By Laura Cassels, published by Florida Phoenix, Nov 10, 2020 As new daily cases of COVID-19 hit record highs across the nation this week, Florida remains an outlier by not requiring its people to wear face masks in public. Florida is one of just 16 states that don’t impose a statewide mask mandate. The others are…
DetailsOpEd of the Sun Sentinel Editorial Board and written by one of its members or a designee. The Editorial Board consists of Editorial Page Editor Rosemary O’Hara, Dan Sweeney, Steve Bousquet and Editor-in-Chief Julie Anderson. Published by the SOUTH FLORIDA SUN SENTINEL, NOV 10, 2020 Summary: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is recommending a disastrous misuse…
DetailsHis first order of business will be to call Republican and Democratic governors to urge them to adopt mask mandates and communicate the importance of social distancing. By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Laurie McGinley, Washington Post, Nov 7, 2020 President-elect Joe Biden made his election bid a referendum on President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But as he inherits…
DetailsEditor’s note: our local newspaper takes a positive stand on mask wearing Charlotte Sun editorial, Nov 7,2020 Within the last couple of weeks we have: • seen the number of COVID-19 cases set daily and weekly records nationally, and in more than half the states; • seen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revise…
DetailsBy Sarah Lewerenz, Attorney at Law and Charlotte County Dems writer Now we can breathe. Now we can celebrate. Now we are headed in a better direction. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were tough, even with the incredible Steve Kornacki at the big board assuring us there were millions and then thousands of votes yet to…
DetailsBy Matt Viser, Seung Min Kim and Annie Linskey, published in the Washington Post, Nov 7, 2020 President-elect Joe Biden is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after being sworn into office on Jan. 20, immediately forecasting that the country’s politics have shifted and that his presidency will be guided by radically different priorities. He…
DetailsEditor’s note: Congratulations to President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris! Our local paper offered us all some good advice on how to move forward to heal and unify America for the many challenges ahead. Charlotte Sun editorial, Nov 5, 2020 Here we are, days after a momentous election, with some results final, some not and…
DetailsBy Teresa Jenkins, Charlotte County Democrats Chair At last, the relentless flood of text messages, phone calls, advertisements and yard signs all reminding us to vote has trickled to a halt. I don’t know about you, but every time I got one of those messages about how important my vote was, I really didn’t mind.…
DetailsBy Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, Washington Post, Nov 4, 2020 When Donald Trump narrowly won Wisconsin in 2016 to clinch the presidency, he carried 23 counties that had previously voted for President Barack Obama. But when Joe Biden was projected on Wednesday to put Wisconsin back in the Democratic column, he was on track to pry back…
DetailsBy Isaac Stanley-Becker, Tony Romm, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Drew Harwell, Washington Post, Nov 4, 2020 President Trump, his son and top members of his campaign on Wednesday advanced a set of unfounded conspiracy theories about the vote-tallying process to claim that Democrats were rigging the final count. Eric Trump tweeted a video, first pushed out by…
DetailsBy Alexa Corse, Wall Street Journal writer, published Nov. 3, 2020 Election officials say the country should be prepared not to know who won the White House on Election Day, citing a surge of mail ballots that some states will need extra time to count. Already this year, several states needed additional time to count ballots…
DetailsBy Fran Dance, Charlotte County Dems writer Per www.charlottevotes.com 117,084 votes from 152,160 eligible voters were tabulated in Charlotte County as of 7:40 am on November 4th. This represents a 76.95% turnout, matching the 2016 election result. 31,063 Democratic, 58,084 Republican, 25,778 NPA and 2,159 other party registration persons voted. Sadly, Democratic candidates across the…
DetailsAs the 2020 election cycle comes to a close and we all eagerly anticipate results in every race, Charlotte County Dems want to provide you with a few resources that we think you might find useful over the coming days and possibly weeks: https://floridaelectionwatch.gov/How Long Will Vote Counting Take? Estimates and Deadlines in All 50…
DetailsDonald Trump is now an intrinsic part of the narrative of America. By Thomas Wright, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, published in The Atlantic, Nov 1, 2020 Donald Trump will never really go away, even if he is resoundingly defeated on Tuesday. Not on November 4, not on January 20, not when he dies,…
DetailsBy Kate Shaw, Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Michael Eric Herz, Arthur Kaplan Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, published in The Atlantic, Oct 28, 2020 Even if Trump were resolved to thwart a smooth transition, much of the process lies entirely outside his control. Sometime in…
DetailsOpinion by Jennifer Rubin , Washington Post Columnist on Oct. 28, 2020 Former president Barack Obama is traveling to swing states to make the case for the Democratic presidential ticket, but his most effective contribution is in exposing and mocking President Trump’s inanities. Obama does not deploy goofy slurs or conspiracy theories; instead, he reminds…
DetailsBy Teresa Jenkins, Chair of the Charlotte County Democratic Party When people cast their vote, they are actually voting for a group of people called electors. When you cast your vote in the presidential election, you’re not taking part in a nationwide popular vote, but rather helping decide who your state’s Electoral College delegates support.…
DetailsOpinion by Max Boot Washington Post Columnist on Oct. 24, 2020 I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party was known as the “party of ideas.” That was in the 1980s. Since then it has become the party of pseudo-scandals. The change occurred, as the Princeton historian Julian Zelizer documents in his book “Burning…
DetailsWritten by Jess C., a Charlotte County resident who enjoys writing horror short stories in her free time. This year was the first time I voted. I’ve had various reasons for not voting previously, ranging from feeling apathetic to clueless and overwhelmed with how to fill out the ballot. That changed this time around. If…
DetailsBy Sue Busko, as published in Medium, Oct. 25, 2020 Co-conspirators in the War on Boomers I admit I grew bored with all the declarations of war over the last five decades. There was the War on Poverty (a nice idea, but have you noticed the lines at the food banks?) Then there was the…
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