by Teresa Jenkins, Charlotte County Dems Chair In 2018, more than 64 percent of Florida voters chose to amend the state constitution to restore voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their sentences. But the Republican-controlled legislature dragged out the process, mired it in court fights and added so much red tape that only a…
Detailsby Fran Dance, Charlotte County Dems On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, with Vice President Biden standing by his side. Because of Obamacare, over 100 million people no longer worry that an insurance company will deny coverage or charge higher premiums just because they have a pre-existing condition – whether cancer or…
Detailsby Linda Porterfield, Charlotte Dems writer Americans, at least those who believe in science, love Dr. Anthony Fauci. He has become a folk hero in the war against Covid-19 and serves as a beacon of scientific truth against a backdrop of silence, secrecy, and lies promoted by the Trump administration. For payback, the Trump administration…
DetailsEditor’s note: Jane Merriam, Charlotte County Dems secretary, tells Charlotte Sun readers the truth about voting by mail in her letter to the editor. Read her letter: In the last election, did you know that President Trump, Mrs. Trump, Vice President Pence, Mrs. Pence, Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner all voted by mail? Now the…
DetailsJon “Bowzer” Bauman. Image provided by Jon Bauman. Jon “Bowzer” Bauman will be the featured speaker at the CC DEC Business Meeting on July 6 at 6:30 P.M. The meeting will be held virtually on Zoom; please sign up here. Bauman is a former member of the band Sha Na Na and is the co-founder…
DetailsImage 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…
DetailsMeeting 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…
DetailsImage 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…
DetailsU. 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…
DetailsImage 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…
DetailsImage 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…
DetailsImage 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…
DetailsImage 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…
DetailsImage 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…
DetailsCaption: 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…
DetailsImage 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…
DetailsImage 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…
DetailsImage 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…
DetailsHe 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…
DetailsImage 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…
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