✍️ Ask Rep. Mooney to Protect the Keys
Florida Keys, we need your help:
You’ve probably heard about SB 426, the draft bill in the Florida Senate that would seize control of local seaports across Florida and give it to an unidentified government agency in Tallahassee as a ham-handed way to cancel Key West’s vote for smaller cruise ships.
There is also a companion bill in the Florida House of Representatives, House Bill 267. Our local Florida Keys delegate to the House is Representative Jim Mooney. We need to let Rep. Mooney know where the Keys stand on this ill-timed effort to transfer local control over our vital port economy to Tallahassee. Please write Rep. Mooney today. Ask him to oppose this bill and protect home rule in the Florida Keys.
Click the button below for a pre-formatted letter to Rep. Mooney. Please take a few minutes to add a sentence or two to introduce yourself and personalize the letter, and be sure to add your full name and local address at the bottom.
We are calling on Rep. Mooney to:
Oppose HB 267
Speak out publicly against efforts to reverse the will of Key West voters.
Encourage his colleagues in the Florida House to oppose HB 267
Local voters made a well-informed decision to adjust the business model of our tourist economy. We've gone almost a full year now without cruise ships, and the Keys economy is one of the strongest in Florida. We have the state's 3rd-lowest unemployment rate; and for the past four months, local sales tax and bed tax revenues are both higher than they were before the pandemic. In short, the Florida Keys are the economic envy of the state. Now is not the time for a big government takeover of our ports. We must preserve home rule and protect the Florida Keys.
Contact for Representative Jim Mooney:
Mail:
Representative Jim Mooney
1102 The Capitol
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone:
(850) 717-5120
Email:
jim.mooney@myfloridahouse.gov