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The 2016 presidential election between Democraticcandidate Hillary Clinton and the Republican nomi-nee Donald Trump will be over in 85 days. While thefavorable ratings of both candidates are underwater(meaning a net negative), this is far from the worst ofpolitical campaigns.

I am going to give a couple of examples of how badit was in the past and what we might do to limit nega-tivity in the future (which likely will not work, butyou never know).

Back in 1800 two of our Founding Fathers — Thom-as Jefferson and John Adams — ran against eachother for president. Adams’ team stated if Jeffersonwere elected “murder, robbery, rape, adultery, andincest will be openly taught and practiced … the soilwill be soaked with blood, and the nation black withcrimes.” The Jefferson folks shared in partisan news-papers their nasty, negative opinion of Adams.

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln thought Stephen Douglas’arguments were “as thin as the … soup … made byboiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starvedto death.” George McClellan, one of Lincoln’s gener-als and Lincoln’s opponent for president in 1864, de-scribed Lincoln as the “original gorilla.” Some North-ern newspapers — not Southern ones — openly calledfor Lincoln’s assassination in 1864.

So, today when the “sarcastic” Republican nomineeand his team regularly insult Hillary Clinton, JebBush, previous Republican presidents and previousRepublican nominees, I take it in stride.

The willingness to hurl either vulgar, nasty insultsat another or to impugn another’s motives by pundits,commentators, candidates and campaigns amazes me.What is fascinating is how one party can have one

position while in power but take a position 180 de-grees diametrically opposed to that position when outof power.

The “gotcha” game is also distressing. Now everyword uttered by candidates is recorded and we canhave an instant negative evaluation of any utterancenot perfectly delivered 100 percent of the time.

Unfortunately, everyone seems to have gotten intothe game of insults. Regular people post vicious com-

Negativity nothing new in politics

Jon Ausman

GUEST COLUMNIST

AP

An officer removes a demonstrator as Republican presidentialcandidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Erie, Pa.

See Ausman, Page 10A

No other state has had the long, tangled historywith capital punishment that Florida has experi-enced.

An appeals court in Lakeland last week gave thestate a minor victory in refusing to let circuitjudges take the death penalty off the table in fourmurder cases that have not even come to trial.That’s how far through the legal looking glasswe’ve plunged — “Did he do it?” matters less than“How you gonna prove it?”

The Second District Court of Appeal ruling willprobably be appealed to the Florida SupremeCourt, where death penalty litigation is already alogjam. The capital caseload is so great, the Legis-lature a few years ago passed a “timely justiceact,” purporting to hold justices accountable forcranking these things out. The House even toyedwith a constitutional amendment that would haveenlarged the court and split it into two divisions —

Florida’sdeath penaltylives on, andso do courtchallenges

BillCotterellCAPITAL CURMUDGEON

See Cotterell, Page 10A

Solar energy supporters are confused.They know a bad constitutional amendment,sponsored by the utilities, is coming. Theyalso know that it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing— it looks harmless but is up to no good.

You can relax; that’s not the one on Flori-da’s Aug. 30 primary ballot. But don’t letyour guard down completely; the deceptiveamendment rears its ugly head on the No-vember general election ballot.

If you believe, like I do, that the use ofsolar energy should grow in the SunshineState, that individuals and businesses shouldbe able to benefit from putting solar panelson their homes and workplaces, and thatthere should be incentives and not obstaclesto solar expansion, then you should vote“Yes” in August on Amendment 4.

Absentee ballots have already beenmailed. I’ve received many inquiries aboutAmendment 4, so here’s some information tohelp you make an informed decision. (Re-member, it takes a 60 percent favorable votefor a constitutional amendment to be adopt-ed.)

Amendment 4 is officially titled, “SolarDevices or Renewable Energy Source De-

vices; Exemption from Certain Taxation andAssessment.” It may sound confusing butit’s really quite simple. If you were to installsolar panels on your property, the valuewould be exempt from both the tangiblepersonal property tax and the real propertytax.

This is not a new concept. It extends thetax break for residential property ownerswho have installed solar or other renewable-energy equipment since January 1, 2013.

It does, however, create a new exemptionfor businesses. If Amendment 4 passes,appraisers would exempt the value of re-newable-energy devices from the ad valo-rem tax levied on the tangible personalproperty of businesses.

Why shouldn’t businesses get a similarbenefit for engaging in behavior that is goodfor our environment, our economy and soci-ety as a whole? We should incentivize goodbehavior.

Businesses are learning that installingrenewable energy equipment leads to ener-gy cost savings and allows them to reinvestin their businesses and create new jobs.

Solar makes sense. Once considered cost-prohibitive, the cost of solar has fallen morethan 80 percent over the past 10 years. Busi-nesses see an investment in renewable ener-gy as an opportunity to control their costs ina smart and environmentally friendly way.

The lower cost of solar equipment com-bined with a federal tax credit that refunds30 percent of the cost of solar panels makesit more attractive for businesses to considerswitching to solar power. The federal In-vestment Tax Credit was just extended foranother five years so it’s a good time for thestate to add an incentive that doesn’t nega-

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VOTE ‘YES’ IN AUGUSTAND ‘NO’ IN NOVEMBER

Paula DockerySYNDICATED COLUMNIST

See Dockery, Page 10A


ments, insults and commentaries on news articles,Facebook,Twitter, etc. Everyone has a megaphoneand too many are willing to spew negativity showingtheir intolerance and a lack of personal forgivenessfor flaws, errors or mistakes.

One tremendous plus I have in politics is the ad-vantage of learning team sports at an early age. Thisresulted in many of my political successes over theyears.

First, I learned to work well with teammates re-gardless of whether I personally liked them or not.When I played baseball (I also participated in foot-ball, wrestling, tennis, track and cycling) what mat-tered most to me as a pitcher was the shortstop andother fielders knowing how to play their positions.What was foremost important was they were capableof performing plus they knew their malleable assign-ments when conditions changed on the field.

What was not important is whether we agreedwith each other’s politics or social opinions or wentout for drinks together afterward.

The second lesson sports taught me was to worktogether to defeat your opponent but to respect youropponent for coming onto the field of competition.Our team rarely belittled our opponents with mock-ery. We did not argue with the officials. We went outto win but in a clean manner. We won more oftenthan not because we practiced longer and workedhard to enhance our skills.

The third lesson was we learned how to acceptdefeat, however begrudgingly, when it occurredbecause either the other team outplayed us or weshot ourselves in the foot with too many unforcederrors. With more than 100 games already havingbeen played if you look at the major league standingsas of today, the leading teams have won 15-20 moregames than they have lost. These leading teams havelost 40 percent of the games they played.

The ability to compete to win with the understand-ing defeat also occurs with regularity helps one per-severe.

Having said such let me get another point across.

I am a compassionate human being who is an Amer-ican before I am a partisan. Do not mistake mymeaning. I have a great respect for those of anyparty who are working to strengthen our countryand make it better.

Personally, I think the blue team does this betterthan the red team but I can, and have, worked withred team members to make our country and ourcounty a better place to live.

I also learned the art of compromise where allsides come out feeling they were winners, or at leastpartial winners. Today too many folks I know in poli-tics want it all and are unwilling to concede a singlepoint. In fact, I have seen members of the same par-ty spend more time or energy attempting to purgefellow party members then challenging the opposingteam. This is true for both parties.

To conclude for the moment — till the next col-umn — we need to not think of this presidential elec-tion as a zero sum game where one team is the win-ner and the other the loser.

Rather, our exceptional system of “checks andbalances” guarantee that we either compromise orcontinue gridlock ever where the health of Floridi-ans is compromised by a failure to act. I prefer com-promise because I have learned to listen to othersand to accept compromise for our community.

Jon M. Ausman is the longest serving member ofthe Democratic National Committee in Florida’shistory. He can be reached at [email protected] or at 850-321-7799.

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Friday, August 19 • 11am-3pm1824 Thomasville Rd.

Tallahassee, FL

C A P I TA L

MONDAY

Republican Women Welcome Glo Smith, Candi-date for Congress, District 5: Glo Smith, Candidatefor Congressional District 5, North Florida will bespeaking and outlining her political platform. RSVP [email protected] or call/text to 850-895-6618.11:30 a.m. $20. A La Provence, 1415 Timberlane Road.

WEDNESDAY

League of Women Voters Meeting SpotlightsState Constitutional Amendments: Proposedamendments to Florida’s constitution are the focus ofthe League of Women Voters of Tallahassee’s upcom-ing “hot topic” dinner. For reservations, call 309-3005and leave a message or email [email protected]. 6-7:30 p.m. $20 League members, $23non-members. Four Points by Sheraton TallahasseeDowntown, 316 West Tennessee St.

Rotary Club of Tallahassee Meeting: The speakeris Dr. Steven Mills. Topic: “The Science of Happiness.”Those interested in learning more about the world’slargest service organization, Rotary International,contact Tiffany Baker (850-717-0284.) 12:30-1:30 p.m.FSU Alumni Center Ballroom, 1030 W Tennessee St.

Thursday

Leon Soil and Water Conservation District Meet-ing:The Leon SWCD will discuss the Envirothon, a Re-gional Conservation Partnership Program grant appli-cation, poster contests and fracking issues, as well asupdates from the NRCS and others on agricultural is-sues. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Leon County Extension Center, 615Paul Russell Road.

Wednesday, Aug. 24

Strategies for Americans: Coping with Racism &Discrimination: This workshop initiates what formany would otherwise be an uncomfortable dialogueabout race. 6 p.m. Prosperity Center, 300 Mabry St.

Tuesday, Sept. 20

Dinner at the Square: Through the Looking Glassof Modern Politics: 5:30 p.m. St. John’s EpiscopalChurch, 211 North Monroe St.

Tuesday, Sept. 27

NASA’s Historically Black Colleges and Universi-ties/Minority Serving Institutions (HBCUs/MSIs)Technology Infusion Road Tour: By participating inpresentations and workshops with various technicaland business representatives from NASA and largeprimes, attendees will learn program fundamentalsand ways to pursue procurement and technical oppor-tunities. 7 a.m. Florida A&M University, Wahnish Way.

POLITICS CALENDAR Smith speaking before Republican women

Glo Smith, candidate for the U.S. House Dis-trict 5 seat, will be the guest speaker during Mon-day’s meeting of the Tallahassee RepublicanWomen’s Club Federated. It will be held at 11:30a.m. at a la Provence restaurant in the MarketSquare shopping center. To make a reservation,email [email protected] or call 850-980-1414.

Leon GOP hosting candidates

The Leon County Republican Party is hosting asocial event Wednesday featuring a number ofGOP candidates running for everything from spe-cial district seats to Congress. The event, whichwill feature food and drinks, will start at 6 p.m. atTable 23, 1215 Thomasville Road. For more infor-mation, visit the local party’s Facebook page.

Conservatives feature School Board races

The candidates for Leon County School BoardDistricts 2 and 4 will be the guest speakers duringTuesday’s meeting of Capital Conservatives, Inc.The program begins at 6:20 p.m. at the Elks Lodge,276 N. Magnolia Drive. An optional buffet dinnerfor $15 begins at 5:30 p.m. Reservations for dinnerare required and should be sent to [email protected].

NEBA endorses more candidates

The Network of Entrepreneurs and BusinessAdvocates PAC has endorsed state Sen. Bill Mont-ford, who’s running for re-election, Leon CountyJudge Layne Smith, who is running to keep theseat he was appointed to last year, and former Le-on County Commissioner Manny Joanos, who’srunning for the commission’s District 2 seat.

Firefighter union issues endorsements.

Florida Professional Firefighters has en-dorsed Tallahassee City Commissioner CurtisRichardson in his re-election bid for Seat 2. Theunion represents 24,000 firefighters and emer-gency medical services workers in 175 cities,counties and special districts across the state.Also, the Tallahassee Professional FirefightersUnion has endorsed state Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee, who’s running for supervisor of elec-tions.

Send political news & nuggets to Jeff Burlew [email protected]. Election-relatedevents also can be listed online at Tallahassee.com/events under the category Politics & Activ-ism.

POLITICAL NOTES

tively affect our existing revenue.Unlike many issues placed on the ballot through

citizens’ initiative by voters unhappy that legislatorsare ignoring their wishes, Amendment 4 was put onthe ballot by the Legislature, with unanimous votesin both the Florida House of Representatives and theSenate. Why the Legislature placed it on the primaryballot in August is anyone’s guess, but I suspect itwas to separate it from the more controversial util-ity-backed solar amendment.

Many times the Legislature pushes controversialissues unnecessarily through the constitutionalamendment process when a change in law wouldsuffice. The solar tax exemption is actually goodpublic policy that requires a constitutional amend-ment because it makes changes to state propertytaxes.

Kudos to the Legislature on this one.It’s also unusual that there doesn’t seem to be any

organized opposition to the solar amendment — noteven by the utilities that are saving all their firepow-er for the November issue. Environmental and busi-ness groups both support Amendment 4. In fact, theLeague of Women Voters — another supporter —estimates that some 170 groups are also on board.

Florida is ranked 3rd nationally in solar energypotential but sadly ranks 17th in solar power gener-ated. Renewables, including solar, only account for ameasly three percent of our energy production inthe Sunshine State.

We all benefit when technology is used to provide

clean, safe and inexpensive energy. Solar power,unlike utility-generated energy, emits no air pollu-tion and doesn’t require any water usage or dis-charges.

Amendment 4 offers a reasonable tax incentivefrom future tax revenue without diverting existingrevenue from worthy projects. It’s a win for resi-dential property owners, it’s a win for businesses, it’sa win for job creation and it’s a win for Florida’senvironment.

If you truly support solar choice, vote “Yes” inAugust and “No” in November.

Paula Dockery is a syndicated columnist whoserved in the Florida Legislature for 16 years as aRepublican from Lakeland. She can be reached [email protected].

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civil and criminal — but it got nowhere.There’s another constitutional amendment likely to

come up in the next couple of sessions, setting termlimits for appellate judges. That’s not entirely a back-lash against delays in capital cases, but having someclearly guilty men on Death Row more than 20 yearsis a provocation.

The Lakeland appellate court’s consolidation offour murder cases hinged on a little grenade the U.S.Supreme Court lobbed into the opening day festivitiesof the 2016 legislative session. Lawmakers touched upthe statute to make judges heed jury recommenda-tions of life or death, but they balked at requiringunanimous votes for execution.

Like a modern-day Madame Defarge knittingbeside the guillotine, the press likes to keep score, asif execution was an Olympic competition. The Depart-ment of Corrections currently lists 384 men and fourwomen under death sentence, with two active war-rants pending in the state Supreme Court.

Gov. Rick Scott has presided over more execu-tions, 23, than any of his predecessors. There havebeen 92 in modern times, as well as 26 “exonerations”— men who got off Death Row through various typesof appeals.

Such as being proved innocent, but not always.Sometimes, evidence and witnesses are gone, andthey just can’t retry a guy.

Numbers don’t tell the whole story. Every case isdifferent in its facts as well as its legal precedents.And defense lawyers are pretty good at inventingnew precedents, when existing case law doesn’t suitthem.

Every session, there are bills to abolish capitalpunishment, which rarely get a committee hearing.State Rep. Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda, a Tallahas-see attorney, will have to find a new sponsor for herrepeal bill, now that she’s term-limited out of theHouse. She makes a solid argument that capital pun-ishment is not a deterrent, costs too much and takestoo long — not to mention the danger of killing thewrong person — but Floridians like our death penalty.

Polls may show strong support for life withoutparole, which is already mandatory when a first-degree murderer doesn’t get death. But nobody evergot defeated for being too tough on crime. To thecontrary, governors from Bob Graham to Rick Scotthave voiced varying levels of support — and legisla-tors who have voted for even the most mild reformshave been battered by attack advertising at re-elec-tion time.

When John Spenkelink died in Florida’s electricchair in 1979, we had the nation’s first “involuntary”execution. Double murderer Gary Gilmore had dis-missed his appeals and chosen a firing squad in Utahtwo years earlier, but the homicide case from Talla-hassee was the first in which the condemned killerwas still fighting in court.

The Capitol was ground zero for mass demon-strations, as well as court action, of a size and in-tensity not seen again until the 2000 post-electionpresidential merriment. Graham was hounded byprotestors, but it didn’t hurt his re-election in 1982 orhis rise to the U.S. Senate four years later.

Spinkelink’s execution didn’t exactly open anyfloodgates, as death penalty opponents had predicted.There has been some momentum in the other direc-tion, a handful of states repealing their death penal-ties and drug manufacturers refusing to provide thelethal chemicals now used in executions. Some gover-nors have also indefinitely stayed executions, effec-tively spiking the law.

Florida has executed some of the nation’s mostnotorious serial killers, like Ted Bundy in 1989 andAileen Wornos in 2002. We were also among the earli-est states to switch from electrocution to lethal in-jection, prodded by our own Supreme Court. Thejustices clearly signaled their readiness to unplug thechair as violative of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibi-tion of “cruel and unusual” punishment.

In the courts or the Legislature, this issue isn’tgoing away any time soon. Nor should it, as people onboth sides obviously feel very strongly about it.

Bill Cotterell is a retired Democrat reporter whowrites a twice-weekly column for the paper. He can bereached at [email protected].

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Lawmakers, activists at odds over Florida

energy initiative

Lorena Estrada

TALLAHASSEE, FLA. (WSVN) - As early voters voice their choice on a Florida energy

initiative, a battle is brewing among the amendment’s supporters and critics over how beneficial

it would be to the Sunshine State.

Some argue that Floridians are not using the sunshine to its fullest potential. “Well, it’s

important, because right now, less than 1 percent of our energy is coming from solar,” said a

supporter of the measure, known as Amendment 4.

That could change come Aug. 30, when state lawmakers give voters the power to decide the fate

of the initiative. “Amendment 4 is really just a common-sense measure that takes advantage of

the national resources that we have,” said the supporter, “and it makes this energy, and energy

costs in general, more affordable for Floridians.”

The measure, approved during the last legislative session, would offer tax breaks to businesses

installing renewable energy devices like solar panels.

“So, some businesses that have engaged in solar have seen their property values go up, which

increases their property taxes,” said State Rep. Ray Rodriguez, “and [they] receive a tangible

personal property tax, and they end up paying more in taxes than they are saving in their

energy.”

The Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network are against Amendment 4 because,

members said, the current revenue stream of corporate tax dollars that’s supposed to benefit the

community as a whole does not fulfill that purpose.

“The beneficiaries of this are big businesses who, if they paid their tax on this, it would go

toward helping schools where we hear from local counties and cities that they don’t have the

budget,” said Sharpton. “It would go to the areas of social service that you claim that you don’t

have the budget.”

Moreover, critics said, if Amendment 4 passes, more tax dollars will be lost unless lawmakers

add an important caveat. “If you really want to make a difference, why didn’t you put the

accountability clauses in the amendment so we know that those tax dollars would be reinvested

in our community?” said Lawanna Gelzer of the Florida Chapter of the National Action

Network.

The state already has a property tax abatement for solar and renewable energy devices on

residential properties, and according to the U.S. Department of Energy, Floridians use 40 percent


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more electricity than the national average. Florida is currently among the lowest ranked states in

the country utilizing solar power, but it ranks third in the nation for solar potential.

Amendment 4 has to claim 60 percent of the vote to pass. If it does pass, the tax breaks would

begin in 2018 and remain in effect for 20 years.

If you would like to read the full amendment, click here.

Link to Video: http://bcove.me/uxij2uzn


http://dos.myflorida.com/media/696213/constitutional-amendments-2016-primary-english-booklet.pdf

Scott seeks applicants to Constitutional Revision

Commission

BY THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

Gov. Rick Scott on Thursday started seeking applications from people who want to

serve on the state Constitution Revision Commission, a panel that meets every 20

years to recommend changes to the Florida Constitution. Scott will appoint 15 of the

37 members of the commission. The Senate president and House speaker will each

appoint nine, the Florida Supreme Court chief justice will appoint three, and the

attorney general will automatically be appointed. The governor's office said

appointments will be made by March 6. The commission likely will spend months

considering potential changes to the Constitution, with the ultimate proposals going

on the ballot in 2018.


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by the American Institute of Architects for outstanding civic contribution. Please fill in the required

information and submit to AIA Florida. Additional information on the Citizen Architect program is available

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