Yearly Archives: 2014
Charlie Crist on leaving the GOP and race
Charlie Crist was in Fusion TV’s Miami studios to discuss his party switch with Jorge Ramos. Interesting stuff.
Latest Let’s Get to Work TV ad turning heads
The latest anti-Charlie Crist TV commercial from the “Let’s Get to Work” Committee is the hardest hitting yet and has conjured up a significant amount of buzz around the state since it began running last week. The premise is that then Governor Charlie Crist “ran away” from the problems the state faced in 2008, 2009 […]
Why Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson should be honored by Democrats in Florida
In the context of modern times and contemporary views, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson would both be viewed as social conservatives. But in many ways they were extremely progressive particularly on economics. Failing to maintain perspective on historical events is one of my great beefs with modern liberalism as I consider myself a progressive yet […]
NY Times: For Florida Grapefruit, One Blow After Another
We’ve seen a number of articles recently on the struggles of Florida’s signature industry, Citrus. However this one might be the most alarming and human of all, from yesterday’s New York Times. It is well worth a read.
Monday Musings – DCCC mess, Kelli Stargel’s maternalistic nonsense, RPOF failure to steward our Springs, Lenny Curry, Vouchers
Editors’ Note: This week we begin a new column, Monday Musings where our writers sound off on various topics related to the state of Florida. It is difficult in words to fully describe the mess the DCCC has made in Congressional District 13. Beginning with a campaign that flushed a double-digit lead down the […]
Biggest TFS day ever and other pieces of website/socal media news
First off, thanks to our readers for making yesterday the biggest day in TFS history in terms of page views and the second biggest in terms of unique users. The combination of events that took place yesterday and the number of articles on the site from different perspectives helped drive the traffic. We have a […]
Senate Democrats cave on voucher expansion
Fifteen years almost to day since the Florida Senate passed the Jeb Bush pet project A+ plan that brought public funding of private schools into our state, the Senate today passed the largest expansion of vouchers in the state’s history. Unlike the Florida House, where Democrats stuck together despite an aggressive lobbying effort by voucher […]
Guest Column: CD-13 in a nutshell in wake of David Jolly’s win
Editor’s Note: This is the first column we have published under an alias and that is not our regular practice and we will never have staff writers post articles or comments under an alias. But in this case we have made an exception regarding a story and we will for this particular writer in the […]
SINE DIE: The GOP’s Choice (UPDATED 11:15 AM ET)
Despite a national mood that favors the Republicans, Florida’s GOP faces a potential final day in complete control of the legislature today. This is a final opportunity potentially for the Jeb Bush backed education “reformers” to have a clean bite of the apple after beginning the destruction of Florida’s Public School system in Bush’s first […]
Tallahassee under Charlie Crist – Could today’s SINE DIE be the end of a sorry history for our state?
Lenny Curry’s resignation as RPOF Chairman to pursue the Mayor’s seat in Jacksonville currently held by Democrat Alvin Brown is the talk of Florida political circles today. We will have plenty of time to discuss this in coming months, but Curry may simply be getting out ahead of a storm if Charlie Crist is elected […]
The Florida Squeeze 