Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century Joe Biden will advance the security, prosperity, and values of the United States by taking immediate steps to renew our own democracy and alliances, protect our economic future, and once more place America at the head of the table, leading the world to address the most urgent global…
Image Credits: Charlotte Sun, by Sean Porter The two local Black Lives Matter marches achieved a major milestone when Charlotte County law enforcement met with Black community leaders to discuss accountability and law enforcement policy. Read about the meeting in the Charlotte Sun. Also read about Charlotte Dems support for Black Lives Matter Young activists…
U. S. Attorney General William Barr acts like President Trump’s puppet. Image credits: Bilder von Raphael Köhler und Christian Fuchs angefertigt / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 Submitted by: Linda Porterfield, Charlotte Dems writer He has stacked the courts, sanitized the justice department of objectivity, sent inspectors general packing, attacked peaceful protesters practicing their constitutional rights, and…
Image from Daily Kos (dailykos.com) By Denise Candea, Charlotte Dems writer “They had levels of voting that if you ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again”, Donald Trump, “Fox and Friends”, March 30, 2020 White men of means have been suppressing the vote before the ink was dry…
Image Credits : The New Yorker Submitted by: Denise Candea Donald Trump is the guy on the wrong side of every issue. Even as he lies, distorts, threatens and belittles, he manages to hold onto 90% of Republicans by playing to their fears; that is, until COVID-19 and the racist police murders. He now seems…
Image Credits : Secretary of Charlotte County Democrats Submitted by: Jane Merriam By Jane Merriam, Secretary of Charlotte County Democrats on June 22, 2020 I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1950s where Jim Crow laws were strictly enforced. My first memory of racism was getting on a bus with our maid. She paid…
Image Credits : Candidates’ Photos Submitted by: Fran Dance On June 18th the Charlotte County Democratic Party hosted a well-attended virtual roundtable discussion with Aisha Alayande, representing Allen Ellison, our candidate for U.S. Congressional District 17, now represented by Republican Greg Steube, and David Jones, our candidate for State House District 75, now represented by…
Image Credits : google images Submitted by: Linda Porterfield on 6/21/20 By: GARY FINEOUT on 06/16/2020, Politicol TALLAHASSEE — As Florida reels from an economic collapse and double-digit unemployment, Republicans are looking to avoid a return to the state capital until after the November elections. This strategy is a political move designed to duck public…
Caption: A girl calls her friends to Vote By Mail. Image courtesy https://www.freeimages.com By Linda DeMeritt, Precinct Captain Coordinating Committee chair Our voter outreach meets challenges, thanks to you! Thanks and congratulations to all of our Precinct Captains and Volunteers! As of mid-June, we finished calling Cold Democrats, which means we have now completed the…
Image Credits : Yinan Chen Submitted by: Teresa Jenkins A timely message from Teresa Jenkins, Chair, Democratic Party of Charlotte County: Juneteenth, (“June” plus “nineteenth”) sometimes called “Jubilee,” indicates the year of freedom from enslavement, or even more simply “Freedom Day.” It is also referred to Black Independence Day. It was June 19, 1865 when…
Image Credits : Google Images Submitted by: Linda Porterfield on 6/18/2020 Written by Diane Rado, Editor-in-Chief Florida Phoenix June 8th, 2020 So where are Florida’s Republican leaders? Isn’t it their job to show up when things are going to hell? You couldn’t miss Gov. Ron DeSantis during the old days (about three weeks ago) when…
Image Credits: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Submitted by: James Williams and Fran Dance – [email protected] The 3rd bill to address the COVID-19 pandemic is called the ‘‘Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act’’ or the “HEROES Act”. It was already approved more than a month ago by the US House of Representatives but now sits…
He finally couldn’t just stand by and take it anymore. Fran Dance became an associate member of the Charlotte County (CC) Democrats in January 2020 to make deliberate and tangible efforts for progressive change in our county, state and country. He and his wife had purchased their Englewood home in 2010, while still maintaining a…
Image Credits : Stephanie Klein, Speedbump Source: Washington Post By: Marisa Iati on June 13, 2020 Tension built for days between Florida Department of Health supervisors and the department’s geographic information systems manager before officials showed her the door, she says, permanently pulling her off the coronavirus dashboard that she operated for weeks. Managers…
By: Denise Candea & Teresa Jenkins on 6/15/2020 A disturbing trend is clearly evident in America—people of color, particularly African Americans, are experiencing more serious illness and death due to COVID-19 than white people. Black Americans and other minorities are more likely than their white counterparts to work in the service industries consisting of…
Image Credits : Adam Ciesielski Credit: FreeImages.com Submitted by: Francis Dance on 6/5/2020 Charlotte County Democrats unanimously passed a resolution at its June 1st meeting to address the COVID-19 pandemic in Florida, consisting of the following points: 1. Federal and state governments must extend unemployment benefits after the initial 12 week period ends (rather…
Image Credits: Seattle Times Submitted by: Catherine Baxter 6/2/2020 In my recent interview of Linda Richardson, a former Republican and current phone bank volunteer, she mentioned a book she had read. “The Little Blue Book”, By George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling is about how to frame our political dialogue. We seem to be losing the…
Submitted by: Kay Blue on 6/3/2020 The Democratic Women’s Club of Charlotte County is excited to announce the winners of its annual Betty Gissendanner Scholarship awards. This year’s $1000 recipient is Annamaria Belevitch of Port Charlotte High School. Annamaria was the president of her school’s Model United Nations Team and plans to attend Columbia University…
Submitted by: Catherine Baxter on 5/30/20 Charlotte County Dems. Data Captain(s) Needed Now! We are a committed group of Democrats who want this president out of office. Are you on our side? Willing to help? Have a few hours a week? Comfortable with technology and statistics? We are in CRITICAL NEED of a data administrator,…
Image Credits : Gamewell Submitted by: Linda Porterfield 5/28/20 Pay attention Florida. In Davos Switzerland at the World Economic Summit, Trump suggested he is willing to consider cuts to safety net programs such as social security and Medicare if he wins a second term (New York Times, 1/2020). Shortly after that, COVID-19 began its insidious…