Florida

Lake County is in central Florida, north of Orlando, or, as Ryan Morales explained it to me on the phone yesterday, it's a "hidden gem, just north west of Disney World, sitting on top of the Green Swamp which feeds the Florida Aquifer... better known as our drinking water...

Charlotte County, is in southwest Florida. There's one city, Punta Gorda, which has a population of about 20,000. In 2016 the county went strongly for Trump, 60,196 (62.5%) to 33,421 (34.7%). In 2018, the county went for Ron DeSantis 54,102 (62.3%) to 31,248 (36.0%) and helped elect Rick Scott senator and Greg Steube congressman (FL-17).

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Previously, 21WIRE detailed the shocking scale of statistical fraud being carried out by Florida health officials recently exposed as inflating the number of COVID “cases” in the state.

It’s long been suspected that certain countries and US states have been padding their statistics regarding both cases and deaths attributed to coronavirus.
Only yesterday, it was revealed how UK health officials have been ‘double counting’ COVID deaths through creative administrative record keeping.
More evidence also reveals how similar shady practices are being employed by state officials across America.

Anselm Weber and Rachel Brown are a progressive couple in Southwest Florida who have organized for voter registration and around issues of sensible drug policy, voter rights restoration, $15 minimum wage, Medicaid expansion, and climate action. Rachel Brown is running for the Florida Senate District 27 and Anselm Weber is running for Florida House District 76.

Good news/bad news; first the good news. Florida's gigantically accelerating new one-day cases took a rest yesterday. After a horrific couple of days ending in 12,624 new cases reported Monday, yesterday there were "only" 9,194 new cases.

On a trip to COVID-19 riddled Florida this weekend, President Donald Trump not-so-cryptically revealed that he had something big planned for Venezuela during a meeting with leaders of the U.S. military’s Southern Command. “Something will happen with Venezuela. That’s all I can tell you,” he said, before adding that Washington would be “very much involved” in what he was referencing.

In an off-the-record talk with a top Florida elected official, I was informed that Debbie Wasserman Schultz no longer has any power inside the Florida Democratic Party. "She has zero influence. The consultants who make money loosing elections have all the influence... The current chair's career experience (Terrie Rizzo) is that she’s a yoga instructor.

COVID-Don with COVID-RonOn Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis and the Republican-dominated state legislature gave Florida 11,433 new corfimed COVID cases. Yesterday it was 10,360 more, bringing the ghastly total to 254,511 (11,850 per million Floridians). Also on Friday Governor Greg Abbott and his Republican-dominated state legislature gave Texas 10,063 new cases.