This is Something to Think About 03.07.23 "Let the Session Begin"

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Bill Bunkley’s “This Is Something to Think About”

Air Date Tuesday, March 7, 2023

“Let the Session Begin”

An annual rite of passage has arrived again at our state capitol of Tallahassee.

Florida became the 27th state on March 3, 1854, with the 1st meeting of the legislature occurring later in June.

Tallahassee was chosen as the state capitol in 1823 after the new territory’s legislative council met its first year in Pensacola in 1822 and St Augustine in 1823. It would later become the state capitol because it was halfway between the two cities.

The legislators would meet biannually until 1969. The Florida Constitution was changed at that point, calling for the legislature to meet every year.

There would be at least six attempts to move the capital out of Tallahassee to a more centralized location, the last being Orlando. All failed.

So, the legislature opens again today in Tallahassee.

Let the Session begin, and I’ll be there.

Bill Bunkley is a 17-year veteran Salem Media talk show host based in Tampa. The Bill Bunkley Show airs weekdays across central Florida from 3 to 6 pm. Bill is also President of the Florida Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, which serves as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention (Southern Baptist Convention Churches), among other churches and entities. He has served as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention for the last 27 years at the state capitol in Tallahassee. By the Grace of his Lord Jesus, he is today a cancer survivor diagnosed in 2018 with AML Leukemia, having successfully undergone a bone marrow transplant that same year. His wife is Toni, son is Zac, and they attend Idlewild Baptist Church. 

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