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Your Desire For A Happy, Healthier Life Makes Him Sour
In poll after poll, former Republican lobbyist David Jolly is losing to Democrat Alex Sink in the race for the late Bill Young's seat, so what's a losing candidate to do?
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"Are You Listening Gov. Scott?"
Activists, Democrats, and at least one Republican, are reacting and speaking out against Rick Scott's latest attempt to block the votes of students at the University of Florida, coming on the heels of yet another problematic and potentially expensive voter purge.
Boehner And Buchanan: Show Us The Flood Of Money!
While Florida homeowners are seeing a 400 percent rate hike in some areas, Republican House leaders have refused to even bring a bill that would delay flood insurance rate hikes to a vote. It's not that it wouldn't pass, because the votes are there. They simply refuse to allow a vote, period.
You'll recall last year when the Republican Party lost their own State Director of Florida Hispanic Outreach for the Republican National Committee, Pablo Pantoja, who left them and his party by becoming a Democrat? Well, since then it's evident they haven't learned a thing from that, nor changed in any way, now they've lost yet another member. This time it's former State Representative and Republican activist Ana Rivas Logan, who has now become a Democrat.
Logan said this of her decision to become a Democrat:
"It's a party that has been radicalized and held hostage by a group of extremists. It's a party that attacks women and minorities -- and one that asked me, and my former Hispanic Republican colleagues in the Florida legislature, to turn on their own people by supporting extreme anti-immigrant policies. It's a party I was no longer proud to be a part of."
When Pantoja abandoned the GOP last year, he said this:
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A Coal Train Controversy Rumbles Through Seattle
It's been over a month now since a company called Freedom Industries spilled an as yet undetermined amount of MCHM, (recent estimates say 10,000 gallons) the mixture of chemicals used to "clean" coal during production, into the Elk River in West Virginia. Those who have followed the spill know that the company responsible has barely been heard from since a brief press conference, and later news the company had filed for bankruptcy, largely leaving the victims on their own. Little is known about the chemical, how much was spilled, and just how many spills have taken place. People have been told several different things about how safe, or dangerous the water is for consumption and other uses, as they show up in hospitals in the region. (Think Progress has a great summary of the history of the spill so far here.)
Since then, a coal preparation facility spilled an unknown quantity of coal slurry into a creek in Kanawha County, W.V. The responsible company's name? Patriot Coal. In that spill, slurry leaked is unknown, but a DEP spokesman characterized it as "significant."
Meanwhile, trains carrying various types of fuel derail, catch fire, and devastate towns causing explosions, evacuations, property loss, and death. (Just today a train carrying ethanol derailed in Jacksonville Florida, and cleanup the is ongoing.)
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Shocked That Minorities Would Take Issue At His Voter Suppression Efforts
Prepare yourself for a shock, Florida. More GOP orchestrated voter suppression is getting underway, this time in Manatee County:
A plan to cut the number of polling locations by almost 30 percent has drawn fire from those who say minority and poorer voters will bear the greatest share of the inconvenience.
Plans submitted by Manatee Supervisor of Elections Mike Bennett to trim the number of precincts from 99 to 69 are slated for review Tuesday by the Manatee County Commission.
On top of that, and for no apparent reason, nor an explanation, Bennett plans to pull another switch by changing voter precinct numbers.
Now prepare yourself for another whopper of Florida voting law hypocrisy bigger than the sun that gives the state its namesake. Bennett says it's news to him that anyone would take issue with the kind of changes he wants to make:
FOX Business, Seen Here, Taking A Stand Against Indoctrination
Oh dear, FOX is at it again, faux-raging over another "liberal Hollywood movie" trying to impose its evil on poor unsuspecting children who are in danger of being sucked into the vortex of an open mind somewhere.
This time, the vehicle of indoctrination? Legos. BE AFRAID!
The delicate flowers at FOX Business are withering on the vine over a plot where a good Lego tries to stop a villainous Lego called President Business from world domination, or a classic good vs evil plot, and one that those FOX Bots will not tolerate.
Pander Enabler?
It's perfectly understandable if anyone were to think this is just another bit of election season pandering from Rick Scott, who has suddenly feigned an interest in Floridans by throwing them promises of a tax holiday here, maybe an education dollar there.
He suddenly claimed just yesterday he's considering in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants:
During a meeting with Hispanic members of the Florida Legislature, Gov. Rick Scott said he will “consider” a bill that would allow the children of undocumented immigrants living in Florida to qualify for in-state tuition at the state’s colleges and universities.
“I’ll certainly consider it,” Scott told the Florida Hispanic Legislative Caucus. “I think tuition is too high.”
He's not the only one claiming this sudden interest in fairness either:
