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Three influential groups announce support for Smart Solar amendment

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Consumers for Smart Solar — the bipartisan coalition of business and civic leaders— received three significant endorsements in its campaign to put a solar energy amendment on Florida’s 2016 ballot. In a joint announcement Tuesday, the Florida Council for Safe Communities, National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) and the Partnership for Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) each threw support behind the Smart Solar Amendment, which supporters say is a consumer-friendly measure to expand solar energy use in the Sunshine State. The…

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Why the solar initiative is losing

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I love solar power. You love solar power. Everyone loves solar power. It’s the ice cream of energy production – it should come with sprinkles. There is so much to love. And unlike a toddler with a cone, there’s no messy cleanup, nobody’s blowing the tops off mountains to mine it, there are no issues with storing radioactive canisters in a cave or shooting chemicals into our underground water supply. And for those of you who care about such things,…

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Manatee Tea Party unanimously votes to reject solar amendment

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Another Florida Tea Party chapter has rejected the proposed solar energy constitutional amendment. On July 16, Tea Party Manatee unanimously voted against the initiative put forward by Floridians for Solar Choice for the 2016 ballot. The vote came after presentations from lobbyist Danielle Alexandre and Libertarian Adrian Wyllie supporting the amendment, and Tampa 912 Project board member Karen Jaroch and Heartland Institute senior fellow James Taylor in opposition. The vote – a third rejection of the solar proposal by local Tea…

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Forbes article linking Florida solar battle to Citizens United throws shade on the truth

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In the place known as the Sunshine State, there’s a lot of shade thrown around in the brewing political battle over solar energy. One such shady spot comes from William Pentland, energy and environmental writer for Forbes, in a recent article called More Smoke, More Mirrors For Solar Politics In Sunshine State. Pentland starts his biased rant with the “decidedly dark turn” against Floridians for Solar Choice (FSC), the political action committee busy collecting signatures for a proposed solar energy…

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Voters may have to decide between two solar energy amendments

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Florida voters could wind up having to choose between two rival proposals dealing with solar energy. A group billing itself as Consumers for Smart Solar announced Wednesday that it’s launching a petition drive to place an amendment dealing with solar energy on the 2016 ballot. It will need to collect nearly 700,000 signatures by early next year in order to qualify. But the amendment is aimed at trying to stop another proposal dealing with solar power. Floridians for Solar Choice…

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Florida Hispanic leader calls Tory Perfetti to resign over anti-immigration rhetoric

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In what is already a contentious presidential contest, solar energy might actually become Florida’s hottest battleground in 2016. With the involvement of energy companies, environmentalists, and politicians – not to mention competing solar power constitutional amendments — nearly everyone in the Sunshine State will take a side. At the center of the debate is Tory Perfetti, the founder of Floridians for Solar Choice, one of Florida’s most divisive and polarizing figures, spreading inflammatory rhetoric that actually insults many of the same…

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Consumers for Smart Solar launches ‘consumer-friendly’ solar ballot initiative for 2016

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Consumers for Smart Solar — a bipartisan coalition of business, civic and faith leaders— launched a campaign to place its new Smart Solar Amendment on the 2016 General Election ballot. The Smart Solar Amendment is what supporters call a “consumer-friendly alternative” to a similar amendment proposed by Floridians for Solar Choice. While both amendments seek to give greater access to solar energy, the Smart Solar Amendment allows state and local authorities to enact commonsense consumer protection rules. The measure also…

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