A.G. Gancarski
New legislation could give the state government control over presidential libraries, in a move seemingly designed to stop local interference against a future facility for President-elect Donald Trump.
As we reported Thursday, Sen. Jason Brodeur and co-introducer Don Gaetz are carrying SB 118, which preempts to the state “all regulatory authority over the establishment, maintenance, activities, and operations of presidential libraries,” and blocks “counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions from enacting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution, rule, or other measure regarding presidential libraries unless authorized by federal law.”
As of Friday, we can reveal that Rep. Alex Andrade will carry the House version of the legislation.
“I think it’s brilliant,” the Panhandle Republican told Florida Politics.
Central to the legislative premise is the idea that such libraries are “unique national institutions designated to house, preserve, and make accessible the records of former presidents.”
The bill adopts the federal definition of a presidential library adopted federally in 1986 by an act of Congress back when Ronald Reagan was the Chief Executive, encompassing “research facilities and museum facilities,” and enshrining them as part of the National Archives system.
The federal legislation actually applied to Presidents after Reagan, such as George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as it took effect for Presidents inaugurated for their first terms after 1985, which was when Reagan’s second and final term as President began.
The bill would take effect once signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Palm Beach County hasn’t embraced its most famous resident, with legislators on the county level mulling special taxes to punish the President in his first term. With that in mind, there are salient reasons for Tallahassee to take control of a facility honoring the state’s first President.
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MH/Duuuval
December 19, 2024 at 8:27 pm
Jason Brodeur was found guilty of participation in a “ghost candidate” scam, yet he continues to sit in the Florida Legislature and pontificate on personal and MAGA matters. Lock him up, elections police!
It's Complicated
December 20, 2024 at 9:45 am
That is a blatant lie. Brodeur has not been charged in the ghost candidate affair, much less convicted.
MH/Duuuval
December 20, 2024 at 7:17 pm
It IS complicated: Stretching back to 2020 when Brodeur conspired with other MAGAs to employ “ghost candidates’ with similar last names to draw off votes from Democratic Party candidates. Five have been convicted, but not Brodeur.
According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, “The FDLE investigation into Iannotti, Foglesong and Paris does not wade into the PAC money.
“It also leaves unanswered questions about whether Iannotti received any payment for running, as Rodriguez had.
“And it does not probe the beneficiary of Iannotti’s campaign, the state senator Jason Brodeur. Did he know that Paris – his employee at the Seminole County Chamber of Commerce who had endorsed him – donated to his opponent, Iannotti?
“If investigators asked about any of that, they didn’t include it in their report.
“And Brodeur did not respond to a request for comment.”
So, technically speaking, Brodeur is innocent — so far. Why wasn’t Jason scrutinized more closely by the criminal justice system, as the others in the caper were? Not even charged with the crime, much less put on trial? Not investigated by the Legislature?
This is how the justice in MAGA Florida works.
PeterH
December 20, 2024 at 3:54 pm
Every intelligent submission and recorded Tweet for a Donald Trump library could easily fit into double wide. This type of trailer would be familiar territory for the adorable MAGA crowd who would be the only Americans interested in visiting such a facility. My suggestion would be to locate the double wide adjacent to a parking lot in The Villages.
MH/Duuuval
December 20, 2024 at 7:24 pm
The good news here is that the presidential libraries are paid for by private citizens, which should be no problem for DJT — if he starts raising money now at the beginning of his lame duck presidency..
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