Florida has a committee to revise their constitution. Citizens from other states should see if their is such a drastic measure occurring at home.

March 16, 2018
By Jeb Bush

MEDIA ADVISORY: CRC MEETING SCHEDULE WEEK OF MARCH 19-23

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Constitution Revision Commission (click here) (CRC) noticed the following meeting schedule for the week of March 19-23, 2018. CRC meetings will be held in the Capitol Complex and livestreamed by The Florida Channel on http://www.thefloridachannel.org/.

Daily calendars are available on the CRC Calendars Page at flcrc.gov/Meetings/Calendars.

Monday, March 19

• Full Commission, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Senate Chamber)

Tuesday, March 20

• Full Commission, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Senate Chamber)
• Style and Drafting Committee, 15 minutes after the completion of full Commission – 6:00 PM (412 Knott Building)...

This is how it is being sold to the public. Lots of compassion for and we are back to naming laws for victims. The fact of the matter is there are already laws on the books to place alerts to victims, family and community when felons are released from prison or jail. This amendment is not necessary. The notification system is electronic and so long as the current information is there for people who need to know, the system works. If it doesn't work then it needs to be repaired or updated, but, there is no need for another law.

By the way, when is Florida going to adopt a law named for the people that die without health insurance every year? They leave behind husbands, wives, children and families. Somehow a revised constitution doesn't seem complete without a healthcare provision that gives families of the poor and working poor their medications when their income excepts Medicaid which is really easy to exceed these days.

...As governor, (click here) I held victims’ hands as they told me their stories. I hugged children who had lost their parents and prayed with parents who had lost a child. They told stories that I can’t imagine having to live through.

Victims also have rights, but they are limited and, unfortunately, they are not always enforced.

That’s why I am supporting a constitutional amendment that would grant and ensure victims and their families the right to be heard. The Florida Constitution Revision Commission has a unique opportunity this year to make changes to our state constitution.

Proposition 96, commonly known as Marsy’s Law, is named after Marsalee “Marsy” Nicholas, a California woman who was murdered by an ex-boyfriend. After her funeral, her family walked into a grocery store where they were confronted by the murderer. They had never even been informed he had been released on bail....

There is redundancy of neglect in the Snyder administration.

March 15, 2018
By Zoe Schlanger

The Flint water crisis (click here) was the product of government inaction, mostly attributed to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Now, the same state agency is in the spotlight for a delay in responding to another drinking water scandal, this time involving waterproofing chemicals and Hush Puppies shoes.

Last summer, private drinking-water wells in Belmont, Michigan—a small community just north of Grand Rapids, the second-largest city in Michigan—tested positive for extremely high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), an ingredient in Teflon, the chemical used to make non-stick cookware, and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), a widely used flame retardant. Both chemicals are part of a class of compounds called PFAS, and both happen to be great at waterproofing shoes. They’re surfactants, which means they reduce the surface tension of water, making it slide right off whatever the surfactant is applied to....

Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) exposure is known to case liver and bladder cancer with different rates in men and women. Both chemicals are known to cross the placenta into the baby in pregnant women.

There is a second study regarding the Legionnaires Disease that killed due to widely fluctuating cholorine levels when the Flint River was used as a water source to Flint residents. This study was conducted by CSU, Colorado State University of Fort Collins at the request of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). MDHHS asked three Michigan universities to team with CSU for this study.

March 15, 2018
By Katie Porter

Research and analysis done by Dr. Sammy Zahran, (click here) associate professor in the departments of epidemiology and economics at CSU, and his colleagues show that the rate of LD was almost seven times higher than normal in Flint and surrounding areas while the city culled drinking water from the tainted Flint River. They found 80 percent of cases are linked to problems with the water, such as low chlorine levels....

...LD is a type of waterborne lung infection, and symptoms are pneumonia-like, including cough, fever, headaches and nausea, according to the Centers for Disease Control....

...after observing a spike in the illness during the summers of 2014 and 2015. In that time frame, Genesse County (where Flint is) reported 90 cases of LD; 12 people died....

...What the team noticed was “complete chaos” in chlorine levels that coincide perfectly with the city’s switch from Lake Huron to Flint River water. While levels remained consistent for the first year and a half of the reports, they went haywire in April 2014 — some quadrupling to a level Zahran says “can cause a skin itch or burn your eyes.” Chlorine levels became wildly inconsistent, with some weeks returning levels close to zero, only to have a spike the following week....

...“Since chlorine is highly reactive, a heavy metal leaking off a corroding pipe would bind with the chlorine and then it’s not available to affect the bacteria,” explains Dr. Michele Swanson, a co-author of the study and University of Michigan microbiology professor.

“during the switch, the risk of a Flint neighborhood having a case of LD increased by 80 percent per 1 mg/L decrease in free chlorine, as calculated from the extensive variation in chlorine observed.”...

This is the amazing part. First, the study group is put together with eminently qualified people and then when the group concluded after examining enormous amounts of information, MDHHS stated the study did not meet their standards and pulled any funding.

What MDHHS wanted to have the study say is that the Legionnaires Disease occurred in the hospital and not from the loss of free chlorine in the Flint Water.

The corruption in regard to the state's departments regarding this tragedy is simply unbelievable. CSU has stated they have independent funding and will continue their research.

This is still yet another cover-up by the Snyder Administration and Snyder's Czar of the entire state government. They all need to be prosecuted and now.

This is what happens when an elected official is more interested in money and where it goes than doing their jobs, especially at the level of Governor. Both the crisis in Belmont, Michigan and Flint, Michigan clearly shows an administration little interested in the people so much as their budgets.

These are ethical violations with someone close to the President.

There is no such thing in the federal government at the civilian level that allows for private, confidential relationships. This is at the very least an ethical violation with the potential to be criminal. There are no private friendships that are like the ones Mr. Kushner has with his banker. This is clearly over the line and a Chinese agent acting on behalf of the Chinese government has exclusive time with Jared Kushner, the President's advisor. I don't think so.

When Henry Kissinger introduced Kushner to Cui, I am sure it was within established protocols. There have been complaints in regard to national security with Kushner. Why are they ignored?

I have to learn about this in an article and the Congress has known about this mess and has done nothing. Depending on what Kushner shares with the Chinese, it could be treason.

All this was premeditated. It was seen in the meetings in China offering US Visas to the Chinese oligarchs to bring their businesses to the USA. It is a thinly veiled quid pro quo for US Visas. These Chinese oligarchs were solicited. They did not seek out an opportunity with the USA and apply for a Visa to conduct business in the USA. These Chinese oligarchs attended a meeting to guarantee their ability to have a US Visa for business investment. 

What has Jarod Kushner done for the USA besides gobbling up its EB-5 Visa program?

While Former Director McCabe is stated to be dismissed because of candor, Jarod Kushner exhibits nothing but.

January 30, 2018
By Adam Entous and Evan Osnos

...When, during previous Administrations, Cui had visited the White House, his hosts received him with a retinue of China specialists and note-takers. Kushner, President Trump’s thirty-seven-year-old son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, preferred smaller gatherings....

...In Kushner, (click here) Cui found a confident, attentive, and inexperienced counterpart. The former head of his family’s real-estate empire, which is worth more than a billion dollars, Kushner was intent on bringing a businessman’s sensibility to matters of state. He believed that fresh, confidential relationships could overcome the frustrations of traditional diplomatic bureaucracy. Henry Kissinger, who, in his role as a high-priced international consultant, maintains close relationships in the Chinese hierarchy, had introduced Kushner to Cui during the campaign, and the two met three more times during the transition. In the months after Trump was sworn in, they met more often than Kushner could recall. “Jared became Mr. China,” Michael Pillsbury, a former Pentagon aide on Trump’s transition team, said....

... “I’m sorry, Jared—do you think your background is going to allow you to be able to outsmart the Chinese Ambassador?” Kushner, the official added, “is actually pretty smart. He just has limited life experiences. He was acting with naïveté.”...

You have to be a fool to believe that. Naivete? His Trump's son-in-law and the head of a billion dollar family business. Naivete? I don't think so. If Kushner seems naive, it is a chosen persona, because it gets him what he wants. His plans for Israel and Palestine are far from naive.

...“The Chinese influence operations are more long-term, broader in scope, and are generally designed to achieve a more diffuse goal than the Russians’ are,” Christopher Johnson, a former C.I.A. analyst who specializes in China, said. “To be unkind to the Russians, you’d say they are more crass.”...

Kushner never reads a newspaper? He is a million-billionaire that does not read a newspaper. Really? This is ridiculous.