–Decision is a huge win for Florida taxpayers– Tallahassee, Florida — Americans for Prosperity’s Florida State Director Slade O’Brien made the following comment regarding the Florida Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the 2011 law that requires state employees to contribute three percent to their retirement: “The Supreme Court’s decision today upholding the 2011 pension reforms, passed [...]
Today the Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee will meet and discuss municipal pensions. Florida’s municipalities have $19 billion in unfunded pension obligations. This is largely due to years of local elected officials making financially unsustainable promises to politically influential public employee unions, especially the powerful police and firefighter unions that have successfully lobbied elected [...]
This week the Florida legislature arrives in Tallahassee for their first week of committee meetings in 2013. A lot of important AFP issues are on the table this year including implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), pension reform, property insurance reform, government transparency issues, license and regulatory reform, and an overhaul of how Florida [...]
Tallahassee – Americans for Prosperity Florida’s (AFP-FL) State Director Slade O’Brien responds to Elizabeth Price Foley’s comments regarding the release of her white paper on the Florida Supreme Court: “I’m truly shocked by the position taken by Elizabeth Price Foley and believe it is completely contrary to the Federalist Society’s own mission statement, which states [...]
Americans for Prosperity agrees that it is critical that the judicial branch of government be independent, neutral and unbiased. The courts play a crucial role in maintaining the system of checks and balances our Founding Fathers so brilliantly created.But what happens when the courts lose their neutrality and overstep their role? If you ask the [...]
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