Parkland students to hold town hall in Punta Gorda Students and alumni from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will stop in Punta Gorda on Tuesday on their “Road to Change” bus tour. The nationwide tour will take the group across the country and to each of Florida’s congressional districts. Charlotte County will be its fifth…
Voter Registration and Town Hall discussion scheduled for Tuesday, June 26, as part of MFOL “Road To Change” tour. “For us, the ‘Road To Change’ is the next step in our journey to empowering people across the country,” said MFOL student organizer Delany Tarr, age 17. “It’s a chance to connect with people, young people, in…
Democrat Olivia Babis is challenging Republican Rep. Joe Gruters for the District 23 seat. Olivia Babis often had to fight for equal rights growing up as a person with a disability. Now the Sarasota Democrat wants to take the lessons she learned through her personal advocacy and help others who are struggling. Babis, 41, filed…
Lake Wales Democrat Catherine Price announced Friday that she would run for the Senate District 26 seat being vacated by Sebring Sen. Denise Grimsley, who is running for Agriculture Commissioner in the fall. “Tallahassee seems to be broken and our state is in desperate need of better political leadership. We need legislators who are educated, experienced, and committed…
Nelson is up with a 60-second digital ad that accuses Scott of a “political stunt” in his announcement in January with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that Florida was “off the table” for future oil exploration. (Read more in TampaBay.com)
CHARLOTTE COUNTY – Two Democratic candidates for State Senate and a candidate for Charlotte County Commissioner explained their positions on a wide variety of issues during a forum at the Charlotte County Democratic Headquarters Thursday. Catherine Price of Lake Wales, FL, is running for Florida State Senate District 26. She told the audience, “We need good…
Today, FDP Chair Terrie Rizzo released the following statement on Donald Trump’s executive order: “Today, young children are still being separated from their families, and held in internment camps in South Florida — and we still don’t know what the future holds for them. Donald Trump gets no credit for temporarily ending the cruel, inhumane,…
Miami Herald: Florida has more to lose with sea rise than anywhere else in the U.S Petition here Yesterday, the Tampa Bay Times reported on how Rick Scott has financial interests in various companies that would benefit from his inaction on climate change. This is the latest in a string of reporting that has dove into Rick Scott’s various…
House Republicans released a proposal Tuesday that would balance the budget in nine years — but only by making large cuts to entitlement programs, including Medicare, that President Trump vowed not to touch. The House Budget Committee is aiming to pass the blueprint this week, but that may be as far as it goes this…
A new Quinnipiac University poll finds Republican voters strongly back the immigrant children separation issue, while every other political persuasion and demographic group in the survey oppose it. The poll, released Monday afternoon, states that Republican voters, by 55-35 percent, support the policy of President Donald Trump of prosecuting parents immediately even if it means separating them from…
Sen. Bill Nelson and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz were denied entry Tuesday into a federal facility in Homestead housing immigrant children. The Florida Democrats wanted to see conditions inside the shelter and determine the status of what is reported to be about 1,000 youths there. Nelson said the company operating the facility granted a tour…
LACIDA — A Boca Grande couple has unveiled development plans for the 18-acre waterfront Placida Historic Fishing Village… They plan to build an Old Florida style development with a 150-room boutique hotel and a 55-and-older gated enclave offering hotel-like concierge services to residents in independent living. (Read more in HeraldTribune.com)
At a presser in front of the Sand Blaster roller coaster, Volusia County Democrats called for Adam Putnam and the Department of Agriculture to be held accountable for signing off on the roller coaster just hours before it crashed: Susanne Raines, President, Democratic Club of Northern Volusia County: “I’m frustrated with the lack of competence and…
The New Republican PAC cited a few votes Nelson took while in the U.S. Senate, but experts questioned whether the measures really lived up to the consequences the ad described. All in all, these were not votes geared toward making substantive, structural changes to the Social Security and Medicare programs. (Read more in PolitiFact.com)
The party announced the release of a digital ad Thursday that highlights the recent stories about the Agriculture Commissioner’s office’s failure to review the results of more than a year’s worth of a federal concealed carry background checks.
Joan Fischer has taken it upon herself to be a voice for transparency in the race for the District 4 seat on the Charlotte County Commission, currently held by Stephen R. Deutsch. “The reason I’m running is because I feel the people are not being told anything that happens until after it happens” (Read on Charlotte Sun)
The goal of the tour is to reach out to voters and support candidates in communities that have not had Democratic representation for years, in some cases decades. Beginning Tuesday night with a stop in LaBelle —a city of 4,700 in Hendry County —the party has planned visits to Putnam, Bay, Okaloosa, Walton County, Washington, Franklin, Jackson, Wakulla…
Yet again, Rick Scott refused to stand up for Floridians’ access to quality and affordable healthcare coverage after the Trump Administration recently launched an effort to strip protections for those with pre-existing conditions. According to recent estimates, over seven million Floridians have pre-existing conditions. According to Florida Politics, when asked on Wednesday about the Trump Administration’s decision to no longer…
PUNTA GORDA – More than two dozen protesters held a “die-in” on the steps of the Historical Charlotte County Courthouse Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. Demonstrators lay down on the concrete and brick for several minutes to remember the 49 victims of the mass shooting. They held…
Tonight, four of the Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates will participate in a debate in South Florida. The debate will be streamed LIVE on SEIU Florida’s Facebook page, Website and WLRN radio. It will be the third time this year that the Democratic candidates will debate, and they will debate again next on July 18th in Fort Myers. The Republican…