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6B FLORIDA Tuesday March 1,2011 florldatoday.com NEWS EDITOR ERIC GARWOOD, euarwoodfloridatoday.com or 212-3759 HOLLYWOOD Legislators after unions GOP bills would eliminate collective bargaining cers it bargains for, so it would not be in danger of decertification. Doug Martin, legislative director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said AFSCME member ship is only about 5 percent at the state level, though much higher in some city and county locals. "There could be serious constitutional problems with the bills See UNIONS, 4B BY BILLCOTTERELL FLORIDA TODAY TALLAHASSEE In a move that could bring Wisconsin-style protests to Florida, four Republican legislators are sponsoring bills that would effectively wipe out collective bargaining for govern ment employees. Proposals would end payroll deduction of union dues, dump labor organizations that don't enlist at least half of the workers they represent, and require annual reminders to employees about how they can decertify a union. "I'm not sure what's going on but I'm sure I don't like what I see," said Matt Puckett, a lobbyist for the Police Benevolent Association.

"It's kind of an aggressive attack on organized labor." Puckett said the PBA has more than 50 percent membership among the police and prison offi Two women killed in crash. Two women were killed in a fiery crash in South Florida when their car hit a tree. Hollywood police say 47-year-old Marta Cecelia Cas-tano and her passenger, 50-year-old Adriana S. Condoleo, were traveling at a high speed Sunday before the crash. The vehicle was taken to Broward Medical Examiner's Office with the bodies inside.

NORTH PALM BEACH Man drowns while fleeing from police. A South Florida man who was trying to get away from police died after jumping into the Intracoastal Waterway. Riviera Beach police say 33-year-old Shein Shaw had fled from a traffic stop two days earlier and tried to flee again Monday. Officers say Shaw refused to grab life rings they tossed to him or swim to a nearby ladder. Divers found the body about 40 minutes later.

Obama responds to letter of apology ORLANDO i ff a A AP Man gets life for fatal bar shooting. A Central Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing another man over a spilled beer and then plotting to kill witnesses. Eduardo Adolfo Gonzalez received consecutive life sentences Monday after pleading guilty to murder with a firearm and attempted murder. Authorities say the 23-year-old fatally shot 18-year-old Jamie Adair in May 2006, after someone in Adair's group at a pub near the University of Central Florida spilled beer on somebody in Gonzalez's group. Gonzalez later shot Adair and another person, who survived.

FORT LAUDERDALE Man sentenced to life for killing deputy. A South Florida man avoided a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to the murder of a South Florida deputy. A Broward County judge sentenced 45-year-old Michael Mazza on Monday to four life sentences after Mazza pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, robbery, carjacking and escape with a firearm. Deputy Paul Rein had been transporting Mazza to court for a robbery trial in November 2007. Leaving Job.

Britt Greene has 13 years with St. Joe which is headquartered in Walton County. He resigned Monday as president and chief executive officer. St. Joe undergoes shakeup State's largest landowner loses CEO, 3 board members BYTHYRIE BLAND Pensacola News-Journal PENSACOLA Writing the president a letter is like writing to Santa Claus: You really don't expect a response.

Nathan Allen, 26, wrote a letter last year to President Barack Obama to apologize for a sign he held up in front of Obama's motorcade June 14. The president was in town to get a firsthand look at how the BP oil spill was affecting the area. The message: "Mr. President, Why did you wait so long?" When Allen opened his mailbox about four weeks ago, inside was an envelope from the White House that held a handwritten note from the president. "I have to say that I have seen signs a lot worse, and part of my job is to take criticism," Obama wrote.

Several months after Allen made the sign, he said he was reading Acts Part of the" passage reads: "You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people." "Right when I read that, it kind of went straight to my heart," Allen said. "I was like, 'Shoot, I guess that's kind of what I did Yes, I have got freedom of speech, but as a Christian I need to be respecting theleaderofmypeople." Allen said he prayed and knew the only thing he could do to make things right was to write. "I just. him I will be praying for him instead of holding signs on the side of the road from this point forward," Allen said. He also said he felt compelled to sell the president's letter last week and plans to give the proceeds to Victory Baptist Church in Milton for its building proj ect.

LOTTERY consideration. Durden has served as chairman of the board since August 2008 and is a former executive of Wachovia Corp. Fanning is the top executive at Southern Co. Kesler has served as chairman of ATS Services a human resources company, and chairman and CEO of investment company Adium LLC since 1 997. The developer's stock has tumbled in the past year as it navigates out of the real estate slump and deals with land polluted by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill last summer.

The company has sued Halliburton Co. and others involved in the spill over the decline in the value of 577,000 acres in Northwest Florida and in its development. Its shares fell 62 cents, or 2.2 percent, to $27.05 in afternoon trading after rising as high as $28.66 earlier in the session. ning, and Delores Kesler. Fairholme said, it won't pursue any more changes to the board.

The turn of events comes as St. Joe, based in Jacksonville, is weighing its strategic options, including a possible sale, after it suffered massive losses during the real estate downturn. Only two weeks ago, Berko-' witz and Fernandez stepped down from the board after being elected in December. They cited disagreements with the nominating and governance process as they resigned, according to anSECfiling, Two days later, St. Joe said it opposed Fairholme's efforts to replace the entire board and called for Fairholme to make a buyout offer to shareholders if it wanted to take control of the company.

The company also invited the mutual fund to submit any alternative business plan for ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI St. Joe, the largest landowner in Florida, said Monday its chief executive officer and three board members have resigned amid pressure from the company's largest shareholder. Britt Greene, who has been with St. Joe for 13 years, will step down from his president and CEO roles later this week, the company said. Michael Ain-slie, John Lord and Walter Rev-ell will resign from the board.

To replace them, St. Joe will add four new directors proposed by mutual fund Fair-holme. That includes Fairholme President Bruce Berkowitz, executive Charles Fernandez, former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and Carnival Corp. Chief Operating Officer Howard Frank.

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