Monthly Archive for Florida
Florida Stories Posted in April 2008
Activists Push for Term Limits Vote
Category: Florida · State: Florida · Source: Miami Herald
A group of Coral Gables activists seeking term limits for the mayor and commissioners have asked the city clerk to approve language for a petition to get a referendum on the ballot as early as August and no later than November. And they gave City Clerk Walter Foeman until the end of the month to get it approved -- or they will take the matter to court.
Battle Over Amending Florida Constitution Rages On
Category: Florida · State: Florida · Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal
Anyone who thought the long, nasty fight over amending Florida's constitution had ended should think again. Business groups and their traditional adversaries on the issue -- organizations such as the League of Women Voters of Florida and the Florida Public Interest Research Group -- are tangling again this spring. At stake: a proposal in the state Legislature that would require paid petition circulators to register with the state and bar non-Florida residents, non-U.S. citizens and convicted felons who are ineligible to vote from being paid circulators.
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