Below is a letter to the Governor of Florida from Executive Committee Chairman.
June 11, 2025
The Honorable Ron DeSantis, Governor of the State of Florida
The Capitol
Tallahassee, FL. 32399
I, Mark Phillips, State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Florida do pen this letter on behalf of the membership in answer to your recent veto of HB 6017.
The Constitution Party of Florida is the only lawfully chartered political party in the State of Florida which serves as the “conscience of the conservative constitutionalist voter” within this state.
Our party’s Bylaws and charter documents on file with the Florida Division of Elections show our unwavering commitment to supporting and defending our Florida Constitution as well as the Constitution of the United States.
Furthermore, our party has tenants which include fighting to defend life from conception until a natural death.
We respectfully admonish your decision to veto bipartisan House Bill 6017 that passed the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate with approximately a 93 percent average between both chambers.
The Florida Free Kill Law has remained Florida’s dirty secret since being passed into law in 1990 by then Governor Martinez at a time of a lack of internet access and no social media leaving the whims of mainstream media to inform the populace of legislation signed into law.
Our party is concerned that instead of meeting with the involved families of Free Kill victims for which your office was repeatedly asked, you instead made the people’s office only available to well paid professional lobbyists of the healthcare, insurance and questionable at best, antics of tort reform agents of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. This was repeated in your abdication in the responsibility of your office during your veto press conference to include representatives of these industry groups despite several thousand communications for you to sign HB 6017 into law.
As a state political party based on both Constitutional and Pro-Life principles, we cannot condone a statute that violates the substantive rights of our citizenry and visitors to Florida based upon a repugnant standard of Age and Marital Status. The Free Kill Law is clearly violate of the First Amendment Access to the Courts and its state Constitution’s Declaration of Rights parallel contained in our Declaration of Rights, as well Substantive and Procedural Due Process of Law rights enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment and State Constitution Declaration of Rights. Furthermore, the Free Kill Law in statute also is violate of Equal Protection of the Laws also enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment and our State Constitution’s Declaration of Rights.
In conclusion, whereas the Constitution Party of Florida is the first and only political party to formerly object to your conduct in regards to your constitutionally repugnant veto and lack of regard to well established Pro-Life principles through endangering lives of Floridians with documented repeat malpractice offenders causing death without consequence, our party cannot support you in your decision. The Constitution Party of Florida will welcome the inevitable encampment of voters that cherish our United States and Florida Constitutions, and cherish life from conception to a natural death.
Respectfully.
Mark Phillips
State Chairman, Constitution Party of Florida
