Posts in OFAF
Digital Ad: Gov. DeSantis: Please Veto This Cruel Bill

🚨 BREAKING: SB 620, the Puppy Mill Loophole Law, has now been sent to Governor Ron DeSantis. He has vetoed bad bills before, and he has the chance to veto this cruel bill. New reports suggest Gov. DeSantis was concerned that this bill would give the owners of puppy mills almost unlimited power to operate anywhere in Florida. Now he must decide whether to veto this cruel bill. Add your name and tell Gov. DeSantis: No more puppy mills! Veto SB 620. #NoPuppyMills #Veto620

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Digital Ad: Say NO to the #ElectionTakeover - VETO SB 524

🇺🇸 🗳 ALERT: The Florida Legislature has just passed passed SB 524, the Anti-Voter Freedom Act. This widely criticized legislation creates a new "office of elections crimes" (the first of its kind in the nation), and diminishes the freedom to vote in Florida by adding new and confusing hurdles to voting by mail — a form of voting that many Floridians use, especially seniors and members of the military serving overseas.

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Tell Ron DeSantis: Veto the FPL Giveaway

The Florida Legislature just approved a new law that would put a tax on sunshine, kill thousands of good-paying jobs in the solar industry and impose new fees that would hurt low-income Floridians.

We need your help. Can you send an email to Governor DeSantis and tell him to veto this bill?

Our power bills are too high. We don't need a new tax on energy. What we need is energy freedom and support for good-paying jobs in Florida.

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“Broken and Flawed”: Unemployed Floridians Still Waiting For Benefits React to Governor’s Special Session 

Opportunity For All Floridians sent this press release to news outlets in the Orlando area, after conducting a series of interviews with everyday Floridians who were struggling to make ends meet because they couldn’t get the state’s unemployment system to pay them the benefits they were owed. This press outreach resulted in several local news stories.

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“Broken and Flawed”: Unemployed Floridians Still Waiting For Benefits React to Governor’s Special Session

This week, Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled his legislative priorities for his special session taking aim at what he termed “unconstitutional” vaccine mandates. The legislative package included a proposal that would expand unemployment benefit eligibility to those not complying with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. In response, unemployed Floridians who are still waiting for their own benefits spoke out about the current system. “The system is still broken,” several of them said. “What about us?”

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Tallahassee is Overruling Our Local Governments in Florida

There’s a crisis threatening our communities all over Florida. Florida state legislators filed 42 bills in the 2021 legislative session to overrule local city and county ordinances. This "Tallahassee Takeover" affects everything from environmental ordinances designed to keep Florida’s water and air clean to election laws that keep dark money out of local politics.

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