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Amendment Three is About Your Rights

October 29th, 2014 by Mike Vasilinda

Whether you are for or against abortion, gay marriage, or voters rights, Mike Vasilinda tells us you should be concerned about Amendment three on this years ballot.

Whether or not  a fetus has rights will soon be a question before the courts. High profile decision like pulling the feeding tube from Terri Shiavo make news, but decisions made here affect your taxes, voting rights, even whether your insurance company has to pay you.

And who sits in judgement here, liberal or conservative, activist or not, depends on who is Governor.

Fast forward four years. Three judges leave the bench on the same day a new governor takes office in 2019.  But lawmakers want you to decide this year, via amendment three, who will appoint those judges. State Senator Tom Lee of Brandon sponsored the legislation and says  “This is a crisis in waiting”.

The amendment seeks to let the Governor elected next week make the appointments on his way out the door, instead of who’s  is elected in 2018. The idea rubs former Governor Bob Graham the wrong way. “Whoever gets elected in 2018 should be the person, with the immediate support of the people of Florida, to make that decision.”

And retired Justice Harry Lee Anstead is suspicious of the motives.  “That this is sort of a gamble that Governor Scott will get reelected, and then that he’ll get to make these three important appointments and then leave” says the retired Justice.

A conflict over who appoints has only happened once…in 1998 when Jeb Bush and Lawton Chiles decided not to fight…but to choose the same person.

Ironically one the the three justices leaving in 2019 is Peggy Quince…who was the joint choice of Governors Chiles and Bush.

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