Too bad Bimbo Book can't get a brain enhancement to match her boob enhancement |
noun derogatory informal
1. A political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
2. A person perceived as an unscrupulous opportunist.
"the organization is rife with carpetbaggers"
Both definitions describe Lauren Book to a T. A deacde ago, she moved to Broward County to run unopposed for state Senate & won by default. While she timed out of her current district, a loophole in the law allows her to simply move to a new district and run again.
We are still seeking a lawsuit against the years of threats and abuse Lauren Book inflicted upon us. She's seeking power out of desperation to stay relevant. I suspect she'll switch parties if it suits her to do so because she's a career politician with no marketable skills and an aging body.
https://flvoicenews.com/democrat-lauren-book-seeks-to-return-to-the-florida-senate-in-2028/
Democrat Lauren Book seeks to return to the Florida Senate in 2028
By Amber Jo Cooper, Published Nov. 27, 2024, 12:00 p.m. ET | Updated Nov. 27, 2024
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Former Democratic Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book has filed to run for state Senate District 37 in 2028, according to the Division of Elections.
Book was unable to run in the last election cycle due to term limits in the Florida Senate, where she served since 2016. So far, she is the only candidate to file for the District 37 seat.
Sen. Jason Pizzo currently holds the District 37 seat after winning reelection in November. Book previously represented District 35.
"...Term limits were approved by Florida voters in 1992, but some lawmakers bounce from chamber to chamber when their time in a seat is up, extending their tenure long past the constitution’s restrictions, which only apply to consecutive terms in one seat.
Supporters argue term limits undercut special interests’ control of legislative bodies and give citizens more power, since voters return incumbents to office the vast majority of the time. Moreover, the greater churn of seats provides more diversity of ideas and prevents one person from maintaining a leadership role for decades at a time.
Opponents, however, generally argue that politicians with long tenures are beneficial, because they have stores of institutional knowledge from their experience in the process and are insulated from pressures from the executive branch. Otherwise, influence just shifts to others with longevity in the process, namely lobbyists....
A history of term limits in Florida
US Term Limits has pushed for term limits at all levels of government for decades. The group’s president, Philip Blumel, helped collect signatures for the Eight is Enough campaign that put the amendment on the 1992 ballot in Florida.
The leader of that campaign was his father George, who helmed the movement to pass term limits for the Palm Beach County Commission and in several other states.
Once term limits were put in place in Florida, efforts to push back on them have flopped. A bill by former state Rep. Baxter Troutman in 2005 to expand the cap on legislative terms to 12 years fizzled. A similar bill in 2014 by former state Rep. Keith Perry also failed to gain traction.
Meantime, some state lawmakers of both parties have made a habit of shifting chambers or districts to remain in the Legislature.
For example, former Rep. Thad Altman, an Indialantic Republican, moved from the House to the Senate and back to the House, and Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a Windermere Democrat, is on her second stint in the Senate, having previously served two separate times in the House since 2006.
More recently, lawmakers have sought to impose term limits on local governments.
In 2022, the Legislature approved 12-year limits on school boards. The following year they lowered it to eight years. Perry, as a state senator, voted for the bills.
Term limits have long been popular with the public and remain so today. A Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults last year found 87% of respondents favor putting limits on the number of terms a member of Congress can serve.
“Anything that limits politicians’ power is always popular with the people,” said Kathryn DePalo-Gould, a professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University in Miami.
The reality of term limits, however, doesn’t always match their promise of removing special interests’ control.
DePalo-Gould wrote a book in 2015, “The Failure of Term Limits in Florida,” concluding special interests and their lobbyists still enjoy outsized sway.
New lawmakers “don’t have the institutional memory; they don’t necessarily have the policy chops. So you have power in the lobbyists, you have power in the staff that are not turned over at the same rate,” she said.
“Most of the idea (of term limits) was, ‘Let’s get rid of these professional politicians because they’re too entrenched in Tallahassee with special interests and interest groups.’ And now the interest groups … they really have the center of power. So it didn’t really achieve that goal, at least that many had hoped” it would.
Tomboulides, though, disagrees with that critique. He says Florida and other states with term limits on their legislatures are superior to others without it.
“When you compare how Florida operates with some of these other states that are dominated by career politicians, like your Mississippis and your New Jerseys, for example – it’s like night and day,” Tomboulides said. “In these other states the power is so centralized and the members are not open at all to new, fresh ideas.”