"Happy Sunshine Week - slam!"

The Florida Sec. of State Sue Cobb showed a lack of commitment to the spirit of "Sunshine Week,” a week for recognition of Florida's open-government law, before yesterday's meeting. This excerpt is taken from a Tallahassee Democrat Article available Online through the link in the title bar:

"Tallahassee Democrat Political Editor Bill Cotterell, Associated Press reporter Brent Kallestad and cameraman Dave Heller also were threatened with eviction from a hallway outside Cobb's closed conference room by Capitol Police for trying to attend the meeting with Cobb, Leon County Commission Chairman Bill Proctor, Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho"

Please click on the title to view the full article, where you may share your views on the article, and download video clips of Sec. Cobb, Com. Proctor and Sup. Sancho.

Light at the end of tunnel for Sancho

There's breaking news in the Leon County Voting Machines Issue. This excerpt is from a Tallahassee Democrat Online article (available through the link in the title bar):

"After a two-hour meeting with Leon County officials, Secretary of State Sue Cobb said today she is 'slightly more confident' that the county can work out problems with providing handicapped-accessible voting equipment.

Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho and County Commission Chairman Bill Proctor said they were pleased with the closed-door session."

Although this news is encouraging, this issue is not yet resolved. "Today's article about Sue Cobb's and Ion Sancho's meeting is encouraging, but in no way does it diminish the importance of attending tomorrow's events," said Rick Minor, Chair of the Leon County Democratic Executive Meeting. For details about tommorrow's activites visit the comments.

Light at the end of tunnel for Sancho

There's breaking news in the Leon County Voting Machines Issue. This excerpt is from a Tallahassee Democrat Online article (available through the link in the title bar):

"After a two-hour meeting with Leon County officials, Secretary of State Sue Cobb said today she is 'slightly more confident' that the county can work out problems with providing handicapped-accessible voting equipment.

Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho and County Commission Chairman Bill Proctor said they were pleased with the closed-door session."

Although this news is encouraging, this issue is not yet resolved. "Today's article about Sue Cobb's and Ion Sancho's meeting is encouraging, but in no way does it diminish the importance of attending tomorrow's events," said Rick Minor, Chair of the Leon County Democratic Executive Meeting. For details about tommorrow's activites visit the comments.

Legislative Aides Reception Date Confirmed!

I'm happy to announce the date for the Second Annual Legislative Aides Reception has been set. This year our award-winning event will take place on Wednesday, March 22nd at Paradigm Downtown. The doors open at 6:30 PM.

Although the Leon County Young Democrats we happy with the turn out last year, we have taken numerous feedback into account and hope to have an even more successful event this year. Hope to see you there!

Monitoring Environmental Bills for the 2006 Session

The Florida chapter of the Sierra Club has posted a very nice tool for tracking the bills that will affect sprawl, public lands, air & water quality, and other issues of interest to the Sierra Club and environmental community in Florida in 2006.


One bill is already making its way through committee, and there are more on the way -- lots more. This session looks to be one of the busiest in terms of conservation issues, so check out this new site for the Sierra Club's perspective on what we can do.

http://www.florida.sierraclub.org/tracker/