President Bill Clinton to Keynote Florida Democrats Leadership Blue Gala
As confirmation of just how important Florida is to Democrats this election cycle, President Bill Clinton will be speaking at the Florida Democratic Party’s annual gala event.
Formerly known as the Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner the newly renamed Leadership Blue Gala will again be held at the Diplomat Hotel in the City of Hollywood in our very own Broward County. Please show your support for the Party by attending this great event where you will get a chance to engage with many of our State’s most dynamic and hardwoking electeds and volunteers.
To Purchase Your Tickets Go To Leadership Blue Gala.
Florida Democratic Party Has a New Website
The Florida Democratic Party debuted its new website today.
Have a look and tell us what you think.
Editorial: If Gov. Rick Scott only had a heart
Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board
February 28, 2014 3:00pm
This time four years ago Rick Scott was a stranger to Floridians. Then he spent $73 million on his first political campaign and rode an angry voter wave to the Governor’s Mansion. For Florida, this has been a hostile takeover by the former CEO of the nation’s largest hospital chain. In three years Scott has done more harm than any modern governor, from voting rights to privacy rights, public schools to higher education, environmental protection to health care. One more legislative session and a $100 million re-election campaign will not undo the damage.
This is the tin man as governor, a chief executive who shows no heartfelt connection to the state, appreciation for its values or compassion for its residents. Duke Energy is charging its electric customers billions for nuclear plants that were botched or never built. Homeowners are being pushed out of the state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and into private insurers with higher premiums and no track records. Federal flood insurance rates are soaring so high that many property owners cannot afford the premiums but also cannot sell their homes. The governor sides with the electric utilities and property insurers. He criticizes the president rather than fellow Republicans in Congress for failing to fix the flood insurance fiasco they helped create.
In Scott’s Florida, it is harder for citizens to vote and for the jobless to collect unemployment. It is easier for renters to be evicted and for borrowers to be charged high interest rates on short-term loans. It is harder for patients to win claims against doctors who hurt them and for consumers to get fair treatment from car dealers who deceive them. It is easier for businesses to avoid paying taxes, building roads and repairing environmental damage.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s 2012 voter purge violated federal law, court rules
Steve Bousquet, Tampa Bay Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 7:48pm
TALLAHASSEE — Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s administration violated federal law by trying to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls too close to the 2012 presidential election, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in calling the mistake-prone effort “far from perfect.”
The decision by a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta invalidated efforts by the Department of State to identify and remove noncitizens from the voter rolls in advance of an election in which a Florida victory was crucial to President Barack Obama’s re-election.
Federal law prohibits states from “systematic” removals of voters less than 90 days before a federal primary or general election.
Judges said they ruled in a case that might otherwise be moot to prevent Scott’s administration from undertaking a future purge effort.
“This is a big win for Florida voters and a significant victory for good election administration practices,” said Deirdre Macnab, president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, which joined the case on the plaintiffs’ side. “Systematic computer purges are often wrong so they shouldn’t come just before an election, when the voter can’t get it corrected. … This is a precedent-setting case that upholds a key protection for voters.”