"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Thomas Jefferson
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Francisco Pierre-Louis for Soil and Water Conservation
This is why I am running for Soil and Water Conservation - District 3. Not only am I running to encourage more people to run for office but because we are facing a behemoth. That behemoth is Mosaic.
We shouldn't forget that Mosaic is the same company that dumped 215 million gallons of radioactive waste down the Florida Aquifer. This is unacceptable. I am one of the few people currently running that is willing to work with local and statewide organizations to push Mosaic out of Hillsborough County because at the end of the day, water is life.
Visit him here
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Hillsborough County Democratic Party Exposed (Updated)
The DEC has sent out numerous flyers for candidates promoting their events. NONE of their flyers come with the disclaimer that they aren't endorsed by the DEC. I went to one DEC meeting where they even let a candidate put her flyer in the presentation and was projected
for all to see.
for all to see.
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Updated. Please see comment below.
Florida INC. $83 million in 2017
CEO Rick Scott had a very good year in 2017, as he saw his net worth increase by more than $83 million. here
Florida Dem Skull Session in Fort Lauderdale
There are more Democrats than Republicans in Florida, but that hasn’t helped the party win many statewide races over the past quarter century.
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Weak Candidates = Low turnout and tepid fundraising
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They are meeting in Fort Lauderdale to plan strategy to try to win in November.
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Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Juan Penalosa said they did a poor job of turning out voters. That is changing, we have learned from our missteps — we are developing and employing a strategy that is working in 2018. here
Words For Florida Activist
The truth is: last Tuesday wasn’t just a victory for me. It was a victory for all of us. From the very beginning, we had a vision to build a broad-based coalition of organizers to educate and expand the electorate — and that’s
exactly what we did.
This is victory for the movement for economic, social, and racial justice for working-class people.
exactly what we did.
This is victory for the movement for economic, social, and racial justice for working-class people.
We didn’t buy this victory, and it was not luck. Thousands of people worked for it. It was built by those who volunteered, donated, and fought to bring our vision to Congress. Together, we showed the world that a progressive grassroots campaign can go toe-to-toe with the most powerful, established forces in America
and win." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
and win." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Florida Democratic Party Continues to Alienate Progressives
The Florida Democratic Party is going all in on its marginalization of its progressive wing.
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Progressives are roiling in several counties including Broward, Duval, Orange, and Hillsborough. All are populous, all have significant communities of progressive Democrats
and left-leaning NPAs.
and left-leaning NPAs.
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In Hillsborough and statewide, there is are racist overtones in the Democratic schism. Democratic National Committee member Alan Clendenin has attacked the party’s only black gubernatorial candidate, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum and the PAC of black businesspeople
that support him.
that support him.
Clendenin called The Collective Super PAC as a “Republican front,” a patent falsehood that was interpreted to mean that black candidates and contributors cannot function within the same parameters as white
Democratic candidates.
Democratic candidates.
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