from an NRA ILA alert:
SB-646 by Sen. Greg Steube was scheduled to be heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, between 3:00-5:00pm. But it wasn’t.
SB-646 Open Carrying by Sen. Greg Steube removes the criminal penalties for violations of the open carry law and prohibits a person who has a concealed firearms license from being arrested and charged with a crime if their firearm becomes temporarily exposed to sight of another person. (See background below)
Why wasn’t it heard by the committee? It had to be “Temporarily Postponed” because, once again, Sen. Anitere Flores (R-Miami) is single-handedly trying to kill it.
Sen. Flores is using her position as the swing vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee to block progun legislation from getting out of committee.
I emailed Senate President Joe Negron, but I really doubt we are gonna get a bill passed through the Judiciary this year. I still have not heard from the other emails I sent him anyway.
I, for one, am shocked.
Wait, no I’m not.
I’m still trying to figure out how with a 25:15 (dems having 37.5% of the votes) majority that is a 4:3 (where they get 42.9% of the votes!) in committee.
The super-majority on the floor evaporates when they end up dividing the committees and leaves us vulnerable to single turn-coats.
Alas, the only real solution is for the party to punish the turncoats. I suspect that she isn’t a turncoat at all in the eyes of the Florida Republican Party.
But it seems like the turncoats all seem to come from the same place in the state, perhaps the Republican leadership could not put people from this region on vital committees?
Or maybe, just MAYBE, Sen Negron could skip the damn committees altogether? It’s within his power to put it straight to the floor.
Step up the emails!
Is there anyway to bypass the committee with a discharge petition in FL? Or any other way to get good bills passed? If so, can the NRA and Ms. Hammer make it accountable?
I’ve said it before, but we need to go over their heads. I don’t think that means going to Negron or to Gov. Scott, I think it means going to the party brass and convincing them that we’re going to do our level best to make sure no gun owner and no NRA member ever gives them another dime until we start getting results. I went searching for Marion Hammer’s email address and gave up after a few web searches and a visit to the NRA-ILA. Let’s let her know.
If she’s a (so-called) Force of Nature, let her loose.
By comparison, there’s a pro-fracking bill in the state senate now, and in the last few days, I’ve gotten a half dozen emails and one phone call a night telling me to pester my senator to vote for it. I’ve gotten nothing from anyone in the state about this bill. It’s like everyone gave up when Senator Turncoat turned on us.
I do not know the rules of the Senate and other political whatnots, but I do believe we can pretty much pack it for the year as long as Sen Flores (R-Moms Demand) remains in that chair.
it means going to the party brass and convincing them that we’re going to do our level best to make sure no gun owner and no NRA member ever gives them another dime until we start getting results.
I could not agree more. And more than money, votes (or lack of them) will hurt them most.
Ms Hammer isn’t for the same things we’re for, this is why she’s disappeared this cycle.
I’ve still not forgiven her for 2011. http://mcthag.blogspot.com/2011/05/ill-try-to-be-polite-about-this.html
Or 2015. http://mcthag.blogspot.com/2015/03/grumble.html
She might be a force of nature, but she doesn’t represent OUR interests, and whom she does speak for is obfuscated fairly effectively.