I want to welcome each and everyone of you uh to this form tonight uh this is the second one of series that we're doing called our son lo that is native uh town Hall series and the purpose of this is for a 334 we want people to get a sense of how the legislative process works whereas they saying I think women in the House he's made right and uh it's a very complicated process and it often involves uh a lot of difficulty Work and a lot of debate and back and forth because we deal with different parties and different opinions and different interest that are all trying to accomplish xy or jeep so we wanna talk about the process we also wanna talk about your role the role of citizens in that process um I was talking we want I wanna excuse on wanting to figures in a few minutes one of them was not able to come around since you I was with us last week in Miami he uh he was one of our It was close to go tonight but he's having some problems with his home construction and was not able to get away from it in time to make it make the trip but he was talking about a concept called the citizen legislator and I think that that was very interesting to me to hear that customer the citizen legislator somebody who is a citizen but it involves going to tallahassee is going to the orange County Commissioner is going to the uh city of orlando uh to get the things that are important for their community discuss with those elected officials and making sure that they don't forget that there's a whole bunch of Others that are interested in their in their wellbeing and their communities and the things that are important to each other and one of them so that's the second one and then thirdly uh we're our I mean those of you who follow legislative process know that the whole process starts with communities and committees and they discuss the legislation that they're gonna discuss in the plenary right so that process has already begun and uh we have uh one of one of our purposes to go uh to tallahassee to be in tallahassee often to travel there and engage with the legislators as they put their ideas together about what they should be doing for Florida and this community the Puerto rican community And a community is growing by leaps and bounds and it's becoming more and more important in our voice and becoming more And it's a it's an important thing to acknowledge because we wanna make sure that that voice is heard right and if we don't go to tallahassee we gonna go to orange County we don't know the city of Will not be hard regard for the fact that work I mean a strong so I welcome all of you tonight um I got some for progress is uh is committed to this group of basically uh do all of this and this event is the first of two that we're gonna be holding in orlando in preparation for a very very important tradition uh which is Puerto Rico day this year is gonna be on March 20 fifth and 26 and uh we put a report that they have Do it for another year will be a twentieth anniversary of what we call a we have the founder of Uh okay Chris and we will uh Scott rentals also a former state representative who is now the tax collector and he and they're gonna be talking about all of these things that I mentioned to you today but in order to introduce our uh jen them uh what we call the irs and a legislative agenda I wanted to do somebody will become uh like a brother uh I've known Alex for many years I think I do uh and I have experienced many of you know hate you background uh he's work for uh congressman darren soto for senator Joe saunders he was All on the list uh legislative analyst in tallahassee for many years he's worked for labor unions uh and he is a uh person uh a brother from another item they like and it's my honor to introduce my brother Alex battery O all the talk about our legislative agenda it will be a surprise think you very much Come on back everybody so I was very on the political director for the answer progress uh prior to this I was kind of a sow's district director I was a legislative analyst for three years in the Florida Senate in I also spend a year's political director for aca in Miami uh and way before that I was uh canvass or titian gathered for skier about uh that has cursed district Secretary way back in two thousand 62 thousand seven um He was out he was one of my mentors him and his wife susanna they taught me everything I know about politics and then from the foundation for the routes of politics and from there I went like a few other things uh over the next you know what is that I should tell viewers now I'm old uh so yeah the Alan fellow gender um the under generals are legislative agenda the reason that we go to tallahassee it's what we're fighting for in tallahassee um Every year Intel has the Legislature meets they debate all sorts of bills uh and the budget which this year is over 91 billion dollars um it's a large question the history of Florida and what we do is we're trying to do what we're trying to do with this is engage the community in Central Florida in particular Puerto rican Spanish community outside of election beyond voting you know siri nature is the primary driver of our democracy We need it voting is Super important and of course get out there and both but after voting once you've got these people in office what are they doing uh why are they doing it we would hope that they are doing the right thing for our communities because we ask them to but that's not always the case because we're not always asking them to do that and so that audience and progress we decided to begin the civic engagement series um starting with some of these town halls there will be uh video series as well and of course we're gonna be doing lobbying trips up to tallahassee and Puerto Rico today is one we're working on uh As well and working with other organizations and partners um including the press organizations to get people to tallahassee to meet their legislators there and also here when sessions may third there are 67 months before session kicks off again next January then you have uh your local elections next November uh one of the candidates is here today and will be speaking later um but we had that civic engagement we wanna build this indicator mentality and people you know we want to show you just how easy it is to talk to your legislators and how important it is they need to listen to you they To listen to um this meeting tonight is gonna be a lot about process and not so much about specific legislation we want you to know and understand how to fight for what you want to fight for you know whatever issue drives your should be the issue that gets you in the door and motivate you to get there so I'd like to start with our panel speakers um tax register randolph and former representative Tony so artist introduce yourselves It's all about yourself and your political experience and then we will start getting into the legislative process and question when they get from you and your community and certainly a lot of opportunity for questions if you have a question please fill out the card and it's like your chair and give it to you not extend it out right there is one in the back um and we're looking forward to hear from you so thank you um for beauty products alright Everybody hear me back there here meet my Oh we love you and it's just a video uh pretty awesome day let me know okay let's let's hold there because I'm gonna Uh Online education That's just like a lot of Gold Thank you everybody for coming to this important important class that actually have to consider it like a class because all of you know me as a legislator but you know after that I became a law professor and I teach I teach this course is called the legislative process this whole book is about exactly one talk about an hour and it's a six no it's a three credit course it takes uh a small most six months five months two teachers school warrior so is a complex process Right it's a port and there's a whole section of your several hundred pages on lobby just exactly what we're talking about so there is that important to the teacher to lawyers it should be important to you alright uh I would like to recognize uh before I start I remember mason himself the President of the Puerto rican bar Association and uh she's been very active We have elected officials here at all that you guys handle it but we have staff from the from the senator's office here we've got called County commissioners of the city Commissioner of them this is one of the latino because they do lobby so now myself beside being a law professor and the former uh foremost legislator uh I've been activists all of my life uh for the time I graduated from law school I ran campaigns and both have been a both a Republican and a Democrat and when I was a Democrat I run campaigns I was chairperson of the seminole County Democratic executive Committee we're rather campaign It's all I'm very familiar with the process from great from the Street up now I presented I brought two too little videos that three minutes each that I want you to watch these videos and actually used as part of my presentation at the school for all students and they're meant to provoke conversation you may or may not like the message but they are meant to provoke you to understand what you're doing here which is learning how to fight for your right so my ancestral freeze the first one Um Um Oh no okay how do I land on but again we're gonna give them a few minutes but I don't wanna um take uh the opportunity to answer me um uh introduce uh some very important people are going to also we have 20 forties uh Commissioner running for one oh six women two oh six women who have been elected to the County Commission might are you in a little You're going to be with a man then you wanna go yeah they are two of six women told rightful seats in the County Commission is all women's this time as Dream love lena I tell people three years ago it would have been uh on her own and think that we would have three latinas in the County Commission in orange County and how proud I am that is oppressed helped uh get you all there so along with The other people who are quote in a book like so uh so grateful to have to have you here tonight uh we have many other people we have Gary uh a real strong and from senator scott's office um all of these guns in a year uh am I missing anybody that unit from the Center will offer Beautiful and amazing and great welcome I that that is a lot of progress is a preferred and uh and so tonight is a very important evening we have carmen tourist uh I mean for senators up for it tonight and we were holding and we hope every Thursday night um that the legislators will make it here in time to be part of our forum but we chose former state representatives because we know that current state representatives are in tallahassee working and they they're not gonna be able to make it tonight the carmen is here she's gonna have some words from uh And any all representative Eddie I mean merkel so welcome all uh thank you for being here and yes I'm represented mcdonald's office excellent we have over for dinner from a member Thank you all for being here and we saw the problem with that okay perfect alright just keep in mind your role as a citizen and this plate okay All right Yeah but It is And It has That's not the purpose of that was to show you the actual school a school of thought that said all the other directed to teach young kids how a bill becomes a law and it's built on the concept that the citizen comes with the idea and then you lobby and as a result of you lobbying the idea becomes a bill but there is the other side so now let's see where the second one for weight And Just as all of the Blocks on some of my stylish So Yes It was the Corporation This is one of them put it again yes it is you can get away with that traffic to this She wants to I just So It's a Save yourself Still it All right it's a real I don't apologize because I hope it would give me comfort but if you think that was adopted is today's orlando sentinel today's orlando sentinel hotel perks corruption for solomon not for others right talking exactly about what you saw the video how the the a lobbyist will take the legislators out and in the movies kind of perverse um when I was in the Legislature there was a place for food free food and everybody out there today I wanna I wanna just a stage over here and breakfast is over there and then the place That was blazed with pretty much nothing done away with that fuck um the point is that if you as a I'm gonna wrap it up if you're not at the dinner table sitting at the dinner table you are dinner all right so the question they were is what can you do so in void the people who have an interest as very serious financial interest in making sure that laws are passed to protect their interest what are you doing what can you do to protect your interest now of course This is a long long course but we're here and I know Scott will keep you if your is it in both of that labor I guess as we go through the question and answer we can go into what specifically you can do make sure that your voices heard just as much one of the queen will say that they're for the sections that we have here in this book there are two types of lobbyists they are those type of lobbies that you just showed showed that that the wine and dine and educate because a lot of lobbyists do educate the legislators do on issue we we go out there you do you know something Yard signs you know but also a new environmental the 26 year old is 26 different areas of law But then there's this is the ones who do the lobby by doing demonstrations by showing up and those are also very very effective so there is when you can um you could make up a big difference so hopefully I'll be able to believe you and you tell me there is great Um style click come to yourself talking about your experience in the state Legislature and then we'll get into Thanks for having me and I wanna introduce where California and a stick with my office who's over there as well senator calendar she's the one getting the think she's the one who's carrying the car Um talk about me in all that I've got them all right now I've got a reset age where my state represent are than me my congresswoman younger than me and now in governor's younger than me too I wish most we got 39 year old governor uh so if you're 40 year on your over the Hill of the governor so anyway um yeah but when I get like to uh when I was 32 um you know one of the things that I think is so important public policies we talking about the civic engagement and an organizations community organizations is that mentoring uh like Ali said uh I was proud and Alex Start with us he was my first district Secretary Carlos guillermo Smith was my legislative aide um the famous testimony twins and I did it on a you know we're in turns of with us as well with my wife and I and uh was involved when I was in the chair of the Democratic local Democratic party here in the reality in their legislative business is legislative director for congressman uh in leadership of the d C and I my other legislative aide with uh which is with the Department of energy Now is the only say that because uh I just want to recognize how hard working the job people are um and how important it is for I think all of us you know the Middle ages and the older people in the crowd to open up those doors for the young people uh that wanna come through I would say that I I didn't do the hard work I just opened up the door for them and and they they step through it and so I'm proud about that and the crowd that uh both my wife and I and you know continue to mentor as many people as Sorry that I did suffer from a sore throat all the so It's a tallahassee so the biggest challenge for me is not to be too cynical to keep you uh in a positive note about tallahassee that's always the tough part that we got there a couple of things there are always tell people and organizations and citizens groups and then when you get together and they want and they say I wanna do something in tallahassee or wherever it is something locally when County or my city Commissioner um there's a couple of things that I always tell people first of all you know I said on the environmental committees at first cuz identify I got elected and then I moved over to finance and tax so you can tell and now the tax collector so I'm the person you wanted every dinner party record that makes it first thing um but I think the most important thing that I think that that a lot of this citizen organizations and citizens in general forget or they don't pay attention enough to know the rules you have to those that know the rules control the outcome really um whether that be from the procedure and rules to timing How many people as as marcus said you sessions really started even though you know that the technical start obsession is not one other four weeks 34 weeks sessions already start bill filing deadline is in half of those are already up uh they were already supposed to submit the language by now they'll actually found the final bills and on the first day of session that big ready mister time if you wanted to discuss positive legislation for you so if you proactively trying to push something you should have been doing it 23 months ago you know the day after the election and so many people get behind the eight ball on that so quickly and then of course if you're trying to We will turn to stop something so there's some food in my six years in the tallahassee I was I was in the minority and so I was leaving my job in the minority was really to try to stop stuff passing proactive legislation when you're in the minority is very very tough and I think that was very successful at stopping a lot of bad bills uh And part of that is knowing the rules I review there is little rules up there that you can use to just stop something that in the strategy at least for a while you can put that delay delay delay um on something that is so important and so always know the rules and of course I'm top of that and sort of conjunction with that as you're as you're thinking about a piece of legislation or issue that you care about no beer in the media's no it's gonna be against you and it's very bitter I was sitting there watching that um the first one the uh the positive Bill double Hill and there's a little flash I guess the bill which is actually about school buses should stop in school crime and railroad crossings Give me the railroads because they own the right ways to that could've been cities and counties because they probably had a huge expense about putting us railroad crossings there's always going to be somebody that opposes what you're what you're trying to get done I remember my very first weekend in the legislator and talk about exciting committees I sit on the joint admin procedure Committee which was one of my favorite wigs Doing a little I mean I think some random comment about acupuncture and by the time I got back to my office there was literally three different acupuncture associations that were sitting there waiting to discuss what some comment I have said offhand about at acupuncture and how it should be regulated um and of course all three of them were close to each other so you don't want that one lone issue you had one acupuncture Association Iran another acupuncture Association there Always had the time to know who you're gonna be up against too many people are surprised uh in the process as opposing the bill I had another bill in the Legislature that was about um providing more funding for low cost spay and do new group and so it would have used uh it would be use animal control tickets to fun low cost uh spay and neuter because people realize how much government spins candidly you I think that's a dog's it's very sort of unfortunate probably statewide it's about 50 million dollars for using tax dollars and you know anyway so I never thought about who will be opposed to that bill I personally didn't do my own homework I knew was gonna be opposed to that bill Um having somebody to low cost baylor and then killed it every single year and so no matter what how good an idea you think you have had positive have simple going to be somebody on the other side and you need to know that because you need to be able to map out your strategy you need to be able to map out where somebody's gonna come down on an issue and you never know by the way when that's gonna be a Republican or Democrat um as they leave or be can congressman Buchanan over uh in the sarasota Coast people think of it was that you know very conservative Republican Congressman he has like a hundred percent radiant with the end with the uh humane society there's a very big animal rights to individual so it it doesn't necessarily follow on partisan law mix uh especially in a lot of issues so know who those people are it's You say it's mission any of any elected me any elected official accountable pay attention to their photos there are way too many of them that will say something to a grow and know that you don't actually pay attention to how they looted in tallahassee or in dc and they get away with it year after year day after day make sure that you follow up especially Organization that's your job to your membership as an Organization make sure you know how they actually voted Especially in tallahassee telling us he has a single subject rule down the course that we can have a single senator drilled but don't let anybody give you an excuse of uh lips feel like 20 subjects and it is so I was really trying to you know vote for this one thing tallahassee has what they call a simple subject world which means it is about one study and which is why there's 13 hundred people there which is the difference between a big difference between dc and Intel has the fcc they have no single subject rule which is why they like pass you know 400 billion dollar budgets you know I'm nervous I'm nervous bill as you know that have Amazingly had like eighty other subjects that active stuff and so I Congress has like 10 mills a year and somehow you know there's a lot in there in tallahassee you know will have 13 hundred will spot it's because of the single subject rule which is actually a very very good thing very supportive the single subject rule and keeps people honest and finally you know the the other thing that you have to remember about tallahassee is eight year term limits I know eight year term limit sounded by the way you could do you could say you can get anything on the value they say you know term limits and because they term limits and I'm taking your first born child and it will House um because people like the idea of term limits and term limits have some positive luncheons with the negative function of that term limit is it really means that power over to the lobbyist and to the staff there are staff and tallahassee that have been there for 20 25 and 30 years and then you know 200 times more than the freshman legislator who still haven't found the bathroom there's room on the third floor uh or no will you know which floor actually has the hallways over to the House office building um which is not And so it really has that power over to the venue has yet to show you know that going in especially the staff know who those key Committee staff are I mean I can count I've had staff when I was in Legislature I had staff that pushed a bill for me with Well visit really staff person like it the Committee chair did like it and the staff killer let's not just work down until we're at that that that Committee shared in one of your anymore so no that stuff is Super Super important and not just for the Committee stuff before you're elected staff as well because they guarantee you that they know those bills as much as your elected official that so pay attention to the staff and tensions around that um and and know that that that is really this The House will be fresh will be brand new to the process and with those in your term limits I would I would venture to guess that probably less than 25 percent of those people out there are actually six years or more because they're looking for the next thing and that's what a new term limits do so really really weak and candidly I think feel that the elected position of there so with that I will never buy cover uh awesome thank you Scott it was great I think a minute before we get in a little bit deeper into the process and the topics we're gonna cover uh take any questions from the audience do we have any questions any question cards so imma excited a And things that we have any question All right high school after a Super exciting remember that's alright well that case um I wanna talk a little bit more specifically about the process and you know both of you covered a lot of these issues but in terms of if you're an average person and every citizen what is the most effective way understanding when session is happening now you can um effectively move a bill and amendment and is that a little bit about the amendment amendment process because even though they're both deadlines that passed you can still move Still lose substantive legislation through the amendment already prepped for the a mandatory process and um so if you could talk a little bit about that and if there's actually an example of seven state legislation that passed through the mandatory process that you remember you know when I was an analyst we passed through an amendment to crazy uh we've kinda slim soto and grates to be who is now in a Super in are a right wing Republican congressman now is a congressman from South Florida but he was in the House and congressman served with in the Senate we passed an amendment Allowed Dr recipients to practice law and stored which I point was illegal um but we manage to do it through an amendment to a bill I don't know what the original bill was but in the very controversial but we got a bunch of moderate Republicans like David simmons senator from seminole County Republican and some of the moderate Republicans on the House side including the Speaker at the time which was uh well weatherford to get it done in 20 14 um John thrasher who's now I can see President was there um there was a big deal and it happened at the last minute happened by an amendment I was incredibly Will it happen and so are there any examples from your time in the Legislature was done and understanding that contest where people even if they do jump ugly they're starting now to make a difference Tony okay well they tell you that You're gonna be shocked by some of the stocks I mean remember that um when I got the tallahassee on my desk bills already already fighting was like two thousand okay and I was on the science of like 44 committees as a I wanted to write on a diligent I wanted to read them all but I'm still realize that it's possible so let me just read the bills that are signed to Kennedy that made so I started doing that until I went to my Committee meetings and they realize that something called strike local and so all of a sudden the bill that you just study in audience analysis uh you know analysis exactly hated it it was really great that you prepared yourself to ask questions on the performance of the Bell The stripe all these old unas all different soon you realize why prepare you know what even prepared because I don't know what's going to happen it's like a shell game it's very difficult for the legislator to um to keep up the babe users reacted I think the best way to do that as I like to indicate you have to start with your mission you have to know what you're trying to do so they show you concentrate on that if you if you're gonna try the bill do all your bills you know just not gonna do it concentrated one bills so use a citizen lobbyist concentrate on That will ensure that it's getting the coalition's ability because and mostly in tallahassee even Washington this leadership you've got to go to the leadership to make sure that the leadership is in play because they're not playing with you you just born in the way you've got to make sure that the leadership has no strong objection at least to the bill so that we can move along then you build you build it the coalition but the amendment process if you can do it we cannot forget the single member of single topic similar um uh top Uh boo stretch it you just can't be amending you know something on a water bill when you're also you put something on you know allowing real lawyers reportedly go for you can I need a title and then these insect about ok I mean there's a building like that so uh the technical stuff I do for the purposes of you what you're doing my concert and they would I guess we'll be talking about that it's a concentrate on what you're doing at the builder looking at build a coalition This is for but you need another get this pass look to leadership so if you're as Scotland if you're the in the in the minority and I was in tallahassee evelyn R t so I was sitting next to ed is already and all we do is talk to each other they love those who doesn't like to um um but if you can find a bill that will build on the land so real estate agent and uh and uh titled title II they were designed to build was my bill but it was something that I happen to know a lot about and I saw them working on that person's built and actually help the Republican having having put up with that philosophy and And I will be working with them to try to make it availability to go ahead and open it with me but I don't know what to do but everything I was feeling forward so that in the process what it is that's how I got into politics in Florida it was I was I have to work for an environmental group doing clean water act litigation and so we just wanna take a sit and concentrated animal feeding operations uh dairies North of La copa chilly tonight not turning on the guy the way you want your dinner for you um and so It was amazing and it happened that decision came out of about four weeks left in session and would you weeks left in session somebody's who pay bill completely unrelated a shell bill in the Senate and struck the title struck everything and slapped on this bill to legislate only overturn the court decision um and actually uh we was proven that that time save that save that from passing so the Republican and then uh a very good And um and so that's really my first foray into tallahassee holidays but it is very true and in surprise you when you talk about citizens getting involved and they don't want to be a downer on this this point but the best way you give your your issues starting to move and so hard to get for an individual citizen to really have a real voice in tallahassee in a so much easier to build that with cut with with organizations finding an Organization that issues important to an important about an and getting involved in your community Organization whether that be them You know uh parent Organization that was cool or you know the you know pta or whether it be organized Florida or any other organizations here they just have that experience to be able to take that issue and and really and really build upon it and work on it and then the mistake that people make I think UN trying to push sometimes push issues especially one that's probably not going to pass I don't think anything in the first years that year but the 30 or is one of the big procedure hurdles there is if you do file the bills if you get a legislator to file a bill for you about some subjects that you really just want the media to pay attention to you wants to get some message behind it you wanna get some movement behind it but you know that leadership is opposed to it and so it's unlikely other governors opposed to and so it's unlikely to pass full that you want there to be discussion there's a lot of times that's the goal to the goal is to get discussion about issues cuz it takes time and it takes time to build things if you file And it doesn't get heard in that Committee you can never follow the you can never follow the amendment but if a bill passes a Committee that bill and it gets stalled and never gets hurt in another Committee that entire bill is available for an amendment on any other bill and by the way if you're trying to kill a piece of legislation that's a very important thing to remember too cuz you may have that you may have got a bill that passed one Committee and then it stalled in the second And you're like yeah we got rid of that debate on any more of a right that bill is dead know that bill is really really alive because it is available to be slapped on to any other related piece of legislation that hits the floor and then the other thing that you have legislative Lee is even though remember bill filing deadline passes you have something called three file Committee meals and that's where the Committee chair can file any piece of legislation at any point So a lot of times it's also very in those tend to be very big on this bill's about one subject allegedly but on the best deals is a very good place to stick some stuff if you have if you have some stuff and I had a couple of meals and environmentally that just were not gonna go anywhere but I managed to get to little things and a couple of Committee bills several times um doing things like that but I still remember that um nothing nothing is Dan tell us until until the legislatures over so I went to try to kill something remember that kind of pass it remember that always keep working that there's always a procedure away remember no the rules there's always a procedural way to move forward thank you Scott I'm Tony it was great either any questions oh and Fort of I wanna say hi to our newly elected County Commissioner my name is cody wrote just want this okay Before that forward any questions on bills and amendments and the process right now not even yes Thank you for something that mentioned that there were another witness one Right behind the Hill Center goes out that that's what about I've heard um projects like give an example in the education that they were going on the rest It's a little bit the issue that are only single subject so clear that for me that Like I said the courts have really weakened the other that they were sort of starting to couple of those bills got thrown out over the years because of single subject the violations and also unfunded mandates and you see stuff being pushed down to local governments um you know it's supposed to take it a two thirds vote of the Legislature for that to do that and there's been a couple of times where they pushed unfunded mandates on local governments and it's been reversed because of that but there's no doubt that they have look what Elections have consequences and I have a lot of people are realized by the probably do now that you know the new governor of got three Supreme court picks in the first week of being governor and what went from a very balanced court in Florida the Florida Supreme court with a very balanced toward to a very conservative vent that will probably um give a lot of discretion to the Legislature and a lot of legislative priorities I mean we're doing different between state procedure federal procedure so while we have a Senate and House the rules of each uh of each This with the House of the federal rules and the state was a totally different and then the rules of this House with the Senate or the House control the Going to say you violated the rule because the other ones or as a separation of powers has the right to determine their own rules so they live literally make it up and the subject of the bill the single subject is mainly determined by the title of the bill so if the bill is called you know hr one education then pretty much you know education is very broad is it transportation I mean health care there are bills con train those uh which are basically what Scott was saying is you know I train bill is a bill that starts at just being about health care um and then And all these other bills that I can't even many the last week of course they are going to text him a florist um it's taking expectation uh you know we have those on the Rose and a I mean a great school there are madly um past to charge schools and those things were when I was looking for is Yeah I mean it's it's a little bit complicated we'll talk a little bit more about current legislation with our um legislative staffers or carbon in a little bit about what's going on but it's definitely it's a complicated topic and these bills these train goes they always come up with a last minute and you know one of the most unfortunate things about the legislative process is the rules are kind of whatever the Super majority wants to be in the majority and any rule can be waived by two thirds vote so if you have two thirds you can literally do whatever it is that you want to do and the Republicans did have There's in both houses plus the governor ship uh from two thousand and 10 to two thousand 12 and I think that was a lot Whatever it is that you wanna do and you'll see things like that where single subject you know means it means everything the single subject is a law so I like to point out there's a rule you know that you can vote for the bill when it's off your vote for the book yes then you go to the bench and say oh I'll change my vote to go so you can do this alright so you can go back to your public and I don't know I guess the bill but you actually hold yes I have a past that is legal under the rules of the Florida House okay oh yeah it's happy Medicaid expansion happened with golly it's not enough that I won't name names because we have one direction with the right parts and uh but it is a man I guess I was under the question yeah the average um I've heard before in the past when I approach but I don't like the official he told me So easy as e mailing me and Well you have to say about that Um so our question He's like just you know it's me it's that easy here Here she just blew you off that's uh that I mean because well for first of all my legislative you know I mean the I would get thousands of emails a day because every time somebody was Asian send out you know an email alerts and email your Legislature about this issue um I would get you know that I would get like five 600 emails from that so like parsing out your email from like 600 emails that came in to my having I think my poor legislate probably tell the first part of your day as a legislative aide is creating new rules and outlook to two sizes of coffee the current days Uh you know uh both email from some from somebody complaining about something so um anytime cynical like that that give it its in the depends of the legislator and it really does I mean it was like you know the sad thing is that tell us he probably 90 percent of those bills are written by lobbyist and not the good ones you know not the White hat ones anyway I mean I always love the this happened a certain segment saying that there are a bunch of you know that they believe in the free market and in reality they spend most of their time in tallahassee trying to use government to gain an upper hand uh in competition It's it's always quite amazing like that and then there's always the free market free market free market give me a million dollar handout uh you know business groups as well so some of those bills are written by those lobbyists and you do have good you do don't Americans very good legislators out there who do care um and it's important to get to them And they and they do care and I think you know I wouldn't know them by the way beat with your legislators so don't forget legislator is really it's sort of a spring time job January February are committing meeting sometimes the December and March and April may be the very person they is uh a session so the other eight months there are home and um I don't want to say they don't have a lot to do but they don't have legislative stuff to do in tallahassee don't email and make a point of coming to settle with them um and They will have the a good legislator will make that time for you especially during the summer time it may be very very hard for them during the recession and that's why it timing it sort of knowing the rules and knowing that things are getting started and really sort of what they're calling or looks like it's so important because In January February March April like you know I actually as a little schoolhouse rock video tells him and idea came because citizens felt that that was a you know a danger and it can happen like that but what happens if you know this is how all of a sudden that person got a whole bunch of other people in order to support them to get that idea push through and so yes they won't we'll obviously probably against that the maybe the County Commission you know railroads of but the question will they bow to the power of your voice and the way to do that is how I'm gonna explain Because what we kn what we have done with Puerto Rico they when I first did the story but they agree a celebration right of above the contributions of the Puerto rican community where we're having to uh to Florida that was 20 years ago and that was what we're trying to recognize this movement new people coming into that but over the years what we managed to make it happen to become a platform for lobby okay so all you have to go to tallahassee because when the When the Legislature sees all of us there and you may be there for the minimum wage and I may be there for my for my bill but he doesn't know it's a it's it does a whole bunch of people running around there he's gonna see oh these people have power because I coming up here in the hundreds on the bill that's gonna be the difference so in order to make your idea appeal that you have to have a coalition to build around in the will the round it is To like this And just specifically is that which is your point be uh the way the bill the amendment I was like note earlier that a lot of tacos it means to practice law and that's the bar the way it even happened was indeed Alan bear who's that I'm a law professor and if it's you who student once I'm carol uh had passed the bar but was unable to practice uh literally came into my office he was brought over by bradley who's a senator from clay County and now the budget chief in tallahassee uh came in Even in my office um and you