Best of the Blogs: Taking Issue

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 9-25-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Progress Florida Education Center’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 9-25-15
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida Education Center’s popular free Daily Clips service.

A cautionary tale: Farmworker women win massive judgment in sexual assault, retaliation case against Florida farm…
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Last Friday’s announcement of a massive jury verdict in favor of five farmworker women who filed sexual assault and retaliation complaints against Moreno Farms (a small, now defunct eggplant, tomato, and squash farm outside of Immokalee) provides a valuable moment for reflection on the urgent need for justice in Florida’s fields.

Overwhelming Majority Of Florida Latino Voters Want Climate Action Now
Earthjustice
According to a new poll conducted by Latino Decisions for Earthjustice, a national environmental nonprofit law firm, and GreenLatinos, a leading national nonprofit of Latino environmental leaders, 76 percent of registered Latino voters in Florida strongly support national clean energy standards and 74 percent strongly support state clean energy standards to combat climate change.

Taxpayers Don’t Like Paying Scott’s Legal Fees When He Hides What He’s Up To. Imagine That?
By Martha Jackovics
Beach Peanuts
When you have a governor who began deleting his transition emails even before he was sworn into office and went on to avoid Florida’s Sunshine Laws regularly in an effort even Dracula would find impressive, taxpayers are bound to take issue.

Worrying Poll Numbers Forcing Jeb Bush To Rewrite History?
By Kartik Krishnaiyer
The Florida Squeeze
Despite all of the discussion that Governor Jeb Bush is a principled thinker we’ve stated time and again his is simply an opportunistic politician who lacks his brother’s gift for connecting with ordinary folks or his father’s gift for intellect.

Donald Trump on Jeb Bush and Florida’s Financial Crisis: He Is Right And Here Is Why
By Alan Farago
Eye On Miami
It has been nearly ten years since Jeb Bush left the Office of Governor in the nation’s third most populous state, but for many in Florida, his two terms as governor were unforgettable.