Florida Public Employees Partnership - or Florida PEP - is a nonprofit grassroots political action organization dedicated to improving and protecting the quality of life for working families and struggling citizens all across the state.
We are a diverse group of long-time public servants, who after years of dedicated service to our state and fellow Floridians, watched in horror as a new breed of politicians turned public sector programs, services and employees into scapegoats for an unjust tax system and failed economic policies.
We watched as elected officials sworn to serve the public's best interests seemed intent on discrediting and "privatizing" the public sector, rather than making it work better.
And so in 2011 Florida PEP sprang into existence, out of what we believe is the critical need for the Sunshine State's millions of working and middle class citizens to reject the politics of diversion and divisiveness, and unite in common cause:
To improve and protect the quality of life for all Floridians, by protecting and preserving the availability, quality and integrity of public sector services that we all depend on.
We who are Florida PEP; teachers, police officers, bus drivers, firefighters, janitors, water & sewer workers, office workers, some in unions and many who are not - along with so many of our family members, friends and neighbors; we still have high hopes for the future of our state.
We believe that by empowering ourselves as members of this new coalition of unity, by working across partisan lines, union and non-union lines, and socioeconomic lines, we can put a stop to the endless political bickering and finger-pointing, and start getting things done.
We aim to hold our elected officials, state and municipal laws, government agencies and programs, all to the highest standards of Fairness, Effectiveness, Efficiency and Integrity.
JOIN US!
Thursday, April 12, 2012 — Paula Dockery As published on www.FloridaVoices.com, Senator Dockery provides insight seldom available to tax paying Floridians. As my last session in the Florida Senate came to a close, I hoped against hope that the Florida Legislature would finally get serious about …
Thursday, March 22, 2012 By: Paula Dockery As Paula Dockery continues to chronicle her last year in the Florida Senate, she provides us a view seldom made public. With the Senator’s authorization we share her words originally published at www.floridavoices.com. Nine months ago, Polk County was …
March 21, 2012 By Shawn Beighto What the US needs is a resurgence in pure unionism: Many express indignation over one of the last sectors of labor who retain elements of long and hard fought labor and social dignity. Much injustice has been reversed over …
March 20, 2012 By Dana Coston local police officer Originally published in THE FLORIDA PATRIOT I have always been a bit of a misfit. Growing up in Florida, the son of parents raised in the deep south, you’d think I’d have always been right at …
As is customary of an outgoing senator, on March 2, 2012, Paula Dockery provided the following farewell speech to her Senate colleagues. In sharing your words, Florida Public Employees Partnership commends you Senator Dockery. Your actions in honorably serving all Floridians and professionalism are a …
