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St. Pete Times' Steve Bosquet wrote an interesting story on the revocation rule wrangling. Funny thing: Hometown’s cofounder Ross Burnaman exposed the rule to the 150-day adjustment himself. He's a lawyer, so he appealed it in the first place. And it backfired.

We felt blessed with the August 1st date and would not have reopened the rule with an appeal. So, now it shouldn’t have been reconsidered? Why isn’t he saying “Oops,” instead of "It was a last-minute re-interpretation of the statute contrary to the general rule that laws operate prospectively and I lost you when I stopped speaking English and fell into lawyerspeak.”

This is a very conflicted group of gadflies, Steve. Look at the other Hometown leader, Joyce Tarnow. She fought legal battles with abortion protestors outside her Ft. Lauderdale clinic for a decade, asserting her private property rights. Now, she’s spending her free time in jail saying private property should be open to anyone.

It’s the theater of the absurd; every day Hometown Democracy leaders enter the arena is a good day for us.

-Michael Caputo; Exec. Dir.