Senate Bill sb0004A

    Florida Senate - 2000                                   SR 4-A

    By Senators Silver, McKay, Bronson, Brown-Waite, Burt,
    Campbell, Carlton, Clary, Constantine, Cowin, Crist, Dawson,
    Diaz de la Portilla, Dyer, Garcia, Geller, Holzendorf, Horne,
    Jones, King, Klein, Latvala, Laurent, Lawson, Lee, Meek,
    (Additional Sponsors on Last Printed Page)

    38-316A-01

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing the hard work of the

  3         citizens of this state following the election

  4         held on November 7, 2000, and urging the

  5         discontinuation of partisan attacks.

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  7         WHEREAS, this state and the United States of America

  8  experienced on November 7, 2000, the closest presidential

  9  election in history, and

10         WHEREAS, since November 8, 2000, thousands of

11  Floridians have worked tirelessly and effectively to ensure

12  that the votes cast in this state were counted accurately and

13  completely under extreme circumstances and with the entire

14  world watching, and

15         WHEREAS, the results of this 2000 Presidential Election

16  were contested in the state and federal courts, and

17         WHEREAS, understandably, this election contest has

18  stirred partisan passions on all sides of the issue and across

19  the political spectrum, and

20         WHEREAS, these partisan passions have led to increasing

21  and repeated attacks on members of the legislative, executive,

22  and judicial branches of government, including members of

23  county canvassing boards throughout the state, and

24         WHEREAS, the balance of government provides for a

25  system of checks and balances and invites debate and scrutiny

26  of the decisions made by officers of these branches of

27  government, but does not invite personal attacks, and

28         WHEREAS, these attacks have become personal in nature

29  and have gone beyond the acceptable realm of debate, NOW,

30  THEREFORE,

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  1  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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  3         That the Florida Senate finds these attacks to be

  4  harmful, offensive, divisive, unnecessary, and unwarranted.

  5         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Florida Senate

  6  recognizes the hard work of its citizens, does not condone

  7  these personal attacks on the three branches of government,

  8  and urges all those involved in this public debate to cease

  9  the malicious ad hominem attacks.

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