There is much to do at all levels as we try to thwart the Republican agenda and turn Florida blue. The Charlotte County Democratic Party needs your help to get Democrats elected at all levels of office in 2020. Volunteering is an excellent way to gain new knowledge, sharpen your skills, and even have…
Elected Jewish Democrats of Florida slammed Trump’s outrageous claims that Jews voting Democrat are somehow “disloyal,” calling it out for being the ugly trope that it is. On August 20, Donald Trump attacked American Jews claiming “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat –– it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great…
A recent VICE news report cited Charlotte County as one of seven Florida counties susceptible to hacking due to being connected to the Internet. Charlotte County Supervisor of Elections Paul Stamoulis disputes the report regarding Charlotte County. The election tabulation system is “in no way connected to the Internet,” according to the elections website. (Read more…
Your neighbors need you. Florida needs you. Our country needs you. The future of our democracy and the planet are on the ballot in 2020. Our government is only as good as the people we elect to run it, and we’re in pretty sad shape right now. Too many good people won’t run for…
The Democratic National Committee has released a new website for 2020. It’s still at the old address: Democrats.org. It’s worth a look. The site explains who the Democratic Party is and what it does, gives some history, does a nice job of laying out our values, including the current governing platform and provides some tools…
Disparate treatment between black and white people apparently does not end in the streets or the jailhouse. Blacks are more likely to be found guilty than whites in Florida; they are more likely to spend time behind bars; their sentences are usually longer; and they are not given as many opportunities to avoid incarceration through…
Within a week or so I start to get hints from my insurance that there may be a problem. Turns out that the hospital, which probably should remain nameless at this point, decided to bill the insurance a grand total of $8114.73 for my 15 minutes of medical care.
President Trump‘s disapproval rating has jumped to 56 percent in a Fox News survey released Wednesday, just one point shy of the record high in Fox News polling. The survey found a 5 percentage point increase in Trump’s disapproval from last month. The only time his disapproval rating was higher, according to Fox News, was when it reached…
Today we announce the launch of our 24-hour Voter Protection Hotline, nearly 15 months before the 2020 election. The hotline is a part of the Florida Democratic Party’s new year-round Voter Protection Program that was launched in May as an effort to tackle the growing threat to Floridians right to vote. The hotline will be staffed with…
We are Democrats. We are Republicans. We are Floridians. We are Americans. And despite our differences, here is the truth. No one wants this kind of violence darkening their doorstep. No elected official wants this happening in their community, to their constituents. Hardened NRA devotees and fervent anti-gun activists alike — no one wants this…
Former Florida Republican Rep. David Jolly has never had a great relationship with his party. Pointing out how beholden to big donors GOP officials are to 60 Minutes went down like a lead balloon filled with Republican integrity. Jolly was on MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace on Monday to talk about the recent mass shootings, Donald Trump’s continued white…
The top voting machine company in the country insists that its election systems are never connected to the internet. But researchers found 35 of the systems have been connected to the internet for months and possibly years, including in some swing states. One of the most dense states for online election systems was Florida, where…
The Charlotte County Democratic Party has an immediate opening for a volunteer Co-Editor to share the duties of assembling our weekly newsletter. Will Train! CHECK OUT OUR LATEST NEWSLETTER: 08/07/2019 – Stand with us against Gun Violence Required qualification: A passionate interest in advancing the values and goals of the local Democratic Party. Necessary Skills and…
The Charlotte County Democratic Executive Committee, the official arm of the Democratic Party in Charlotte County voted unanimously Monday evening in favor of two resolutions: 1 — Supporting sensible gun safety laws. 2 — Supporting a comprehensive gun violence prevention plan. Here are the texts of the two resolutions. GUN SAFETY RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the number…
Florida Democrats do the Math: Joe Gruters Immigrant Listening Tour is a farce. After Joe Gruters, the Chair of the Republican Party of Florida, issued a press release trumpeting an Immigration Listening Tour, Florida Democrats do the math. RPOF is holding a tour in cities that are majority white and Republican — ignoring immigrant communities…
According to data from the watchdog group OpenSecrets. org, contributions to local Congressman Greg Steube and Florida Senator Marco Rubio from the gun rights industry total almost a quarter-million dollars. To be fair, Steube’s gun receipts during his first term (he was elected in 2016) total a mere $5,000 compared to Rubio’s whopping $243,179. And…
On this sickening day when two mass shootings have happened in our country, I find it important to remind myself that mass shootings happen almost nowhere else but in the United States. We cannot become normalized to the regular pace of massive, execution-style killings. These horrific events are exclusive to the United States. So…
Moody drew cheers from the NRA when she went to court to try to block Floridians from voting on a citizen-proposed amendment to ban high-capacity weapons. Keep in mind: Moody didn’t just take a stance against the amendment and urge Floridians to vote it down. She’s trying to stop you and every other Floridian from…
All unaccompanied children have been removed from the Homestead migrant detention facility in Homestead, Florida, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed on Saturday. Homestead, which has been criticized by politicians for its treatment of unaccompanied minors, was the nation’s largest facility for migrant children, housing 14,300 unaccompanied minors since March 2018. (Read more…
State Senator Joe Gruters and Representative Cord Byrd announced Thursday that they’ll be embarking on a listening tour across seven cities in three days. “With another legislative session on the horizon, we believe it’s important to go straight to Floridians and hear their ideas on how we can further improve our immigration system,” Gruters and…