GEORGE SOROS & LEFTIST GROUPS behind Florida Amendment 5 & 6 - donation records show

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GEORGE SOROS & LEFTIST GROUPS behind Florida
Amendment 5 & 6 - donation records show

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Published: Oct 27, 2010
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FactReal on October 26, 2010

Leftwing Radical George Soros, Unions, and Lawyers are behind these
Amendments Check who has donated to the proponents: here.

SUMMARY AMENDMENTS #5 AND #6 deal with redistricting: The purpose of
these two measures is to amend Florida’s Constitution to set standards
for the Legislature to follow when establishing legislative (#5) and
congressional (#6) district boundaries. Proponents say this will
establish fairness standards for use in creating legislative district
boundaries. But who will determine what is fair? Amendments 5 and 6
“require legislators to achieve the seemingly impossible when they draw
new district lines that are certain to be second-guessed by activist
‘judges gone wild.’ Opponents call these Amendments ‘the full-employment
act for lawyers’ because the contradictory mandates outlined in
Amendments 5 and 6 will lead to endless litigations. The long list of
lawyers and law firms contributing to FairDistricts is no accident,
critics say.

ON THE BALLOT: Read here as they appear on the ballot for November 2,
2010.

BACKGROUND: Via FL. Div. of Elections –-> Amendments/Initiatives:


AMENDMENT #5 • Financial Impact | Financial Information (Summary,
Complete Statement) • Additional Information | Petition’s Full Text


AMENDMENT #6 • Financial Impact | Financial Information (Summary,
Complete Statement) • Additional Information | Petition’s Full Text


COST: Cost can’t be determined. But there will be more litigations, more
challenges in the courts; more costs to Floridians.

The Complete Financial Information Statement indicates that: The
Financial Impact Estimating Conference (FIEC) expects that the proposed
amendment may result in increased costs; however, the magnitude of the
fiscal impact of these amendments cannot be determined.

• The State may incur additional legal costs to litigate the
redistricting plans. • Florida’s court system may incur costs to hear
cases that allege violations of the proposed constitutional standards. •
Any additional cost to the Legislature to develop the plans is
indeterminate.

“The State may incur additional legal costs to litigate the redistricting
plans developed under the proposed constitutional standards…For example,
the requirement that every district be drawn so as not to favor or
disfavor any incumbent or political party may spawn challenges…These
legal costs are indeterminate.”

State costs for previous redistricting efforts were $15 Millions for the
1990 cycle and about $11.7 Millions for the 2000 cycle. However, “the
proposed amendments will increase litigation costs to levels at least
seven to ten times those experienced in the most recent apportionments.”


PROPONENTS: • FairDistrictsFlorida.org • Address: 2665 South Bayshore
Drive, Suite M-103, Miami, FL 33133. • Executives: Manuel A. Diaz,
Richard A. Berkowitz, Ellen Freidin The group is run by: Miami lawyer
Ellen Freidin, a Democrat, and Tallahassee lawyer Thom Rumberger, a
former Republican legislator.

SUPPORTERS & DONORS:These measures are supported and bankrolled by
lawyers, unions and true-leftist Democrat Party loyalists like ACLU,
NAACP, the League of Women Voters, etc. Charlie Crist. George Soros(a.k.a
George Schwartz)

George Soros behind the Amendments: The proponents, Fair Districts for
Florida, “amassed a war chest of almost $7 million, according to campaign
finance reports filed Friday. Most of the money has come in six-figure
checks from liberal special interests including teachers’ unions, trial
attorneys and America Votes, a get-out-the-vote group largely financed by
billionaire businessman George Soros.”

DONORS: Big individual donors include loyal Democratic supporters
(Source: Campaign financing data)

$650,000 Florida Education Assoc. (FEA) $625,000 SEIU $500,010 Retired
energy executive Christopher Findlater, who is financing Amendment 4 and
leftist Joe Garcia (FL-25) $400,000 America Votes, which is largely
financed by George Soros and encompasses leftist radical groups like
ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, ATLA, EMILY’S List, MoveOn.org, Moving America
Forward, NAACP, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, SEIU, Sierra Club, etc.
$362,834 National Education Assoc. (NEA), America’s largest labor union
which opposes merit pay for teachers, school vouchers, school prayer.
They favor socialized medicine, abortion, sex education, global warming,
and other leftist positions. $305,000 Boar’s Head Chairman Frank
Brunckhorst $200,000 Leftist mogul Fred Eychaner. Eychner & ACORN
connection. $140,000 Rockefeller Family Fund which donates to leftists
groups like the Tides Foundation, NOW, ACLU, NARAL, Sierra Club, Earth
Day Network, the League of Conservation Voters, etc. $90,000 Ballot
Initiative Strategy Center (BISC) which receives substantial donations
from leftist billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Institute;
also from NARAL. BISC has strong union ties: AFL-CIO, NEA, AFT, AFSCME,
SEIU, etc. $50,000 League of Conservation Voters $50,000 Public Education
Defense Fund (a NEA committee)

And so many attorneys: $122,500 Robert Spohrer and the law office of
Spohrer & Dodd $120,000 Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley
law firm $95,000 Jacksonville attorney Wayne Hogan $60,000 Grossman Roth,
P.A. and others like Akerman Senterfitt which also donated to Joe Garcia


More unions: ACORN, National Air Traffic Controllers, AFL-CIO, EMILY’s
List, Florida Pipe Trades Council, Teachers Unions, etc.

Leftwing politicians: Robert Wexler, Alan Grayson, etc.

OPPONENTS: Among the opponents are: Corrine Brown, an African-American
Democratic congresswoman (Jacksonville to near Orlando), and Mario
Diaz-Balart, a Republican congressman (Miami to the Gulf Coast). Kurt
Browning, former Florida secretary of state said, “It’s unworkable, will
cause a tremendous amount of chaos, and you’ll end up in court with
judges deciding the districts.”

Also: Rep. Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, and Sen. Mike Haridopolos,
R-Melbourne, who will lead the Legislature as it prepares for
redistricting.

The group Protect Your Vote raised $1.1 million from conservative groups,
including a $750,000 check from the Republican Party of Florida on Oct.
7.”