04-04-2010, 04:11 AM
I’m posting this message in hopes that retirees and those who are contemplating retiring read the post in this forum. If you have not already been informed this last Thursday on 4/1/10 the Florida Legislature in the House voted for House Bill 5701 to eliminate the Health Insurance Subsidy ( H.I.S.) from all retirees pay checks. This will mean a significant reduction for all retirees take home pay and that will be reduced even further when the recently passed National mandatory health plan goes into effect and all insurance cost goes to the ceiling.
The voting record of the local Representatives revealed that District 2 Representative Clay Ford and District 3 Representative Dave Murzin both voted to eliminate H.I.S.. District 1 Representative Greg Evers voted to maintain H.I.S.
I encourage you to send a messages of displeasure to both Representative Ford and Murzin as well as soliciting your family and friends and other retirees and any other actively employed relatives and friends to whom you have a way to contact to also send Representatives Ford and Peaden their disappointment in their lack of support for retiree benefits. If you are not presently retired but have plans to someday, this reduction in retirement benefits will have an impact on you in the future.
House District 2 Rep. Clay Ford and District 3 Rep. Murzin voted to ELEMINATE the subsidy
House District 1 Rep. Greg Evers voted AGAINST ending the subsidy
Representative Ford is up for re-election this year and unfortunately he doesn’t have any announced challengers yet.
Representative Murzin and Representative Evers have both “termed out” and were unable to run again for the House. However both of them have qualified to be candidates for the Senate District 2 seat being vacated by Senator Peaden who is retiring. One clear way to send a message of our displeasure to Representative Murzin will be in not supporting his election bid to the Florida Senate District 2 seat. I for one intend of sending Mr. Evers a campaign contribution and if you are financially capable I encourage you to do the same noting it is partially because of his support of the H.I.S. subsidy.
Contact with each of them can be made at:
[greg.evers@myfloridahouse.gov][/url]greg.evers@myfloridahouse.gov --House Dist. 1
[clay.ford@myfloridahouse.gov][/url]clay.ford@myfloridahouse.gov ----House District 2
[dave.murzin@myfloridahouse.gov][/url]dave.murzin@myfloridahouse.gov ---House Dist 3
It is not too late to defeat the action of the House. The Senate has not approved the budget yet and until they do and pass a comparable version of the house bill it cannot become law. Senator Don Goetz represents Senate District 1 and Senator Durell Peaden represents Senate District 2. As a retired Doctor, Senator Peaden for sure knows that health cost is sure to increase now that the National Health bill has passed. Please contact both Senators and solicit their support in working to defeat this measure in the Senate. The area serviced by Senator Peaden includes the northern and central parts of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton and Bay Counties. Senator Goetz covers all the area in the southern parts of those five counties
Senator Goetz’s e mail address is: [url][/gaetz.don.web@flsenate.gov ]gaetz.don.web@flsenate.gov
Senator Peaden’s e mail address is: [url][peaden.durell.web@flsenate.gov]peaden.durell.web@flsenate.gov
Please pass on the information about Representative Murzin and Ford voting to eliminate the H.I.S. benefit for retirees and Representative Evers voting to maintain the benefit and at the same time solicit your contacts to make contact with Senator Goetz and Peaden for their support to uphold H.I.S.. This information needs to reach as many of the retirees throughout the Sate as possible so also pass on the information to any other contacts you have in other areas so they can contact their Senators.
Retirement has been great!
Russ Swinney
The voting record of the local Representatives revealed that District 2 Representative Clay Ford and District 3 Representative Dave Murzin both voted to eliminate H.I.S.. District 1 Representative Greg Evers voted to maintain H.I.S.
I encourage you to send a messages of displeasure to both Representative Ford and Murzin as well as soliciting your family and friends and other retirees and any other actively employed relatives and friends to whom you have a way to contact to also send Representatives Ford and Peaden their disappointment in their lack of support for retiree benefits. If you are not presently retired but have plans to someday, this reduction in retirement benefits will have an impact on you in the future.
House District 2 Rep. Clay Ford and District 3 Rep. Murzin voted to ELEMINATE the subsidy
House District 1 Rep. Greg Evers voted AGAINST ending the subsidy
Representative Ford is up for re-election this year and unfortunately he doesn’t have any announced challengers yet.
Representative Murzin and Representative Evers have both “termed out” and were unable to run again for the House. However both of them have qualified to be candidates for the Senate District 2 seat being vacated by Senator Peaden who is retiring. One clear way to send a message of our displeasure to Representative Murzin will be in not supporting his election bid to the Florida Senate District 2 seat. I for one intend of sending Mr. Evers a campaign contribution and if you are financially capable I encourage you to do the same noting it is partially because of his support of the H.I.S. subsidy.
Contact with each of them can be made at:
[greg.evers@myfloridahouse.gov][/url]greg.evers@myfloridahouse.gov --House Dist. 1
[clay.ford@myfloridahouse.gov][/url]clay.ford@myfloridahouse.gov ----House District 2
[dave.murzin@myfloridahouse.gov][/url]dave.murzin@myfloridahouse.gov ---House Dist 3
It is not too late to defeat the action of the House. The Senate has not approved the budget yet and until they do and pass a comparable version of the house bill it cannot become law. Senator Don Goetz represents Senate District 1 and Senator Durell Peaden represents Senate District 2. As a retired Doctor, Senator Peaden for sure knows that health cost is sure to increase now that the National Health bill has passed. Please contact both Senators and solicit their support in working to defeat this measure in the Senate. The area serviced by Senator Peaden includes the northern and central parts of Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton and Bay Counties. Senator Goetz covers all the area in the southern parts of those five counties
Senator Goetz’s e mail address is: [url][/gaetz.don.web@flsenate.gov ]gaetz.don.web@flsenate.gov
Senator Peaden’s e mail address is: [url][peaden.durell.web@flsenate.gov]peaden.durell.web@flsenate.gov
Please pass on the information about Representative Murzin and Ford voting to eliminate the H.I.S. benefit for retirees and Representative Evers voting to maintain the benefit and at the same time solicit your contacts to make contact with Senator Goetz and Peaden for their support to uphold H.I.S.. This information needs to reach as many of the retirees throughout the Sate as possible so also pass on the information to any other contacts you have in other areas so they can contact their Senators.
Retirement has been great!
Russ Swinney