Debbie Wasserman Schultz takes money from the largest private prison corporation in the world, Corrections Corporation of America, now called CoreCivic, while pushing for their proposed for-profit immigration detention center in Southwest Ranches, Florida in her own district. ----- Then she grandstands outside the private for-profit Krome Detention Center warehousing child immigrants. Has she no shame or sense of her own hypocrisy?" Tim Canova -----
In quick order Wednesday morning, in a line of falling campaign dominoes, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum announced he would be clearing his schedule to go to Homestead for the rally, former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham declared on Twitter they should march together, and businessman Chris King declared that he couldn’t agree more. Philip Levine also wants in. here
The economically dying Tampa Bay Times, with former Sen. Bob Graham calling the shots on the board of the parent Poynter Foundation, continues to repeat unsubstantiated charges against a Political Action Committee (PAC) favoring gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum.here
This Saturday we have decided to cancel our other events to march in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in South Florida. This moral crisis demands our leaders stand up to this outrage in unequivocal terms, and we will not turn away from what the Trump Administration is doing to these families.” here