Sandy Adams Wants House to Censure Crist for Calling Special Session

Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Oviedo, announced on Thursday that she will file a motion in the special session next week to censure Gov. Charlie Crist for calling the session.

Our nation faces the effects of out-of-control federal spending and we must not allow the wasteful and unnecessary use of taxpayer dollars to permeate Florida, said Adams. Governor Crist is wasting hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars on an unnecessary special session of the state Legislature, and he should be held accountable for this misuse.

We all agree that it is imperative to protect our waters and the jobs that exist from them, continued Adams. Current Florida law already protects its coastline by prohibiting off-shore drilling in Florida waters. A constitutional amendment duplicating a law already on the books is not an emergency warranting a special session that could cost taxpayers more than $50,000 a day. The governor calling this special session for the sole purpose of banning something already banned is simply a political attempt to benefit his campaign for U.S. Senate, and not whats best for Florida taxpayers.

Floridians have suffered economically during Charlie Crist's term as governor, said Adams. He should be focused on ways to revitalize our economy, not play games with the legislative process for political benefit. We can create good public policy that promotes technology, innovation and energy independence rather than participate in such foolish, self-serving political stunts.

Of course, Adams could also be accused of playing political games. She is running in a tight Republican primary to take on U.S. Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, and Crist --who left the GOP back in April --is not popular with the Republican rank and file.