Way things were going, if just-ended 2010 FL legislative session had gone another week or two, GOP would've passed mandatory Liberal Re-Education amendment...

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The 2010 Florida Legislative session drew to a dismal, dangerous conclusion on April 30th. There was shouting, crying, fear & loathing, as the majority Republican Party stormed forward with its extremist right wing agenda.

Much of the closing day melodrama revolved around the GOP's successful effort to jam through a last-minute anti-abortion bill - legislation so radical it brought more than one state representative to tears during the course of the heated debate. This bill now awaiting Governor Crist's signature would force all women seeking an abortion to pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket for a first trimester sonogram - during which the ultrasound technician would have to point out and describe in detail just how "alive" the fetus really is.

The only hope now for Florida females with reproductive capacity is that a massive backlash of outrage floods the governor's office with enough phone calls and emails to force a veto of this appalling attack on Women's Rights.

Also on the last day of this session, the same crew of Republican ideologues forced a new amendment onto the 2010 ballot - yet to be named or numbered - that would abolish the two critically important "Fair Districts" reform amendments - 5 & 6 - that are already on the ballot.

Amendments 5 & 6 have received nearly universal support from newspapers and civic organizations all across the state and nation. They got on the ballot after nearly two million people signed petitions to make it so, and seemed destined to get the Yes votes needed to become law.

But Abracadabra - by virtue of their two thirds majority in the legislature, the Republicans now have a chance of undoing the will of the people, thereby holding onto their corrupted reins of power.

Then there was an earlier GOP amendment they succeeded in advancing - the ironically named "Health Care Freedom Act", which in true reactionary style would actually interfere with the state's freedom to provide more affordable access to health care for all citizens.

And that's exactly the kind of duplicity & double talk that this Orwellian legislative session was all about, from top to bottom. Black is White, Good is Bad, Greed is Generosity, Obstruction is Protection.

Oh, yeah. They also managed to fulfill their single mandatory task of the 60-day session, passing a 70-billion dollar budget - which "No Party Affiliation" Governor Crist may yet veto. The budget cuts back sharply on a whole host of social service programs that provide a vital safety net for seniors, children, the poor & needy - while still leaving a 3- billion dollar state budget deficit.

Why?

Because Republicans refuse to raise taxes for their large corporate benefactors. Because they won't raise taxes or close gaping loopholes for rich real estate developers and ultra-rich individuals who live off their estates without working for a living.

Now that this horrible bunch of elected officials has run roughshod over the 2010 legislative session, they are marching off into the final months of their midterm election battles - which gives us voters our one opportunity to pay them back for all the damage they've done, and still plan to do.

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Authors Bio:
Daniel Tilson was born and raised in New York City, a
graduate of Stuyvesant High School, and New York University's Film and Television School, with a double major in Film/TV Production & Broadcast Journalism.

Tilson established his own first company in 1995 and has been writing, producing, directing, shooting and editing informational, promotional and documentary videos ever since -- many for NYC's Labor giant, 1199SEIU, the largest local healthcare workers union in America.

Other clients have included CBS, PBS, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Service Employees International Union, NYS AFLCIO, New York State Leadership Council, New York University, America Coming Together, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, E.F. Schumacher Society, and the Association Of Joint Labor-Management Educational Programs.

Tilson Films Inc. was established in 2006, with production offices now located in both Palm Beach County, Florida, and New York City. While Tilson Films continues to produce a variety of informational videos, Tilson himself has increasingly concentrated on development and production of documentary projects, both shorts and features. The 2008 "Elders For Obama"- film project was a great success, going viral- online, getting distributed by the Obama campaign and other organizations, and now being featured in the 2009 documentary from Global Vision Inc., called "The People"s President".

Tilson has also co-produced the recent documentary feature, "The Road Home"-, the moving story of a group of disabled Iraq war veterans who are finding their own unique path back to wholeness-. The film is on the festival circuit now, and in 2009 won the Broader Visions award at the Garden State Film Festival.

With Tilson as Producer/Director, Tilson Films Inc. is completing production in 2009 of two important new documentary films. "Truth Indeed" follows a small band of Palm Beach County, Florida "counter-military recruitment" activists, whose years of successful work in the county school system landed them squarely in the sights of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program. "The Indian Line Model" chronicles the birth and rebirth of America's first CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture farm -- and the explosive growth of the CSA movement's efforts to create sustainable local agriculture and economies, reclaiming America's food chain from a handful of giant corporations.

Tilson has also recently joined forces with a dynamic, progressive new political media consulting firm, DMedia Inc., and is working as media consultant and producer for the firm. Learn more at http://demediapolitical.com.

For more info on Tilson Films Inc., please visit http://tilsonfilms.com/.