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		<title>Marijuana law challenged over black farmer license</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/marijuana-law-challenged-black-farmer-license/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[News Service Of Florida]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Sep 2017 09:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Constitution]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A lawsuit filed Friday challenges the constitutionality of part of a new state law that requires a coveted medical-marijuana license to go to a black farmer. Columbus Smith, a black farmer from Panama City, filed the lawsuit, alleging that the law is so narrowly drawn that only a handful of black farmers could qualify for the license. The lawsuit contends that the measure is what is known as an unconstitutional “special law.” The law, passed during a June special session,&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Déjà vu: Richard Corcoran seeks repeal of public campaign financing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Putnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution Revision Commission]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pam Bondi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public campaign financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repeal]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[House Speaker and presumptive Republican candidate for governor Richard Corcoran, who declared war on &#8220;corporate welfare&#8221; last Legislative Session, now wants to end &#8220;welfare for politicians.&#8221; On Wednesday, he asked the Constitution Revision Commission—of which he appointed nine of its 37 members—to consider an proposal to repeal a section of the state Constitution that provides for public financing of statewide political campaigns. The Legislature, however, placed a similar amendment on the ballot for statewide approval in 2010. It flunked at&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Florida Taxwatch survey finds Florida voters unaware of Constitution Revision Commission</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/florida-taxwatch-survey-finds-florida-voters-unaware-constitution-revision-commission/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Staff Reports]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[2017]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2018 ballot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cherry Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitution Revision Commission]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Few Floridians appear to be aware of the Constitution Revision Commission, according to a new survey meant gauge how much Florida voters know about the process. A new survey from Florida TaxWatch found 77 percent of Florida voters said they haven’t heard about recent Constitution Revision Commission meetings. Another 13 percent of respondents, according to the survey, said they only saw, read or heard “a little” about the commission’s activities. Those findings come after months of public hearings across the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rick Scott asked to respond to judicial appointments lawsuit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:20:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Pariente]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deirdre Macnab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Constitution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Rick Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John S. Mills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judicial appointment power]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liza McClenaghan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pamela Goodman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peggy A. Quince]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Florida Supreme Court has asked Gov. Rick Scott to respond to a lawsuit claiming he doesn&#8217;t have authority to appoint three new justices on the last day of his term. The court on Friday gave Scott till July 5 to file a response, with the League of Women Voters of Florida (LWVF) and Common Cause having a July 17 deadline to reply to Scott&#8217;s filing. The organizations this week filed a petition for “writ of quo warranto,” a court action against government&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Progressive groups sue over Rick Scott&#8217;s judicial appointment power</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Gov. Rick Scott appointed a conservative jurist to the state&#8217;s Supreme Court in December, he made clear he wasn&#8217;t done. “I will appoint three more justices the morning I finish my term,” he said, referring to the mandatory retirement in early 2019 of the court&#8217;s liberal-leaning triumvirate of Justices Barbara Pariente, Peggy A. Quince and R. Fred Lewis. Now, two progressive organizations are saying to Scott: Prove you can. They say he can&#8217;t. The League of Women Voters of Florida (LWVF)&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Split appeal court upholds Rick Scott’s 2015 veto of firefighters’ $2,000 raise</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/split-appeal-court-upholds-rick-scotts-2015-veto-firefighters-2000-raise/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Moline]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2017 15:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1st District Court of Appeal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective bargaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Forest Service]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The governor’s constitutional authority to veto budget line items trumps a state law requiring him to bow to the Legislature when it resolves labor collective bargaining impasses, a divided 1st District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The majority conceded that, under the state Labor Code, “any actions taken by the Legislature shall bind the parties” — meaning a public employee union and the governor. “Based primarily on a statute, appellant asks us to recognize a limitation on the governor’s constitutional&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Constitution Revision Commission will debate, vote on rules on June 6</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Staff Reports]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2017 19:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2017 Constitution Revision Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlos Beruff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Constitution]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The chairman of the Constitution Revision Commission has called a meeting of the full panel in Orlando on June 6 to debate and vote on a package of procedural rules. Carlos Beruff said in a letter to members Friday that the panel’s rules committee had reached consensus in some, but not all, areas. “In light of the extensive time required by the working group to continue its work and the likelihood that much of their discussion will need to be reiterated with&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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