HAC had the opportunity to have a meeting
with the incoming Speaker of the House, Marco Rubio.
The meeting was set up by State Representative
John Legg, and included HAC President Virginia Stevans, Vice President Chris
Kowalczyk, Florida House of Representatives Legislative Analyst, Trip Aukeman.
HAC was able to present the 15,000 signed petitions that will accompany the
incoming Speaker of the House Marco Rubio to the Legislature (HAC will also
provide him with more signed petitions at the end of our petition drive).
We are proud that we have accomplished a major goal of getting our voice heard
and our petitions delivered. This is a victory for the people if Florida.
As the Speaker of the House, Mr. Rubio has
offered to work with HAC in our efforts to lower insurance premiums. He has
promised not only to stay in contact with us but also to share ideas. Although
we have differing opinions on some solutions he has offered to investigate
solutions we suggested and we have offered to do the same for him. He spoke on
lowering re-insurance and freezing current rate increases and we expressed
that a belief in the anti Cherry-picking policy, Closing the loopholes in
Citizens, doing way with the “Speed to Market Initiative” and abolishing the
law that Citizens must be 20% higher than the highest insurance. We felt he
was responsive to the need for lower premiums for not only homeowners but
businesses also. We look forward to trading more information with him in the
future.
HAC is still committed to being non-partisan
and non-political and will not back any party of politician however we are
willing to work with anyone who is committed to lowering insurance premiums in
the state of Florida.
Please don’t forget to have your voice heard at
the Rally in Pasco.
The date is October 7th 2006.The place is the Pasco County
Government Center 7530 Little Road, NPR. Time is 2pm to 4pm.
