The completely unqualified Hegseth should have been given the boot after he texted war plans. Sheesh. And Trump needs to shut face about “only” 18 lives lost. Honestly, trump should have been done the moment he mocked a disabled man, but, here we are. Promoting incompetence has become an art-form with the anti-DEI crowd.
Interesting - I am trying to contact US Congressman Steube - who just wrote an article about gaining back the trust of his constituents. Yet, as I try to contact to his office - I am blocked by the fact I don’t have a Sarasota zip code? With that said - when looking him up on the “internet” he does say along with his name “Congressman Steube - REPRESENTING Florida? But I can get past the first webpage to express my disappointment in his leadership - along with many other state and US representatives coming from Florida on how they are NOT doing their job! One of those duties as Representative of Floridians - is to protect Florida - its people, its economy but most importantly Florida’s ENVIRONMENT! You want our trust back - do your job. Start with outreach to your Sarasota constituents with the right zip code - and give them the assistance they need on over-development of the Celery Fields to begin with. There are plenty more concerns to be addressed!. Congressman Grebe and Commissioner Mast and the rest of Florida’s delegation - make yourselves available to the people! We have plenty to say!
Nothing like putting the cart before the horse. Sounds like an uh oh that actually passed, how are we going to implement without crushing the ability of Counties to provide essential services? I see real buyers regret coming for he supporters of this legislation. What has actually happened is that the State now has the gold and he who has the gold rules.
— it is curious that Florida failed to reflect the concerns evidenced throughout the country. Would like to see that well scrutinized. Hear rumors that the Joe Gruters machine sank more than five million into getting his wife elected.
Refusal by Gruters to debate or participate in traditional candidate forums suggests that the dirty and unethical marketing Gruters used was the tactic relied upon to persuade naive voters, Would like to see those stories pursued.
Since becoming the incumbent, Steube always has avoided debates and relied upon demographics to keep office — but seeing this tactic from a candidate running a first campaign is a clear indicator of reliance by Gruters upon the renown local puppet-placing machine. The massive use of dark money promoting Gruters is a poster-child example of the need for reform in campaign financing.
The next election for their federal congressional seats is only two years away and it is likely that Gruters and Steube will be held accountable for their close association with the subjects of investigations that occur during the congress seated in January. Stay tuned and although they seem especially slow in Florida — watch the wheels of justice keep turning.
The new governor has learned from the Master . . .DeSantis - on how to dupe us Floridians! Donalds is hoping we Floridians will sit back on our laurels - as they - the people we Floridians just put in power - systematically work their way through Florida building out data centers in our back yards! What were Florida voters thinking? Oh yes, silly me, looks like Florida voters don’t know how to critically think? Those of us that did SEE the writing on the WALL . . . Stay engaged and informed! Let’s HOLD our ground - FLORIDA is depending on us!
Too bad Ballard was rewarded with another term. I guess voters are just fine with commissioners who are funded and paid for by developers. She screwed us before, now she'll have lots of time to do it some more!
Personally, I am tired of hearing "Both Parties" do it. They do not. Yes, there are negative ads put out by Democrats, but nothing even close to the malicious lies and smears of the GOP for the last 20 years. The current GOP are not even in the same plane of existence as those of us who inhabit a country in chaos, WW3 brewing, inflation forcing families to the streets, children watching babies, disease brewing; it is like they are inviting the Four Horsemen in the hope of their fantasies of rapture for themselves and screw everyone else. Somehow, I don't think that is how it would work, if it were actually a thing, but the chaos the GOP has sown for the last twenty years has nothing comparable on the Democrats side.
It is a false equivalency.
I am not saying Democrats are perfect, but when one of their politicians goes over the line, they don't ignore the issue.
There is law-abiding and there is corrupt. There are right and wrong. There is no equivalency between those concepts and there is no "both sides" are slinging malicious outright lies. Democrats are campaigning on ending corruption, dealing with the inflation by ceasing funding for the illegal war against Iran, ending his illegal tariffs, resolving Social Security/Medicare issues, and stopping the funding for all his millions of dollars in the reconstruction of D.C.
Please bring receipts before accusing Democrats of the malicious smear jobs we are seeing from the Republican candidates up and down the ballot.
LWV MC Education Issues Action Team regards it errored in reporting the statement, "Over 60,000 Jews perished from the horrors of the Holocaust." This should have read "Over 6 million Jews perished from the horrors of the Holocaust." We appreciate a reader poining out this error.
— thanks for the tip about using AI as a tool to research all the "misrepresentations" (lies) in the marketing flooding our communications in mailers, posts, and ads. That is helpful for those who suspect the lies in all this—but is not likely to be used by those who do not. The propaganda is aimed at those uninformed voters—to manipulate them into being sheep led by judas goats for the greedy leaders of the Republican party. Profiting from his cut of the millions in "dark money" he mangers and protects for Trump (check that out), Joe Gruters heads the national party and now he wants his wife to be his parrot voice in the federal congress—it is a package deal—that is designed to increase the corruption in giant steps.
The best use of this tool is seeing the facts one may use while we turn uninformed voters into smart voters. Discussions with these folks is needed to get them informed—that is as important as our own votes—make it your additional contribution to the good side in this nasty election for district 16 as we fight for the benefit of the community instead of the cabal.
Kelly Kirschner is the clear choice over the puppet for Joe Gruters.
David Jolly is the clear choice over the puppet for the national party Joe Gruters leads for sheer profit to the cabal that we need to drum out of control.
Repeat as necessary down the ballot...
Did Olsen stop the flooding of their property? Or is the lawsuit still ongoing? How did he discover he was being spied on? Are they spying on far more people in other agencies? The State of Florida is really starting to feel very authoritarian. What the State is pushing is not freedom or democracy, it is control and manipulation.
We need to vote all of them out.
Manatee has become a rogue Republican. The revolt against Sydney Gruiters will only add to this. State GOP is hanging itself by doling out money to the most outrageous campaign in the state. My wallet is closed.
Hopefully they’ve gone far enough, but it’s doubtful. If Kelly wins it might wake them up - one can only hope. Hopefully he’s a precursor to sanity coming back to the Democrats
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