Our Virtual Holiday Party will be on December 21, 2020 at 5pm.This year we are trying something a little different. We have engaged a virtual team-building company to host our event. They will divide us up in groups and we will play a variety of games (Trivia, Player Fact Match, Pictionary, Name that Movie/Theme, Puzzle Challenge and/or…
By Matt Dixon, Politico, Dec 3, 2020 TALLAHASSEE — Embattled Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo said she won’t seek reelection after the party’s disastrous 2020 election cycle. Rizzo’s exit, which was expected, comes after President Donald Trump won Florida by nearly 4 points, Democrats lost six seats in the state legislature, and two Democratic incumbents…
By Betsy Calvert, Charlotte Sun Staff Writer, Nov 29, 2020 This aerial view of the planned community called West Port under development shows State Road 776/El Jobean Road at the bottom and U.S. 41 at the top. The Charlotte County Centennial Park is the green in the middle. The first model homes may go in…
On Monday, December 7, 2020 at 6:30 pm, the Charlotte County Democratic Party will hold an organizational meeting as required by the Charlotte County Democratic Party’s Bylaws and the Florida Democratic Party (FDP). At this meeting we will be electing officers, so it is imperative that we have a quorum of the 43 eligible voting…
From a handful of infections in March to a toll reaching seven figures by the holidays, the year has felt like a decade.
Opinion by Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, published in Washington Post, November 27, 2020 Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Democrat, represents Florida’s 26th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. She lost her seat in the 2020 election. My family immigrated to the United States when I was 14, seeking economic opportunity and escaping the instability all too common in…
The Democrats are a big-tent party. The GOP isn’t. That explains everything.
Opinion by Fred Hiatt, Washington Post Editorial page editor, Nov 29, 2020 Let’s say you’re a Republican senator who claims to support democracy and U.S. leadership in the world. Let’s imagine, too, that you’ve spent four years excusing and supporting a president who fawned over North Korea’s odious dictator, encouraged China’s ruling tyrant to build his concentration camps,…
Opinion by Catherine Rampell, Washington Post Columnist, Nov 25, 2020 As COVID-19 hospitalizations hit another new high on Tuesday, President Trump called a news conference to boast about a different record: the stock market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, he crowed, had just pierced 30,000. “That’s a sacred number, 30,000,” he said. It was a bizarre statement even for…
Editor’s note: Also read “Marco Rubio gets ripped for criticizing Biden’s ‘Ivy League’ foreign policy team,” by HuffPost’s Jeremy Blum By Nick Niedzwiadek, Politico, Nov 24, 2020 Sen. Marco Rubio suggested on Tuesday that he would oppose confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s national security team, presaging the first sign of potential Senate battles to come if Republicans maintain control…
Editor’s note, Dec 4, 2020: Disgraced & resigned FL Senator Frank Artiles (R) planted the no-party candidate in the Miami-Dade Senate race, which the Republican candidate won by just 32 votes out of more than 215,000 cast. Read this update from the Miami Herald. By Scott Glover, Curt Devine, Drew Griffin and Scott Bronstein, published by CNN on Nov 23, 2020…
Allen Ellison has announced that he will run for the United States Senate in 2022. The seat is currently held by Republican Marco Rubio.
By Anna Bryson, Charlotte Sun Staff Writer, Nov 23, 2020 A new study shows that the Punta Gorda metro area is one of the worst-paying metros in the nation for millennials. Of 265 metros, the best paying is San Jose-Sunnyvale- Santa Clara in California. The median income for full-time millennials is $77,900. But — the…
By Kay Blue, DWC president Every year, the Democratic Women’s Club (DWC) collects gift cards for Charlotte County mothers who are registered in the Charlotte County schools’ homeless program. Due to COVID-19, this year the number in need has grown. The DWC is asking for and collecting gift cards that can be redeemed locally. Some…
By RYAN GILLESPIE and STEPHEN HUDAK, published in the ORLANDO SENTINEL, Nov 20, 2020 Across the country, states and counties are ordering residents to hunker down or wear masks as governors brace for another surge of coronavirus cases. But in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has prohibited nearly all shutdown actions that local counties were able to take early…
By Betsy Calvert, Charlotte Sun staff writer, published Nov 22, 2020 Charlotte County commissioners may agree that impact fees on new construction should go up, but they disagree on how much. Commissioners may consider raising assessments next year County staff told the board at a workshop Tuesday that they could have something for the board to…
You may know the Republicans’ Senate majority still isn’t guaranteed. It will come down to two tough Senate runoff races in Georgia. Winning these runoffs is possible and absolutely essential. Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Warnock (the pastor at Martin Luther King Jr’s. former church in Atlanta) will be strong, principled fighters for Georgians on everything from…
By Eli Rosenberg, Nov 18, 2020, Washington Post Deadlines set by Congress early in the pandemic will result in about 12 million Americans losing unemployment insurance by the year’s end, according to a report released Wednesday — a warning about the sharp toll that inaction in Washington could exact on the economic health of both individual…
Move comes after successful election cycle.
By Laura Olson , Nov 19, 2020 published in the Florida Phoenix WASHINGTON — Seven members of the U.S. House and Senate announced during the past week that they have tested positive for COVID-19, marking a burst of infections on Capitol Hill as cases have surged across the country. At least 29 members of Congress have tested…