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TALLAHASSEE On some issues this year, Florida lawmakers channeled their inner libertarian.

They gave their blessing to higher speed limits, medical marijuana for kids and the firing of warning shots against perceived attackers.

On other issues, they ignored that voice.

Legislators killed measures that would have allowed whiskey to be sold near Wheaties, permitted teachers to pack heat on school grounds, and expanded gambling to the point blackjack tables would have bloomed like a thousand flowers.

It could be a symptom of the peculiar dynamic of an election-year legislative session, which ended Friday, forcing a kind of multiple political personality disorder.

The governors office, half the Senate and every state representative seat is up for grabs in November. Many incumbents will go home to their districts to trumpet what they accomplished.

Every year the Legislature makes changes that affect Floridians, for good or for bad, depending on your view.

This year, they tried making 1,900 changes the number of bills filed. Only the strong survived, or at least the ones with the strongest backers.

Here are several initiatives sure to be felt by people in the Tampa area. One thing to bear in mind: No bill passed by the Legislature becomes law until Gov. Rick Scott signs it.

Tax and fee cuts: Itll be cheaper to register your vehicle under legislation already approved by Scott.

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Craig residents Sacha and Travis Mero are running, respectively, for House Representative District 57 and for Congressional District 3.

The married couple doesnt anticipate easy wins, but they do want to get the message out about Libertarianism and challenge the two-party system. They both got the go-ahead at the Colorado Libertarian caucus in April and will be on the November ballot.

Sacha Mero ran for the District 8 State Senate seat in 2012, and said she got 4.5 percent of the vote without no campaign funding.

That just shows how much people are fed up with our two party system, she said.

But, now the two are working together and setting up a Libertarian group locally to garner more support.

This time we have a lot more organization, Travis Mero said.

Theyre talking to people in the districts, campaigning and raising funds. Their goal is to challenge voting down a party line and start conversations.

A lot of people will find they lean Libertarian, Sacha Mero said.

The Meros said thats because Libertarians fall in the middle on a lot of issues. Libertarianism is about personal liberty and limiting government power, Sacha Mero said.

The couple is for broad Second Amendment rights, same-sex marriage, a womans right to choose and the legalization of drugs. They want to limit government reach; empowering local governments to have the most power.

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Two Craig Libertarian candidates are running for state legislative offices

The Democratic Party's new candidate for Congress in Pinellas County is an unknown who lives in Tampa and in what may be a first can't actually run as a Democrat.

Ed Jany is a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve colonel with an accomplished resume. But politically speaking, he's no Alex Sink, the well known, well financed candidate who narrowly lost the special election March 11 to Republican David Jolly.

"Just when you think things can't get any more bizarre for the Democrats, they get more bizarre," said Darryl Paulson, professor emeritus of government at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

"It certainly is a bit stunning and somewhat surprising," said Pinellas Democratic Commissioner Janet Long.

"Quite frankly under the very best of circumstances, running a congressional race is very difficult... So if you just decide to run for Congress and you don't have an infrastructure and built-in base, I'm not quite sure how that works."

Jany, 49, is officially running as an independent candidate with "no party affiliation," though his campaign was touted heavily on Friday by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which recruited him. The reason is a quirk of state law that says people can't run for a party's nomination unless they have been registered in the party for at least one year. Jany used to be a Republican, but switched to Democrat several months ago out of frustration with last year's federal government shutdown.

Jany will face Jolly, now an incumbent, and Libertarian Lucas Overby in the Nov. 4 general election.

Jany spoke briefly to reporters Friday in a conference call, discussing his interesting personal and professional background. He was born in Brazil and moved as a child with his family to the United States. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. He served in the Army's Special Forces and is a colonel in the Marine Corps, set to retire in July. He has been based at Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force base. He also has been a law enforcement officer, and was once shot in the line of duty. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Tampa near MacDill. They have been looking for several months for a place in Pinellas, possibly on Sand Key.

"To those of you who understand duty and honor, it's very obvious that our representatives in Washington are not serving the country the way that they should," he said.

Partisan fighting, he said, is preventing Congress from "helping businesses grow jobs, cutting wasteful spending, balancing our budget and looking out for our seniors and veterans."

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