Monthly Archives: February 2017
Winning the Florida Attorney General’s seat may be more important than Governor in the Trump era
Recently much of the attention of Florida Democrats has been rightfully focused on replacing Governor Rick Scott next year with a Democrat. However, like the run-up to 2014, little if any time has been spent in discussing the statewide cabinet races, a place where Democrats must take advantage of shifting attitudes and demographics in the […]
What we are reading: Alabama ports take advantage of Florida’s narrow-mindedness
Governor Rick Scott claims he’s bringing more business to Florida. That’s a tough sell considering Florida’s GDP growth was in the bottom-half of the United States for 2016. Scott’s ideology prevented multiple Florida ports from taking advantage of the liberalization of relations with Cuba (up until last week negotiations were progressing well) and therefore falling into […]
Kim Daniels – The Democrats own evangelist could be taking Tallahassee by storm
Jacksonville Democrat Kim Daniels was certain to grab headlines and attention once she was elected to the State House. The flamboyant Daniels who is an evangelist and author with a national following will be the first member of the House Democratic Caucus in sometime who is out-and-out focused on pushing issues related to curbing secularism […]
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We at The Florida Squeeze happily embrace the role of opposition party to President Trump’s megalomania. We are all too painfully aware that the Democrats don’t fill the proper role of an opposition party when out of power (as history has proven time and again nationally while we live it everyday here in Florida) so […]
A Ronald Reagan specialty license plate? Only in Florida…
Newly elected Rep. Rick Roth (R- Loxahatchee) whose ties to the sugar industry we previously editorialized about has filed a piece of legislation so ridiculous it screams FLORIDA LEGISLATURE all over it. Rep. Roth has filed a bill to create a Ronald Reagan specialty tag here in the state of Florida. Specialty license plates have proliferated to […]
Oops she did it again: Pelosi’s inability to connect with non-gajillionaires is just getting weird
Last night Twitter lit up with clips of Nancy Pelosi at the CNN Town Hall responding to a college student asking if the Democrats might be wise to adopt more populist economic policies and priorities. Before asking the question, NYU student Trevor Hill said the alt-right had scored too many points with populist rhetoric. The question was […]
What we are reading: Indians Angry at Trump’s Ban on Muslim Refugees Should Look at What Modi is Doing
As we’ve discussed on this site previously, a parallel exists between the rhetoric of Donald Trump and the actions of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Wire, one of India’s leading publications breaks it down. As we discussed yesterday, the right-wing populist fervor that is sweeping the globe has templates that are being followed – […]
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