Tag Archives: Pam Bondi

FLORIDA: Pro-Charlie Crist TV Campaign Launched By LGBT Group SAVE Dade

Via Steve Rothaus the Miami Herald: SAVE, one of South Florida’s best-known LGBT-rights groups, has produced a campaign video, Why We Vote, in support of candidates including Democrats Charlie Crist and Annette Taddeo. “I’m voting because Rick Scott and Pam Bondi refuse to recognize our marriage,” says SAVE board chairman Christian Ulvert, seen on-camera with his husband Carlos Andrade. Both …

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FLORIDA: Attorney General Pam Bondi Leads By Ten Points In New Poll

Via the Tampa Bay Times: From her unwavering defense of Florida’s ban on gay marriage to her outspoken opposition to the Affordable Care Act, Attorney General Pam Bondi is known for setting off critics. Throw in last year’s postponement of an execution so she could host a fundraiser, and an election upset of Bondi seemed possible to some. But a …

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FLORIDA: AG Pam Bondi Reverses, Asks State Supreme Court To Rule On Marriage

Via the Miami Herald: In a startling move Monday night, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said she wants the Florida Supreme Court to decide once-and-for-all whether same-sex couples can marry in the Sunshine State. “That is unquestionably an important issue, and the Plaintiffs, the State, and all citizens deserve a definitive answer,” Bondi’s office wrote in a 6 p.m. filing …

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FLORIDA: AG Pam Bondi Files Motion To Intervene In Broward County Case

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has filed a motion to intervene in the Broward County marriage equality case. Last week Judge Dale Cohen vacated his earlier overturn of the state’s ban on same-sex marriage after learning that Bondi’s office had not been properly notified about the Broward case. Prior to that decision, it appeared that marriages would have been able …

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Pam Bondi: I Have Many Gay Friends

“I put my hand on a Bible. I raised my other hand, and I swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida. The voters by over 60 percent six years ago put this in our Constitution. People always talk about personal views, it has to do with an Attorney General doing her job. It is my job. I …

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FLORIDA: Broward County Clerk Considers Issuing Licenses As Stay Lapses Without Appeal From Attorney General Pam Bondi

From the Miami Herald: A deadline to appeal a Broward judge’s ruling in August that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional passed this week without an appeal from the Florida Attorney General, paving the way for the judge to finalize a divorce for a Lake Worth lesbian seeking to end her 2002 Vermont civil union. The Fort Lauderdale …

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Equality Florida Launches “Don’t Appeal” Campaign To Governor Rick Scott

Via Equality Florida: On August 21, Judge Hinkle ruled Florida’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples unconstitutional and added Florida must also recognize legal marriages performed in other states. The judge immediately stayed the ruling pending appeal. But if the decision is not appealed by September 21, the marriage ban will fall on September 22! Judge Hinkle has stated that …

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FLORIDA: Another State Appeals Court Defies Attorney General Pam Bondi

Two days ago Florida’s Second District Court of Appeals disregarded the instructions of Attorney General Pam Bondi and kicked the marriage equality case before them upstairs to the state Supreme Court. Yesterday the Third District Court of Appeals also rejected Bondi’s demand. A state appeals court has rejected Attorney General Pam Bondi’s request to hold off deciding the constitutionality of …

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FLORIDA: Appeals Court Kicks Marriage Case Upstairs To State Supreme Court

Apparently ignoring the directions of Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Florida state appeals court today asked the state Supreme Court to issue a ruling on marriage equality. Via Equality Florida: “This is what we’ve been asking for all along. We’re thrilled that the 2nd DCA agrees that marriage equality is an issue of such urgency and importance that it should …

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Editorial Of The Day

From the Gainesville Sun: [Attorney General Pam] Bondi has dug in her heels, telling reporters last week she is “just getting started” in defending Florida’s ban. Doing so defies common sense and wastes taxpayers dollars as the issue awaits a decisive U.S. Supreme Court ruling. But the good news is that Hinkle’s ruling, which was largely stayed pending appeal, takes …

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Quote Of The Day – Gary Stein

“It is past time for Florida to give up the fight. It’s a horrible, embarrassing, demeaning, costly fight. The quicker Florida throws in the towel, the better. Following all the other court rulings that a ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle said the ban is unconstitutional — the first time in Florida that a federal …

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AG Pam Bondi: I Put My Hand On The Bible And Swore To Defend Florida’s Laws

“We have a separation of powers in our state. I am not the judiciary. I am not the person to make that decision. The courts are. I am a member of the executive branch. I’m not a lawmaker. I’m not a member of the legislative branch. This needs to be decided by the United States Supreme Court. We want finality. …

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AG Pam Bondi: Gay Floridians Should Just Stay In Limbo Until SCOTUS Rules

Earlier this month Florida AG Pam Bondi told a state appeals court to sit on its marriage cases without ruling and without kicking them upstairs to the state Supreme Court. Today she told reporters that it doesn’t make sense for Florida to move towards legalizing marriage right now because other states have cases pending before SCOTUS. Four separate Florida county …

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FLORIDA: Broward County Commission Seeks To With Withhold Funds For AG Pam Bondi’s Same-Sex Marriage Appeals

Yesterday the Broward County Commission voted unanimously to support same-sex marriage. Which is wonderful, but they’re also trying to take things much further. Along with approving the resolution decision unanimously, county commissioners are also asking the county attorney to research ways to withhold funding to Tallahassee that is used in the appeals process. The county commissioners do not want to …

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FLORIDA: AG Pam Bondi Tells State Appeals Court To Hold Off Until SCOTUS Rules On Same-Same Marriage

Filing separate motions in both the Monroe County and Miami-Dade County cases, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has asked a state appeals court to continue those counties’ stays on marriage ban overturn rulings until the US Supreme Court rules on one of the cases already presented to it. “Neither this Court nor the Florida Supreme Court can decide this federal …

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FLORIDA: Charlie Crist Tells Gov & AG To Stop Defending Gay Marriage Ban

Via Steve Rothaus at the Miami Herald: Charlie Crist, Florida’s former Republican governor and attorney general, says current Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi don’t have to defend the state’s 2008 gay marriage ban in court. Crist, who is running to become governor again (this time as a Democrat), spoke Thursday as he accepted LGBT-rights group SAVE’s endorsement …

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FL Gov. Rick Scott Waffles On Marriage

So this happened on Friday. Fox 4 reporter Warren Wright asked the Governor, “Are you and Pam Bondi going to challenge the same sex ruling on Gay Marriage in Monroe County?” Governor Scott said, “People have different views. In 2008, Florida decided it would be a traditional marriage state. So the Attorney General will make the decision to go forward. …

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Editorial Of The Day

From the editorial board of the Tampa Bay Times: Florida is a significant step closer to treating all loving couples equally. A Monroe County circuit judge’s decision Thursday to overturn the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage is a milestone victory for equality and fairness. Now the appellate courts should move quickly to affirm the decision so it can apply …

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Mat Staver Calls For The Resignation Of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi

“Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is giving only window dressing to the Florida Marriage Amendment. Bondi sent one of her staff attorneys to argue the case against the constitutional amendment, and her office filed a short, 14-page brief only a week before the court date. If Attorney General Pam Bondi does not want to present a vigorous defense, she owes …

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Editorial Of The Day

From the editorial board of the Tampa Bay Times: Attorneys general throughout the country are wrestling with whether to defend state bans on same-sex marriage, according to the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School. Some, like Bondi, say defending state law is their job regardless of personal beliefs. In Arkansas, for example, the attorney general will defend …

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