1. KNOW YOUR GOVERNMENT
Lucas Gray
Period 3

2. FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
 Introduced the New Deal for Americans
 Initiated the 22nd amendment
 Governor of New York, lawyer
 First president to speak on TV
 First president with presidential aircraft
 Served most presidential terms ever (3)

3. 19TH AMENDMENT
 Women’s suffrage
 Gave women the right to vote
 Men at the time did not want women to
vote, but women were desperate for
equality
 Today: allows women to vote
 Allows women right to college/jobs
 The amendment stands to this day

4. THAD ALTMAN
 Republican Party
 Military & Veteran’s Affairs, Space, and
Domestic Security, chair
 Currently serving second term
 Voted yes on Authorization of random drug
tests of state employees
 3 kids, Christian, from Macon, GA
 Associates of Arts degree, state house rep
from 2003-2005

5. JIM BOYD
 Republican
 Chair of Ethics and Elections Subcommittee
 Currently serving 2nd term
 Voted yes on State Senate Redistricting
 2 kids, lives in Bradenton, Christian
 Florida Cracker, born in 1956

6. MARCO RUBIO
 Republican Party
 Commerce, Science and Transportation
Committee
 First term as a senator
 Voted to prevent legalization of same sex
marriage.
 Born in Miami, baptized a Mormon, hates
disco
 Grandfather was deported, currently
catholic

7. BILL POSEY
 Republican Party
 Science, Space and Technology Committee
 Serving 3rd term
 Involved in health care reform
 Born in 1947, has 3 grandkids, family
migrated from Russia
 Used to work at NASA, married for 45 years

8. CHRISTINE ROBINSON
 Republican Party
 Serves the County Commission on the Sarasota
Manatee Metropolitan Planning Organization
 Currently serving 1st term.
 County Economic Development Policies
 3 kids, Born in New York, former criminal
prosecutor.
 Represented small businesses in family
law, elected to county commissioner in 2012.

9. KIT MCKEON
 Democratic
 Community Action Agency
 Serving 2nd term
 Was involved in state income tax issues
 Graduated from West Point, worked for
GE, moved here in 2004
 Wife’s name is Wanda, spent 30 years
working in Defense Aerospace Business

10. BARRACK OBAMA
 Pro-abortion, Rebuild Middle Class
Security, Strengthen American Community
 Elected to Illinois State Senate in 1996 and served
until 2004
 Graduated from Columbia University in New York
with his political science degree
 Does not like ice cream, loves scrabble, born in
Hawaii
 Left handed, speaks Spanish
 Would not vote for him because he supports
abortion, and also because he supports same sex
marriage

11. MITT ROMNEY
 Republican party does not support abortion, defines
marriage as one man and one woman
 Attended BYU and got his undergraduate degree
 Went to Harvard Law and Business School and
received a law degree and a Masters degree in
Business Administration.
 Helped rescue 2002 Winter Olympic Games from
financial and ethical mess ups
 Mormon, former Gov. of MA, loves hot dogs
 5 sons, 11 grandkids
 I would vote for him because he does not support
abortion and he does not support same sex
marriage