Our Ground: Marco's box is full, so let's play "Party Line."
Marco “Cabana Boy” Rubio has a full mailbox, jammed phone lines and is thus unavailable to those of his Florida constiuents who want to tell him how much we oppose his sugar mama Betsy DeVos becoming...
View ArticleRun, John Morgan, Run: No, not for that
Dear John Morgan:All kinds of Florida Democrats areenthused that you will follow your successful campaign to expandlegal medical marijuana with a 2018 campaign for governor.You could self-finance, and...
View ArticleAP on Rebecca Sedgwick, cyberbullying and by inference the sheriff
Rebecca Sedgwick, the Lakeland FL girl who transferred from Crystal Lake Middle School to the Lawton Chiles Academy because of her family did not believe the earlier school was adequately addressing...
View ArticleFL-10 The Devil who's Dan Webster
Mike McKenna is doing a great job campaigning door to door as the Dem nominee in this court-declared unconstitutional congressional district. I can understand that the DCCC is concentrating its efforts...
View ArticleAs dust clears, the sources of my bitterness
If this is simply a venting diary, so be it. I put it off for several days and perhaps ought to permanently, but I do want to share the reasoning for the targets of my post-election angst, even if the...
View ArticleSending the GOP the way of the Federalists
What doomed the Federalist Party was an effort among its members to attmpt to negotiate behind James Madison's with the British over the War of 1812. After this, the party never had ballot access in...
View ArticleSome thoughts on the CottonMouth Scandal
I've had other things to worry about these last few days, and maybe my thinking is off because of that. Here, hough are some thouhts I have on what the Democratic Party on my behalf has to do about Tom...
View ArticleAny interest in an I-4 Meetup?
I'm not committing yet to setting it up, but if I did: Who and how many would be interested in having a meet-up, say late on a Saturday morning, at some location off exit 32 or 33 on Interstate-4 in...
View ArticleWoody Guthrie at 100 plus 3
Below the squiggle is a piece I did for Alternate Root magazine in 2012 on the Woody Guthrie Centenary July 14, 2012. My own title for it was "The Great American Songbook's Historical Bum," but the...
View ArticleOur Ground: Marco's box is full, so let's play "Party Line."
Marco “Cabana Boy” Rubio has a full mailbox, jammed phone lines and is thus unavailable to those of his Florida constiuents who want to tell him how much we oppose his sugar mama Betsy DeVos becoming...
View ArticleRun, John Morgan, Run: No, not for that
Dear John Morgan:All kinds of Florida Democrats areenthused that you will follow your successful campaign to expandlegal medical marijuana with a 2018 campaign for governor.You could self-finance, and...
View ArticleThe Course of Human Events
Lawrence O’Connell interview Elizabeth Drew last night, in part talking about the two possible courses for drafting articles of impeachment. I think we all recognize that the things related to the July...
View ArticleMy message to my senior senator
Dear Sen. Rubio,As a Democrat, I've been cautious about the whole idea of impeachment from the start. It took the July, 2019 incident to tell me what I think we both know, that the President has so...
View ArticleThis account of Florida's derailed prep for a pandemic makes Rick Scott look...
I’m linking to a long story in the Tampa Bay Times here. It is worth the time to read it, but this stuck out for me: During Rick Scott’s eight years as governor, a time in which the health care...
View ArticleTake away the law license of FL AG Ashley Moody
I had to get past the holidays first, but yesterday I completed and posted by mail my complaint, as a client, against Florida Attorney General Ashley Brooke Moody to the Florida Bar Association. My...
View ArticleMy Impeachment II letter to Sen. Marco Rubio
Sen. Rubio’s web site will only accept messages of 3,000 characters or fewer. This is my full text. I left out the nastiest stuff out of respect to the process. I’m going to link to this in my...
View ArticleMy letter to Rick Scott on Impeachment II
I commend you for finding within The President's 73-minute speech “peacefully.” I get Facebook puzzles like that all the time: Find the M in a grid of Ws. When you find the B among the 8s, reply “Found...
View ArticleWe won't dump the electoral college, and I don't even think we should. Do...
(See update note before discussion begins re House size.)I know the arguments against the Electoral College and they all start with an accurate statement: It has skewed election results from the...
View ArticleWhat I sent my freshman GOP US Rep re Clarence Thomas
Scott Franklin won his seat running against Republican financial impropriety, but I’m going to imagine I’m only falsely optimistic he is going to be open to the logic below. He voted not to certify...
View ArticleAlways remember: John Cornyn acted like a a racist as Texas Attorney General
Imagine for a minute you sit on the Senate Commmittee on the Judiciary as Texas’s senior senator. Imagine for a minute you turn a blind eye to flagrant racism. But, I repeat myself.Always, always...
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