Romney

Bill Nelson (hope he keeps his lead)

John Mica (always brings home the bacon)

Castor-Dental (over Plakon)

Dowdy (over Krause for County Judge- don't think she has ever been in open court)

Voted against all State Constitutional Amendments

Voted to retain all three Florida Sup Ct Justices

Voted for a $.01 tax for our county schools (I am happy to pay and it is greatly needed).

Only one candidate for County Commission and he was unopposed. I hate him anyway. So, I wrote in: "Anyone who isn't a drunk like Constantine".

Only thing bad: Ballot was way to long- four large pages. It would have taken a good 10-15 minutes to read everything had I not been prepared.

Things that bothered me: Water Board, Public defender and Prosecutor are sectarian.Poll watcher sat there and observed. Wasn't aloud to talk to anyone. Several candidates were too close to the front door, which is wrong.

Voted for a $.01 tax for our county schools, which I am happy to pay and is greatly needed.

Only thing bad: Ballot was way to long- four large pages. It would have taken a good 10-15 minutes to read everything had I not been prepared

something couyld happen before election day that might influence my vote...

btw,,

we all pay too much for schools,,,

but good for you Robert,,,

Yeah, something could happen, but it would have to be so significant that I don't worry about it.

As to education: I don'think we pay enough for education. It should be among our nation's highest priorities. Sad that some kids don't already have enough books for each kid to have one for the year. Budgets for the arts have been slashed. Got no problem with athletes paying for their own uniforms, and extracurricular activities, but when teachers need kids to bring in markers for the white board or my kid gets a book that has fallen apart and is taped backed together or has ink underlining, that's not right. We have overcrowding at too several schools and classes are sometimes way to big.

Heard an interesting statistic last week: The U.S. spends more $$ on defense that the next 15 countries combined. If this is true, we should be able to contribute more money for our schools.

we also spend more on primary education too,

Ron

Sounds like the teachers' union should push for salary cuts so there is more money for school supplies. It is true however that education spending should be directly proportional to military spending and therefore there should be a special Federal tax implemented in Rfenst's county.

LOL! First thing I thought about- more "education spending" for pensions & ridiculous salaries for quasi-competent teachers.

In the meantime, they get our kids to sell cardboard pizzas and other hairbrained fundraisers for textbooks & #2 pencils.](*,)

Heck we have Casinos here with 0% going to education...but you should see the new football stadiums 🤦

Funny....it was passed BECAUSE it was supposed to help with education funding.

:-k 😣 🤥

Really???? Let's see the dollar amount spent by US taxpayers on educating the hundreds of thousands of children of Illegal alliens......but nobody's talking about that one, as though it's OK 😣

IF we were really serious...we'd solve the immigration issue.

1. End the "anchor baby" dilemma. We're the only nation that offers that. You're not a citizen from the US and have a kid here...congrats...now take you kid home. they're YOUR problem.

2. Instead of rounding up illegals like some "Planet of the Apes" movie...just shoot them. I'm not kidding. They would stop immediately if it started tomorrow. Other nations do it too.

3. Can't provide a valid drivers license, passport and birth certificate you don't get access to hospitals, jobs or education.

Feel free to add to this list but really if we're at the point where we're crying about not spending enough...we're spending waaaay too much and getting too little return for it. Teaching to a standardized test? That's insanity. The smart or gifted aren't rewarded. The stupid get a pass or get shoved on through. How many professional athletes cannot even READ? Please.

i agree the ballots are long and unreadable/understandable for most people, especially under pressure. The amendements were fairly simple but it was a few paragraphs of legal jargon.

Well, I did vote for the 1% school tax in my county...

Same here- supposedly.

My daughter and son (to a lesser extent because he is younger) are already being recruited by colleges based on their FCAT scores. Daughter got another letter today from some college offering her free tuition if she maintains her grades. I think kids who do best on FCAT get mor eBright Futures scholarship money from the state. FCAT cuts both ways. If you don't pass math and reading at a certain grade, you get put into intensive classes to try to improve one's abilities. having said that, solely teaching for the test isn't great IMO. Kids hate the frigging FCAT!!!