‘Daily NewsMakers with Jeff Lytle’ … Paige Kreegel of Punta Gorda District 19 GOP candidate

Naples Daily News         April 12th 2012

Three members of the Florida House — two of them seeking U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV’s job in Washington — are guests on this week’s “Naples Daily NewsMakers with Jeff Lytle’’ program airing Sunday morning at 10 on ABC7. Gary Aubuchon of Cape Coral andPaige Kreegelof Punta Gorda explain what sets them apart in a crowded District 19 GOP field, andMatt Hudson, R-Naples, sizes upGov. Rick Scott’s job performance and re-election chances.

Video highlights are at http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/apr/12/daily-newsmakers-jeff-lytle-paige-kreegel-punta-go/

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Paige Kreegle

Lytle: Talk to us about the Stand Your Ground law. Is it vague and or is it doing exactly what it set out to do? Should we just give it a chance to work?

Kreegel: Jeff, interestingly, self-defense has always been a legal defense. What the Florida Stand Your Ground law did, and I was there to vote for it, because I’ve been there for eight years … what that did is codify the fact that you do not have a duty to retreat.

Now, a supposed duty to retreat has never really existed in Florida. It was an invention of some activist judges in Northeast. That law as to pre-empt that kind of thought process from filtering down into Florida, and I think it’s a good law. And we do not know whether it applies in this case.

The investigation is not over. None of us know the facts.

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