Allen Ellison announces bid for US Senate
Allen Ellison has announced that he will run for the United States Senate in 2022. The seat is currently held by Republican Marco Rubio.
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Punta Gorda millennial pay among worst in US. But new projects could draw in millennials, county official says.
By Anna Bryson, Charlotte Sun Staff Writer, Nov 23, 2020 A new study shows that the Punta Gorda metro area is one of the worst-paying metros in the nation for millennials. Of 265 metros, the best paying is San Jose-Sunnyvale- Santa Clara in California. The median income for full-time millennials is $77,900. But — the…
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DWC is collecting gift cards for Charlotte County homeless moms
By Kay Blue, DWC president Every year, the Democratic Women’s Club (DWC) collects gift cards for Charlotte County mothers who are registered in the Charlotte County schools’ homeless program. Due to COVID-19, this year the number in need has grown. The DWC is asking for and collecting gift cards that can be redeemed locally. Some…
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Gov. Ron DeSantis doesn’t want to shut down Florida. What power do mayors and counties have to control the virus?
By RYAN GILLESPIE and STEPHEN HUDAK, published in the ORLANDO SENTINEL, Nov 20, 2020 Across the country, states and counties are ordering residents to hunker down or wear masks as governors brace for another surge of coronavirus cases. But in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis has prohibited nearly all shutdown actions that local counties were able to take early…
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Charlotte leaders at odds over impact fees
By Betsy Calvert, Charlotte Sun staff writer, published Nov 22, 2020 Charlotte County commissioners may agree that impact fees on new construction should go up, but they disagree on how much. Commissioners may consider raising assessments next year County staff told the board at a workshop Tuesday that they could have something for the board to…
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A Thanksgiving message from our Chair
To All Charlotte County Democrats: Happy Thanksgiving! I know this year has been rough, but I have seen your strength throughout this difficult Election season. And while the coronavirus pandemic has upended life for nearly everyone in one way or another; healthcare workers, first responders and other essential workers have had to face more risks…
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Let’s achieve Democratic wins in the Georgia US Senate runoffs!
You may know the Republicans’ Senate majority still isn’t guaranteed. It will come down to two tough Senate runoff races in Georgia. Winning these runoffs is possible and absolutely essential. Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Warnock (the pastor at Martin Luther King Jr’s. former church in Atlanta) will be strong, principled fighters for Georgians on everything from…
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If Congress doesn’t act, 12 million Americans could lose unemployment aid after Christmas
By Eli Rosenberg, Nov 18, 2020, Washington Post Deadlines set by Congress early in the pandemic will result in about 12 million Americans losing unemployment insurance by the year’s end, according to a report released Wednesday — a warning about the sharp toll that inaction in Washington could exact on the economic health of both individual…
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Joe Gruters to seek another term as Florida GOP leader
Move comes after successful election cycle.
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Seven members of Congress test positive for COVID-19 in one week, as U.S. cases surge
By Laura Olson , Nov 19, 2020 published in the Florida Phoenix WASHINGTON — Seven members of the U.S. House and Senate announced during the past week that they have tested positive for COVID-19, marking a burst of infections on Capitol Hill as cases have surged across the country. At least 29 members of Congress have tested…
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Florida mayors rip into DeSantis
By GARY FINEOUT, Nov19, 2020, Politico.com Handing out grades — Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber was blunt: “This isn’t working. It is unmistakably clear that Florida’s approach to managing this pandemic is failing horribly. Since you reopened all elements of commerce in late September and, simultaneously, prevented local government from enforcing mask mandates, positive cases have risen…
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Democrats to provide Thanksgiving dinners to Veterans
The Charlotte County Democratic Party and the Veterans Caucus will supply Thanksgiving dinners to Veterans and their families who reside at the Punta Gorda Veterans Village at 1250 Taylor Street in Punta Gorda on Wednesday, November 25. Dinners will be prepared by the Bob Evans restaurant in Port Charlotte and will be picked up by members…
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Sorry, but our governor is acting as crazy as a Raid-sprayed roach
By Diane Roberts , Nov 18, 2020, Florida Phoenix Gov. Ron DeSantis is clearly suffering some kind of breakdown, poor fellow. How else can you explain his bizarre behavior? If it’s not an emotional collapse then the only other possibility is that he is a sociopath who doesn’t give a good goddamn about the people of Florida.…
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DeSantis pushes ‘anti-mob’ proposal in response to protests
Editor’s note: The First Amendment to the US Constitution guarantees the Freedom of Assembly. DeSantis seems to want to remove that right. TALLAHASSEE (AP) — An “anti-mob” legislation drafted by Gov. Ron DeSantis and aimed at police brutality protests sprouting up in other cities would expand Florida’s Stand Your Ground law, a move critics say…
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Stop the Sarasota fish farm project!
Kampachi Farms, LLC, proposes the installation of Velella Epsilon, a pilot demonstration project consisting of 20,000 Almoco jack (80,000 lbs at harvest) within a net pen approximately 45 miles WSW of Sarasota, FL and generally down current of Charlotte, Lee and Collier counties coastline. Noted environmentalist and Indivisible member Dr. Richard Whitman, has studied the proposed project and presented…
DetailsU.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of FL stands by Trump in doubts “about the veracity of this election.”
By Issac Morgan -November 11, 2020, Florida Phoenix While President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office, Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio supports President Donald Trump taking legal action to challenge voting results in the 2020 presidential election. “At the core of our republic, its legitimacy comes from people’s confidence in the elections,” Rubio, a Republican, told Fox…
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Charlotte County Dems celebrate Biden-Harris win and look back on election effort
By Lenny Guckenheimer, Charlotte Dems writer In this era of COVID-19 pandemic social-distant restrictions, it’s hard to party. But that is exactly what Charlotte County (CC) Dems did in our last well attended monthly online Zoom meeting. We were dancing and cheering (and imbibing our favorite beverages) in our homes. The November 9th meeting was…
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Florida Gov. DeSantis’s new data analyst: An anti-mask sports blogger pushing coronavirus conspiracies
By Katie Shepherd, Washington Post writer, Nov 11, 2020 When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) needed a new mind to join the state’s team of data analysts, many of whom have been working to monitor the coronavirus pandemic, he turned to an unlikely candidate. Last week, Kyle Lamb, a little-known sports blogger who moonlights as an anti-masker, announced he had been hired to…
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FL remains an outlier as Gov. DeSantis bucks national trend on mask mandates
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…
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Gov. DeSantis plays with dynamite by suggesting popular vote be thrown out
OpEd 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…
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