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An Open Letter to the Legislators of Florida

June 7, 2017 - 8:15am

For years I’ve traveled back and forth to Tallahassee attempting to have an impact on the legislative process. I’ve watched the way things have worked in Tallahassee and have become disgusted by it. The people of Florida have been shut out of the process. We have had our voices muffled and silenced. As one back room deal paves the way for the next back room deal, the people of Florida have continually footed the bill for pet projects, higher regulations (that we then have to live under), corporate welfare schemes and crony capitalism projects.

I had hope for this this legislative session. Commitments were made. The process was going to be more open and transparent. Accountability to the people was to be the rule of the day. No more broken promises. It sounded grand. I looked on with cautious excitement that maybe this year would be different. That the people would matter. That principles would carry the day over political expediency. 
 
I was wrong. We were all wrong. 
 
This session may have been started with the lofty idea of more transparency, more ethics and more representation for the people of our state but it has ended in controversy, secrecy and the forgoing of the principles that it began on. This ruse of a special session is the epitome of everything that is wrong with our state government. 
 
The people are fed up with the excuse that "this is just how it works" and we demand it to stop. We want better and we deserve better. It is the reason I started my campaign for governor just a few short weeks ago. 
 
As each one of you returns to Tallahassee today, I urge you to remember the promises you made to your constituents. We expect you to honor those promises. Our expectation is that you will lead our state into an era of more oversight, more transparency and certainly more conservatism when it comes to handing out our hard earned money. We will be watching.
 
Sincerely,
 
Bob White

Bob White, the chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida, is running for governor


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You have spoken the truth and given the best reasons for voting for different people. The rest is up to the electorate. I hope we all get smarter quickly...

"Transparent"?..."Tallahassee"?... YEAH, like MUD is transparent ! ! ! VOTE 'em OUT EVERY year! ! "CHANGE 'em OUT with EVERY election ! ! ! (NO MATTER THE "POLITICAL PARTY"!!!!!!) STOP SENDING THEM ANY MONEY !.... They don't care about YOUR piddling "hundreds"; they get HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS from "Special Interests" and LOBBYISTS (PLUS lunches, dinners, and invites to parties and tickets to events, both private and political)......... So now, WHO do YOU think gets the "ACTION" from these lying, pettifogging EXTORTIONISTS?????????????? Don't be a SUCKER any longer, YOU (and YOURS) DON"T MATTER TO THESE "VAMPIRES" SUCKING YOUR "BLOOD" year in and year out !

As I digest current Florida politics, I am in FULL REALIZATION that por LARGEST SWAMP is on Talahassee! I have been a lifelong conservative - honed in on following our Constitution. But far to many on the Right have "splintered" into sub-groups, and caused "REPUBLICANS" as a multi-forked group. The most OBVIOUS way to add Power to Conservatives is to soften the approaches of those "Splinters" --- Republicans, Tea Party, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, et nauseum is to BAN TOGETHER to SOLIDIFY a unified group! I suggest that all of the "deep thinkers" who value the concepts of a Constitutional Republic form of Government... YIELD to a SINGLE PARTY --- and it's NOT the GOP --- it's the "GNP" (Grand New Party)! I realize that this would be Fought by a "YUGE" number of Conservatives. But what are our only other options?

House Leader Richard Corcoran pulling money from public schools for charter schools (His wife owns a charter school), Senate Leader Joen Negron working with Corcoran on back rooms, and then Corcoran throws Negron under the bus over the budget, while aligning with Scott who disrepected Corcoran and House members for months. Florida politics is dirty, corrupt, with backroom deals, and continuous gamesmanship to kick each Republican off the island of Tallahassee. Soon transparency will be gone totally from Tallahassee. It will be a matter of who can donate the most to their political action committees, campaigns, provide a G6 private jet for travel. Constituents are merely important during the election cycle. Otherwise, ignore and provide a little political spin for their entertainment. At least the Roman emperors fed the masses bread during the circus.

Yes, they fed the masses just prior to killing them!

Finally someone with the balls to lay the facts out!

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