Senator George LeMieux (R) FL – appeared on CNN to talk discuss Florida’s lawsuit over the Health Care Reform Bill.
FL Moves Primary
May 12, 2007 by Leave a Comment
Florida lawmakers voted this week to move up the Presidential Primary to Jan 29 despite threats from National Republican and Democratic leaders to strip some of their delegates for the nominating conventions. In addition they have warned that any candidate who campaigns in Florida early than Feb 5 will be ineligible to receive any of the state’s delegates.
So let me get this straight. Our new Presidential Primary is on Jan 29 but candidates can’t campaign here till Feb 5. That leaves a bit of a conundrum. How are we supposed to vote for someone after the election is closed? And why would a candidate campaign here after an election is closed? Seems a little bit stupid.
What happened to state’s rights? Doesn’t Florida ultimately have the right to move our Primary to whenever we so choose? This decision by the national Republican Party surprises me. The Party that has always stood for state’s rights is not willing to take our right to choose our primary election date away from us. That is ludicrous.
Rest assured, this won’t be the end of the discussion.
FL Looks to Move Primary
March 23, 2007 by Leave a Comment
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Florida early primary was not going to be early enough since 25 states were talking about holding their primary the first week of February, essentially moving the so-called SuperTuesday. Now it appears that Florida is getting back in the game. Talk in the Florida House this week was of moving the primary to Jan 29 making our election before California.
So we’ll see what happens!
FL’s Primary Too Late?
March 3, 2007 by Leave a Comment
There was talk here in Florida about changing our Primary Election Date to somewhere around the 1st of March. However, that may be too late. According to a report released in The Hill the other day 23 states are in the frame to hold primary elections on Feb 5. That’s a whole month earlier than Florida.
Those states include: Delaware, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, California, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, North Dakota, Utah, Kansas, Colorado, West Virginia, Nevada, and possibly Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
So what’s Florida to do? Considering that we can’t hold it before the 1st of March if we don’t want to incur penalties set down by the legislature.
So with about half of the states voting early now, maybe the only fair thing to do is have a National Primary Day so that all states have an equal voice.
