Monthly Archives: January 2015
Florida Democrats at a Crossroads: Term limits , legislators, party building and office shopping
The advent of term limits helped to change the culture of state legislators in 1990’s. Previously many regardless of ideology worked hard to build a party that competed in elections and had a few guiding principles but was largely a big tent operation. Term limits being implemented coincided with the collapse of the Democratic Party […]
Flashback Friday: FDR takes first ever Presidential flight from Miami
This week in 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt became the first US President to take a plane flight, flying overseas to the wartime Casablanca Conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. FDR flew from Miami’s Dinner Key Airport, then the world’s busiest international airport. Operation Torch, an amphibious invasion of North Africa had just been completed, […]
President Obama, Florida Democrats, Political Operatives and “Moderation”
In the last few weeks I have had some interesting and borderline maniacal conversations with people regarding the future of the Democratic Party in terms of messaging and policy. An almost universal consensus has developed among insiders, particularly those who are involved on the consulting end that the path forward involves moderating the Democratic message […]
Guest Column: Psychologists and torture – Lessons for Democrats & liberals
By Dr. Bruce Borkosky Psychology made national news recently. Unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons. It is now clear that psychologists were intimately involved with the creation, design, and implementation of torture, in the name of the US government. For us psychologists, the scandal runs deeper still, because the American Psychological Association (APA) appears to […]
Gwen Graham, “The Third Way” and a possible statewide run
Newly elected Congresswoman Gwen Graham is not your average freshman. As the daughter of of a former Florida Governor and US Senator her visibility from the word go was higher than just about any other Democratic Congressional challenger in the nation. Then in a wipe-out year for Democrats on so many levels she became one […]
Tuesday Poll: DEC’s
Local DEC’s need to be strengthened. Our article on Monday outlined what can be done to help make DEC’s useful. Who needs to take the lead in fixing local parties? Vote in the poll below and please leave comments and thoughts below in the comments section. Also, if you vote for “Work Together”, suggestions on […]
Silver Airways beginning St Petersburg/Clearwater service
Fort Lauderdale based Silver Airways will begin service to St Petersburg-Clearwater Airport in March. The airline will initially service St Petersburg from Fort Lauderdale and Key West. Also of interest to TFS readers, Silver will per our sources resume nonstop Fort Lauderdale-Tallahassee flights in time for legislative session. This is a major announcement because Silver will […]
Monday Musings – Gwen Graham making waves, Rubio an attention whore, secession, the Battle of Natural Bridge and the Civil War
Gwen Graham is making waves quickly as a number of questionable votes have raised eyebrows among the progressive community. With her support of the Keystone pipeline and a vote against Nancy Pelosi, she is distancing herself from the Democrats and the internet is abuzz with criticism. However, in the long run, minority party politics […]
Florida Democrats at a crossroads: Making DECs really work
After the November elections, there was a lot of blame going around among Democrats throughout the state. Many of the criticism landed at the Florida Democratic Party and while many of the criticisms are valid, there are other elements that need to be discussed before 2016. Many of the problems exist in the field. […]
Is Jeb Bush the “adult” that improves Florida’s national reputation?
Florida politically has had another complicated week. Attorney General Pam Bondi was sworn in for a second term after conducting a campaign in the courts against marriage equality that would have made the late Jerry Falwell proud. Senator Marco Rubio has continued to give bizarre and contradictory interviews to whomever will listen and write about […]
The Florida Squeeze 