SSN: Proposed All Aboard Florida Regulations: Driven by Safety Concerns or Politics?

Proposed All Aboard Florida Regulations: Driven by Safety Concerns or Politics?

By 

ED DEAN

March 20, 2017

Since 2014, the team behind All Aboard Florida (AAF) and Brightline has known that expanding rail in the Space Coast and the Treasure Coast would not be an easy sell. Over the past year, All Aboard Florida officials have expressed optimism after winning court battles and obtaining permits to move forward.

But that mood might be changing. State Sen. Debbie Mayfield, R-Vero Beach, an opponent of the rail project, has introduced “The Florida High-Speed Passenger Rail Safety Act.”

Read the article at Sunshine State News... 

Reach Ed Dean, senior editor at Sunshine State News, at EdDean29@yahoo.com. 

Rep. Mayfield discusses Common Core and state sovereignty

Representatives from three county grassroots groups met with State Representative Debbie Mayfield Thursday afternoon (June 12). The issues discussed ranged from Common Core State Standards (and its revised form) to the Second Amendment Protection Act. Keith Flaugh from the Southwest Florida Citizens’ Alliance stressed the point that each of these issues involve the principles of state sovereignty.

Apologies to Debra from Lee County who volunteered to take the picture.

(R to L) Billy Vaughn, Keith Flaugh, Rep. Mayfield, Jim McGovern

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