Today, Jeff Clemens was given the weekly Defenders of Freedom award from the ACLU. The ACLU is a bipartisan organization that has defended the rights of civil rights workers, activists, Socialists, you name it, as well as the Ku Klux Klan's right of free speech. Perhaps soon we will see that hanging in his local Lake Avenue office.
“We continually get these strike-all amendments that contain 155 pages of language the afternoon before we’re supposed to hear a bill the next morning. We can stay up all night reading this bill but we can’t certainly expect members of the public and Florida residents to be able to set aside their families and their time to be able to absorb all this information in one evening then find a way to get to Tallahassee the next day to be able to address their elected officials…it leads to bad government and bad legislation,” said Jeff Clemens.
Clemens is a member of the House State Affairs Committee that just approved HB 1355 that has some controversial provisions that would impose new restrictions on groups that register voters, shorten the validity of voter signatures on citizen initiatives from four years to two and require voters to cast provisional ballots if they move to another county. It was passed on a partisan vote, 12/6 (Clemens voting "no") in order to cut down on possible voter fraud.
Read more: Bradenton.com
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