Register your vote: Should a registrant be allowed to run for political office?
There’s an important public conversation taking place right now about who should be eligible to run for public office, and we believe our community’s voice deserves to be part of it. A local news outlet is conducting a public poll asking whether someone who is a registered sex offender should be allowed to run for public office. Regardless of where you stand, this is exactly the kind of issue where public perception shapes policy — and silence allows others to define the narrative.
At FAC, we believe informed citizens should participate in civic discussions, especially when the subject directly affects our community and the principles of constitutional rights, proportional justice, and equal access to the political process. If we want balanced conversations and thoughtful decision-making, we have to show up and be counted. Polls like this influence how media frames the issue and how lawmakers interpret public sentiment.
We encourage you to take a moment to cast your vote and then share the link so others can do the same. Let’s make sure our perspective is represented.
You can register your vote here: https://kmph.com/news/fox26-news-poll/vote-should-someone-who-is-a-registered-sex-offender-be-allowed-to-run-for-public-office
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That my friend is a great great reply Response. Well done. Well said, we need more of those words being used.
Thank you.Whoever you are for putting the effort out to write what you wrote.
The truth of the matter lies within the stated reason for incarceration. In that reasoning it is clear that a key point of incarceration is rehabilitation. The purpose of rehabilitation is to change people into productive members of society. Let us call this the development phase.
A productive member of society does the following things, works, pays taxes, contributes to the economy, obeys the laws, and attempts to improve things for the general good of society,
One could definitely state that the act of running for elected office is an ultimate contribution to society or at least an attempt of such.
Now we come to crimes of moral turpitude. Anyone that commits a crime of moral turpitude is required to be free from offenses of turpitude for a period of ten years prior to holding certain business licenses, office, and many other positions. We can call this the testing phase.
After the testing phase we enter the phase of the product release. At this point the product is made available to the general public to select or refuse at their own discretion. This is where the REHABILITATED person has passed the tests and now can prove their value to the society.
If we do not allow the REHABILITATED person who has served their time and passed the tests to serve society then we arguably have chosen to call the rehabilitative nature of incarceration a farce. And by calling the rehabilitation a farce you destroy the principle reason given for incarceration and probation as has been ruled by the Courts and introduced to law.
Fox 26 News could not register me in order to add this comment: FL has a long history of draconian rules for persons that have been in prison for sexual behavior made public. It’s created excessive homelessness, tent cities, abusive lives for what are victims and families of legal and social incompetence. Old people can’t quality for old/nursing homes. Citizens are excluded from shelters during storms. Families can’t hike or frequent public parks. Stoics continue to stack more restrictions on the lives of sinners caught by morality-adjudicators. Tourists are discouraged from FL vacations. The label sex offender is too broad including sexting, urination in the woods, streaking, illegal pictures, teen consensual petting, nudity. Prostitution is an economic value for those that chose that income, one that has been in play for centuries. Morality is personal, sex is private, and not the basis for citizenship. Sex offenders that graduate from their punishment and treatment as a human rights judgement, must be allowed to reenter the community, and those making that more difficult are still living in the civil rights era of Jim Crow. Anyone that can muster the votes for office should have that privilege, and anyone making that more difficult should be brought up for civil rights justice.