This is our regular feature where every day I do a quick post with the top posts/stories that I think people should read from the previous day.
1. Skip Campbell vs. Jeff Atwater: Interstate4Jamming2 – The Premier Florida Senate Race Just Announced, Progressive Florida – Skip Campbell is Running, and Tallahassee Leaders Forum – Skip Campbell to run, and take out Sen. Atwater.
2. Wexler and Impeachment: Pensito Review – Rep. Wexler Delivers Cheney Impeachment Petition to Congress, Tallahassee Leaders Forum – Con. Wexler, becoming change – one liners from wexler’s speech last night, BlueHerald 2.0 – Wexler Calls for Impeachment Hearings, and Robert Wexler – Rep. Wexler Update on Impeachment Movement.
3. Grassroots Brevard – Dems Support Troops But Not The War… I Mean It Really!: “This is a very personal issue for me in that the word ‘troops’ does not bring to mind faceless men and women in off green colored uniforms but rather the names and faces for friends and family. I am a veteran and currently my old unit is just outside of Baghdad for the next 13 months. I remember them as people with families and friends who have been put into extraordinary positions and told to survive. Furthermore, I have 3 family members 2 of which are currently serving in both theatres of operations. With this in mind the Brevard County Democrats are coming together tonight (January 16th) to really support the troops. Tonight the Brevard County DEC and Brevard County Young Democrats are doing more than just putting a yellow ribbon on our cars, we will be sending out care packages.”
4. Florida Science Standards: Florida Citizens for Science – Threats and negative comments, Florida Citizens for Science – Yet more counties with anti-evolution resolutions, Florida Citizens for Science – Report from the field: St. Johns school board meeting, Florida Citizens for Science – The slow burn memo, Florida Citizens for Science – Southern Baptist Ministries rumor, Florida Citizens for Science – Oppose the anti-evolution resolution, and Florida Citizens for Science – Where did those anti-evolution resolutions come from?
5. Miami-Dade Dems – Florida somehow: A primary too early, but campaigning soon to get official: “A few weeks ago the Miami Herald was opining that the Florida primary vote wouldn’t count. To HELL with a newspaper’s civic responsibility! Citizens, don’t bother to vote. But that changed. I guess Florida’s flagship newspaper noticed that their darling, Rudy Giuliani, wouldn’t get his anticipated boost from Florida’s primary if the vote doesn’t count.”
6. Talk To Me – MICHIGAN: “Whoever wins the Sunshine State stands poised on the peak of the Big Mo heading into Super Tuesday. Get swept up. Vote in the January 29th.”
7. Eye On Miami – Mom, can we have cloned meat for dinner?: “For years I was mad about supermarkets that tried to pass tomatoes grown in South Dade as tomatoes. No one seemed to mind as the perfectly red and round tomatoes tasting like the telephone book took over the grocery shelves. Then there was the FDA approval of genetically modified food crops to get me hopped up. Now the FDA is approving food from cloned animals, a bonanza for industrial food chain suppliers. In the blissfully ignorant United States, freedom means nothing left to alter for profit. Mom, can we have cloned meat for dinner?”
8. Blast Off! – Come out and play: live appearance Saturday in Fort Lauderdale: “If I’m not careful, I might start feeling like a real radio talk show host. Because this Saturday, January 19, I’ll be doing my first live personal appearance, along with Mark Weaver of FPR’s The Mark Weaver Show, in the Florida Progressive Radio “Living Room” at the South Florida Folk Festival.”
9. Change In Tallahassee – Stop Chris Matthew’s Woman Bashing: “Using overtly sexist language, he has referred to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) as a ‘she devil’ and compared her to a ‘strip-teaser.’ He has called her ‘witchy’ and likened her voice to ‘fingernails on a blackboard.’ He has referred to men who support her as ‘castratos in the eunuch chorus.’ He has suggested Clinton is not ‘a convincing mom’ and said ‘modern women’ like Clinton are unacceptable to ‘Midwest guys.’ He has called her ‘Madame Defarge’ and ‘Nurse Ratched.’ Had enough? Contact MSNBC to tell them what you think.”
10. Eye On Miami – Clusterfuck Nation, by Jim Kunstler: “This week’s blog entry by Kunstler is worth reprinting in its entirety, at eyeonmiami. In Florida, the economic elites are doing the same as in Atlanta, as noted by Kunstler: anything possible to protect the circumstances that led to the housing boom, anything in defiance of reality. The Chamber, Associated Industries, the Latin Builders are all huddled as if in a circle, to keep the flame from blowing out. It is hoping, against hope, that the revival of the suburban sprawl model is just around the corner. It is macking public policy makers to keep on mining more lime rock, build more highways, more tunnels, more baseball stadiums. The Growth Machine, as described by Kunstler, doesn’t know anything else to do. Hold back citizens. Maintain consumers to be passive as cattle in chutes.”
11. MyDD – A Race on Our Hands in Florida?: “Florida is not going to be awarded any delegates to the Democratic National Convention (at least at this point). But given that, unlike Michigan, both Barack Obama and John Edwards will join Hillary Clinton on the ballot (and there won’t be a Democratic debate going on at the exact same moment as results come in, as was the case in Michigan), is it likely that the national media will gloss over the primary as it did in Michigan? And what role might the fact that the latest polling shows Clinton and Obama within the margin of error play?”
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13. For more, as always, go to the FLA Politics daily round-up and Political Newsclippings from The Spencerian.
