Yearly Archives: 2014
GOP Super-majority coming easily in the House? Really?
Earlier this afternoon Saint Petersblog released new polling in several House races which caught my eye. The polling shows wide Republican leads in several seats which sources in both parties acknowledge are more competitive than this particular set of polls shows. Also interestingly the numbers seem to not correspond with the daily memos from Steve […]
Non-Partisan local elections giving Democrats cover in playing with conservatives
Non-partisan elections often give transactional Democrats the cover they need to support Republicans and business interests at a local level. The nature of local elections makes it easy for some Democrats to claim that they are wonderful partisan progressives while playing ball with the interests that hurt working people in their own backyards. Since we […]
Coral Springs Mayor’s race centering around expensive contributor driven city hall project
On Sunday, a very revealing column ran in Coral Springs Talk regarding the $28 million downtown city complex. Commissioner Tom Powers’ campaign for Mayor is all about city hall. No one in the city is arguing that Coral Springs does not need a new city hall, including his opponent Former State Senator Skip Campbell. Coral […]
Monday Musings – HD-21, Kristin Jacobs, Pam Bondi, AG Race, Ukraine, Hurricane Wilma anniversary, 2004 Hurricanes and impact on elections
There’s been a whole lot of talk about reading the absentee and early vote returns and if they are good signs for the Democrats or the Republicans. While the memo wars are quite amusing, the bottoms line is this: early voting is still a fairly new idea and it is still continuing to change voting […]
Rick Scott’s “path to victory” leaving zero margin for error
In theory, Governor Scott has a shot at winning reelection. Public polling indicates the race is a dead heat, but the public polls are less relevant than the early and vote by mail totals as well as the actual developments on the ground in advance of Election Day. Three days ago, Steve Schale wrote a […]
Former Coral Springs Mayor Roy Gold makes local endorsements
Coral Springs’s current leadership which has resembled in many ways the captains of the Titanic are being challenged in three City Commission races on November 4th. As we have discussed time and again on this site, the leadership of the city has become both ideologically conservative and incredibly arrogant as well as wasteful in their […]
VIDEO: Governor Scott loses his cool over minimum wage
No matter how much Governor Scott tries to disguise his administration’s four-year war on Florida’s working class citizens with slick campaign ads and mailers the truth comes out when the man speaks in public. Great work here by The Fight for 15 and an excellent question from Shatara Brown who put the Governor on the […]
Voting in Absentia: Why I Would Cast My Ballot for Charlie Crist in Florida
By Steven Kurlander This article also appeared in Context Florida and the Huffington Post Occasionally, refugees who have settled in the US, including naturalized citizens, cast ballots in elections that take place in their origin countries that allow them to vote in absentia and in effect allow them to still have an impact on events […]
Coral Springs City Hall, wasteful spending and school safety at the heart of Mayor’s Race
Coral Springs Commissioner Tom Powers who is seeking to ascend to the Mayor’s post in the November 4th election has recently been on the defensive about the proposed new City Hall project as well as other issues. Coral Springs was long considered one of the state’s leading cities. Throughout the 1990’s and 2000’s it was […]
The Florida Squeeze 