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Sorry to go all librarian on you, but it would be swell if you could provide footnotes and not just links.

There is a footnote option here at Substack.

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For example, where you link to statute also provide a footnote which can also have a link. I think only about 8% of readers open links (at least that happens in my Substack).

The 2022 Florida Statutes

Title XI

COUNTY ORGANIZATION AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

125.0103 Ordinances and rules imposing price controls; findings required; procedures.

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Great post. Go back to the Jeb Bush terms to see the origin of corporate Republican attacks. Start with 2004 Florida Hometown Democracy: the citizens ballot referendum that was knee-capped by the same bad actors who’ve hijacked democracy in Florida.

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I moved to Florida in 2018 and voted Dem all the way down ballot - I am sorry, but I don’t understand really what the DNC was thinking - I guess they thought DeSantis had it all wrapped up in FL, so they didn’t need to waste time or $$$ focusing on Charlie and Val to get them into seats. DeSantis is running for PRESIDENT, this wasn’t about making him win or lose Florida for a “simple” Governor’s race. This was about the PRESIDENCY!

He needed to be put in his place NOW! He needed to have a very narrow win or to lose because now he thinks he’s freaking unstoppable and so do all the people supporting him.

Because by NOT investing in Florida thinking we were a lost cause the Democratic National Committee have ushered TRUMP 2.0 into the White House - so Thank Them. I am mad and depressed with all these.

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What has happened to the Florida Democratic Party? Where are they in all of this? Where was the outrage when Florida slapped a poll tax on former felons after 70% of voters statewide approved a referendum demanding their voting rights be restored? I think the Democratic Party in this state is paid by big sugar and major development companies.

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Excellent piece. Florida has been the testing ground for the conservative agenda structured decades ago to protect wealth. The Powell Memorandum provided a plan to replace democracy and it was enacted in Florida with the help of money from billionaires like the Koch brothers. John Thrasher, a North Florida lawmaker, helped Jeb Bush initiate the efforts. Thrasher was ALEC lawmaker of the year, a group funded by the Kochs. See my 2012 Folio Weekly story about this .

https://folioweekly.com/2012/10/30/aaron-bean-and-the-alec-money-machine/

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The new leader of the Florida Senate is Kathleen C Passidomo.

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