Just so you know

You will hear that an awful lot of voters turned out in Florida to vote in the primary. They did, but here’s the main reason they did. Florida had a proposition on the ballot to raise the Homestead Exemption taxes from $25,000 a year to $50,000 dollars a year. Even though it would be bad for the state financially, the homeowners turned out in droves to vote for it.

Many people like me, also cast a vote for a Democratic presidential nominee. We knew our votes would not count but some of us just wanted to vote.

Bottom line, the Republicans in Tallahassee set the Democrats in Tallahassee up with a Catch-22 sort of vote. The date of the primary was on a bill that also included getting rid of voting machines that did not have paper trails. What Democrat in Florida government wanted to go on record as being against that? Very few.

From the start Obama played by the rules here in Florida and he’s still playing by the rules. If my primary vote doesn’t count that’s okay as long as my vote in November does.