By Mac Stipanovich, Floridapolitics.com, June 13, 2021 The much-anticipated U.S. Senate race in Florida between the Republican incumbent Marco Rubio and the Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Val Demings is on. And it bids fair to be the highest-profile contest in the country in the struggle for control of the Senate. One of the more interesting aspects of this matchup…
Opinion by Greg Sargent, Washington Post Columnist, June 3, 2021 Last month, when the GOP purge of critics of Donald Trump was at its frenzied peak, the party hit on a clever way to put a positive gloss on it. This was necessary, Republicans insisted, to maintain the GOP’s new status as a “working-class party,” by…
Opinion by FABIOLA SANTIAGO, The Miami Herald, May 28, 2021 For a nanosecond in Florida, many of us exhaled at the return of class, decency and civility to the White House with the election of centrist Democrat Joe Biden. Please God, let the next four years be boring, very, very boring, I prayed. This, I…
Editor’s note: just a coincidence? I don’t buy it! By John Kennedy, Capital Bureau, USA TODAY NETWORK-FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Tuesday a controversial ban on transgender athletes participating in women’s sports at the high school and college levels, seizing on a trend coursing through conservative states. The Republican governor enacted the measure on…
Opinion by Dana Milbank, Washington Post Columnist, May 26, 2021 It has long been obvious that Mitch McConnell puts party before country, but this week he actually admitted it. The Senate minority leader told Republican colleagues that they should oppose the creation of a Jan. 6 commission, no matter how it is structured, because it “could…
Opinion by George T. Conway III, Washington Post contributing columnist To borrow the infamous line of his ex-presidential ex-client, it looks like Rudolph W. Giuliani is “going to go through some things.” Like possibly being charged with a crime. Worse, some people who might have tried to save him from that fate might have actually guaranteed it.…
Opinion by the Washington Post Editorial Board May 6, 2021 Cedric L. Richmond (D) resigned from Congress on Jan. 15 to become senior adviser to President Biden. A special election to fill his Louisiana seat was held in March, and a runoff in April. Deb Haaland (D) resigned from her New Mexico seat in March…
Opinion by Michael Gerson, Washington Post Columnist, May 3, 2021 “Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!” — “Henry IV,” Part 1, Act 5 For the activist base of the Republican Party, affirming that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential contest has become a qualification for membership in good standing. For the party’s elected leaders,…
Opinion by Liz Cheney, published in the Washington Post, May 5, 2021 Liz Cheney, a Republican, represents Wyoming’s at-large congressional district in the U.S. House. In public statements again this week, former president Donald Trump has repeated his claims that the 2020 election was a fraud and was stolen. His message: I am still the rightful president,…
By Barrington Salmon, Florida Phoenix, April 30, 2021 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is running scared. So fearful is he and his collaborators of the rising power of primarily Black racial justice protesters, they concocted and signed a sweeping bill into law that criminalizes the constitutionally guaranteed right to protest. Going forward, those who march in…
By Ross Douthat, Opinion Columnist, NY Times, April 17, 2021 After the Republican Party suffered a surprising (well, to Republicans) defeat in the 2012 election, the Republican National Committee famously commissioned an autopsy that tried to analyze how the party had fallen short. It made a range of recommendations, but they were distilled by the headlines…
Editor’s note: While Republicans in Tallahassee attempt to suppress Vote by Mail via SB 90, ostensibly to address election fraud; they will likely do nothing to address this alleged crime within their party. How two faced! By SAMANTHA J. GROSS and ANA CEBALLOS, Miami Herald, March 19, 2021 Florida Democrats on Friday called for Republican Sen.…
Editor’s note: Charlotte Dems helped blow the whistle on this latest version of DeSantis political favoritism after he scheduled a pop up clinic at Kings Gate, a gated community and Republican stronghold in Port Charlotte. By Zac Anderson, Sarasota Herald-Tribune The Palmer Ranch community in Sarasota County encompasses 9,000 acres in the developed portion west…
By Linda A. Richardson, Charlotte Dems contributor After the acquittal of Donald Trump following his second impeachment, I just had to write our Senators and Mitch McConnell. We are limited to 3000 characters for a congressional email. The following message fits that criteria and I offer this as a template for you to send to…
FL state senator Joe Gruters further demonstrated his leadership incompetence by speaking at an Anti-Vaxxers meeting yesterday.
Editor’s note: US Representative Greg Steube, FL District 17, was one of the 125 Republican representatives who proudly signed an amicus brief supporting the lawsuit filed by Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, and backed by seventeen other Republican state attorneys general (including Florida’s Ashley Moody,) that requested the Supreme Court throw out the duly certified…
By Betsy Calvert, Charlotte Sun Staff Writer, Dec 10, 2020 Dozens of ordinary citizens and high-ranking officials made their pitches Thursday to Charlotte County’s three-member legislative delegation, who also represent seven other counties from Polk to a piece of Lee County. Hearing the presentations, and cutting them off if they ran too long, were Rep.…
Move comes after successful election cycle.
Editor’s note: This story appeared in the September 24, 2020 issue of New York Magazine. Charlotte County has reported over 3000 cases and 135 deaths attributed to COVID-19. By Zak Cheney-Rice Florida governor Ron DeSantis is pushing an anti-protest bill that would shield people who use their cars to kill demonstrators from legal liability, among other provisions.…
Remember High School Civics Class? I had it Twice in High School (9th Grade Civics and 12th Grade Problems of Democracy). Then again In college (American Government). Florida Legislature passed a law requiring Civil Literacy in 2017 in an effort to ensure the electorate had a passable understanding of how our government works. A good…