There’s a growing chorus of Democratic-aligned groups calling for former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell to challenge Republican incumbent Sen. Rick Scott, including organizations eager to see a second Hispanic woman in the Senate.....MORE
Monday, August 7, 2023
Sunday, August 6, 2023
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Food Not Bombs WPB
We put food in people's bellies, clothes on their backs and shoes on their feet 'illegally.' With love, every Saturday, Nancy Graham Centennial Square by S. Clematis. HERE
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DeSantis, wife to sit down with NBC’s Dasha Burns in first network interview
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis and his wife, Casey DeSantis, will sit down with NBC’s Dasha Burns for the candidate’s first network interview during his campaign, the network announced Sunday.
NBC News said the interview will air Monday on the “Today” show and “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.” Additional segments will also air throughout the day on MSNBC and NBC News NOW, according to the network.
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Florida Democrats vow to ‘Take Back Florida’
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Florida Democrats kicked off a new $1 million investment in voter registration, launching a statewide “Take Back Florida Tour” on Wednesday.
The goal of the tour, Democrats shared, is to close the gap in voter registration between the Republican and Democratic parties, which has only widened since Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis handily won his bid for re-election as governor last year, besting Democratic opponent Charlie Crist (a former Republican himself) by a long shot.
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Maxwell Frost rips new Florida curriculum as bid to ‘erase Black history’
“They want to change education so they can change the mindset of a generation,” says Rep. Maxwell Frost on the new teaching standards pushed by the right in Florida. “Not only is that not going to work, but it’s just going to piss us off.”
Florida AG Ashley Moody Intensifies Legal Battle Over Marijuana Ballot Proposal
This week, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody intensified the legal battle to keep a proposed constitutional amendment that would authorize the recreational use of marijuana off the ballot in 2024.
In a brief filed Wednesday, lawyers for Moody said the measure “misleads” voters in a way to benefit the state’s largest medical-marijuana operator, Trulieve.
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Saturday, August 5, 2023
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Why is Ron DeSantis acting so macho?
Some folks are getting sick of the violent and hateful rhetoric, but a candidate for president speaking like he’s about to slit the throats of government employees is causing even some Republicans to draw a line.....MORE
Ron DeSantis says men with Nazi flags were ‘not true supporters’
During a televised Ron DeSantis town hall in New Hampshire, the problem of displays of Nazi iconography in Florida proved to be a topic of interest beyond the state’s borders.
Asked about people who purported to be supporters of his who had “flags that said DeSantis 2024” and “Nazi, swastika flags,” DeSantis said he didn’t “think that they are” his supporters, before suggesting that the display was part of an “operation” against him.
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Friday, August 4, 2023
Florida education officials may lift ban on AP psychology course: report
Florida high schools may teach Advanced Placement (AP) Psychology courses, the state Department of Education clarified Friday, a day after it stated that teaching the class would violate the law.....MORE
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