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St.
Petersburg Times
Sunday, July 25, 2010
The city of St. Petersburg's
efforts to subvert the rights of voters by creating a "decoy" land
use plan makes the case for why Floridians need to pass Florida Hometown
Democracy Amendment 4 on the statewide ballot Nov. 2...
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Daytona Beach News-Journal
July 22, 2010
In response to Howard Tipton's suggestion that the Hometown
Democracy amendment "would distort our ability to attract economic growth
to Florida," existing comprehensive land-use plans allow development that
would add tens of millions of people to the state population, its roads and its
schools...
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Clay Today
July 22, 2010
Don't believe attacks on Amendment 4...I am writing in reference to a
recent guest column denouncing Florida Hometown Democracy Amendment 4, which
will appear on the November ballot...
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St. Petersburg Times
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
This is clever, I do admit... The city of St. Petersburg has a plan to dodge Amendment 4, even if the voters approve it in November...
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South
Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
July
18,
2010
Just
look around Broward
County - with commissioners being investigated for corruption, one
commissioner
in jail for taking favors from developers, and now 12 people arrested in
a
massive mortgage scam - and it is clear we need change...
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Florida
Hometown Democracy Press Release
July 14, 2010
Yankeetown - A community that is
successfully using a local version of Florida Hometown Democracy
Amendment 4
has received top statewide honors from the state’s land-planning agency...
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St. Augustine.com
July 14, 2010
Editor: As reporter Brandon
Larrabee
wrote June 18, the Florida Legislature adjourned without taking the vote
needed
to keep the state's land-planning agency alive. That leaves the Florida
Department of Community Affairs in limbo for another year, and there's
talk in
Tallahassee of abolishing or weakening DCA next year...
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Florida Keys Keynoter
Wednesday,
July 14, 2010
Should that little piece of
paradise
known as Wisteria Island off Key West be paved into 75 units and lots of
retail? Right now, three votes by Monroe County commissioners are all it
would
take...
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The
Florida Times-Union
July 12, 2010
Regarding the
Hometown Democracy
proposal that would require votes for changes to compehensive land use
plans,
no one presumes that the public is bright enough to figure out what is
best for
them...The fact is:
They are..
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July 11, 2010
You don’t have to go far to
see a ghost town in Flagler
County. Drive down Old Kings Road south of State Road 100, a few hundred
yards
past the dump...
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GainesvilleSun.com
Friday, July 2,
2010
“Government has no right to
make
itself a party in any debate respecting the principles or modes of
forming, or
of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who
exercise the
powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing
from
them, are established…
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The
Bradenton Times
Sunday, July 4, 2010
This July 4th we have an
extra reason to honor our Declaration
of Independence and
our Constitutional right to petition - Amendment 4 is finally on the
ballot...
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Broward Bulldog.org
April 28, 2010
Weeks after casting the deciding vote to approve a controversial ballot petition in December 2008, former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles T. Wells joined a law firm aligned with the petition’s sponsor.
The high court’s 4-3 ruling gave life to a push by developers and statewide business interests – led by the Florida Chamber of Commerce – to blunt a possible change in the state constitution to greatly expand citizen powers over local development ...
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