Mary Kellough, Marsha Williams, Claudia Atkins, and
Nana Royer--just returned from two days at Unitarian Universalist Justice
Florida Legislative Days in Tallahassee. They convened at the UU Tallahassee Church for dinner and listened to the dynamic
keynote speaker Desmond Meade. Desmond Meade heads up the Voting Restoration
Amendment campaign, to put this amendment on the ballot in 2018. They met
at the Capitol Rotunda for a group photo and then disbursed to visit legislators. They visited the office of Sen. Travis Hutson and Rep. Cyndi
Stevenson and Rep. Paul Renner, leaving handouts and lobbying to get those
bills on committee agendas which are supported by the UUJC. They also sat in on a
couple committees and got hackles raised listening to a couple of the bills
which are now in committee, e.g. the bill which mandates that the Florida state
motto "In God We Trust" must be displayed in each school room (in
addition to the state flag which already as the motto enblazened on it!). St.
Augustine had a most noteworthy attendance.
From one of the attendees:
"We attended 2 subcommittee meetings while waiting for appointments. You probably heard about the 'Motto' bill...If we'd known
what was being debated in the committees, we could have signed a card stating
the bill we wanted to address to the committee & as part of john p q
public, said our bit. Claudia got really riled up about an education bill. And
Marsha was questioning the reason behind a bill regulating birthing centers.
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