Showing posts with label Adam Putnam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adam Putnam. Show all posts

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Ducks Unlimited New CEO Adam Putnam

Ducks Unlimited has hired a new CEO to direct the international wildfowl habit restoration group.

Considered one of the nation's largest conservation philanthropies, DU relies on donations and grants to fund its $220 million annual budget. 

The bulk of the money is spent on wildfowl habitat in areas ranging from Alaska and Canada to the Mississippi flyway and
 the Gulf Coast. HERE

Saturday, July 21, 2018

Florida GOP Sliming of Florida

Again, Florida politicians are scurrying about, trying to camouflage their reputations and avoid being targeted in November by angry voters.
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There's Rick Scott, trying to unseat Bill Nelson for US Senate: Scott, whose very first act as governor was to chainsaw the budget of the science agencies charged with protecting Florida waters. No funding, no science, no problem.
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And Adam Putnam, whose loyalty to agricultural polluters in Florida led him to lobby Congress to WEAKEN federal laws protecting state waters. more

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Florida Right-Wing Circus brought to you by Fox News and inspired by Donald Trump


“Before a nationwide audience, Adam Putnam and Ron DeSantis made clear that they only have one message: Trump, Trump, Trump.” MORE

Thursday, June 21, 2018

Grady Judd Endorses Adam Putnam

In a 30-second advertisement released by the Sheriff titled “Enforce the Law” here

Friday, June 15, 2018

291 Floridians With Guns That Shouldn't Have Them

Republican Adam Putnam, Florida Ag Commissioner and candidate for governor, answers questions about foulup of concealed weapons permit processing in his office. Says all background checks actually were run, but what employee did wrong was not put names flagged as problematic in database, meaning meaning 291 got permit 
they shouldn’t have‬.

Saturday, June 9, 2018

Florida Progressive Caucus Calls for Putnam to Withdraw from Governor's Race

Susan Smith, President of the Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida, has released the following statement:
The Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida calls for the immediate withdrawal of Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Adam Putnam from the governor's race.
Commissioner Putnam's failure to ensure that concealed weapons background checks were carried out and his blatant disregard for the rule of law disqualify him from leading our state. His gross incompetence and lack of accountability are evidence that he has a careless disregard for the safety of Floridians.
We deserve better.

Sunday, May 27, 2018

R. David Walker at the Trinity Democratic Club

 
In the race to succeed Adam Putnam as the Commissioner of Agriculture, no other candidate has the drive of R. David Walker. Walker is a 5th generation Floridian and a scientist. He has also kept a packed schedule during his odyssey to Tallahassee. This week Walker spoke to the Trinity Democratic Club and was well received by an enthusiastic crowd. R. David Walker is crossing the state, county by county, building his case for Commissioner while his campaign continues to gain momentum.

Friday, May 25, 2018

Rat Shit At Publix

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam is in charge of inspecting grocery stores. After 7 Publix stores FAILED health inspections for RAT SHIT, bugs, meat at unsafe temps + more, Putnam pulled reports from his site and eliminated the pass/fail inspection system. We call that pay to play. here

Adam Putnam Hanging With Dog Shooters In Orlando

Putnam is scheduled to attend a fundraising reception at the Orlando home of Christopher Comins, a businessman and Republican activist who drew considerable attention in 2008 after he was charged with animal cruelty. Irish tourists videotaped him seven times shooting two pet huskies who had wandered 
into a cow pasture. here

Friday, May 18, 2018

#BoycottPublix

There’s some talk among Florida liberals to #BoycottPublix, the giant Florida grocery store chain, over its financial support of GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam because Putnam is supporter of the NRA. here
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Publix wants you to know they don't support 
the NRA, just Putnam. here

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Publix bankrolling the campaign of Florida GOP Adam Putnam

Latinos who shop at Publix
Check this out...
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 Its heirs and past and present leaders are bankrolling the campaign of Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam at unprecedented levels.
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Putnam is a vocal supporter of Trump’s vitriolic anti-immigrant policies, and while he served in Congress before Trump existed, he cast anti-minority votes.
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His voting record clearly shows he’s all about suppressing the vote of minorities who are U.S. citizens.
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Campaign contributions to a build-the-wall kind of guy — to the tune of $670,000 over the last three years — is a slap in the face to the Hispanic customers Publix has successfully courted with family-oriented advertising in Spanish and minority hiring, and by integrating ethnic products into the offerings.
We’re under attack by this president and you support a mini-Trump wannabe 
for governor? more
Encuentra otro lugar para comprar!
Wanna give them an earful? here
Check out how they treat farm workers here

Friday, May 11, 2018

Florida Welcome To The Far Far Right

Consider the Republican candidates for governor and their priorities.
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Adam Putnam:  A proud NRA sellout and pledged he would sign a so-called “heartbeat bill, legislation that would make abortion illegal after a doctor can hear a fetus’ heartbeat. WTF! What about the victim of gun violence heartbeat?  
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Ron DeSantis: Trump's choice. Rather than campaign in Florida, DeSantis campaigns almost exclusively on Fox News. For weeks, he’s practically had a casting couch on Sean Hannity’s TV and radio shows.
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Richard Corcoran: For the last two years he has championed legislation that undercuts traditional public education and helps charter schools that educate only 10 percent of Florida students. Corcoran congratulated himself for the post-Douglas school safety bill that will add no new money for academics and leave school districts short as they comply with new rules on police officers.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Students Suing Florida GOP

Rick Scott, Adam Putnam and other state leaders face a lawsuit filed Monday by eight Florida students, and their legal allies, demanding action on 
climate change. here

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Florida's Culture Of Corruption: Adam Putnam

As a state lawmaker in 1999, Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam sponsored sweeping water legislation that included a provision that would later help facilitate a $25 million land deal between the state and his family-owned citrus company. here

Saturday, February 17, 2018

NRA Sellout Adam Putnam: Opie of Open Carry

If you want to get elected to office in Florida, a politician is obligated to grovel before the great and powerful National Rifle Association, which views Tallahassee as a wholly owned subsidiary
 of its interests.
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Adam Putnam is currently Florida's Agriculture Commissioner. He's also a Republican candidate for governor and a self-described "NRA sellout."
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He thinks it's a swell idea it is to permit gun owners to carry their little friends on college campuses, as well as endorsing proposals to allow the open carry of weapons in public places.  That the protest against the NRA is merely "a classic progressive move.
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 The NRA thinks that more citizens need to be locked and loaded because the nation is on the cusp of a violent revolution that it hinted former President 
Barack Obama is leading.
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 Opie tweeted about how he's proud to be an #NRASellout and even created a petition on his site encouraging anyone who is also an 
#NRASellout to sign.

Friday, December 22, 2017

No Difference Between Gwen Graham and Adam Putnam

Florida Democrats, not Republicans, will be the ones tested in 2018.
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When it comes to lessons learned, the GOP is the quicker study. 
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Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson leads current Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott by 1 point in a potential 2018 matchup. 1 point, look at the voting record of these 2 men and think how is this possible. 
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49 percent of Floridians ARE not able to assess his job performance. Nelson has been in the Senate since 2001.
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The test for Democrats will be the governor’s race. Graham, the candidate representing the party establishment, leads the polls and in fundraising.
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  Philip Levine, the wealthy mayor of Miami Beach has praised Trump and Chris King talks like a progressive but with no record of public service and low name recognition. 
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That leaves Gillum, the unabashed progressive mayor of Tallahassee.  On the campaign trail,  he has excited Millennials, Latinos, people of color, and true progressives.
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Consider this,  when Graham became a Congresswoman representing the Big Bend,  she announced she would “reach across the aisle.”  She might as well have been sitting across the aisle. According to USA Today.
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She was one of 
12 Democrats to vote for a bill increasing from 30 to 40 the number of hours an employee must work per week to qualify for mandatory health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
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28 Democrats to vote for a bill approving the Keystone XL pipeline.
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8 Democrats to vote for a bill making it tougher for federal agencies to impose new rules without detailed justification.
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29 Democrats to vote for a bill relaxing some Dodd-Frank banking regulations.
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31 Democrats to vote for an intelligence authorization bill to ban the government from transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the U.S.
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19 Democrats to vote for a bill granting states authority to regulate coal ash disposal. The measure would undo a federal EPA rule.
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25 Democrats to vote against a bill approving the nuclear deal with Iran.
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That is not going to excite the demographic Democrats need to win.
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Graham surrogates advocate the erroneous  perception that Graham is their party’s best opportunity to recapture the Florida governorship.  There’s a more compelling argument that her nomination would be business—losing—as usual.
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Graham allies in the press and social media are perpetuating this utter “best bet” balderdash.  She’s scared stiff of Gillum and being exposed as an ideological fraud.
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Her father (Who we have always liked) sits on the Board of the Poynter Foundation. The Poynter Institute is the parent of the Tampa Bay Times.  The paper, discredited in 2017 because of slanted, unethical coverage in several political races, has maliciously attempted to torpedo Gillum’s candidacy.
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An example: a political reporter labeled Gillum’s candidacy “toast” because of an FBI investigation of contracts in Tallahassee.  Outright falsehood.  It is widely known by everyone but the Times’ dwindling readership, that Gillum is not a target of the probe.
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The Graham campaign has resorted to placing fluff pieces in pay-for-play blogs that few voters read and those that do can easily spot an advertorial.
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To Mr. Javellana and all her misinformed supporters. 
We were very good to Ms. Graham when she ran for congress, we thought we were getting her father. We even bought her opponents info domain name.
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Words of Jim Bleyer - Tampa Bay Beat used with permission.

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Florida GOP Rick Scott And Adam Putnam Pour Tens Of Thousands Of Dollars To Rick Baker

Political committees linked to Rick Scott, Adam Putnam and future House Speaker Jose Oliva poured tens of thousands of dollars last month into a PAC supporting St. Petersburg mayoral candidate Rick Baker. here
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Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Adam Putnam: liberals Taking Fake News To New Extremes

Florida GOP candidate for governor is lighting up social media with a tactic ripped from Donald Trump's playbook: a petition on his Twitter feed to "stop CNN." here

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Adam Putnam: Proud #NRASellout

Last week, in an embarrassing blip of social media that did not come from the president, Florida’s leading Republican gubernatorial candidate, Adam Putnam, tweeted: “I’m a proud #NRASellout!” This may be perfectly predictable behavior from a Republican vying to become Florida’s next governor. But it’s hardly a declaration of leadership or individualism. here