From Karl Dickey at The Examiner:
The language proposed by the Floridians for Solar Choice ballot initiative was approved yesterday, October 22, 2015, by the Florida Supreme Court. The proposed amendment may now be placed on the ballot for the 2016 election provided that all 683,149 required signatures are collected and verified before February 1, 2016.
“We are thrilled with the high court’s ruling so that voters may have the opportunity to vote on removing a barrier that currently blocks Florida’s families and businesses from greater energy choices through the power of the free market,” said Tory Perfetti, Chairman of Floridians for Solar Choice. “People power is what will get us on the ballot, and we continue to gather thousands of signatures each week from Floridians eager for Solar Choice.”
Floridians for Solar Choice is a coalition of several free market organizations including the Libertarian Party of Florida (LPF). LPF Char-Lez Braden said this morning, “We are really happy to see the court affirm that the people of Florida should have a choice in their electrical power regulation. We will be working to see that this amendment is passed to enable a much-needed competition component to the electrical generation industry and thus providing more options for the individual consumer.”
Current Florida law explicitly denies citizens and businesses the freedom to buy power directly from someone other than a private or public electric utility company. Florida is one of only four states that has such a law on record and if the amendment passes, it will allow companies such as Solar City to enter the Florida market enabling Floridians more control of their energy needs.
The Libertarian Party of Florida takes a “live and let live” approach to public policy. The growing political party believes that, at most, governments should exist only to defend and protect the rights and freedoms of individuals, thus putting the LPF far out in front of any other political party’s commitment to nonviolent political action.
Yeah. But we can’t rely on that. They have a long time to bring it back in that state.
“paulie
October 24, 2015 at 12:18 pm
Hopefully not. Maybe they already have enough signatures though, or maybe they will bring it back.”
Top Two Primary would still need to collect a lot of petition signatures in order to qualify for the ballot in Florida. Hopefully it is dead, and hopefully it stays dead.
Hopefully not. Maybe they already have enough signatures though, or maybe they will bring it back.
“paulie
October 24, 2015 at 11:59 am
I’ve also been told they are paying hotels in FL unlike here. Plus a buck on the pot initiative, but the only caveat from the one paying $4 is that you not work on the other solar petition (the one in LPF endorses) if you want to work on theirs. Meanwhile the pot initiative here in OK is all-volunteer. Not sure if only top two is still going on in FL, I think it is but not sure. Petitioners who don’t care (almost all of them) or those who support that issue can pad their income even more if it is.”
I do not think that the Top Two Primary is currently paying for petition signatures in Florida. Hopefully, it will not make the ballot.
I’ve also been told they are paying hotels in FL unlike here. Plus a buck on the pot initiative, but the only caveat from the one paying $4 is that you not work on the other solar petition (the one in LPF endorses) if you want to work on theirs. Meanwhile the pot initiative here in OK is all-volunteer. Not sure if only top two is still going on in FL, I think it is but not sure. Petitioners who don’t care (almost all of them) or those who support that issue can pad their income even more if it is.
The Solar Energy petition that is the one endorsed by the LP of Florida is currently paying petition circulators $2 per signature.
The petition that Mike K signed is NOT the one that is endorsed by the LP of Florida.
Maybe in Florida, or a number of other places. I am losing money every single week so far in Oklahoma as in spending more than what I make. I’ll likely run out of the ability to keep borrowing more to be able to stay here soon. If Andy is still here after that he will be the only outside petitioner left. 3 of 5 are already gone. I feel pretty stupid for passing up more lucrative work like Florida because it is looking more and more like Oklahoma will fail.
Damn, maybe I should be doing petitioning work:)
You signed a different, competing petition. The one LPF endorsed is not paying $4. The one endorsed by the power companies as a watered down alternative is.
Signed the petition last night. Asked the guy how much he was getting. His response $4 dollars a signature. I make $3500 to $4000 a week