’s rights than you are. I also happen to be into human rights like the right not to have my neck snapped and vacuumed out of a womb in the majority of cases because I’ve inconvenienced the one person that should love me the most.
You don't like legislature filtered through lobbyists? I see both sides but at the end of the day if the majority wants something passed or not then this seems like a more pure way of executing the will of the people. Obviously there still has to be some serious skepticism about why some of these issues are up for vote because they didn't just get randomly selected to begin with.
With you on everything but 4. Not my business. Certainly not the government's business (and they'll do a terrible job of enforcing it). But the No 1 reason? If this passes the Pro-Life movement is dead in FL and we'll never have to see another one of these commercials again!!!That, alone, is reason enough to vote Yes on 4.
It's such BS the way they slide crap like that in. Who in their right mind wants to allow gill netting again? And who the hell lobbied to get that put back in there? Is the mullet fishing lobby that strong?
The more I have thought about these amendments the more I feel like voting no on them. I don't trust what is behind most of them. I don't think people should be arrested for pot but if it is going to be legal then people should be able to grow thee own. This one smells like big business money grab to me. People already have the right to hunt and fish.
New Poll Shows 66% Of Voters Support Florida Weed Legalization Bid A new poll released on Monday shows that a ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida is supported by nearly two-thirds of the state’s voters, significantly higher than the 60% of votes needed to be passed into law. The poll from the University of North Florida’s Public Opinion Research Lab (PORL) indicates that 66% of voters support Amendment 3, a proposed constitutional amendment on the general election ballot that would legalize cannabis for all adults aged 21 and older and set the stage for regulated sales of recreational pot. “After years of polling on marijuana in Florida, both medical and recreational, it is clear that the majority is in favor of legalization,” Dr. Michael Binder, PORL faculty director and UNF professor of political science, said in a statement on Monday. “Closing in on election day, despite some heavy campaigning, we’re seeing support for this amendment and is on track to exceed the 60% supermajority required to pass.”
Amendment #3 might be a money grab but it's also about justice. Since Illinois legalized recreational cannabis, almost half a million non-felony cannabis related arrest records have been expunged and 20,000 cannabis convictions have been pardoned.
1 is to make school board elections partisan, 2 is right to hunt and fish, 3 is adult use marijuana, 4 is abortion, 5 is to index homestead exemption to inflation, 6 is to abolish public campaign funding for statewide offices.
Not real clear to me what the point of it is. Know a lot of folks who are concerned it could carry unintended consequences.
