If a member of the military has a home in Florida and is assigned to a base in Alaska for 3 years, but fully intends to return to Florida after their contract, and while they're in Alaska for those 3 years they buy a house as an investment and, since they're there full time, claim a homestead exemption on the property since they live there, would you say they aren't a citizen of Florida too, based strictly on the homestead exemption? What if they vote in a local election while they're there?
You're very likely misapplying the law, incorrectly conflating residency for homestead purposes and qualifying purposes, and spreading likely incorrect information to nearly half a million followers.
Shame.
I think this will come down to how restrictive the Florida Supreme Court interprets "reside."
A layman's understanding would base it on something like a homestead exemption requiring primary and exclusive residence.
There is, however, room for them to consider secondary residence sufficient, a lot of it also rests with the candidate's statement of intent; if he had a home in Florida and says he had full intent to return to it at some point, the court will likely find in his favor.
Historically, the attorney general's office has held that "if there are doubts or ambiguities regarding eligibility of a candidate, such doubts should generally be resolved in favor of eligibility."
Any genuine doubt about satisfaction of the seven‑year rule must be resolved in favor of the candidate and the voters' right of choice.
I think this will come down to how restrictive the Florida Supreme Court interprets "reside."
A layman's understanding would base it on something like a homestead exemption requiring primary and exclusive residence.
There is, however, room for them to consider secondary residence sufficient, a lot of it also rests with the candidate's statement of intent; if he had a home in Florida and says he had full intent to return to it at some point, the court will likely find in his favor.
Historically, the attorney general's office has held that "if there are doubts or ambiguities regarding eligibility of a candidate, such doubts should generally be resolved in favor of eligibility."
Any genuine doubt about satisfaction of the seven‑year rule must be resolved in favor of the candidate and the voters' right of choice.
@JeremyH418 It's just keeping things the same, not anything new. I get the "nothing as permanent as a temporary government program" side, but they need time to unravel things
Judges are rightfully outraged by counsel citing fictitious cases. We are officers of the court. We don’t cite non-existent cases; we twist real ones into non-existent meanings.
@ABC Why would you microwave fish in a common area?
I'd aquit him if I was on the jury, and if I was on their civil service board he'd be getting reinstated with back pay.
@ABC If the kid pulled out a gun, this is the right result.
But lots of people are saying he deserved it because he stole, despite the evidence pointing to him not having stolen.
He had it coming if he pulled a gun, not for simply being accused of theft.
I didn't watch the full trial, but I saw a clip that looked like him putting back all of the water bottles he took out of the fridge, and I saw a clip of the store owner's son that seemed like he was saying that he found out afterwards that the kid didn't take the bottle?
That doesn't really matter for the self defense portion, if he had a gun and pulled it out, sure it was self defense, but unless I missed something, labeling him a thief as well seems inaccurate.
Legislators and Governor move up for property tax proposal, despite my reservations.
Peluso moves down for his performative non-vote attempt for Council President.
Nixon moves*down?* for her performative protest.
Bean accidentally moved down, and I'm too lazy to fix it so he's there until next month.
Darryl Willie in D tier for not saying anything defending or admitting his move, whether legal or not.
Jacksonville, FL — After months of relentless consumer complaints, local company Lickety Split has announced that they will begin using lube when screwing customers.
"We hear all of your complaints and we want to do better. So, for a limited time, we will be using lube before we screw our customers" said a spokesman for the company.
"You don't need to worry about us going in dry when we quote you for a complete re-pipe after you call us for a faucet replacement, or when we quote you $30,000 to replace your HVAC system instead of just changing out your filter."
Video doorbells are a net positive for society, but the negatives are immense.
They significantly increase safety while also contributing to widespread neuroticism and cowardice.
Being a lawyer is saying "I just need to get through this hearing/deposition/other appointment this week and then things will calm down" for forty years and before you know it you are 70 years old telling people that you have been practicing law for 40 years with no Bar Grievances filed, and finally your reward arrives in the form of a heart attack or a stroke out at your work desk and the state Bar finally takes an action on your status but it's just to mark you "deceased."
"All you have to do is stop wasteful spending and cutting the budget 30-40% would be easy!"
Please, one of you people saying that, go through the budgets and find the wasteful spending that can be cut and itemize all of it.
Then show those proposed cuts to the other 10,000-1,000,000 people in your city/county and see if a majority of them believe it's waste.
You might secure a majority on maybe 5% of the total budget.
I'm not saying no waste should be eliminated. I'm not saying don't end homestead taxes. I'm saying that you need to understand that reality is way more complex than theory.
If EVERY city and county's budgets were actually 40% LEGITIMATE waste (instead of things that you just don't personally use/agree with) we'd be facing societal collapse. But then again, maybe we are.