There are 11 different constitutional amendments that Floridians will find on their November ballot.
According to the Florida League of Women Voters, not one of them is worth your support.
Deirdre Macnab, the group's president, said all 11 of the amendments on the ballot are, "either inappropriate or undermining core principals of our democracy."
Thursday afternoon, League members hosted a conference call to discuss why they oppose all of the measures, with emphasis on amendments 3, 4 and 5.
Amendment 3's language proposes to limit the growth of state and local revenues to a highly restrictive formula: inflation plus the annual change in population. It's modeled on Colorado's controversial TABOR (Taxpayers Bill of Rights) measure passed 20 years ago, which led to such severe budget cuts that citizens voted in 2005 to suspend the measure for five years, where it's now being litigated.
Amendment 3 was championed a year ago by Senate President Mike Haridopolos, who was pushing the measure when he announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate. He dropped out of the race a few months later.
This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2012.