Wanted: Your Good Ideas
REMINDER
Two "Idearaisers" are scheduled on Tuesday, February 28 to discuss your ideas for Florida’s Future. The "Idearaisers" are part of a state-wide program “100 Innovative Ideas For Florida’s Future”. For more on the program, click on its website link provided in the “Links” section of our blog, or scroll down to the November 26 post "100 Innovative Ideas..." on this main thread.
Ocala
10:30 A.M (Note Corrected Time)
Marion County Public Library
2720 East Silver Springs Blvd.
Sponsored by Representative Dennis Baxley. Speaker Designate Marco Rubio and Rep. Larry Cretul also participating.
Gainesville
3:30 P.M.
Gainesville Chamber of Commerce
300 East University Avenue, Suite 100
Sponsored by Representative Larry Cretul. Speaker Designate Marco Rubio also participating.
posted by Blog Master @ 10:26 AM
23 Comments:
Actually, the Idearaiser in Ocala begins at 10:30a.m. Would love to see you there!
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Hope someone will update us working folks who can't attend on what was discussed at these meetings.
Do I have to bring a gun to get in?
Dennis have an idea raiser? That will bring raised eye brows.
But then, I guess that is why he is bringing the speaker -- who may have an idea that doesn't involve guns.
I'll be there with my gun in my car in the parking lot.
Just looked at the comment about BIBLES in the Sound Off section.
I'll also have my Bible in the car.
Some evening or weekend Idearaisers would be nice.
So how about a report on what happened at the idearaisers. Anyone attend?
A report from Rep. Dennis Baxley’s Newsletter on the Ocala Idearaiser:
“Rep. Rubio challenged his fellow Representatives to fill a blank book with 100 innovative ideas for Florida’s Future. He asked us to go back to our communities and seek input and ideas from our constituents on how to improve state government. On Tuesday, approximately 40 of Marion County’s citizens gathered together in the new Ocala/Marion County Public Library for that very reason. The participants were diverse and included veterans, retirees, teachers, elected officials, business owners, medical professionals, college students, non-profit volunteers and professionals, attorneys, farmers, pastors, and others. It’s amazing how many innovative ideas are farmed up in a diverse group of citizens focused on the same goal. The crowd was both spontaneous and deliberative and came up with ideas on many issues including how to encourage community service, improve our educational system, empower and encourage strong families, improve disaster preparedness, etc.”
If you haven't checked out the 100 Ideas website in awhile, check it out. Many new ideas added to it in the past week or so.
I hate to be negative, but don't see anything useful coming of this effort. Too many ideas and too few politicians with brains enough to sort them out.
If you are interested in the ideas that were suggested at the meetings in Ocala and Gainesville on February 28, go to the “100 Innovative Ideas” website (use the link on our Politically Homeless blog main page): (1) Click on “Idearaisers”. (2) Click on “Idearaisers Results” and select the summary minutes for whichever of the two meeting summaries you want to view.
The ideas in Ocala were a lot better than those in Gainesville.
they sure are. smarter citizens here.
From the Miami-Herald:
Newt Gingrich, the father of the Republican revolution, was leaving the podium after a speech to the Florida House of Representatives last week when he called to Rep. Marco Rubio and the official House photographer. Gingrich, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a potential 2008 presidential candidate, wanted his picture with Rubio, a 34-year-old West Miami Republican who will be Florida's first Cuban-American House Speaker next fall.
Rubio ''will emerge as a national leader,'' Gingrich predicted, citing Rubio's populist campaign to develop ``100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future.''
For Gingrich and his followers, Rubio's ''100 Ideas'' has all the markings of the Contract with America in 1994, when Gingrich orchestrated the first Republican takeover of the U.S. House in 50 years. Only this time, it is the Republicans who are running scared.
Republican poll numbers in Florida are tanking, with the scandals in Washington and fatigue over the Iraq war. But those close to Rubio are counting on his transformation of the Florida House to serve as the spark to re-energize the party, like Gingrich did more than a decade ago.
''This is as smart an idea as any I've heard in the country . . . a work of genius,'' Gingrich told the Florida House.
With the retirement of Gov. Jeb Bush in November, Rubio is poised to step into the leadership vacuum when he takes over as House speaker after the November elections. He is running as a different kind of House leader: with a calculated campaign designed to create a populist approach to setting the Tallahassee agenda, $9 million in campaign cash, and a farm team of legislators who will promote the ideas after he's gone.
He has enlisted legislators to crisscross the state holding what he calls ''idearaisers'' -- a play on fundraisers -- to fill a book that will become the Legislature's future agenda. He has created a website that asks anyone in Florida to submit suggestions. And he has assembled a leadership team that includes the two men who will succeed him as speaker and can continue the policies for four years after his term ends in 2008.
But there is also a distinct political equation at play. Implicit in Rubio's message -- and Gingrich's message in 1994 -- is that absent new ideas, candidates running for office from Washington on down will not turn out Republicans in November, said Matthew Towery, an Atlanta-based pollster and Gingrich's former political chairman. ``Marco Rubio and his people are sharp enough to understand the fish rots from the head.''
Anonymous,
Great article on Marco Rubio and the 100 Ideas project. Thanks for sharing. Thanks to you blog master for providing the link to the "Idearaiser Results".
The event in Ocala was terrific. We are proud of the community participation and the great ideas that were "raised".
I have said before, this guy Rubio is going places!
Ditto!
Check out the "Idea of the Week" on the 100 Ideas website. The idea of the week is combining the county commission and school boards. It is getting a lot of votes as a good idea.
Not a bad idea. Needs some tweeking, but could work.
We invite you to attend Marion County's next "Idearaiser", on Monday, June 12. The "Idearaiser" will begin at 7:00PM, and will be held at the Silver Springs Community Center, 590 Silver Rd., Ocala, FL 34472. Please join us as we discuss your ideas for improving Florida’s Future. Representatives Dennis Baxley and Dean Cannon will be hosting the event.
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