Tag Archives: Ron DeSantis
Sorry elites. Florida proved again it is Trump Country.
Florida’s 2018 Election confirmed one thing – a closely polarized state it remains, but that Donald Trump can rally the GOP base and carry Republicans through close elections better than any member of his party in this era. Trump, a part-time resident of the state is more popular and connected in this state than any […]
Ron DeSantis and Broward County: A huge opportunity to build a reform resume
Broward County is front and center of in the 2018 Florida recount controversies, The county is again in the national headlines for the wrong reasons. Whether it’s school shootings, elected officials being thrown in jail, a bomb suspect arrested or a ponzi schemer being caught, Broward, Florida’s second most populated county has quite a rap […]
Opinion: Florida’s Governor’s Race has been dumb and dumber. Nelson is the clear choice for Senate.
This column represents the views of Kartik Krishnaiyer alone and no other writer affiliated with this site. Florida already has a bad reputation for various reasons. Perhaps much of this owes itself to a national press that since the late 1990’s has been seemingly obsessive about anything related to the state. But another aspect of […]
Trump’s coded antisemitism puts Florida’s Jews at far more risk than Andrew Gillum ever could
Editors note: Portions of this piece are from previous TFS’ articles which have become timely in this moment of tragedy Donald Trump personally is not antisemitic we are told over and over again. I accept that statement, I suppose – but George Wallace wasn’t a racist personally and yet he conjured up racist anger not […]
Big sugar and the 2018 Florida election
Following eight years of Rick Scott’s anti-environmental administration, cleaning up and resorting the Everglades water quality and flows which is mandated by a court order is further behind schedule than imaginable. Scott’s alliance with sugar barons in southern Florida has been mirrored by a legislature unwilling to stand up to the industry with the exception […]
Democrats cheering on Ron DeSantis should be careful what they wish for
In the past few weeks, I have heard from more than a handful of Democrats who haven’t learned a powerful past lesson of Republican primaries in Florida – cheering on the most extreme right-wing candidate for an office and hoping to face them in November has often meant that candidate wins the office outright. But […]
The Democratic governor’s race is wide open – while November remains daunting
With just over two months remaining until Florida Democrats will choose a nominee, the race remains fluid with a field of largely flawed candidates. All five of the major candidates have compelling stories but also significant drawbacks that could jeopardize the ability of the party to win the office in November. The GOP will nominate […]
Dennis Ross retirement opens a potential opportunity for Democrats
When Dennis Ross announced his retirement from Congress less than two weeks ago, local Democrats started scrambling for potential candidates in Florida’s 15th Congressional District. The seat which since 1992 has essentially been anchored by western Polk County, now is more influenced by the burgeoning areas of eastern Hillsborough County. The three Congressman elected in […]
Putnam’s rightward lurch is smart politics and natural to him
Florida political insiders seem to be aghast at Adam Putnam’s shift to the right. Whether it’s touting gun rights or attacking CNN as “fake news,” Putnam has more certainly attempted to re-position himself in the last few weeks. Given the rightward lurch of the GOP first in 2008 when Mike Pence replaced Putnam in the […]
The Florida Squeeze 