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From FL Carry:

Below is the email alert from Marion Hammer of USF & NRA.

We echo these concerns and urge you to act now!

DATE:  March 19, 2015
TO:       USF & NRA Members and Friends
FROM:  Marion P. Hammer
           USF Executive Director
           NRA Past President

State University Campus Police are using your tax dollars to lobby against Second Amendment rights of Florida citizens.  

Sen. Minority Leader, Sen. Arthenia Joyner (D-Tampa), who opposes SB-176 Campus Carry, by Sen. Greg Evers (R-Baker) asked  University Police Chiefs to come to Tallahassee for the hearing by the Senate Higher Education Committee on SB-176 on March 16, 2015.

In an email to FSU Police Chief David Perry requesting their appearance, Sen. Joyner asked that her email be forwarded to university police chiefs and said,
"It is my hope that the State University Police Chiefs or their designees will attend the meeting, submit appearance cards, and speak to the committee members..."

Chief Perry then put out the call to come to Tallahassee and ten (10) answered the call to come lobby against your constitutional rights.

Chief Perry subsequently informed them that they DID NOT have to take leave (vacation days) to participate. Consequently  they were in Tallahassee while on the payroll, instead of on campus providing security for students.

Further, in an email (forwarded to us from a third party) Rickey Maxey, the lobbyist for Florida Polytechnic University, also said that the money for the trip could come from their campus police budgets.

You, the taxpayers, are picking up the whole financial tab for these Chiefs to lobby against your constitutional rights -  rights they are sworn to protect.

The following Chiefs came to the committee meeting in full uniform, with THEIR GUNS on their hips, to lobby against your Second Amendment constitutional rights:

Chief J. D. Withrow, University of South Florida, Tampa
Chief Linda Stump-Kurnick, University of Florida Police Chief , Gainesville
Chief Terence Calloway, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee
Chief Charles Lowe, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Chief Frank Mackesy, University of North Florida, Jacksonville
Chief David Hendry, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
Deputy Chief  Darren Baxley, University of Florida, Gainesville
Chief William Hope, Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland
Deputy Chief Jim Russell, Florida State University, Tallahassee
Chief David Perry, Florida State University, Tallahassee

All of these Chief's filled out Appearance Cards and said, in writing, that they are AGAINST SB-176.  That clearly is lobbying - they were there to influence the votes of legislators.

If they had been here just to provide information on their perception of the impact of the bill on their respective agencies, they would have checked the box indicating that they were there to provide  INFORMATION only.

Rep. Dave Kerner (D-Palm Springs), subsequently, copied  Senator Joyner's letter and used it to ask University Police Chiefs to come to Tallahassee again on Wednesday, March 18, 2015, for the House Higher Education Committee meeting.

Two separate requests for University Police Chiefs to come to Tallahassee on two different days to speak to two different committees - clearly to lobby against your constitutional right of self-defense and your Second Amendment rights -- at taxpayer expense.  That is wrong.

If you want to be heard on this issue, you may contact the Governor, Senate President, House Speaker and let them know how you feel about state funds -- your tax dollars -- being used to lobby against your constitutional rights.



In the subject line put:  STOP USE OF TAXES - STATE FUNDS - FOR LOBBYING

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These are the Leaders who can stop this misuse of tax revenue.

No UCF on that list...maybe I'll see if I can stop by and see the Chiefs stance on this.

FAMU checking in, not surprised. I will email my reps here at school to see if they can reign in their cop. I already know the reaction here to guns :(

They won't. You're talking about an chief and agency who won't allow their own uniformed police officers to carry off duty.

lol, well if you're familiar with their people its a better idea they didn't even carry on duty.

I am sure that all of the chiefs of the various campus police are anti gun, liberal dhimmicrats.

Actually, they are whatever their boss, the university president, wants them to be, much like the relationship between municipal police chiefs and mayors.

why they are what they are is less important than what they are.  We all know liberals run every University in the State of Florida.  Anti gun police gravitate to the Universities just like Presidents do.  like moths to a flame.

I have a thread on it

It is in GD

Absolutely correct.