FLORIDA

 

Not just a state, Florida is our home. For 19 million of us, what happens here affects our ability to raise a family, own a home, walk safe streets, enjoy a job, and feel secure in our future and that of our children. The issues of the day deserve our attention. We've had hurricanes, unemployment, a Gulf oil spill, a stagnant economy, and costs that rise faster than our ability to pay them.

 

But the issues of tomorrow, the ones that our children will face, are often not on our minds. The availability of clean water, the quality of education, the growth of new industries with good-paying jobs that people are proud of, and the quality of our infrastructure from bridges to utility lines, are the kinds of issues that can get lost in our focus on the crises of today.

ETHOS


Ethos is spirit, but not just any spirit.  It's the kind that motivates ideas and customs.  We believe that what each of us thinks, how we form our ideas and how those ideas become customs, can be motivated by information - facts and figures rather than slogans and paid advertisements.


Where information is available, Floridians show an amazing ability to put that information to good use. Just think about the last time you shopped for a cell phone. You probably talked to friends, read internet reviews and compared features, prices, and plans.  All that information was available to you and you made a good choice.


Now think about the last time you voted. Did you have any easy place to get information? Or were you stuck with deciding based on which side had the most yard signs, tv ads, and popular slogans?  T.S. Eliot wrote, "The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behavior of politicians."

SERVICES

 

My goal is to provide your association or company with comprehensive, unbiased public policy analysis and solutions for state and local issues in Florida. Consulting services focus on state level policy making, and consist of research, analysis, drafting, and advice.

The goal is to fill the gap between what businesses, associations, and other groups need in order to define and promote policy change and what lobbyists are able to provide in terms of advocating change by providing a level of independent professional analysis not otherwise readily available.

This involves detailed independent research, analysis, drafting, and advice on how to approach either tested or novel solutions to state- and local-level issues.  I also regularly make presentations on the legislative process and the state's fiscal processes.