TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The Republican Party of Florida is up with a new television ad boosting a ballot proposal to place a right to hunt and fish in the state Constitution, the first broadcast ad in the fight over the amendment.
Party Chair Evan Power told POLITICO on Monday the new spot began airing Saturday in some regional TV markets and is the start of a campaign from the party dealing with constitutional amendments.
Floridians in November will vote on Amendment 2, which would codify a “right to fish and hunt” in the state constitution. It needs 60 percent support to pass. Most of the attention this year has been on other proposed amendments: Amendment 3 — which would legalize recreational marijuana for adults who are at least 21 — and Amendment 4, which would overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban.
This is the first broadcast television ad on either side of the fight around Amendment 2, according to AdImpact, an advertising tracking service. Power told POLITICO the spending for Amendment 2 would be around $100,000.
