Last week Cl reported on the reaction of two Pinellas County Republicans to the state party's decision to oppose the merit retention of the three Supreme Court justices on the ballot this November.
On Friday three more Republicans announced that they too, oppose the Republican Party of Florida's call for opposing the retention of justices Fred Lewis, Barbara Pariente and Peggy Quince.
GOP State Senators Paula Dockery (Lakeland), Dennis Jones (Seminole) and Rene Garcia (Hialeah) have issued a letter calling on the RPOF’s eight-member executive committee to reconsider its “unprecedented insertion of politics into what has been a system that has served Florida and her citizens well.”
This article appears in Oct 11-17, 2012.