well Florida Senate President Kathleen paseda was being attacked by far-right members of her own political party according to Florida Politics the Lake County Republican party has passed a resolution censuring the Senate President the Lake County GOP chair current Congressional candidate and former state representative Anthony sabatini attacked pasido as a spineless Rhino and later the Republican Liberty caucus of Florida inducted pasido into its oath Breakers Hall of Shame Pasad Doo's crime app
arently not doing enough to pass the party's agenda earlier this month the Florida GOP issued a list of its top 10 priorities in the current legislative session after the list was made public pasido told reporters that that list would not guide the legislative process and at this point the top seven bills on the Republican list appear dead in the Senate including bills imposing term limits for County Commissioners barring nonprofits from gender sens sensitivity training Banning Pride flags on pu
blic property protecting Confederate monuments making gold and silver legal tender reducing the buying age for all guns to 18 and prohibiting gender changes on driver's licenses so Kimberly you're you were the reporter here in Florida that broke this story initially in the middle of the month I'm wondering pasido is a conservative and she says look she supports speaker rener she supports the governor why is she being attacked well and it's very very interesting because if you look at her record
she really has a conservative record right I mean they passed Universal School vouchers they passed a six- week abortion ban under her leadership and they've done a lot to really give to the conservative movement this time around um her priorities are really you know I think they feel like they they got a lot of what they wanted her priorities have really been on Health Care reform in the state and one of the things that she kept on pointing out because she has been asked about the list repeated
ly is she's saying look we're in charge here we're the ones who passed the laws and it's fine if the Republican party of Florida wants to put their agenda out there but you know this is what we're doing I will say that if you look at some of the bills being passed in the house they're more in line with what the Republican party of Florida put out um some of them are going through uh the legislature today Friday and um but the tension that has existed there she's she's kind of blowing it off and
she's saying you know I'm the boss this is what we're doing and some of the bills that were listed actually have not even been introduced in the Senate so she kind of has that way to say well there's no process to even take the bill up um so there's no reason to do it April would you sh would you agree that a lot of the issues and and you were there when this this list was compiled but a lot of these are cultural issues or so-called culture War issues and and you know insurance is not on there
or housing affordability or Transportation none that that stuff is on so is is is pasido kind of a block for the party from going too far to the right I no I don't think so I think that what um has happened here is that historically we've always seen that the Senate um body itself acts a little bit more moderately than the house and that's just reality that's what's happened um but this came out of the RPO after the annual meeting it had come through the legislative committee and presented at th
e annual meeting on the 8th it was adopted a lot of the the topics and the bills that were listed on that legislative agenda that we adopted were already progressing or not progressing through the house so some of that is just a matter of timing and consequences um I think that it's unfortunate that these and we're seeing a whole lot of it in the Republican party is the the county executive committees adopting these resolutions making demands and um criticizing elected officials for things that
they've done or not done and it's just proliferating at they don't accomplish a lot um and this sabatini is one of the leaders in that in that process of the resolution process and I mean you know he's a former State Rep he's running the second time for Congress and so part of it is he's getting his name out there and doing this but he's been a leader in the in this trend for more and more resolutions to either reprimand or um call on our elected officials to do more and more things but the name
calling you know name calling is the lowest form of debate so that is totally unnecessary and it's unfortunate that it's happening in the Republican Party Howard uh a lot of these issues I think U uh our culture issues what do you make of of pasados standing in the way of them being passed well uh I'm here on behalf of the nonpartisan ACLU we're a nonpartisan Bill of Rights defense organization this is a family squabble within the Republican party they got to decide whether or not they are a sa
tini party and they're roll in on culture war or they're a pasido party that is trying to come up with I think on her I mean she's a a conservative I disagree with her on many things but at least she has put forth Republican efforts to to solve issues of Health Care crisis that we have in the state overdevelopment housing crisis she's there are Republican solutions to Serious uh problems that we have in the State of Florida but the sabatini agenda which I guess now now is the state Republican pa
rty agenda of things like protecting Confederate monuments Banning Pride Flags creating a new crime of driving while transgender I mean that this is uh if that's what the Republican party wants to go towards uh it'll probably never never uh win a popular vote in this country April in 10 seconds I want to ask you is the pass is there a pasida wing is it on the rise is there a sabatini wing and is it on the rise I would say no no to both right okay thank you thank you for wrapping it up so quickly
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