Florida Amendments
• Aside from helping to give Donald Trump an unbelievable win, Florida voters also made some tough choices on four constitutional amendments. Floridians rejected a solar amendment that critics dubbed a wolf in sheep’s clothing after it failed to reach the required 60 percent threshold. Bankrolled by Florida’s utility companies, Amendment 1 would have preserved the already existing rights of residents to own solar devices but claimed to ensure that customers who don’t install solar equipment “are not required to subsidize” solar owners. Opponents said utility companies were just trying to protect their monopolies and put up barriers to potential solar options. The Miami Herald reported on an audio recording that caught a policy director for a Tallahassee-based think tank talking …
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