Submitted by: Catherine Baxter In the midst of a pandemic that has cost the jobs of over 40 million people in the U.S., Trump is trying yet again to kill the Affordable Care Act – an attack that Nancy Pelosi has called “an act of unfathomable cruelty”. Cruel it would be, as the Kaiser Family
Image Credit: Indivisible Submitted by: Teresa Jenkins on 6/28/2020 How convenient for conservative politicians and news outlets to rant that the recent Black Lives Matter protests are led by antifa when in fact they are led by multiracial and multigenerational crowds seeking a reckoning with systemic problems of racism and policing. There is no organization
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
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
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”24063″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]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,
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”24082″ img_size=”large”][vc_column_text]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
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Image Credits: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Submitted by: James Williams and Fran Dance – fdance1029@gmail.com 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
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”24016″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]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
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”23943″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]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
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”23899″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Source: New York Times By Juan Williams on 6/3/2020 In Columbia, S.C., on Saturday, a young protester told a reporter that she just didn’t think voting is “how change happens.” “They’ve been telling us to do that for so long,” she added, “and we’ve done it — and look at everything that’s
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”23861″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]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
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”23821″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]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
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Ron Feinsod had no intention of running for mayor when he and his wife retired to Venice. The Feinsods had been spending time in Venice since 2002, and became full time residents in 2015, but Ron was troubled by what he saw as poorly planned growth and environmental degradation, particularly after a severe occurrence of
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”23149″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]Offers 15 recommendations to promote and aid Florida agriculture in coronavirus crisis. Source: FloridaPolitics.com By: Scott Powers on April 24, 2020 Snubbed by Gov. Ron DeSantis when he put together his Re-Open Florida Task Force, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried has offered the panel her own recommendations for recovery from the coronavirus crisis.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”22831″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes”][vc_column_text]Image Credit: Damon Winter/The New York Times Trump’s catastrophic performance has as much to do with psychology as ideology Source: New York Times By Jennifer Senior, Opinion columnist Posted: April 5, 2020 Since the early days of the Trump administration, an impassioned group of mental health professionals have warned the public about