Democrats sharply critical of Baxley’s voting bill requiring ‘wet’ signature verification
• Ocala Sen. Dennis Baxley calls the bill “guardrails” against potential problems.
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• Ocala Sen. Dennis Baxley calls the bill “guardrails” against potential problems.
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• Going to college should be more than a four-year job training session. There’s a place for the practical, but the purpose of higher education, in the words of public policy writer Steven Brint, is to develop “human capital.” But State senator Dennis Baxley seems dead set on making it impossible for students who earn Florida’s Bright Futures scholarships to pursue liberal arts degrees. The first iteration of his recent education bill called for eliminating funding for any degree deemed “unlikely to lead to a job.” After a massive outcry from educators, families and students themselves, that part of the bill has been scrapped. Maybe focusing on the “capital” part of “human capital” would settle Baxley’s mind. After all corporate raider …
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• The Ocala Republican has received a lot of feedback on SB 86.
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• Sen. Dennis Baxley’s bill eliminates voter drop boxes, restricts vote by mail, deletes current mail-in ballot requests and requires a new one each election cycle.
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• Senate Bill 90 passed through committee on a party-line vote this week.
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• Making it an enhanced-penalty hate crime to attack law enforcement officers and firefighters in Florida is a priority for the Florida Police Benevolent Association in 2017.
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• Without an agreement on the state budget in sight, the Florida House adjourned Tuesday afternoon three days early.
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