Gov. Charlie Crist has issued a proclamation calling for a Special Session July 20-23 for the "sole and exclusive purpose of considering…the passage of a joint resolution to revise the Florida Constitution to prohibit the exploration for, the drilling for, the extraction of and the production of oil beneath Florida waters…"
Such an amendment requires approval by three-fifths of both the House and Senate to make it to the November ballot, where it must be approved by 60 percent of the voters.
In announcing his decision, Crist, the current governor and former Republican now running for the U.S. Senate as an Independent, said, "Politics has nothing to do with this."
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