On Friday, Florida reported 8,942 new cases of COVID-19, the highest one day increase for the state... until Saturday, when Florida reported 9,585 new cases. Even before Sunday, active cases went from 97,943 to 132,545.
My friends don't usually run for office. I become friends with some when they are already running; it's a side-effect of my new profession. But this is different. Bob's an old friend. And he's running for the Florida state legislature in a south Florida swing district that the Democratic Party had decided to ignore and just hand to the GOP... again.
I Can't Breathe by Nancy OhanianEvery time Trump starts flapping his gums about the imagined evils of vote-by-mail-- which makes one wonder if he hasn't been counting on massively rigging the electronic voting systems-- Republican Party officials shudder-- and Democrats jump for joy. Let's take Florida as an example.
38,386 new cases today-- you running from that, Pig Man?Yesterday saw a horrifying new high in cases in states across the country thanks to Trump and, in most cases, the foolish governors (and idiot citizens) who echo-ed his ignorant pronouncements about COVID-19. From the beginning, Trump refused to take the pandemic seriously, which s why the U.S. has been hit so much harder than any country in the world.
Lately, Florida passes a new record in COVID cases every day. Gov. DeSantis didn't manufacture the coronavirus, but his foolish, backward, ideological policies guaranteed that Florida would be one of the worst hotspots on the planet. On Friday the state reported 3,822 new cases-- the second most after Texas-- and yesterday Florida reported 4,049 new cases. Friday there were 4,179 cases per million people.
Before whistles started blowing, and back when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis could still get away with reporting insanely low numbers of COVID cases in his state, he issued a foolish executive order mandating visitors to Florida from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut self-isolate for 14 days before enjoying all that a Florida spring has to offer. Now the tri-state area is healing, while Florida is becoming one of the worst-hit states in the country.
A famous poem by T.S. Eliot states that the world would not end with a bang, but with a whimper. Well, it looks like that is how democracy could end as well. If you listen carefully, you can hear that whimper being carried to your ears by a soft, South Florida ocean breeze.This cycle-- once again-- a battle for the soul of democracy is being waged in Florida.Florida Senate District 39 stretches from Key West through the Florida Keys and up into South Miami-Dade.
Fatally-flawed Florida Democratic Party boss Gary FarmerFlorida's 27th senatorial district-- most of Lee County and all of Fort Myers and Cape Coral-- is safely red. There are 197,866 registered Republicans, 128,204 registered Democrats and 139,293 others (mostly independents). In 2016 Lee County voters backed Trump over Hillary, 58.7% to 38.3%.
