Comments on: Florida’s Busy Ballot

By: 10 Stories to Read

10 Stories to Read — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:14:56 +0000

[…] Why Now? – Florida’s Busy Ballot: “So far there are going to be 9 Ballot Initiatives on the Florida […]

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:54:12 +0000

Colin, the prohibition is for foreigners not eligible for citizenship, which generally translates as drug lords and such.

Up at this end we have a lot of properties owned by Canadians and Germans. Nothing’s going to sell until the prices descend to the level of reality.

By: Colin at Buying FloridaProperty

Colin at Buying FloridaProperty — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:43:09 +0000

Bryan

Please reconsider your “no” vote to #1 – in the Orlando area we currently have around 2 years’ inventory of homes, so the prospect of rich foreigners buying up stuff is a welcome one to homeowners concerned about falling house prices.

And even more important, making it harder for legislators to mess with things is something to value, in my view!

Colin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:58:34 +0000

What do you have against pregnant pigs? 😉

It’s another way of avoiding responsibility and behalf of the politicians.

By: LeftLeaningLady

LeftLeaningLady — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:21:37 +0000

I vote NO on everything, except the Constitutional Amendment that made it more difficult to amend Florida’s Constitution!

That damn Pig Penning Amendment still makes me cringe, although I may be the only person who remembers it.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:03:18 +0000

As Badtux says, why have a legislature?

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:52:00 +0000

Welcome to our ballot measure hell….

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_j.htm

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:03:10 +0000

That’s the total as of Friday, there’s still time for more of them to make the ballot. I have no idea right now what has qualified for the local ballot, but there’s always something. There are even worse measures waiting in the wings, all premised on the fallacy that there is a free lunch.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:21:29 +0000

We got you beat here in CA…we’ve got 11 (not including the local issues that will be on ballots)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:04:05 +0000

I hear that, ‘Tux. The Florida budget is micromanaged by ballot initiatives and restrictions. Locally, one of the schools has a room filled with brand new, never been out of the box computers, but there’s no money available to pay for the electricity if they use them, and more importantly, no money to pay for the repairs to that room that would stop the water from leaking in.

The district had money in the “technology” budget, but doesn’t have the money in the utilities or maintenance budgets to create a resource, and they stand to lose a grant to connect those computers to the ‘Net.

Some of these things are forced on the ballot by earlier initiatives that require them to be submitted to the voters before the legislature can do them, but most are attempts to avoid responsibility for bad ideas that are going to be disasters.