Monthly Archives: May 2014
Congressional Race Ratings – May 21, 2014
Beginning this week, each Wednesday until Election Day we will take a look at our ratings for Congressional races. Following qualifying for state and local offices in June we will be running similar features for State House and State Senate (an initial rating of both State House and State Senate race will be released before […]
Update on our Coral Springs story – Pay raises take center stage
Earlier this month we discussed Coral Springs, a city in Broward County with over 120,000 residents that has not elected a Republican to represent it at the Federal or State level since 1982, yet has a 4-1 Republican City Commission. Coral Springs was as we discussed in the previous article in the past a recipient of […]
Wednesday open thread
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Changes coming to TFS
In the next few weeks you will see some changes to the website. New features, new writers and a new look. We also will begin our promised Google + Hangouts and we continue working on our ebook about Campaign 2014. Thank you for your continued patronage of TFS.
In the governor’s race, where are some Florida progressives?
With the Florida Democratic Primary for Governor only a few months away, many prominent progressives have been quiet regarding the primary. While many Democrats have different reasons for getting involved in the primary process, some who would naturally be supporting a progressive candidate and not a long-time Republican officeholder have been strangely silent. Democrats have […]
Thoughts from a lazy Sunday afternoon — CD 13 and Pinellas Democrats
By The old guy sitting on the bench, Guest Columnist Sixty years ago, in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court found that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ was in fact unequal. Standing here today I wonder what has really changed. Yesterday my wife and I had went shopping for groceries and other things we need […]
Monday Musings: FEA Endorses Crist, Matt Gaetz’s reefer madness, Infrastructure development, Anti-Americanism and Islam in India post election , RPOF (again) obstructs redistricting investigation
The Florida Education Association endorsed Charlie Crist for Governor on Saturday. The recommendation was long expected. The state’s teachers’ union has been concerned about the continued assault on public schools under the Scott Administration and the current legislative leadership. However, many activists have questioned the FEA’s endorsement based on Crist’s previous record on issues related […]
Will Charlie Crist find his voice and help Florida Democrats find one as well?
Former Governor Charlie Crist’s ride as the presumptive Democratic nominee began smoothly with a seeming coronation and a few months of “Charlie-mania” among Democrats but has now descended into a less than secure place. Certainly Crist will be the Democratic nominee for Governor barring a “summer surprise” of catastrophic proportions, but it has become obvious […]
Brown v Board of Education – Separate But Equal
On this the 60th Anniversary of the momentous Brown decision, I would like to strongly recommend one of my favorite TV movies ever-Separate But Equal. This is the story of the court battles that led to the final Supreme Court decision, with Sidney Poitier playing Thurgood Marshall and Burt Lancaster in his final film role playing […]
Flashback Friday – When Racial Terror Struck Florida and how Charlie Crist Played Hero
Attorney General Crist in 2005 discussing the case One of the darkest episodes in Florida’s history, the murder of NAACP leader Harry T. Moore. In 1951 when Moore was murdered in Mims, local Democrats in Lake, Orange and Brevard County were not only segregationists but were sympathetic to hoodlums in the Ku Klux Klan. Even […]
The Florida Squeeze 