Tuesday, August 13, 2013

WATCHDOG WIRE - FLORIDA

Congress is on August recess and it is time to meet with your elected representative. To view a list of town hall meetings in Florida click here.

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IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES: THE CASE FOR REMOVING BARACK OBAMA FROM OFFICE

New York Times best selling authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott will release their latest book Impeachable Offences: The case for removing Barack Obama from office on August 27, 2013. In their book Klein and Elliott document authoritatively the case for impeaching President Obama. WDW – FL received an advanced copy of the book.

Article 2, Section 4 of the US Constitution states:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.



   
FLORIDA’S FAILING SCHOOLS COULD IMPACT 2016 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
With the resignation of Florida’s Education Commissioner, Tony Bennett, due to the allegations that his former staff “fixed” grades while he was Indiana’s education boss, is former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s chances at a possible successful 2016 presidential run compromised?

Bennett’s resignation, along with the recent Common Core national standards and the ‘A-to-F’ school grading system, could pose to be dead weight for the former Governor and any future political aspirations he may have.



FLORIDA GETS A GRADE OF “D” ON LEGISLATIVE FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
Last year Integrity Florida released its Corruption Risk Report on legislative financial disclosure in the sunshine state. According to the Center for Public Integrity (CPI), Florida earned a D grade, ranking 26th in the U.S. for legislative financial disclosure in 2009. Louisiana ranked No. 1 on CPI’s disclosure ranking, up from 44th in 2006. Louisiana Gov.

Florida voters adopted the “Sunshine Amendment” to the state constitution in 1976 after then Governor Reubin Askew led a petition drive to place the amendment on the ballot. After a series of political scandals, including one involving his own lieutenant governor, Askew felt strongly that financial disclosure for public officials was necessary “to restore the confidence of the people.” The Sunshine Amendment passed with over 79% of the vote.

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ARE WELFARE RECIPIENTS BECOMING FLORIDA’S “NEW MIDDLE CLASS”?
In 1995, the CATO Institute published a groundbreaking study, The Work vs. Welfare Trade-Off, which estimated the value of the full package of welfare benefits available to a typical recipient in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

It found that not only did the value of such benefits greatly exceed the poverty level but, because welfare benefits are tax-free, their dollar value was greater than the amount of take-home income a worker would receive from an entry-level job.

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173 CASES OF ALLEGED INTERSTATE VOTER FRAUD IN FLORIDA & MARYLAND!
True the Vote (TTV), the nation’s leading voters’ rights organization, today announced new research findings of interstate voter fraud in Florida and Maryland. Florida and Maryland state election authorities and the U.S. Department of Justice were formally notified of 173 cases of voters casting ballots simultaneously in both states during federal elections.

“These 173 cases represent True the Vote’s continued effort to expose the fragility of our absentee voting systems,” True the Vote President, Catherine Engelbrecht said. “Last year Pew Research found that 2.75 million Americans were registered to vote in more than one state. We are unfortunately continuing to see the consequences of that startling statistic. True the Vote calls on Florida, Maryland and federal officials to investigate our latest research.”

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