Ah, that’s more like it. I take a couple days off and you people write so much I can’t keep up with all of it. Good work! P.S. You people better click some of these links, I literally worked on this one from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. (I mixed in a few other tasks during that time, but still).
1. Jena 6: Ybor City Stogie – I Can Take Away Your Lives With A Stroke Of A Pen, Reidblog – Wear black today in honor of the Jena 6, Reidblog – The State of Louisiana vs. the 21st Century, Pushing Rope – Lack of Progressive Coverage On Jena 6, Incertus – Free the Jena 6, BeThink – Jena Six. Justice: Permission Granted. Judgment: Permission Denied, Ybor City Stogie – Central Florida Residents March On Jena, Incertus – Dangerous Misperceptions, and Morning Martini – Fred the Cat is Back with Questions. (See also Shakesville, Pam’s House Blend, Open Left, The Unapologetic Mexican, Daily Kos, Media Matters, Pam’s House Blend, and Pam’s House Blend).
2. Roy Atchison: Pensacola Beach Blog – Atchison’s Health: What We Don’t Know, Pensacola Beach Blog – Atchison in the Gulf Breeze News, Pensito Review – Media Ignores Story of Federal Prosecutor Nabbed Soliciting Sex from Five-Year-Old Girl, Why Now – This Is Just Sick, Change in Tallahassee – Republican prosecutor from Florida caught in child sex sting, Pensacola Beach Blog – Pensacola U.S. Attorney Becomes An “Unperson”, Pensacola Beach Blog – Assistant U..S. Attorney’s ‘My Space’ Page, Pensacola Beach Blog – Local U.S. Prosecutor Nabbed on Child Sex Charges, and Blast Off! – Florida GOP Police Blotter #6: Federal prosecutor in Pensacola likes ‘em young.
3. The Spencerian – Florida’s Murky Economic Future: “But Americans are going to have to break out of our bad habit of shortsightedness and, frankly, narrowmindedness. There are other issues afoot. This is especially true for Floridians, with a property tax referendum to figure out, a looming property insurance disaster and a state budget crisis all on our plate.”
4. Tax cuts: The Buzz – The tax cuts cometh, Naked Politics – Spinning history on tax cuts, The Buzz – Rubio fixes $23-million property tax mistake, and Naked Politics – Republican leaders go on the offensive to save tax plan.
5. Hurricanes: Bloggy Bayou – Live-blogging the Storm, Bark Bark Woof Woof – Tropical Update, Pensacola Beach Blog – Florida Supreme Court Rejects Hurricane Claims, Bloggy Bayou – ‘Canes, and Reuters – Ivo strengthens into hurricane near Mexico.
6. PIP: Pushing Rope – PIP & Cat Fund Madness, Praxis – PIP politics, Central Florida Political Pulse – Gelber to Rubio: Shine some light on PIP “sunset”, Central Florida Political Pulse – Is Florida cooking up a ‘Tallahassee Special’ for PIP?, Naked Politics – PIP politics: Deal reached on keeping PIP alive, and The Buzz – Rubio cautious but hopeful on PIP.
7. the 13th juror – Florida’s welfare rate is lowest in the nation: “Florida had the nation’s lowest rate of households on welfare last year, according to figures recently released by the U.S. Census. Just 1.3 percent of Florida households reported receiving welfare payments in 2006.”
8. The Buzz – Students plan protest as boot camp trial nears: “College students who helped elevate the boot camp death of a boy in Panama City into a statewide concern are re-energizing as the trial nears for seven guards and a nurse accused of contributing to the death.”
9. Ybor City Stogie – 80% Of Columnists Featured By The Tampa Tribune Are Conservative: “Only the Winter Haven News Chief, the Villages Daily Sun and the Fort Walton Beach Northwest Florida Daily News had highest percentages of conservative columnists. The St. Petersburg Times is shown featuring more progressives than conservatives, with 43 percent of columnists considered progressive and 29 percent considered conservative.”
10. Left Side Out – Update on protest in Hillsborough
post info: “The protest went off, was (I think) successful. It got the message across that the g/l/b/t community — as well as our friends and families — are serious about our rights, serious about our freedoms, and serious about our faiths. We also put across the statement that we are serious about not letting others define us, defile us, or marginalize us.”
11. Talk To Me – Civilly Right: “With all the news coverage focused yesterday on the Jena 6 protest, the pardon of Richard Paey and the restoration of his civil rights received far less fanfare. Paey–a chronic pain sufferer due to a serious traffic accident and back surgery gone bad–was basically convicted for trafficking his own pain medication. Also a person living with multiple sclerosis, Paey’s refusal to plea to drug trafficking charges and his ultimate conviction (three trials later) kicked in the mandatory minimums sentencing guidelines–25 years.”
12. Florida Scumbag Watch: Pushing Rope – Bob Allen Trial Delayed, Pushing Rope – Jim Naugle Meets G.I. Joe, Pensacola Beach Blog – Federal Attorney, Court Clerk Jailed in Fracus, . (See also Pam’s House Blend).
13. Pushing Rope – Hurricane Ronda Storms: “Ronda Storms attempted to delay the paperwork for a Valrico bikini bar. The establishment was already cleared for zoning and legally allowed to open. That didn’t stop Storms from ordering a Hillsborough County employee to sit on the final paperwork to delay the opening. Now the taxpayer is paying for Storms’s grandstanding.”
14. Central Florida Political Pulse – Crist calls some insurers un-American: “Gov. Charlie Crist on Thursday offered a full-throated defense of Florida’s efforts this year to cut homeowner premiums by forcing government deeper into the insurance business. Before the governing board of Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the governor chastised private insurers for failing to lower rates and shedding policies following the 2004-05 hurricane seasons and moves this year to let Citizens compete for policies. ‘Some in the private sector are afraid of competition and that is not the American way. Competition is the American way. Being afraid of it is not the American way,’ Crist told the board.”
15. The Penile State – “This is Florida. . .you never know”: “What he calls liberty, they call a breach of community rules.”
16. Naked Politics – McCollum says he won’t stop new public defender system: “In a brief one page letter, Attorney General Bill McCollum said today that he won’t try to block the appointment of five new regional conflict counsels, the new system of public defenders that lawmakers set up in response to mounting legal costs to hire outside lawyers when existing defenders have a conflict. The Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers requested that McCollum file a petition for writ quo warranto challenging the legality of the new arrangement, saying it violates constitutional requirements for public defenders.”
17. Miami-Dade Dems – Fox would call this fair and balanced: “Just when we thought a strong, progressive voice had finally made its way on to the Spanish language airwaves in Miami, WQBA and its management decided to blackmail Mayor Martinez, refusing to allow him to continue his radio show unless he promised not to pursue elected office — a decision he has yet to make.”
18. the 13th juror – Who — exactly — is homeless?: “The federal definition of homelessness could be changed to include individuals and families living in motels and doubled-up situations.”
19. Tom Feeney: Change in Tallahassee – Tom Feeney named among most corrupt members of Congress, and Smashed Frog – Tom Feeney: Top 22 Corrupt.
20. The Buzz – The newest state rep: Charles McBurney: “Nobody can sneeze at 79%, but Democratic registration in North Florida doesn’t exactly mean a whole lot. Bill Nelson barely topped 50 percent in that district last year, and Alex Sink won about 42 percent of the vote. Steve Schale, the House Democrats’ political director who went to high school in that district, said the party’s internal polling President Bush with an approval rating of roughly 60 percent there: ‘We finally found a place in America where the president is more popular than in Crawford, Texas.’”
21. The Buzz – Eliot Spitzer and Hometown Democracy: “What do NY Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Hometown Democracy have in common? A Republican political strategist named Michael Caputo who is working to defeat them both.”
22. Florida Citizens for Science – Oh no! Yecke in the top three: “Your top three candidates for Florida Education Commissioner are: Joseph Marinelli, Eric Smith and Cheri Yecke….Pick an education leader who will break with Jeb. Cheri Pierson Yecke is the kind of candidate to avoid.”
23. The Penile State – Movin’ on up: “Just another day in the sinkhole economy: ‘New information just released about home foreclosures shows Florida is near the top of the list. More than 30,000 homeowners faced foreclosure in August. That number moved the state from number seven to number three in the country when it comes to foreclosures.’”
24. Ybor City Stogie – More Big Brother At Florida Intersections: “A Florida state representative and a citizens association are backing a state bill to install cameras at red light intersections. Melissa Wandall, a Bradenton woman whose husband was killed by a red light runner in 2003, is spearheading the citizens’ effort.”
25. Smashed Frog – Beware the Amoeba: “My mom never let my brothers and me swim in the lake, well…what we call a lake in Florida. (Meaning, usually a man-made sort of retention pond which realtors delight in calling “waterfront”). “That water’s filthy dirty,” she would say.”
26. Talk To Me – Stormy Weather: “Blame the weather to explain why only 20 people bothered to show up to hear the County Commissioners approve the tentative $1.24 billion budget. Could a better explanation be that no matter what citizens say or do, these five will do exactly what they want regardless of what you and I have to say?”
27. UF taser incident: Incertus – And While We’re Talking About Injustice, Pushing Rope – UF Taser Incident Update, – , Why Now? – What Happened?, Naked Politics – McCollum: UF cops should be investigated by FDLE, Anger Management Course – Don’t tase me , bro., Political Safari – Launching A Career, Tallahassee Democrat Editor’s Blog – Digital reporting adds legs to UF Taser incident, Pushing Rope – University of Florida Taser Incident, Naked Politics – Punishment for questions of Kerry: Taser gun, Ybor City Stogie – University Of Florida Student Arrested, Tasered At Kerry Forum, Ybor City Stogie – YouTube: UF Student Tasered, Change in Tallahassee – UF Student Tasered at Kerry speech, The Buzz – UF student at Kerry event: ‘Don’t Tase me, bro’, The Penile State – You’re a UF Student: Stop asking questions, Alien Intelligencer – Freedom of Speech Ain’t What It Used to Be, Left Side Out – florida student taser incident, Central Florida Political Pulse – Volusia’s elections woes made headlines again, Political Safari – Taser Tag, Flablog – Tasered Student, Blast Off! – UF student restrained and Tasered at Kerry speech, and Discourse.net – The Audience Sat Quietly. (See also Media Matters, AMERICAblog, Media Matters, Shakesville, Rook’s Rant, The Vanity Press, and Shakesville).
28. The Democratic Primary: Naked Politics – Florida: Pretty please? Four states: Nope., Naked Politics – Fla Dem dilemma, chapter XXXIV, and March on Politics – Nelson, Hastings Set Monday as Showdown with National Dems.
29. Blast Off’s Sinfonian in D.c.: D.C. recap, part one, D.C. recap, part two: photo blogging, and D.C. recap, part three: video blogging.
30. Pushing Rope – Pushing Rope Wins Best of the Bay For Political Blogging.
31. Blast Off! – ♫ “America’s Wangâ„¢, how I love thee …” ♫: “The Florida state song competition, covered here in June (when I nominated ‘Psycho Killer’), continues … sort of.”
32. Here are the sites in our Candidate Watch Network that have been updated: Focus on Feeney.
33. Also, check out the Florida Netroots Blogging Florida roundup.
34. For more, as always, go to the FLA Politics daily round-up.
Ken, I’m not certain how you keep up with this…you are a human blogroll!
Which leads me to this idea….could the techs among us develop a FPC blogroll….like Lefty Blogs except for FPC?
Sheree
Hi Sheree… We have plans to build an aggregator site that would include all of Florida’s progressive blogs. We’re just waiting until we move FPC off of Kenny’s server, before we kick it into gear.
Once we’ve set that up, I’ll write some code for people to insert into their blog which would load an up-to-date blogroll of progressive Florida blogs. Also, an rss feed would be made available, so that headlines and links to the most recent posts could be displayed anywhere.
We’ve got a slew of techie stuff tested out and awaiting the day we have a server that can handle it. We’ll dole out these goodies as soon as possible.
That’s a really great idea Dave! Can’t wait for it to happen!
That is outstanding! I should have known you all were way ahead of me on this kind of stuff….I’m with Ray…I can’t wait for this to happen….:)