Monthly Archives: December 2016
PODCAST: post Miami-Dade election, follow-up FDP Chair discussion
New podcast dropping Friday before the holidays. Kartik, Mario and myself pick up where we left off with new information about the race for a new Florida Democratic Party Chair. Stay tuned for new thoughts about the future of the party, the need for Democratic think tanks, and our wishlist for a Democratic State Chair. […]
Holiday book recommendations: Claude Pepper, Florida’s liberal champion
Review of Red Pepper and Gorgeous George: Claude Pepper’s Epic Defeat in the 1950 Democratic Primary (Florida Government and Politics) and Claude Pepper and Ed Ball: Politics, Purpose, and Power (Florida History and Culture) While most modern historians and political activists would point to November 7, 2000 as the most significant election in Florida’s history as far […]
Holiday book recommendation: It Happened in Florida
E. Lynne Wright’s It Happened in Florida: Remarkable Events That Shaped History (It Happened In Series) is a collection of largely untold short non-fiction stories about Florida’s rich history. The well-researched and written book is presented in a chronological order. Whether it is Ponce De Leon’s near landing on the present day Space Coast, Henry Flagler’s […]
FDP: The need for a platform
As we go through yet another cycle of Democrats licking largely self-inflicted wounds after a woeful electoral defeat, the conversations as usual are revolving around people and personalities rather than issues. Right now the Florida Democratic Party (FDP) which is on essentially a twenty year losing streak cannot hope to flip the state without some […]
Poll: Death Penalty attitudes
In recent years, popular support for capital punishment has declined rapidly in the United States as people’s attitudes have begun to mirror those in the rest of the western world on this issue. Florida has long been one of the leading bastions of support and implementers of the death penalty in the United States. However, […]
The irony! Alan Clendenin turns small county champion in quest for FDP Chair – what is the point of all this?
A little less than two years ago Alan Clendenin was leading a fight inside the FDP – not a fight to reform the party but to prevent rules changes from occurring that took power and vote weights away from the larger counties and reassigned state committee voting in a more equitable (and accountable) fashion. But […]
Castro’s death and improving relations aren’t stopping flow of Cubans to Florida – why?
The death of Fidel Castro last month as well as the liberalization of relations between the United States and Cuba is doing little to stem the flow of migrants to Florida from the island nation. According to the Associated Press, Over 50 Cuban migrants landed in the Keys on Sunday, in three different locales. Earlier […]
Wolfsburg cancels January Florida first team visit
As first reported by ESPNFC and confirmed by our own sources, Volkswagen corporate club VfL Wolfsburg of the German Bundesliga has cancelled its January visit to Orlando and St Petersburg. The Bundesliga club was scheduled to play the Tampa Bay Rowdies at Al Lang Stadium on January 8 before facing Bahia in Orlando on January […]
Bittel wins Miami-Dade SCM race, advances to face Clendenin, Carius and King
Kartik, Mario Piscatella and I are waiting until tomorrow to process the election tonight, and to gather our notes on the other candidates to bring you a Progressive News Network podcast update on the race for FDP chair. I was exhausted after tonight’s election and I was just watching from my home office. Mario did […]
The Florida Squeeze 