Contact Gov. Crist to Support Civil Rights Restoration

The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition has launched a letter writing campaign to to the Executive Clemency Board to support rights restoration. Below is an e-alert. For more information visit www.restorerights. org. The Executive Clemency Board is meeting March 1st so get your letters in now!


*TAKE ACTION*

Contact Governor Crist and Cabinet Members

Support Civil Rights Restoration Reform

Reform can happen now!  Let's make our voices heard!
Close to one million Floridians can have their civil rights restored immediately.  Civil rights include the fundamental right to vote, right to hold public office and right to serve on a jury.  Civil rights restoration will also enable people to obtain certain state occupational licenses for meaningful employment opportunities.  
Now, these Florida citizens are locked out of the democratic process by Florida 's Reconstruction Era civil rights ban.
Florida 's current civil rights ban is one of the three worst in the nation.  It's past time for Florida to join the rest of the nation, and other western democracies, by restoring civil rights to citizens who have paid their debt to society
Change can happen NOW.  Gov. Crist, with two other members of the Board of Executive Clemency (composed of Gov. Crist, CFO Alex Sink, Attorney General Bill McCollum, and Commissioner Charles Bronson) can make civil rights restoration virtually automatic now for all Florida citizens. All they need to do is sign an Executive Order or revise the Rules of Executive Clemency. 
Governor Crist supports civil rights restoration: he's said so during his gubernatorial campaign, and his website cites civil rights restoration as Gov. Crist's sole civil rights priority.   CFO Alex Sink and Commissioner Charles Bronson support civil rights restoration, but with some exceptions for certain types of crimes.  Attorney General McCollum supports the current clemency process, which is cumbersome and costs taxpayers millions of dollars each year.

CHANGE CAN HAPPEN NOW!  TAKE ACTION NOW!

Tell Governor Crist and members of the Cabinet that you support civil rights restoration.  They need to know that Florida voters expect immediate reform!

CONTACT GOVERNOR CRIST

By Telephone: (850) 488-3494; ask for Clemency Aide Robert Wheeler
By Letter:  Governor Charlie Crist
                   Office of Governor
                   The Capitol
                   Tallahassee , Florida 32399-0001
Feel free to address these points in your communications to Governor Crist:
  • Thank you for continuing into your administration your campaign statements that you support civil rights restoration
  • Use your leadership on the Board of Executive Clemency so other members of the Board will join you in making civil rights restoration virtually automatic NOW
  • Sign an Executive Order and amend the Rules of Executive Clemency
  • You can help close to one million Floridians regain first class citizenship, become full participants in the democratic process, and become eligible for gainful employment
  • Removing barriers faced by ex-offenders is good for our democracy and good for our communities

 
CONTACT CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER ALEX SINK
By Telephone: (850) 413-2824; ask for Clemency Aide Robert Tornillo
By Letter:  The Honorable Alex Sink, Chief Financial Officer
                   Department of Financial Services 
                   The Capitol
                    Tallahassee , Florida 32399-0300
Feel free to address these points in your communications to CFO Sink:
  • Join Governor Crist by signing an Executive Order and amending the Rules of Executive Clemency to make civil rights restoration virtually automatic NOW for ALL of the close to one million Floridians who have lost their civil rights
  • You can help close to one million Floridians regain first class citizenship, become full participants in the democratic process, and become eligible for gainful employment
  • Support FULL civil rights restoration.  Compelling public safety  considerations support civil rights restoration for ALL citizens, without exception for certain classes of ex-offenders
  • Removing barriers faced by ex-offenders is good for our democracy and good for our communities

 
 

CONTACT COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE CHARLES H. BRONSON

By Telephone: (850) 410-6747; ask for Clemency Aide Cathy Giordano
By Letter: The Honorable Charles H. Bronson, Commissioner of Agriculture 
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
The Capitol
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0810
Feel free to address these points in your communications to Commissioner Bronson
  • Join Governor Crist by signing an Executive Order and amending the Rules of Executive Clemency to making civil rights restoration virtually automatic NOW for ALL of the close to one million Floridians who have lost their civil rights
  • Sign an Executive Order and amend the Rules of Executive Clemency
  • You can help close to one million Floridians regain first class citizenship, become full participants in the democratic process, and become eligible for gainful employment
  • Support FULL civil rights restoration.  Compelling public safety  considerations support civil rights restoration for ALL citizens, without exception for certain classes of ex-offenders
  • Remove barriers faced by ex-offenders is good for our democracy and good for our communities

 
 

CONTACT ATTORNEY GENERAL BILL MCCOLLUM

By Telephone: (850) 414-3300; ask for Clemency Aide Carolyn Snurkowski
By Email:    AG McCollum's office does not provide his email address; use the online form:

http://myfloridaleg al.com/contact. nsf/contact? Open&Section=Attorney_ General
                 
also email:  CarolynSnurkowski@ oag.state. fl.us
By Letter: The Honorable Bill McCollum, Attorney General
       Department of Legal Affairs
       The Capitol
        Tallahassee , Florida 32399-1050
Feel free to address these points in your communications to Attorney General McCollum:
  • Join Governor Crist by signing an Executive Order and amending the Rules of Executive Clemency to making civil rights restoration virtually automatic NOW for ALL of the close to one million Floridians who have lost their civil rights
  • Sign an Executive Order and amend the Rules of Executive Clemency
  • You can help close to one million Floridians regain first class citizenship, become full participants in the democratic process, and become eligible for gainful employment
  • Support FULL civil rights restoration.  Compelling public safety  considerations support civil rights restoration for ALL citizens, without exception for certain classes of ex-offenders
  • Lifetime punishment of ex-offenders does not make our communities safer; compelling public safety considerations support civil rights restoration for ALL citizens who have paid their debt to society. 
  • This is good for our democracy and good for our communities


 

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