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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

For each story, column, article or editorial we deem significant, we post at least the headline and link to the piece; the linked headline always appears in quotes. We quote the headline for two reasons: first, to allow researchers looking for the cited piece to find it (if the link has expired) by searching for the original title/headline via a commercial research service. Second, quotation of the original headline permits readers to appreciate the spin from the original piece, as opposed to our spin.

Not that we don't provide spin; we do, and plenty of it. Our perspective appears in post headlines, the subtitles within the post (in bold), and the excerpts from the linked stories we select to quote; we also occasionally provide other links and commentary about certain stories. While our bias should be immediately apparent to any reader, we nevertheless attempt to link to every article, column or editorial about Florida politics in every major online Florida newspaper.

 

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The Blog for Saturday, May 07, 2005

Changing the Amendment Process

    "The Senate voted 37-3 to put a question on the November 2006 ballot, asking voters to require 60 percent approval, rather than a simple majority, for all constitutional amendments." However,
    The Senate late Friday still had not taken up two further restrictions on the amendment process:

    One would place a second question on the 2006 ballot, asking voters to limit citizen petitions to issues affecting basic rights, government structure or items already in the state Constitution.

    The other, which would not require voter approval, would place new restrictions on the petitioning process to qualify a citizen initiative for the ballot. It would make it a first-degree misdemeanor for someone to gather petitions without a prominent ID badge, or to pay people for each signature collected. That bill also requires groups to turn in signatures to local elections supervisors every 30 days. Late signatures would be thrown out.

    In addition, only Florida residents could collect signatures for a petition, which could exclude many college students and seasonal residents.
    "2006 ballot to contain initiative question".

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