Monthly Archives: May 2015
Dems can do better than “too big to fail” campaigns
Two months ago the New York Times published an article that gave the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign the “too big to fail” tagline. Titled “Democrats See No Choice but Hillary Clinton in 2016,” the piece revealed that the national Democratic party takes the attitude she’s an incumbent and they have no Plan B to a Hillary nomination. The […]
Born again liberal Alvin Brown and the hypocrisy of the Democratic establishment
Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown has shifted his campaign rhetoric sharply to the left in recent days following four years of centrist governing and sinking poll numbers. Brown’s opponent former RPOF Chairman Lenny Curry has taken advantage of the incumbent Mayors unease with the Democratic base to race ahead in polling ahead of the May 19th […]
Welcome Back Katy!
The Florida Squeeze is excited to welcome back our very own Katy Burnett as a regular writer. Katy took a leave of absence as she finished up her bachelor’s degree at the University of Florida. We here at the Squeeze congratulate her for graduating Magna Cum Laude in Political Science and History, with a Minor […]
The Persian Gulf States, Slavery and a boycott
Ever since the Emirate of Qatar was awarded the rights to host the 2022 World Cup in December 2010, the western media or at least some of that media have done some yeoman’s investigative work into the living and working conditions in Qatar. These reports were in addition to western journalists following up on the […]
UK Election Primer
Thursday is the 2015 UK General Election the first full blown election in Britain since May 2010. All signs lead to a hung parliament and a variety of scenarios as to who gets to form the next government and how. The underlying theme of the election has been the collapse of the long-dominant left-wing Labour […]
House Democrats and Medicaid – Can the issue stick?
Florida House Republicans do have egg on their face for the dogmatic opposition to any expansion of Medicaid. The Florida Democratic Party’s communications staff did an excellent job of fanning the flames of this last week on social media and in the press, while the party’s house campaign arm aggressively made robo-calls into the districts […]
What DO you call it when democracy is broken at the behest of business?
“Democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt, April 29, 1938 (Letter to Congress on the problem of Curbing Monopolies) We sometimes forget that private monied interests have been campaigning for “small government” since long […]
Flashback Friday: Police excess and urban violence in Florida
Below I will chronicle several incidents of law enforcement excess towards African-Americans in the state of Florida since 1980. This is not meant to provoke a “race war” in the comments section but is intended to raise awareness about what has transpired in this state through the years for those who may not know the […]
State Rep Stark responds to the Speaker of the House
Portions of this op-ed appeared in the Sun Sentinel today. Rep. Stark (D-Weston) has generously allowed TFS to run his full response to Speaker Crisafulli As a member of the FL House of Representatives, I have a great deal of respect for our Speaker who had an op-ed in the Sun-Sentinel this week regarding Medicaid […]
Guest Op-Ed: US Senate Candidate Pam Keith, On the Legacy of Perceived Menace
ON THE LEGACY OF PERCEIVED MENACE By Pam Keith On April 19th Freddie Gray, a 25-year old Black man in Baltimore Maryland, died from an injury he suffered while in police custody that severed 80% of his spinal chord. We have no idea what happened to cause the injury, but common sense tells us that […]
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