[Lnc-business] Florida news

[Steven Nekhaila]

A few updates from Florida,

Thus far, the DBPR, Florida Department of Business and Professional 
Regulation, which deals with restaurant and bar licensing, has mandated 
that bars must close effective immediately. We are still waiting on the 
official mandate aside from the tweet that was sent out this morning as 
the full legal language will determine exactly what actions need to be 
taken. It looks like restaurants may still sell alcohol on premises and 
bars may sell alcohol to go or for delivery. This shouldn't have an 
impact on convention, also depending on the definition of bars the hotel 
may not need to close them, as "on premises" may only attribute an area 
near the bar as an entity, or because the majority of business is from 
the hotel the hotel bar may be exempt or considered a restaurant. That 
is something the CoC will need to contact the hotel to confirm their 
legal arrangement of their F&B services.

As for Florida as a whole, it looks like screenings from CT, NJ, NY, and 
LA on I-95 are being enforced sporadically. My recommendation is that 
State Chairs or the LNC legal council draft a letter explaining the 
reason for essential travel to Orlando for convention being protected 
free speech for political representation under the First Amendment of 
the Bill of Rights and any applicable areas under the Florida 
Constitution, particularly Sections 4 and 5 which expound freedom to 
assemble and freedom of speech. Otherwise, if 
self-isolation/self-quarantine measures are mandated, it is up to the 
loose interpretation of the municipality of Orlando to decide if a 
convention grounds satisfies that requirement, furthermore, because it 
is up to the municipalities discretion, and being that Orlando has a 
strong tourist economy with many out of state visitors from the 
effective states, their level of enforcement has been highly selective.

At this time, I do not see any mandates that debilitate the convention 
to the point of no return, quite the contrary we are still in good 
standing to move forward, we ought to keep an eye on things if the State 
decides to take action but their is currently nothing visible on the 
horizon.

In Liberty,

Steven Nekhaila
Region 2 Representative
Libertarian National Committee

Impotentes defendere libertatum non possunt
"Those without power cannot defend freedom"

On 2020-06-26 02:03 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos via Lnc-business wrote:
> I work in Florida (remotely) if you didn’t know and word just came down
> that bars are closed down again.  How does that affect the convention?