Florida Education Bill Consideration THIS WEEK

FreedomWorks has endorsed the following bill and needs your assistance for it to become law.

Here is the Legislative intent: “We the people of the State of Florida, in order to reaffirm our commitment to the principles of government set forth in America’s founding documents, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States of America, and the Constitution of the State of Florida, do hereby enact this Statute for Enduring Patriotism. . . . . . . It being our firm intent that all children educated in this state understand America’s constitutional form of government and appreciate their inalienable rights and responsibilities to preserve the blessings of individual liberty for future generations.”

The House Bill (HB 1180) is being heard for the first time by the Pre K-12 Education Committee on Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 1:45pm. It is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that you contact the members of this committee TODAY or Tomorrow and urge them to support HB 1223. The committee members and their phone #’s (and fax #’s if listed) in Tallahassee are as follows:

Rep. Arza 850-488-1683 (Committee Chairman)
Rep. Pickens 850-488-0665 (Committee Vice Chair) fax: 850-413-7330
Rep. Ausley 850-488-0965 fax: 850-488-3336
Rep. Bogdanoff 850-488-0635
Rep. Farkas 850-488-5719
Rep. Gottlieb 850-488-0145
Rep. Murzin 850-488-8278
Rep. Richardson 850-488-1798 fax: 850-922-2096
Rep. Traveisa 850-488-9910

You can find your state legislator with contact information at www.myflorida.com. We need you to contact as many State Representatives and State Senators as possible to ask them to co-sponsor and support House Bill #HB 1223 and Senate Bill #SB 2180. You will need to call the legislator’s office to get the email addresses, but phone calls, faxes and letters work just as well, if not better.

For those of you not familiar with our Bill, you can go the government section of www.myflorida.com and pull up a copy of the bill. It is a revision to legislation already in place, with changes proposed by the bill underlined. It is critical that our future generations thoroughly understand our founding documents and be correctly taught U.S. history.

The second thing we need to do is to come up with a 100 question test to be given to high school seniors. The questions should pertain to our foundingfathers, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and any other questions you think would be important pertaining to the founding of this country. If you have some questions that you think would be good, please forward them to: John Hendrix at jhendrix58@gmail.com.

Last week there were over 20 people from around the state contacting legislators to get their co-sponsorship and support of our “Statute for Enduring Patriotism” filed as HB 1223 and SB 2180.

There were over 2,000 bills filed this year and our bill could easily get lost in the shuffle. We need to make sure we contact ALL of the legislators over the next two weeks. This is a critical time and they need to hear from you NOW.

The next two weeks are CRITICAL. If we don’t make enough noise, this bill will die in committee.