January 16, 2012

Speaker Cannon:

In a previous email I wrote of the ways I have observed leadership keep clean hands and kill the bills they don't want passed.

Someone once said....Let me count the ways:

Year 2008:  The Rubio way was simply ban all immigration legislation from going through the process and use the excuse "We're too busy!" That approach got him elected as a USA Senator portrayed in 2010 as an ultra conservative. There is even talk now of him as a possible VP candidate or future presidential stock even though he is not qualified Constitutionally.

Year 2009: Senate President Atwater appointed a Democrat Chair even though the Republicans had a huge majority. He then assigned the immigration legislation to the Democrat Chair's committee and amazingly it never got heard.

Year 2010: Senate President Atwater thought his appointing a Democrat Chair was such a good idea he did the same thing again using a different Democrat. 2010 was the year Sandy Adams Public E-Verify bill in the House (with only two committee stops) passed and was approved 112-0 by the House members. Atwater's tactic worked again and the bill that passed unanimously in the House never got heard in the first senate committee. His punishment for continuing the costs to Floridians to educate, medicate and incarcerate illegal aliens at a cost of nearly $4 BILLION was to run and win election as....The CFO. He now sits patiently waiting for the opportunity to warm Scott's chair when he moves on but he has illegal alien amnesty labor lover Putnam to contend with.

Year 2011: Senate President Haridopolos decided, I assume with your agreement, to go the committee bill route to kill the e-verify immigration legislation. Amazingly, the plan would be to kill a jobs bill while the state was borrowing $300 MILLION a month to pay unemployment claims to nearly a million workers. To ensure the plan would work Haridopolos went overboard and put heavyweight Senator Flores in charge who openly opposes any immigration laws. Eventually Flores burnt out and the task was given to Senator Alexander who opposes e-verify so much he voted against it. He has a reason to vote against it, not for ethnicity purposes as most but for corporate reasons. Being the CEO of one of the largest Publicly traded Land Companies (Alico, Inc.), who openly state in their annual report enforcing immigration laws may effect their ability to harvest their crops he did it to protect the company. It is worth noting employing illegal alien labor makes one a  criminal illegal alien employer. One problem was Haridopolos's plan was too obvious appointing open opponents of legal workers. The tactic worked but it soon eliminated him as a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

Year 2012: Representative Gayle Harrell is sponsoring HB 1315 (Verification of Employment Eligibility) again this year. Last year, the bill requiring Florida Licensed Businesses use e-verify so all new hires are legal workers languished and died in the first committee while the senate fiasco unfolded. A few weeks ago I speculated on what tactic would be used this session and who would be given the task to kill the e-verify legislation that is now in force in seven states stretching from LA to GA and up to TN; the results of which is convincing illegal aliens to say adios to those states and hola Sanctuary Florida. One of my speculations was it would be your turn to carry the water in killing the jobs bill using the tactic of running out the clock by assigning four committees having them drag their feet in the process and you have not disappointed.

HB 1315 is assigned to four committees. First stop is Govt Ops Subcommittee chaired by Jimmy Patronis owner and operator of a restaurant that are favorite places of employment for illegal aliens. The next meeting for the committee is Wednesday when they will spend a whole 1 1/2 hours considering a few bills and HB 1315 is not scheduled. My speculation may prove right you will kill the jobs bill by running out the clock through an excessive number of committee visits and delay in hearings in the short session; an effective if not unimaginative tactic.

I wanted to verify for myself the how number of committee visits required directly effects the probability of passage so I went to the last session and reviewed the first 10% so there would be no bias. Committee assignments ranged from 1-5 in number. Of the 107 bills reviewed 38 passed and 69 died for a percentage chance of 55% passage. One committee being assigned resulted in 25% passing, two committees assigned resulted in 57% passing, three committees assigned resulted in 36% passing, four committees assigned resulted in 12% passing and 5 committees assigned resulted in no passage. Keep in mind in 2010 a public e-verify bill by Rep. Adams was assigned to only two committees yet Rep. Harrell's bill is assigned to four committees.  So legal workers have a 12% chance the Florida House Legislators will pass a bill requiring employers to hire them instead of illegal workers.

Speaker Cannon, what you have telegraphed by four committee assignments and passing on taking up the bill next Wednesday is you are planning on having Florida remain a sanctuary state with ever greater costs to pay to educate, medicate and incarcerate illegal aliens. You have to take these actions if you want to kill the legislation because if the bill ever got to the floor the Reps would have a meeting with Jesus moment and pass the legislation overwhelmingly.

So much for the illusion of creating jobs and protecting legal workers.