RENTAL: Legislation moving forward

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“We need the folks who are going to be impacted by this to become our allies,” Salem said on March 23.

Home Rule Florida

The next item on Thursday’s agenda was a Home Rule Florida statistical presentation given by City Clerk LeAnne Addy. Addy said Home Rule Florida ran opposition campaigns on March 3, March 6 and March 12 that specifically targeted Gruters and the other Regulated Industries Committee members.

According to Addy, 1,318 Home Rule Florida email subscribers sent 4,940 email letters to those committee members during the three campaigns. She also said Home Rule Florida recently gained 555 new subscribers.

Addy encourages more people to subscribe to the Home Rule Florida email updates and she encourages subscribers to share those emails with people they know.

Murphy said the idea of living next to a vacation rental party house was the one idea that resonated with the state legislators he spoke to.

“The angle we’re emphasizing is party houses, because that’s what this opens up,” Murphy said.

Friday evening, Home Rule Florida distributed an email that encourages recipients to express their opposition to Brodeur and the members of the Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment and General Government Committee that includes Boyd and Gruters.

The email’s subject line says, “Another chance: No Party Houses. No SB 714,” and it includes a direct link to a Home Rule Florida web page that provides prewritten email letters to be easily sent to multiple state legislators.