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St. Petersburg Times columnist Howard Troxler discusses the 2011 Florida Legislative session
05/10/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Tuesday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida legislature, Howard Troxler, leadership funds, election law, voting, growth managment laws, Rick Scott, 2011 Legislative session
Good morning, Welcome to WMNF's Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up today veteran St. Petersburg Times columnist Howard Troxler discusses the legislative session that just ended this past weekend.
Troxler said of Governor Rick Scott using a personal email account instead of official email to conduct state business, "I think it's criminal conduct."
Be the first to commentAssessing the damage of the 2011 FL Legislative session with USF St. Pete Professor Darryl Paulson
05/06/11 Lisa Marzilli, Beth BellLast Call Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida Legislature, Darryl Paulson, 2011 Legislative session, voting, education, environment, women's issue, labor
The 2011 Florida legislative session, scheduled to end Friday, reportedly progressed into the wee hours of Saturday morning and ended with GOP lawmakers turning on themselves. The St. Petersburg Times says "It was a rocky end to one of the most ambitious and ideological sessions in modern history..."
To help us better comprehend the relentless, 60 day GOP assault on women's rights, worker's rights, voting rights, healthcare, education and the environment we are joined on Friday's Last Ca...
Be the first to commentRobert Rowen on human needs in Nepal and the ACLU's Howard Simon on how our state Legslature ignores democratic principles
04/25/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday)
Tags: Nepal, Global Action Coalition, hunger, Howard Simon, Florida Legislature, voting, 2011 Legislative session
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up first today Robert Rowen, founder of a local group called Global Action Coalition talks about a Nepali New Year's celebration this Friday in Tampa and his group's effort to provide food and education to school children in Nepal (phone: 813-546-9819).
Later we'll hear from ACLU Florida director Howard Simon about the state Legislature and laws being disc...
1 commentsPublic Interest Groups Says Florida Legislature Is Moving To Curtail Voting Rights
04/22/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Friday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: voting, Florida legislature, Brad Ashwell, FPIRG
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. The state legislature is considering moves to make it harder to vote. Legislation being considered in Tallahassee would shorten the number of days for early voting, put restrictions on groups that sign people up to vote, and would make it less easy for people who change addresses to vote. Our guest is Brad Ashwell with the Florida Public Interest Research Group. FPIRG and other consumer, civic, human rights and civil libert...
Be the first to commentHometown Democracy Debate at Tiger Bay listen
02/19/10 Arielle StevensonWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Hometown Democracy Amendment, Voting, land-use change
Hundreds of thousands of Florida voters signed the petition for Amendment 4, the Hometown Democracy amendment, which requires voter approval on changes in land use. Advocates on both sides of the issue duked it out today at the Tiger Bay club in Tampa. Dan Lobeck, a Sarasota attorney specializing in land use decisions, spoke in support of the amendment.
The Comprehensive Land Use Plan determines maximum densities and intensities of a community. The plan also maps out other rules for the fu...
8 commentsBusansky suceeds Johnson as Supervisor of Elections listen
11/07/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 2008 election, Supervisor of Elections, Hillsborough County, Phyllis Busansky, Buddy Johnson, voting
Republican incumbent Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson conceded defeat to his Democratic challenger Phyllis Busansky after two days of delays in counting most of Hillsborough County’s early votes.
Last night, WMNF asked County Commissioner and canvassing board member Rose Ferlita about Busansky’s victory over Johnson. Ferlita called the election process “not acceptable,” from voters being given incomplete ballots on Election Day, to provisional ballots being left unsecured in the lobb...
Be the first to commentFlorida Secretary of State addresses voting problems listen
11/05/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 2008 election, voting, Hillsborough County, Premiere Election Solutions, optical scan voting
Florida Secretary State Kurt Browning boasted today that Florida’s relatively successful general election yesterday should exorcise the ghosts of the 2000 disputed contest.
Voter participation actually was lower in Florida than in 2004. In Hillsborough County, vote tabulation issues prompted the county's canvassing board chairman to shut down the vote counting process shortly before 3:30 a.m. Problems with 13 early voting machines and problems with accessing data at two precincts are cite...
Be the first to commentVoting problems surface in Florida
11/05/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday
Tags: 2008 election, voting
Voting Rights Advocates reported a number of problems at the polls. Perhaps the biggest problems statewide is optical scan ballots getting jammed and not being counted.
In some cases, blame was being cast on poll workers for folding the ballots too tightly.
Marcia Johnson-Blanco is with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. She said a problem in Hillsborough County in at least two polling places – at the Westchase Swim and Tennis Center and the American Legion Post on Sh...
Be the first to commentJack Killingsworth slams Pinellas Supervisor of Elections listen
10/31/08 Mitch E. PerryWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 2008 election, Pinellas County, Supervisor of Elections, Deborah Clark, Jack Killingsworth, voting
Despite criticism about the fact that she has opened only three pollling sites for early voting, Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark announced last night that 26 percent of all the registered voters in the county have already voted via early voting or absentee ballot.
Clark says she has mailed or issued more than 200,000 absentee ballots, the most ever for the county. More than 136,000 have already been returned.
Clark faces re-election Tuesday; she is facing off again...
3 commentsVendor blamed for optical scan problems listen
08/27/08 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillsborough County, voting, Premier Election Solutions, optical scan voting, touchscreen voting
Results from yesterday’s primary in Hillsborough County were slow to be released. Supervisor of Elections Buddy Johnson blames a software issue with the new optical scan machines manufactured by Premier Election Solutions.
Johnson is not the only one critical of the Premier machines. In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, the Director of Government Affairs for Premier Kathy Rogers said her company did not provide adequate documentation for their GEMS software to Hillsborough County to...
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