Critics ask Supreme Court to block solar amendment
Opponents of a controversial solar-energy ballot initiative asked the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday to again review the ballot language and to strike down the proposed constitutional amendment.
But a spokeswoman for Consumers for Smart Solar, a group sponsoring what is known as Amendment 1, was quick to call the request --- filed with less than a week remaining in the campaign --- "political grandstanding."
The motion was filed Wednesday by attorneys for the Florida Solar Energy Industries Association and Floridians for Solar Choice, which are opposed to the proposal and have long contended that it is misleading.
The Supreme Court has to sign off on the language of proposed constitutional amendments before they can go on the ballot. Justices, in a 4-3 decision in March, approved the language of the Consumers for Smart Solar proposal, which is backed by electric utilities.
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