Meet Josie. She is my squid hat-wearin’, skateboard-wheelin’, flag-football-playin’, smart-as-a-whip, 3rd-grader. And guess what? She is baffled by the State of Florida’s Legislature ineptness — or in her words “they just don’t get it!”
She doesn’t understand how grown adults would place pornography as a higher critical health problem over gun violence. (Now… sidebar: she doesn’t really know what porn is… she thinks two people kissing is absolutely disgusting! So to her porn must be disgusting!)
She doesn’t understand how grown adults can watch the news of the shooting in Parkland, FL, and not be upset enough to do something about it. How could they not even vote to hear about an assault weapon ban — and literally spend more time on the pornography bill than on gun violence?!
She doesn’t understand the two-party system of our Country yet either… and doesn’t understand why one side would be for and one against the safety of our children.
But you know what she does understand well… lockdown drills. She knows her role, her job. She must turn off the lights. Her classmate locks the door. Her teacher barricades the door with her desk.
She wants her mother to go to Tallahassee to explain some very common sense ideas to a governing body that just doesn’t get it.
I told her, “no problemo… as long as I get to wear your squid-hat!”
Debra Bellanti
Candidate for Florida House — District 60
http://votebellanti.com