It’s déjà vu all over again—the State of Florida still can’t or won’t count straight!

If you’ve checked the state website, you’ll see that the big shots in Tallahassee have taken down that part of their website which contains our petition tabulation numbers!

They admit they have screwed up the count, and have known about it for over 6 months! And they are now refusing to give an ongoing count on their website, in violation of their own rules.

In other news, the developers performed their big petition drop the other day, dumping *hundreds of thousands *of petitions onto the supervisors of elections around the state in an effort to jam up the works so our petitions won’t get counted. The State sent out a memo saying first come, first served, so the SOE’s are to count our opponent’s petition before ours, even though it has not yet been reviewed by the Florida Supreme Court and, before 2008, they had been sandbagging them and had not submitted a single petition.

I believe that the political apparatus is determined to do everything in its power to keep Florida Hometown Democracy off the ballot. That being said, we have collected and submitted over 735,000 total petitions. When the state announces its final “number,” be prepared not to believe it. According to the philosopher Schopenhauer, all truth passes through three stages before acceptance. First, the truth is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Finally, the truth is accepted as being self-evident. The truth is that endless growth is a political decision that can be accepted or rejected by the electorate. I truly believe that Florida Hometown Democracy will be in the Florida Constitution, but right now we are in stage 2. In the meantime, please re double your efforts and keep sending in petitions!

It ain’t over till it’s over!