FL Duers Must Read: "It's Florida Voters Against the True Constituency"

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http://www.sptimes.com/2005/04/03/news_pf/Columns/It_s_Fla_voters_vs_th.shtml

It's Fla. voters vs. the True Constituency

By MARTIN DYCKMAN, Times Columnist

Published April 3, 2005

TALLAHASSEE - There was a scene in a Senate committee last week that laid bare once again the True Constituency of the Florida Legislature. No, you are not part of it. No mere voter is.

To explain a bill that bears his name, Sen. J.D. Alexander deferred to the lobbyist from the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Alexander, R-Lake Wales, the Senate's majority whip, a capable, respected and occasionally independent legislator, was at that moment just a front man for the True Constituency.

Frank Trippett, this newspaper's first Tallahassee bureau chief, coined that name four decades ago. Alexander's SB 1996 is hardly unique. But it is exceptionally gross.

Its purpose is to abolish the initiative process without a vote of the people to whom that hard-won right actually belongs.

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If you would like to send an email to your Senator, click this email link below from Betty Castor's Campaign for Florida:

http://hq.demaction.org/dia/organizations/CFF/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=540

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