Posts in the category Campaign 2010
Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 3-12-10 Go! Go! Ru-bi-o! By Beach Blogger Pensacola Beach Blog State representative Stephen Precourt (R-Orlando) has proposed using state tax dollars to promote the production of "family-friendly" movies and television productions. If Congress is banning earmarks, why should voters re-elect Bill Young? By Peter Schorsch St. Petersblog 2.0 Anyone else get the feeling that the race for Florida Congressional District 10 just got a whole lot more interesting now that House Democratic leaders on Wednesday banned budget earmarks to private industry, ending a practice that has steered billions of dollars in no-bid contracts to companies and set off corruption scandals. The Rubiolution will be televised By Joy Reid The Reid Report March sure is early to be going on television for a primary in August…which tells me Team Rubio is at least somewhat concerned that AMEXgate and the $134 back wax might begin to stick. The Big Oil roundup: news and information about Big Oil’s push to rig Florida’s coastline for the week ending 3-12-10: Many Florida coastal communities resolved against drilling  Progress Florida unveiled the "Resolved Against Drilling" map, a powerful illustration and visual reminder to lawmakers of the overwhelming opposition to legislation (SB 2622) that would end Florida's ban on oil drilling in state waters. The map shows that at least 55 cities, counties, chambers of commerce, and local agencies around the state have passed resolutions (you can view the list of resolutions here) opposing Speaker-Designate Dean Cannon's (R-Winter Park) and Senate-President Designate Mike Haridopolos's (R-Melbourne) effort to sell Florida's world famous coastline to Texas oilmen. From Key West to Pensacola, few other issues to be tackled this legislative session have met with such unified opposition from local communities. "This map demonstrates in clear terms that Floridians aren't buying the misleading claims and empty economic promises Big Oil is selling our state," said Mark Ferrulo, Executive Director of Progress Florida. TAKE ACTION NOW  Write Your State Senator: Big Oil's Promises Are "Empty" Big Oil and their hired hands in Tallahassee have sworn that drilling Florida’s coast would be “invisible” – that there would be no unsightly rigs just a few miles off our coast. We know different – and a recent eye opening story in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune has proven Big Oil’s promises completely “empty.” Click the picture above – keeping the pressure on by letting our State Senators know people like you are paying attention is how we’ll beat Big Oil.MORE ONLINE ACTIONS Pass a Resolution To Protect Florida's Beaches Now, via Audubon of Florida. Urge President Obama’s Ocean Policy Task Force to recommend against offshore drilling within any previously protected coastal waters, via Defenders of Wildlife. Tell Obama: Offshore Drilling is NOT the Answer to Energy Crisis, via Oceana. Help Drill for Solutions Not for Oil, via Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. Let us decide! Petition to Governor Charlie Crist, Senate President Jeff Atwater, and House Speaker Larry Cretul, via Civic Concern. Contact Your Officials About New Drilling Off Florida's Coasts, via Civic Concern. Ask your state legislators to keep the rigs out, via Save the Manatee Club. Write a letter to the editor, via Audubon of Florida. Write your state legislators, via Audubon of Florida. Urge Senate President Jeff Atwater to oppose offshore oil drilling, via Progress Florida. Tell Sen. Atwater Not To Allow Oil Drilling In Special Session, via Audubon of Florida. Sign the petition against oil drilling, via Protect Florida’s Beaches. Tell Salazar: No drilling off Florida's Coast, via Environment Florida. Tell new Senator LeMieux to Repower America, via Environment Florida. Related action: Don't go drill crazy in the Everglades, via Center for Biological Diversity. Related action: Keep oil drilling out of climate change legislation, via Oceana. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES OF NOTE Hands Across The Sand website; their Twitter page is here. Protect Florida’s Beaches, recently launched coalition website. Protect Florida’s Beaches on Facebook. Think, Baby, Think blog via Protect Florida’s Beaches. Don’t Drill Florida website. Don’t Drill Florida Facebook page. Save Our Shores Florida website; their Twitter page is here. Floridians Against Big Oil social network. Save Our Shores Florida Facebook page. Florida Coastal and Ocean Coalition website. Environment Florida offshore drilling page. Southern Alliance for Clean Energy offshore drilling page. Skytruth blog, an excellent source of info. Not the Answer blog, courtesy Surfrider Foundation. Eye-opening map of oil and gas leases and infrastructure in Gulf of Mexico, via MMS. EnergyFLA.com, online hub of drilling proponents; their Twitter page is here. Coincidentally enough, Florida is the state with both the highest rate of identity theft, and with a governor suffering through the most prolonged identity crisis in recent political history.
Charlie Crist’s “Man In The Mirror” confusion was in full view during the 2010 State of the State speech, when he launched his third 180-degree turn since becoming governor in 2006 - this time trying desperately to swing back towards what was a winning identity for him back then. That Crist was posing as a Republican centrist eager to appeal to moderates of all affiliations. He was going to help protect the environment, help Floridians with housing and health care, things that sounded downright…Democratic. But he didn’t help with any of that, focusing instead on building his campaign war chest and appeasing the entrenched special interests that dominate Florida's economic and political landscapes. Read More » Public Policy Polling's latest poll on the GOP Senate Primary:
Rubio now leads Crist 60-28, including a staggering 71-17 lead with conservatives. Crist has a 49-36 advantage with party moderates, but they account for just 31% of likely primary voters compared to 65% who describe themselves as conservative. Granted, the primary isn't until August 24th, but I just don't see how it's possible for Crist to pull this one out. Traditionally, if an opponent is below 50%, it's possible to for them to be beat. With Rubio at a commanding 60%, Crist is done, finished, caput. The only way Crist could remain an elected official after November is if he decides to drop out and run for reelection as Governor or if he runs as an independent for Senate. There's always dog catcher, too. We were proud to put together this map of counties, cities, chambers of commerce, and local agencies that have passed resolutions against drilling in Florida waters.
Big Oil certainly has taken a lot of serious hits over the last few months. Hands Across the Sand was a big success. They've pared back their lobbyist presence. Plus, a recent report has demonstrated what defenders of Florida's beaches and coast have known for a while: that they're just isn't a whole lot of oil out there and it would do squat to lower the price at the pump. Regardless, everyone should remain vigilant. Most of our legislature is still in the pocket oil and gas interests, and Gov. Crist would probably do anything to out crazy Marco Rubio in the GOP senate primary. Here's Sen. Haridopolos trying to fight back against Amendments 5 and 6, the Fair Districts amendments. His message? Redistricting is haaaard!
Haridopolos made available the Senate’s redistricting guru, John Guthrie, a nationally renowned expert on the once-a-decade process of redrawing legislative and congressional boundaries, to walk an audience through the process of moving the lines to see how it works in practice. Haridopolos is also calling Amendments 5 and 6 "lawsuit city." Yet so far, no lawsuit has been filed. However, there should be no doubt that incumbents in the legislature and Congress who benefit greatly from their gerrymandered districts will fight Amendments 5 and 6 with everything they've got. The very thought of actually having to defend their actions and votes to the people they "represent" in the context of a competitive election scares the bejesus out of them. Our Editorial Cartoon of the Week feature is part of Progress Florida's popular FREE Daily Clips service:
Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 3-5-10 Bilked: another story from South Florida For Florida, A Time for Leadership Lying to Our Kids Our Editorial Cartoon of the Week feature is part of Progress Florida's popular FREE Daily Clips service:
Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 2-26-10 Is Crist laying the groundwork for an independent bid? By Juan Saaa Progress Florida Florida as a whole has seen a increased upwelling in the area of immigration reform lately, mostly in part from youth activists who have had enough of living in the shadows and are mobilizing all across the state to make a push to move the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, otherwise known as the DREAM Act.Ray Sansom Resigns to Avoid Ethics Hearing By Beach Blogger Pensacola Beach Blog Northwest Florida state representative Ray Sansom (R-Ft. Walton Beach) resigned his seat at 8 pm last night rather than proceed with the state ethics hearing he had requested.  Why Florida's ethics laws need an upgrade! By Ed Gamble, Florida Times-Union Related editorial: State ethics: the hall of shame BONUS CARTOONS  By Jeff Parker, Florida Today  By Andy Marlette, Pensacola News Journal Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 2-19-10 Note to Florida Voters: throw out the vultures and speculators By R.S. Pienta Leave a Comment A teacher I met via Facebook recently vented her frustration about the No Child Left Behind policy and how it is implemented via rules about FCAT in the state of Florida.  By Andy Marlette, Pensacola News Journal BONUS CARTOON  By Andy Marlette, Pensacola News Journal Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 2-12-10 I Suspect This Is Where We're Going By Gimleteye Eye on Miami In a 2 PM press conference, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Katy Sorenson will announce that she will not run for re-election.  By Jim Morin, Miami Herald BONUS CARTOON  By Jeff Parker, Florida Today Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 1-22-10 What's Crist to do (besides dropping out and endorsing Kendrick Meek)? By Geniusofdespair Eye on Miami The only person who signed the Corporate papers (filed January 21st) for this 501c4 is Richard E. Coates, a Tallahassee lobbyist, who also happens to have as a client Barney Bishop's "Associated Industries of Florida".CBS Tainting Super Bowl Broadcast By Daniel Tilson Progress Florida In rolling out what they claim is a new policy to begin broadcasting "approved" paid advocacy group advertisements, the CBS TV network is clearly taking the sensitive, low-key high road - airing the first such spot during Super Bowl 44, being played Sunday in our South Florida backyard, with a few additional folks tuning in from around the globe.Six amendments make the ballot By Bill Newton FCAN Blog It will be another busy year for voters. The Legislature wants us to give up public campaign finance, and we have a chance to make Florida's election districts more fair and eliminate gerrymandering.  By Jeff Parker, Florida Today BONUS CARTOON  By Jim Morin, Miami Herald Progress Florida's Best of the Blogs for the week ending 1-22-10 The myth of limited government By Peter Schorsch St. Petersblog 2.0 First of all, to the anonymous bloggers who attempted to discredit the good name of one of Tampa's finest families, you should be ashamed of yourselves. I'm not bothering to send this through LeMieux' webform. My previous post about him hit Google rapidly.
LeMieux' immediately sending me yet another Newsletter was likely high humor to him, right up there with moving a blind guy's chair just before he sits down. As he's likely going to claim a glitch rather than taking responsibility, it's worth noting that the constituent computerized communications system was working when LeMieux got to Washington; I easily unsubscribed from Sen. Martinez' equally unoriginal obstructionist spin. "You break it, you buy it," is a reasonable taxpayer protection. LeMieux needs to get his checkbook out and pay to get the system working again. For anyone else experiencing difficulty with LeMieux in need of substantiating his callousness, incompetence or dereliction, pdf copies of all six documented attempts to unsubscribe are available to readers by putting "pdf please" in the subject line of an email to studio8@infionline.net. I've three broken teeth, a pain in the neck and no interest in dying, so even though I wrote poorly when I'm this stressed, today was the day to ask Sen. Lemieux to leave me alone, at length, and then post the request here so that his specious rhetoric never hits my Inbox again. Using his website contact form, I sent the following:
"Sir, you are in Congress by the combined whims of former Sen. Martinez and Gov. Crist; your prior position made you aware that Martinez was complacent with Crist being a Paper Tiger, providing a projected image of toughness on crime via affixing his signature to death warrants while deliberately overlooking public misconduct that resulted in wrongful convictions in Brevard, Polk and other counties. The knowledge that Crist has no intention of addressing scores of clouded convictions made it incumbent upon you to ask the FBI to investigate the public corruption. The failure to do so puts you in league with prosecutors who coached jailhouse informants to credibly provide false testimony. My interest in you is therefore limited to your being prosecuted along with the other villains that continue to trample the likes of James Bain, Juan Melendez, Wilton Dedge, William Dillon and Juan Ramos while allowing rapists and murderers to find additional victims. Because of my very limited [interest] in you, I unsubscribed to the first Newsletter I received from you and every one since, documenting the last five times with pdf copies. I will save a copy of this submission for use in a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus to request that the Supreme Court compel the FBI to adhere to their mandate to address public corruption that affected trial and election outcomes. As you likely know from you association with Crist, I have "standing" and your persistence in resubscribing me each time I unsubscribe will let me speak directly to your behaviors in the Petition. Your closeness to Crist that likely acquainted you with my years of request for consequences for the culpable would also have made you aware of my disabilities. Many persons with epilepsy have stress-engendered seizures; I'm one such person. My medication is proving effective in preventing all but nocturnal seizures, which put me at risk of dying in my sleep due to my heart defect. These nocturnal seizures are often apparent upon awakening by noting another broken tooth, neck and back pain and more difficulty with my memory than the medication causes. I have many other medical conditions aside from epilepsy. I will use this analogy in the Petition - deliberately slipping a regular Coke to a person with volatile diabetes is attempted homicide, so is directing stress at a person with volatile epilepsy. I ask that you not resubscribe me to your newsletter yet again to lessen the likelihood that another communication will cause me another broken tooth or worse. In evaluating your choices hereinafter, it would likely do you well to recall that the FBI investigated dogfighting rings in several states last year while ignoring roughly 5,000 clouded criminal investigations tainted by debunked bullet-matching and DNA-discredited dog handlers. They put man's best friend ahead of men; not even the five most disingenuous Justices ever seated can spin their way around that simple statement of fact. The foreign press will have a field day, making it impossible for even Fox not to get on board. Don't write to me of a unsubscribe glitch; in the absence of a copy of your letter to FBI Director Mueller asking that he put men ahead of dogs this year, all that a reasonable person could construe from the communication is that your behaviors are self-serving, constituents be damned." Posts By Month
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