FL crack down on constitutional amendments

[struggle4progress]

By Lawrence Mower
Yesterday

TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday approved legislation that would crack down on citizen petitions, a move that is likely to quash future ballot initiatives disliked by Republican lawmakers and corporate donors.

The bill, which takes effect before the 2020 election, makes it drastically harder to collect enough signatures to make it onto voters’ ballots ...

Orlando attorney John Morgan, who is trying to get an amendment on next year’s ballot to raise the state’s minimum wage, blasted state lawmakers.

“I know these people, and they’re basically run and owned by lobbyists,” Morgan said Friday. “And the constitutional amendment takes the power away from the lobbyists and gives it to the people, and they don’t want that ...

https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/06/07/ron-desantis-signs-crack-down-on-constitutional-amendments-solidifying-republican-control-in-florida/

[marble falls]

1. "And the constitutional amendment takes the power away from the lobbyists and gives it ...

to the people, and they don’t want that ... " . Says it all.

2020's election is not about Trump. Its about every single contested elected office in the US down to dogcatcher. We need all of them we can vote in.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Well, Morgan's wife is a Republican and he hires controversial Republican

rainmakers, so you can believe John Morgan when he say that he knows these people.

[Fla_Democrat]

3. Pregnant pigs

[edhopper]

4. Why steal an election

if you can't then run roughshod over the people and the Constitution.