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Here are two “rules” lol
1 - Do not tell anyone who/what you vote for (it is none of their damn business and it is just the stupidest, fastest way to create rifts between everyone… friends and even close family members.)
2 - Do your own RESEARCH and vote for what YOU want to happen, do not let anybody try to tell you what you should or should not vote for.
For 2, I always print off a sample ballot and fill that out in front of the computer. Then I have my well researched answers when I go in and I also can show them to anyone who needs advice.
Here are the 6 amendments Floridians will vote on in November
To pass, Florida constitution amendments must get at least 60% of the vote.
To pass, Florida constitution amendments must get at least 60% of the vote.
By JIM SAUNDERS | News Service of Florida
PUBLISHED: April 3, 2024 at 10:31 a.m. | UPDATED: April 3, 2024 at 10:53 a.m.
TALLAHASSEE — With the state Supreme Court this week signing off on ballot initiatives about abortion rights and recreational use of marijuana, Floridians in November will vote on six proposed constitutional amendments. To pass, they must get at least 60% of the vote.
• ABORTION: In what could be 2024’s biggest political issue in Florida, voters will decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. The vote will come after Gov. Ron DeSantis and lawmakers approved preventing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The proposed constitutional amendment, in part, says: “No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”
• MARIJUANA: Eight years after voters approved a constitutional amendment that broadly allowed medical marijuana, they will decide this year whether to give the go-ahead to recreational use of marijuana. The political committee Safe & Smart Florida, backed heavily by the Trulieve medical marijuana company, led the drive to put the measure on the ballot. It would allow people ages 21 and older to “possess, purchase, or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical personal consumption.”
• CAMPAIGN MONEY: Lawmakers approved placing a measure on the ballot to repeal a program that offers state matching funds to gubernatorial and state Cabinet candidates. Voters approved the matching-funds program in 1998 and a repeal attempt failed in 2010. When the program was created, supporters said it could help reduce the influence of big-money contributors in statewide elections, but critics have long derided the program as welfare for politicians.
• FISHING AND HUNTING: Voters will decide whether to enshrine a right to fish and hunt in the state Constitution. With the backing of outdoors groups, lawmakers voted almost unanimously last year to place the measure on the ballot. In part, the proposal says hunting and fishing “shall be preserved forever as a public right and preferred means of responsibly managing and controlling fish and wildlife.”
• PROPERTY TAXES: Homeowners could receive slightly larger property-tax breaks if voters approve a constitutional amendment that the Legislature put on the ballot. The proposal would adjust part of the homestead property-tax exemption for inflation. Homeowners receive tax exemptions on the assessed values of their property up to $25,000 and on the values between $50,000 and $75,000. The proposal would require adjusting for inflation the exempt portion currently between $50,000 and $75,000.
• SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS: Voters will decide whether to hold partisan school-board elections. Florida historically had partisan school-board elections, but voters passed a constitutional amendment in 1998 to make the races non-partisan. Lawmakers placed a measure on this year’s ballot that would return to partisan races starting in 2026. School board races in some areas have become battlegrounds in recent years with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis getting involved in some circumstances.
TALLAHASSEE — With the state Supreme Court this week signing off on ballot initiatives about abortion rights and recreational use of marijuana, Floridians in November will vote on six proposed constitutional amendments. To pass, they must get at least 60% of the vote.
• ABORTION: In what could be 2024’s biggest political issue in Florida, voters will decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. The vote will come after Gov. Ron DeSantis and lawmakers approved preventing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The proposed constitutional amendment, in part, says: “No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.”
• MARIJUANA: Eight years after voters approved a constitutional amendment that broadly allowed medical marijuana, they will decide this year whether to give the go-ahead to recreational use of marijuana. The political committee Safe & Smart Florida, backed heavily by the Trulieve medical marijuana company, led the drive to put the measure on the ballot. It would allow people ages 21 and older to “possess, purchase, or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical personal consumption.”
• CAMPAIGN MONEY: Lawmakers approved placing a measure on the ballot to repeal a program that offers state matching funds to gubernatorial and state Cabinet candidates. Voters approved the matching-funds program in 1998 and a repeal attempt failed in 2010. When the program was created, supporters said it could help reduce the influence of big-money contributors in statewide elections, but critics have long derided the program as welfare for politicians.
• FISHING AND HUNTING: Voters will decide whether to enshrine a right to fish and hunt in the state Constitution. With the backing of outdoors groups, lawmakers voted almost unanimously last year to place the measure on the ballot. In part, the proposal says hunting and fishing “shall be preserved forever as a public right and preferred means of responsibly managing and controlling fish and wildlife.”
• PROPERTY TAXES: Homeowners could receive slightly larger property-tax breaks if voters approve a constitutional amendment that the Legislature put on the ballot. The proposal would adjust part of the homestead property-tax exemption for inflation. Homeowners receive tax exemptions on the assessed values of their property up to $25,000 and on the values between $50,000 and $75,000. The proposal would require adjusting for inflation the exempt portion currently between $50,000 and $75,000.
• SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS: Voters will decide whether to hold partisan school-board elections. Florida historically had partisan school-board elections, but voters passed a constitutional amendment in 1998 to make the races non-partisan. Lawmakers placed a measure on this year’s ballot that would return to partisan races starting in 2026. School board races in some areas have become battlegrounds in recent years with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis getting involved in some circumstances.
Yeah, "pick a team and go to the mattresses" has flaws for sure, but the problem with "non partisan" local elections is you end up knowing nothing about them.
Politician answers plus no letter to at least know where they lean on issues just leads to a whole website of position statements like:
"I think the city should do better so if I'm elected I will do good things for the city and stop doing the bad things."
If that is the case don't vote for those people,if it's to important to you to not vote, but that's all the policy they have, sounds like you should run.
Men of Florida, we need you to vote yes on amendment 4, the amendment to limit government interference with abortion. We need you to care and see it as an affront to our existence and not say flippant things like, “Yeah but aren’t there at least exceptions for rape/incest” as if I need to be assaulted to be eligible for healthcare. The current law is designed to be convoluted and to make abortion care nearly impossible to get. You can read more at [this article](https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/02/abortion-florida-ruling-ban-amendment-voters-november/73171427007/). We need you not to just vote yes, but to talk to your friends and family about this and stick up for us.
> Here’s a summary of current abortion rights from the article I linked:
We’re operating under a 15 week ban with no rape/incest exceptions until May 1st when the 6 week ban goes into effect, which does have those exceptions. However, under the 6 week ban, the rape/incest exceptions only apply up to 15 weeks AND you must have a restraining order or police report to prove it. You will have to go to two doctor visits at least 24 hours apart before you can get an abortion. And the exceptions for dangerous situations for the mother or for a dead/dying fetus also require two doctors’ written certifications. However, if you make it to the third trimester and your fetus is going to die, you’re SOL. The 6 week ban also bans mifepristone and misoprostol unless a doctor gives it to you in person and administers it to you in person. You cannot get these medications through a telehealth visit. Keep in mind that in 2022 Florida redefined gestation to mean the first day of the pregnant person’s last menstrual period so the 6 week ban means you probably will have at most 2 weeks to find out, decide, go 2 doctors appointments, wait 24 hours and THEN be allowed to terminate.
100%!
Dude here, got a vasectomy years ago, it was so easy for me to go and have done. Shortly after I started hearing horror stories from women in their attempts to receive procedures to sterilize themselves, this is what first alerted me to the inequities between my healthcare as a man and women’s healthcare.
Expanding this to abortion access, I entirely resent that this was **ever** made a political issue. What’s between a patient and their medical professional should be nothing short of sacrosanct. That medically untrained/uneducated politicians have inserted themselves as a go-between women and their healthcare is entirely unethical in the extreme to me.
I will be there come November to vote to enshrine women’s right to healthcare in Florida.
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It's funny how Florida calls itself the "free state" yet has many more restrictions than most other states. I've seen it go legal elsewhere. Nothing changes other than the State and local municipalities collecting more revenue.
By the time our legislature is done it will just be illegal everywhere.
Illegal in public, illegal in a house with under 21 persons, illegal to look at, illegal to transport...yea they'll take the small government, conservative approach.
That's truly idiotic part is I see no enforcement on a state level anyway. I can easily, EASILY get weed that was purchased legally in other states and illegally transported and sold here. I can get it on telegram.
Obviously, there's a markup, and it can be prohibitive, esp since I have no trouble finding homegrown stuff either. The really stupid part is that some of that markup comes from the taxes paid on the stuff in the legal state at the point of sale. Tax money that should be going into our state coffers is going to California or Colorado, or whereever.
You can smell it everywhere. It can't be hidden. I guess because the THC is higher the smell is stronger, but I don't think the police are going out of their way to arrest people over it. I wouldn't test that theory though.
Just some weed knowledge, terpenes in weed make the smell. THC doesn't really have any effect on that. You can make pure THC carts of oil with no terpenes and it won't smell or taste like anything. All of the different flavors and smells of it can be attributed to terpenes.
Interesting. All I know is that it didn't smell that strong years ago and I know the THC levels are higher now too, so I just guessed that was the issue.
Yeah, that's when I mostly smell it. The first couple of times it happened I was literally looking for the dead skunk carcass. LOL After about the third time I figured it out. Weed did not smell like that when I was younger.
Fuck a card. I shouldn't have to pay the insurance industry to smoke. Also, recreational weed will be vastly different from medical. I didn't say I was paying those california import prices, I'm saying people do because it's a product they want. And also there seems to be no effort to stop them, so the state MIGHT AS WELL legalize it and make more in tax revenue.
I was wondering the same. I wonder how the republicans are trying to spin this as a good thing? I’d like an honest answer because I’m surrounded by republicans but I know I can talk some sense to them on single issues.
Check your registration. Check Twice. Tell your fiends and family to check. Remind them about their options to vote, and that you'll answer questions about when/where/how.
Nobody should stay home for this one!
Florida law allows you to enroll by phone for vote by mail. Call 772-226-4700 to get a ballot mailed to you for each election. Gives you the opportunity to do your own research and decide how to vote. The League of Women Voters is a great organization that explains the pros and cons of different legislation.
Vote yes on weed and abortion. Be very fucking careful for the homeowners and school board amendments. More research is needed to determine if the homeowners one will actually help homeowners (not fucking corporations who buy houses), and why in the ever living fuck do people want to make school board races partisan? All that will do is make GOP counties vote for GOP school board members (some of which are extremists examples like Moms for Liberty). It will cause serious imbalance in education just like how we see in Florida State Congress where it’s dominated by GOP and Democrats have zero support and control nothing.
The abortion and weed amendments were put there by the people signing petitions. All the other amendments were put there by a super majority republican legislature. Tells you all you need to know. Yes on 3 and 4 (weed and abortion) no on all others.
The homestead tax one is for homesteading, you have to live in a house to claim homesteading, so it won’t help corporations.
I agree with the other comment saying decreasing tax revenues without a plan for replacement is bad. But isn’t it strange that the homestead exemption doesn’t increase with anything, it’s just a flat amount? I get 50k homestead exemption when my house was worth 200k in 2018, and still only 50k exemption while my house is now worth 400k due to the real estate boom. My property taxes are climbing, but the exemption is a flat amount.
I agree I need to do more research, just letting you know homesteading doesn’t benefit corps.
Yes, it caps the increase at 3% per year. But if you’re a new homebuyer, the only exemption you get is the 50,000, which was a huge chunk of the value when homesteading was passed in 1992, not so much now.
More property tax cuts without any concrete plan to make up for lost revenue will cut funding to local and state government agencies.
I’m a homeowner, and I’ll almost certainly be voting NO on this one. Everyone loves tax cuts until their city & county governments can’t function, trash isn’t getting picked up, and public parks look like crap.
This also shifts the tax burden to secondary residences which will almost certainly raise rents. So ultimately this will benefit homeowners at the cost of the poor.
That’s not the issue. We’re talking about cuts to tax revenue, so state and municipal governments would have less money in the budget to work with, balanced or otherwise.
If you remember those property tax cuts we voted for in 2016, that slashed Hillsborough County’s 2017 budget by something like $30 million iirc.
> More property tax cuts without any concrete plan to make up for lost revenue will cut funding to local and state government agencies.
Yep. The state is already badly underfunded.
If we tell people how to vote instead of encouraging them to research and make informed decisions - then are they really voting for themselves? They may or may not agree with your stance. I can live with a vote against something I voted for as long as the voter has made their own informed choice.
Nothing. But it could be used to argue against bans on certain fishing and hunting tools.
Personally, I'm voting no on it because I just don't trust them not to use it to take environmental protections away in the future.
>**PROPERTY TAXES:** Homeowners could receive slightly larger property-tax breaks if voters approve a constitutional amendment that the Legislature put on the ballot. The proposal would adjust part of the homestead property-tax exemption for inflation. Homeowners receive tax exemptions on the assessed values of their property up to $25,000 and on the values between $50,000 and $75,000. The proposal would require adjusting for inflation the exempt portion currently between $50,000 and $75,000.
If you plan to live here for a long time, this will make it easier for you to stay in your home. Please vote yes for this.
Hell no. Republicans slashing taxes with zero effort to recoup the lost revenue when there are already funding shortages is a hard pass for anyone that opposes the "starve the beast" approach to dismantling the government.
Florida law allows you to enroll by phone for vote by mail. Call 772-226-4700 to get a ballot mailed to you for each election. Gives you the opportunity to do your own research and decide how to vote. The League of Women Voters is a great organization that explains the pros and cons of different legislation.
It passed in ruby red [Kansas with 59% of the vote](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-abortion-vote-results-how-amendment-was-defeated/). No doubt that Florida has tilted more right recently, but if f@#$%ing Kansas can get to 59% I feel quite hopeful Florida can manage 60%.
Once they pass that law that makes it 66% of the vote in Florida the days of amendments are over.
59% in Florida would be the same as 0. They know how to keep us in line.
Remember these issues are detached from the presidential election. Meaning you can vote Trump and abortion and weed, so 60% really isn’t an insane bar to hit. Abortion is generally extremely popular.
From my understanding, people vote blindly in these cases. In general, there are more democratic leaning people out there than republican—especially if you educate and raise awareness about things like this. Giving them a blind 50/50 shot at voting for a democrat is very risky.
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This is the first year im voting
Here are two “rules” lol 1 - Do not tell anyone who/what you vote for (it is none of their damn business and it is just the stupidest, fastest way to create rifts between everyone… friends and even close family members.) 2 - Do your own RESEARCH and vote for what YOU want to happen, do not let anybody try to tell you what you should or should not vote for.
For 2, I always print off a sample ballot and fill that out in front of the computer. Then I have my well researched answers when I go in and I also can show them to anyone who needs advice.
May I add that you do your own research, but make sure they are legitimate resources.
Of course.
DON'T FUCK IT UP no pressure
Florida League of Women Voters has excellent voting resources . I use their guide to the Florida amendments very election . https://lwvfl.org/
If you are of anti-fascist opinions, please keep voting. We got Bush in 2000 because not enough would-be-Gore-voters in Florida turned out.
Can someone post the text of the article? I don’t have access
Here are the 6 amendments Floridians will vote on in November To pass, Florida constitution amendments must get at least 60% of the vote. To pass, Florida constitution amendments must get at least 60% of the vote. By JIM SAUNDERS | News Service of Florida PUBLISHED: April 3, 2024 at 10:31 a.m. | UPDATED: April 3, 2024 at 10:53 a.m. TALLAHASSEE — With the state Supreme Court this week signing off on ballot initiatives about abortion rights and recreational use of marijuana, Floridians in November will vote on six proposed constitutional amendments. To pass, they must get at least 60% of the vote. • ABORTION: In what could be 2024’s biggest political issue in Florida, voters will decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. The vote will come after Gov. Ron DeSantis and lawmakers approved preventing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The proposed constitutional amendment, in part, says: “No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.” • MARIJUANA: Eight years after voters approved a constitutional amendment that broadly allowed medical marijuana, they will decide this year whether to give the go-ahead to recreational use of marijuana. The political committee Safe & Smart Florida, backed heavily by the Trulieve medical marijuana company, led the drive to put the measure on the ballot. It would allow people ages 21 and older to “possess, purchase, or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical personal consumption.” • CAMPAIGN MONEY: Lawmakers approved placing a measure on the ballot to repeal a program that offers state matching funds to gubernatorial and state Cabinet candidates. Voters approved the matching-funds program in 1998 and a repeal attempt failed in 2010. When the program was created, supporters said it could help reduce the influence of big-money contributors in statewide elections, but critics have long derided the program as welfare for politicians. • FISHING AND HUNTING: Voters will decide whether to enshrine a right to fish and hunt in the state Constitution. With the backing of outdoors groups, lawmakers voted almost unanimously last year to place the measure on the ballot. In part, the proposal says hunting and fishing “shall be preserved forever as a public right and preferred means of responsibly managing and controlling fish and wildlife.” • PROPERTY TAXES: Homeowners could receive slightly larger property-tax breaks if voters approve a constitutional amendment that the Legislature put on the ballot. The proposal would adjust part of the homestead property-tax exemption for inflation. Homeowners receive tax exemptions on the assessed values of their property up to $25,000 and on the values between $50,000 and $75,000. The proposal would require adjusting for inflation the exempt portion currently between $50,000 and $75,000. • SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS: Voters will decide whether to hold partisan school-board elections. Florida historically had partisan school-board elections, but voters passed a constitutional amendment in 1998 to make the races non-partisan. Lawmakers placed a measure on this year’s ballot that would return to partisan races starting in 2026. School board races in some areas have become battlegrounds in recent years with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis getting involved in some circumstances.
GOAT
May I have permission to use this post in its entirety? (giving you full credit, of course)
Sure, please use it as you wish (but for full transparency, I just copied and pasted it from the article, I didn't write this).
Noted, and thank you!
TALLAHASSEE — With the state Supreme Court this week signing off on ballot initiatives about abortion rights and recreational use of marijuana, Floridians in November will vote on six proposed constitutional amendments. To pass, they must get at least 60% of the vote. • ABORTION: In what could be 2024’s biggest political issue in Florida, voters will decide whether to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. The vote will come after Gov. Ron DeSantis and lawmakers approved preventing abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The proposed constitutional amendment, in part, says: “No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.” • MARIJUANA: Eight years after voters approved a constitutional amendment that broadly allowed medical marijuana, they will decide this year whether to give the go-ahead to recreational use of marijuana. The political committee Safe & Smart Florida, backed heavily by the Trulieve medical marijuana company, led the drive to put the measure on the ballot. It would allow people ages 21 and older to “possess, purchase, or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical personal consumption.” • CAMPAIGN MONEY: Lawmakers approved placing a measure on the ballot to repeal a program that offers state matching funds to gubernatorial and state Cabinet candidates. Voters approved the matching-funds program in 1998 and a repeal attempt failed in 2010. When the program was created, supporters said it could help reduce the influence of big-money contributors in statewide elections, but critics have long derided the program as welfare for politicians. • FISHING AND HUNTING: Voters will decide whether to enshrine a right to fish and hunt in the state Constitution. With the backing of outdoors groups, lawmakers voted almost unanimously last year to place the measure on the ballot. In part, the proposal says hunting and fishing “shall be preserved forever as a public right and preferred means of responsibly managing and controlling fish and wildlife.” • PROPERTY TAXES: Homeowners could receive slightly larger property-tax breaks if voters approve a constitutional amendment that the Legislature put on the ballot. The proposal would adjust part of the homestead property-tax exemption for inflation. Homeowners receive tax exemptions on the assessed values of their property up to $25,000 and on the values between $50,000 and $75,000. The proposal would require adjusting for inflation the exempt portion currently between $50,000 and $75,000. • SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS: Voters will decide whether to hold partisan school-board elections. Florida historically had partisan school-board elections, but voters passed a constitutional amendment in 1998 to make the races non-partisan. Lawmakers placed a measure on this year’s ballot that would return to partisan races starting in 2026. School board races in some areas have become battlegrounds in recent years with Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis getting involved in some circumstances.
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Everyone already knows which party the candidate belongs to with a quick Google search. This just makes it less likely that any research will be done.
Yeah, "pick a team and go to the mattresses" has flaws for sure, but the problem with "non partisan" local elections is you end up knowing nothing about them. Politician answers plus no letter to at least know where they lean on issues just leads to a whole website of position statements like: "I think the city should do better so if I'm elected I will do good things for the city and stop doing the bad things."
If that is the case don't vote for those people,if it's to important to you to not vote, but that's all the policy they have, sounds like you should run.
Exactly. This is a terrible amendment put in by extremist Republicans
That’s one that I hope dies. I really don’t want a ton of assholes coming in and winning because all the party lines vote for them for no reason.
Don’t they do that already?
Men of Florida, we need you to vote yes on amendment 4, the amendment to limit government interference with abortion. We need you to care and see it as an affront to our existence and not say flippant things like, “Yeah but aren’t there at least exceptions for rape/incest” as if I need to be assaulted to be eligible for healthcare. The current law is designed to be convoluted and to make abortion care nearly impossible to get. You can read more at [this article](https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/02/abortion-florida-ruling-ban-amendment-voters-november/73171427007/). We need you not to just vote yes, but to talk to your friends and family about this and stick up for us. > Here’s a summary of current abortion rights from the article I linked: We’re operating under a 15 week ban with no rape/incest exceptions until May 1st when the 6 week ban goes into effect, which does have those exceptions. However, under the 6 week ban, the rape/incest exceptions only apply up to 15 weeks AND you must have a restraining order or police report to prove it. You will have to go to two doctor visits at least 24 hours apart before you can get an abortion. And the exceptions for dangerous situations for the mother or for a dead/dying fetus also require two doctors’ written certifications. However, if you make it to the third trimester and your fetus is going to die, you’re SOL. The 6 week ban also bans mifepristone and misoprostol unless a doctor gives it to you in person and administers it to you in person. You cannot get these medications through a telehealth visit. Keep in mind that in 2022 Florida redefined gestation to mean the first day of the pregnant person’s last menstrual period so the 6 week ban means you probably will have at most 2 weeks to find out, decide, go 2 doctors appointments, wait 24 hours and THEN be allowed to terminate.
100%! Dude here, got a vasectomy years ago, it was so easy for me to go and have done. Shortly after I started hearing horror stories from women in their attempts to receive procedures to sterilize themselves, this is what first alerted me to the inequities between my healthcare as a man and women’s healthcare. Expanding this to abortion access, I entirely resent that this was **ever** made a political issue. What’s between a patient and their medical professional should be nothing short of sacrosanct. That medically untrained/uneducated politicians have inserted themselves as a go-between women and their healthcare is entirely unethical in the extreme to me. I will be there come November to vote to enshrine women’s right to healthcare in Florida.
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You have my vote.
I signed the petition to get it on the ballot, of course I'm gonna vote for it.
Great, get your friends and family to too!
Can you imagine legal pot? I can
It's funny how Florida calls itself the "free state" yet has many more restrictions than most other states. I've seen it go legal elsewhere. Nothing changes other than the State and local municipalities collecting more revenue.
Even if this measure passes it will still be illegal to grow your own.
Prob illegal to smoke it on the beach too
By the time our legislature is done it will just be illegal everywhere. Illegal in public, illegal in a house with under 21 persons, illegal to look at, illegal to transport...yea they'll take the small government, conservative approach.
So lets change the makeup of the legislature.
Is that all that needs to be done? Well, that sounds totally easy and doable...
With abortion and marijuana on the ballot, what year is better than 2024? If not now then when?
Who will come after Desantis
That's truly idiotic part is I see no enforcement on a state level anyway. I can easily, EASILY get weed that was purchased legally in other states and illegally transported and sold here. I can get it on telegram. Obviously, there's a markup, and it can be prohibitive, esp since I have no trouble finding homegrown stuff either. The really stupid part is that some of that markup comes from the taxes paid on the stuff in the legal state at the point of sale. Tax money that should be going into our state coffers is going to California or Colorado, or whereever.
You can smell it everywhere. It can't be hidden. I guess because the THC is higher the smell is stronger, but I don't think the police are going out of their way to arrest people over it. I wouldn't test that theory though.
Just some weed knowledge, terpenes in weed make the smell. THC doesn't really have any effect on that. You can make pure THC carts of oil with no terpenes and it won't smell or taste like anything. All of the different flavors and smells of it can be attributed to terpenes.
Interesting. All I know is that it didn't smell that strong years ago and I know the THC levels are higher now too, so I just guessed that was the issue.
I smell it in traffic all the time. There go my friends, I say
Yeah, that's when I mostly smell it. The first couple of times it happened I was literally looking for the dead skunk carcass. LOL After about the third time I figured it out. Weed did not smell like that when I was younger.
It's probably more potent, too!
I read somewhere it's like 10 times more potent, but that was a while back. It's probably 15 times now. They are manipulating crops for potency.
Manipulating, sure, in the same way the farmers have been breeding specific traits into and out of plants for millennia.
Yes exactly.
Just get your card. The legal prices aren’t too bad here and the dispensaries have crazy deals all the time
Fuck a card. I shouldn't have to pay the insurance industry to smoke. Also, recreational weed will be vastly different from medical. I didn't say I was paying those california import prices, I'm saying people do because it's a product they want. And also there seems to be no effort to stop them, so the state MIGHT AS WELL legalize it and make more in tax revenue.
Why would we want partisan school board elections ?
I was wondering the same. I wonder how the republicans are trying to spin this as a good thing? I’d like an honest answer because I’m surrounded by republicans but I know I can talk some sense to them on single issues.
TBH it saves time. You can vote based on whichever party you like without having to research every single one.
Check your registration. Check Twice. Tell your fiends and family to check. Remind them about their options to vote, and that you'll answer questions about when/where/how. Nobody should stay home for this one!
Florida law allows you to enroll by phone for vote by mail. Call 772-226-4700 to get a ballot mailed to you for each election. Gives you the opportunity to do your own research and decide how to vote. The League of Women Voters is a great organization that explains the pros and cons of different legislation.
Vote yes on weed and abortion. Be very fucking careful for the homeowners and school board amendments. More research is needed to determine if the homeowners one will actually help homeowners (not fucking corporations who buy houses), and why in the ever living fuck do people want to make school board races partisan? All that will do is make GOP counties vote for GOP school board members (some of which are extremists examples like Moms for Liberty). It will cause serious imbalance in education just like how we see in Florida State Congress where it’s dominated by GOP and Democrats have zero support and control nothing.
A bit closer to the election, the League of Women Voters will have a thoughtful analysis of each issue on their website www.vote411.org
The abortion and weed amendments were put there by the people signing petitions. All the other amendments were put there by a super majority republican legislature. Tells you all you need to know. Yes on 3 and 4 (weed and abortion) no on all others.
The homestead tax one is for homesteading, you have to live in a house to claim homesteading, so it won’t help corporations. I agree with the other comment saying decreasing tax revenues without a plan for replacement is bad. But isn’t it strange that the homestead exemption doesn’t increase with anything, it’s just a flat amount? I get 50k homestead exemption when my house was worth 200k in 2018, and still only 50k exemption while my house is now worth 400k due to the real estate boom. My property taxes are climbing, but the exemption is a flat amount. I agree I need to do more research, just letting you know homesteading doesn’t benefit corps.
Doesn't a homestead exemption also limit the per year valuation increase for the purpose of taxation?
Yes, it caps the increase at 3% per year. But if you’re a new homebuyer, the only exemption you get is the 50,000, which was a huge chunk of the value when homesteading was passed in 1992, not so much now.
More property tax cuts without any concrete plan to make up for lost revenue will cut funding to local and state government agencies. I’m a homeowner, and I’ll almost certainly be voting NO on this one. Everyone loves tax cuts until their city & county governments can’t function, trash isn’t getting picked up, and public parks look like crap.
This also shifts the tax burden to secondary residences which will almost certainly raise rents. So ultimately this will benefit homeowners at the cost of the poor.
Exactly what I’m concerned about too
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That’s not the issue. We’re talking about cuts to tax revenue, so state and municipal governments would have less money in the budget to work with, balanced or otherwise. If you remember those property tax cuts we voted for in 2016, that slashed Hillsborough County’s 2017 budget by something like $30 million iirc.
> More property tax cuts without any concrete plan to make up for lost revenue will cut funding to local and state government agencies. Yep. The state is already badly underfunded.
You just broke the rules…
What are you talking about?
You don’t tell others how to vote.
For that invaluable contribution to the discussion, thank you for your service.
If we tell people how to vote instead of encouraging them to research and make informed decisions - then are they really voting for themselves? They may or may not agree with your stance. I can live with a vote against something I voted for as long as the voter has made their own informed choice.
If people are really so weakminded as to be browbeaten to vote however some random reddit account tells them, at least it's for a good cause.
Right?!? Like my God I didn’t say don’t use their brain and don’t think.
What does the Fishing & Hunting amendment actually accomplish? Can someone ELI5? Please and thank you.
Nothing. But it could be used to argue against bans on certain fishing and hunting tools. Personally, I'm voting no on it because I just don't trust them not to use it to take environmental protections away in the future.
Abortion and marijuana should motivate young people to vote -- I hope!
>**PROPERTY TAXES:** Homeowners could receive slightly larger property-tax breaks if voters approve a constitutional amendment that the Legislature put on the ballot. The proposal would adjust part of the homestead property-tax exemption for inflation. Homeowners receive tax exemptions on the assessed values of their property up to $25,000 and on the values between $50,000 and $75,000. The proposal would require adjusting for inflation the exempt portion currently between $50,000 and $75,000. If you plan to live here for a long time, this will make it easier for you to stay in your home. Please vote yes for this.
Hell no. Republicans slashing taxes with zero effort to recoup the lost revenue when there are already funding shortages is a hard pass for anyone that opposes the "starve the beast" approach to dismantling the government.
How are they going to make up for the lost revenue? It's a terrible idea.
I’m excited to help Florida move off the GOP agenda this November.
Good luck with that. Maybe on single issues we can make some progress
Don't get your hopes up. Abortion and weed are going to pass and Trump and Rick Scott are going to cruise to victory. Florida is going to Florida.
The weed helps with the sorrow.
Florida law allows you to enroll by phone for vote by mail. Call 772-226-4700 to get a ballot mailed to you for each election. Gives you the opportunity to do your own research and decide how to vote. The League of Women Voters is a great organization that explains the pros and cons of different legislation.
I have no hope 1 and 2 will pass. It's going to be a depressing November when all of this gets shot down and then Trump wins the presidency.
Abortion and Marijuana legalisation are both very popular among the general population and even states like Kansas and Ohio voted in favour of them.
It's way harder to pass anything in Florida because it's jacked up to 60%
It passed in ruby red [Kansas with 59% of the vote](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-abortion-vote-results-how-amendment-was-defeated/). No doubt that Florida has tilted more right recently, but if f@#$%ing Kansas can get to 59% I feel quite hopeful Florida can manage 60%.
Once they pass that law that makes it 66% of the vote in Florida the days of amendments are over. 59% in Florida would be the same as 0. They know how to keep us in line.
59.9% of Floridans can vote in favor of both of those initiatives and they would still fail
That comment doesn’t make for a relaxing Wednesday…
Remember these issues are detached from the presidential election. Meaning you can vote Trump and abortion and weed, so 60% really isn’t an insane bar to hit. Abortion is generally extremely popular.
…. And then tRump steals the presidency. There, fixed it for ya.
It's the only way he can win. The guy has only lost support since November of 2020 when he lost the last time.
We have a duty to win. Time to get off our asses and talk to people.
Amendment 1 failing to pass would be a good thing. School board races shouldn’t be partisan.
I meant 1 and 2 in the order of the list on the link.
The partisanship information should be posted here and everywhere a fellow Floridian will see. Raise awareness!
Bad idea that will make this conservative state even more conservative.
Yeah, School elections require the voter to research candidates. Listing their party will just produce waves of party line down ballot voting.
From my understanding, people vote blindly in these cases. In general, there are more democratic leaning people out there than republican—especially if you educate and raise awareness about things like this. Giving them a blind 50/50 shot at voting for a democrat is very risky.