Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Are Some Florida Democrats Addicted to Sugar?
Florida’s sugar companies have been waging a public relations campaign that aims to create a perception that sugar is a responsible partner in protecting Florida’s environment. But the truth in the past has been quite different. The Everglades ecosystem is arguably the most important driver of Florida’s sustainability. The one of a kind environmental feature […]
Zest of the Day: Right-Wing Media Cover Up Supreme Court’s Unprecedented Blow To Voting Rights
Great stuff as always from Media Matters for America.
The Southern Manifesto, Civil Rights, Voting Rights and Florida
Continuing in light of the ill-advised Supreme Court regarding the Voting Rights Act earlier this week let’s look at the signers of the Southern Manifesto from Florida. According to the official US House of Representatives site: ” Howard Smith of Virginia, chairman of the House Rules Committee, introduced theSouthern Manifesto in a speech on the House Floor. Formally […]
Kurly’s Kommentary: Recipe For Cultural Cleansing: Paula Deen and the war against the Crisco generation
By Steven Kurlander kurly@stevenkurlander.com Like another 1960s era comics Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, who pushed the obscenity envelope, the great comedian Richard Pryor’s recipe for success was his use of vulgar language, especially the “n-word” in his routines that mocked racial stereotypes and relations in America. His breakthrough album, his third, was “That Nigger’s […]
FDP Communications rapid response to Supreme Court decisions impressive
When Allison Tant ran for FDP Chairwoman earlier this year she promised an increase in quality and scope of communications. After several months nothing had changed and the party was noticeably slow or absent in responses to a number of critical news items. But the last two days, the FDP under new Communications Director Joshua […]
Voting Rights Act decision helps messaging for Charlie Crist in potential battle with Rick Scott
Yesterday’s appalling Supreme Court decision regarding the Voting Rights Act of 1965 could become a major campaign issue in a potential battle between Governor Rick Scott, who based on yesterday’s statement plans to emulate the behavior of other southern governors on this issue and Charlie Crist, whose two decade Civil Rights record is nearly flawless. […]
The Voting Rights Act and Florida: Historical challenges in light of the Supreme Court decision
Tuesday’s ill-advised and unfortunate Supreme Court decision regarding the voting rights act recalls the shameful specter of potential voter purges and racially motivated disenfranchisement that characterized Florida and the American South prior to 1965. While much of the caricature of the south during that era has been drawn in hindsight by a guilty northern-dominated press […]
County Analysis: Dixiecrat Counties vs. Republican Horseshoe
The 2012 Presidential Election further solidified long-term trends in the state of Florida where a shift of core support for both political parities has taken place. The 2012 election was the most demographically polarizing in Florida’s history pitting urban/suburban/metropolitan areas against exurban/rural/micropolitan areas. Even the virtual “tie” 2000 election in Florida cut across these lines […]
Zest of the Day: Sen. Marco Rubio misled police, ICE union says
I typically would never share anything from the hackish Washington Times but this sensational headline caught my attention.
The Florida Squeeze 