After suffering huge losses in November, Florida’s Democratic National Committee members will meet behind closed doors Saturday with state party chair Terrie Rizzo to determine what went wrong — and what must be fixed in 2020 to defeat Donald Trump in the nation’s biggest battleground state. The meeting, where DNC members say they’ll air “gripes”…
DetailsIn Tampa Bay, 67.5 percent of Republicans turned out for the midterm election, beating Democrats by about 6 percentage points, according to data released this week by the Florida Division of Elections. Democrats’ turnout rate in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties was 61.2 percent. Only 43.4 percent of unaffiliated voters cast ballots. (Read more in…
DetailsFlorida Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis, a Republican, is slow-walking the implementation of a voter-approved initiative to restore the voting rights of the majority of the state’s felons who have completed their sentences. The initiative, Amendment 4, was approved by 65 percent of Floridians last month and would restore the voting rights of 1.5 million Floridians. (See more…
DetailsA story in the Charlotte Sun demonstrates that Charlotte County Democratic Commission candidate Joan Fischer attracted bi-partisan support during November’s election. The Sun’s article begins: “Susan Hutt had decided to quit her volunteer job with the Charlotte County Republican Party, after hearing background chatter on her support for a Democratic candidate for county commissioner.” (Read…
DetailsThe plunge of gas prices is slowing down. AAA – The Auto Club Group is reporting that prices have dropped just about 2 cents. The most expensive gas in Florida is in Panama City at $2.66 a gallon, while the least expensive gas in Florida is in Tampa bay at $2.13 a gallon. (Read more in FOX35Orlando.Com)
DetailsThe community of homes, named ‘Hunters Point — Pearl Homes Community and Marina,’ is the first community designed to help decarbonize Manatee County near Sarasota, Florida, and surrounding regions of Florida by making green living affordable to a broader market. (Read more in AccuWeather.com)
DetailsBetween hurricanes and a hullabaloo over water claims, home insurers dropped the policies of more than 87,000 Floridians in the third quarter of 2018 alone, state records show. As another hurricane season ends, it’s one more reason for consumers to arm themselves with knowledge about their options. (Read more in PalmBeachPost.com)
DetailsIn a remarkable display of unity, and during an otherwise highly divided election cycle in that state, Florida voters of all walks of life came together around a basic issue of fairness—that once a debt has been paid, our loved ones with past convictions should be brought back into society. (Read more in Slate.com)
DetailsMost everywhere in Florida, it’s not illegal to collect ballots, like it is in North Carolina, where it’s a felony. Rather, it’s only illegal to pay someone to collect ballots in Florida, a loophole that allows campaign volunteers and even candidates themselves to go door to door collecting voters’ ballots. (Read more in TampaBay.com)
DetailsForty-four former U.S. senators from both parties wrote in The Washington Post, urging current Senators to become “steadfast and zealous guardians of our democracy”. It begins: Dear Senate colleagues, As former members of the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans, it is our shared view that we are entering a dangerous period, and we feel an…
DetailsFlorida officials say thousands of mailed ballots were not counted because they were delivered too late to state election offices. The Department of State late last week informed a federal judge that 6,670 ballots were mailed ahead of the Nov. 6 election but were not counted because they were not received by Election Day. The…
DetailsOn Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by two states — Kansas and Louisiana — that want to cut Medicaid funds from providers like Planned Parenthood. The decision to not hear the appeal means that the ruling by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals stands. The Appeals Court told Kansas in…
DetailsThe mid-term elections are over and we didn’t get everything we wanted. However, we had a number of notable victories across the state and the country. Charlotte County turned-out to vote in historic numbers for a mid-term election Sixty-six percent of Charlotte County Democrats voted in the mid-term election Democrat Nikki Fried became Florida’s agriculture…
DetailsDozens of Charlotte County Democrats, including members of the CCDEC, CC Democratic Club, CC Democratic Womens’ Club, CC Young Democrats, CC Democratic Veterans Caucus, CC Democratic Environmental Caucus, and CC Democratic Hispanic Caucus marched in the Charlotte County Chamber of Commerce 40th annual Christmas Parade on Saturday.
DetailsJanuary 2019 marks the 3rd annual Women’s March! The march in Ft. Myers will be on January 20th, the day after the national event. Location: Centennial Park, 2000 W. 1st Street, Ft. Myers Time: 10:00a.m. to 2:00p.m. More Information: [email protected] The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to…
DetailsJust days after Florida voters approved a ban on drilling in state-owned waters, the Trump Administration gave the green light to five oil and gas companies to use seismic airgun blasts to search for oil and gas deposits that could be buried in the sea floor from New Jersey to Florida. Such approvals will harm…
DetailsThe Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, H.R. 7173 was introduced on the Hill on November 27, 2018 by Democratic Representative Theodore Deutch, FL-22, with Republican and Democratic cosponsors. The bill places a fee on fossil fuels like coal, gas, and oil. The money collected from the carbon fee will be distributed in equal shares…
DetailsThough she doesn’t officially take office for more than a month, Agriculture Commissioner-elect Nikki Fried is already making a splash in the Capital, and laying out clear markers for both her nascent administration and her stewardship of the state Democratic Party — of which she is now, somewhat improbably, the de facto leader. (Read more in FloridaPolitics.com)
DetailsThey’ve wrapped the presents and made the preparations – Now join us for the parade! Charlotte Dems will march in style alongside our float in the Holiday Parade. The parade departs Charlotte Center for Performing Arts (CCPA) at noon, Sat. Dec. 8, and marches on Carmelita and Taylor streets to the Charlotte Harbor Events Center. We…
DetailsMarion Hammer, the public face and political enforcer of the National Rifle Association in Florida, is in a snit about Democrat Nikki Fried having been elected commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the agency that issues concealed weapon permits. Hammer is lobbying to move weapons permitting to the office of Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis,…
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