NO VOTER REFERENDUMS: The Sunshine State does not care what its taxpayers and registered voters think.
A new Florida law will go into effect tomorrow that bans cities and counties from leaving land development
decisions up to voter referendum (https://jaxtoday.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f07e48069862b5bef898136a&id=6f5968df05&e=672992ebe3)
. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Clay Yarborough, R-Jacksonville, and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday. Under
the law (https://jaxtoday.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f07e48069862b5bef898136a&id=07d8edc4be&e=672992ebe3)
, any decisions related to zoning changes, land annexation, building approval, or other development matters would be decided solely by the local government. In a May referendum,
over 82% of voters (https://jaxtoday.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9f07e48069862b5bef898136a&id=64cdcb6b71&e=672992ebe3)
in Jacksonville Beach voted down a plan to allow a 55-foot building in the city’s downtown area, an idea championed by the city’s mayor. In the future, decisions like this will be out of the hands of citizens. (Florida Politics)
Meanwhile, PolitiFact: says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, has pledged to end birthright citizenship, the automatic granting of citizen status to anyone born on United States soil. Could he do that?
— In his recently released immigration platform, DeSantis said he would “take action to end the idea that the children of illegal aliens are entitled to birthright citizenship if they are born in the United States.”
— If the idea of ending birthright citizenship sounds familiar, it’s because then-President Donald Trump proposed doing it in 2018. However, Trump never followed through with official action, earning him a Promise Broken from PolitiFact.