May 30, 2012

Open letter to Debbie Wasserman Schulz

Your web page explained that you canot read email from people outside your district. That is an odd step for someone with a national position, a chair of the Democratic -->NATIONAL<-- Committee. However, that is not the point. I will bring up a duty that I feel you have not done, a duty that, as possibly the most powerful Democrat in Florida, you should already be on. As Florida election misery aka GOP Vote suppression affects the nation, and indeed, the world, I would ask my fellow DUers to read this too, though I think they will see my point more readily than you.

Simply put, we know that the GOP is set to STEAL ANOTHER NATIONAL ELECTION. Let's call it what it is. They know Florida is a tipping point, and for various reasons, the race is too close not to be stolen. This very page shows people that are clearly citizens, whose right to vote is denied. We know the Superpacs are planning to literally drown us with paid ads, and that they are preapred to resort to the same thuggery they did in 2000. Go ahead, read papers of even liberal papers like the Tampa Bay Times, check the comments section, and hear people literaly talk of using the "stand your ground" laws to shoot Democrats in Tampa during their "convention." Go ahead and see the Superpacs raise money, as Rick Scott gladly purges voters. Why am I mad at you, you ask?

Because YOU have a NATIONAL DUTY to speak on these things. You get a LOT of time on MSNBC, CNN, and I doubt Current would ban you (though I am sure Cenk U and Jennifer G could give you a finer talking to than I ever could. When you know that this PURGE (and let's use the nice Stalinist word, PURGE) is happening, WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU? It's bad enough that on the local level, the Florida Democratic party is so docile that our best hopes of beating Rick Scott are Alex Sink and Chain-gang Charlie Crist, you know, that GOP the Dems want to bring in. But, you, even if the local party is weak, have a national pulpit you can speak from.


You know what you should be doing: you should be getting to TV, bringing along victimized voters, and make Mittens and his sidekick Trump have to tapdance. To quote the idiot that weak Florida democrats helped put in Tallahassee: let's get to work.

May 24, 2012

Of 7,000 felons purged from voting rolls, many are Democrats, blacks

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/of-7000-felons-purged-from-voting-rolls-many-are-democrats-blacks/1231444

"According to the data, Democrats were three times more likely than Republicans to be removed. Blacks were almost as likely as whites to be removed (44 percent of those removed were white; 43 percent were blacks), while blacks make up 16 percent of the state's population."

"Pockets of Tampa and Jacksonville are home to the most purged voters in 2012, according to voters' ZIP codes. Jacksonville, the state's largest city, accounts for 928 removals, about one of seven felons swept from the rolls, even though the rate of violent crime declined there by 3.3 percent from 2010 to 2011."


Surprise surprise, to think that the GOP would target Urban areas.

May 12, 2012

To all those who want to move the convention, an honest question

Hpow would you prevent punishing those in NC that are fighting to turn the state blue? I do not deny that NC's law was evil, but it is not the will of most in NC, nor the South, but the prodict of the fact that the evanagelicals will stomp on broken glass to vote. How you do avoid cutting off those of us who, despite living in formerly red states, have been fighting like hell?

May 10, 2012

An open letter to Arriana Huffington.

I wil not subscribe to your site because you have turned it into a money pit for AoL, which is quite right wing. However, I am sure that you have some interns lurking here, chained to their cubicle for non existent pay.

As I have said to many, I never had problems with putting pressure on President Obama. Even the best Democrats, from LBJ to even Slick Willie Clinton, needed a left that placed pressure, so that they could turn to the mushy, whiny "moderates" and say "see, I have to do this." However, let's face facts Arianna, when you have "guest columnists" on like Mark Penn, or Lynn Evelyn de Rothschild, or others who make no bones about wanting to see Obama lose the election, you get to hide behind LGBT concerns, like the good Log Cabin Republican you were before the GOP threw you out the door.

Well, now it is time tpo put up or shut up. Yes, as our colunist Pab Subgenius pointed out, he did not close the infamous "states right" door, ironically the same one that some LGBT activists were hoping to use to get in Same-sex Marriage. Granted, we both know states rights is but a codeword for Dixie to remain it's evil self. However, while it took a long time for him to jump, he did not wait until the election: we know Bill Clinton is off somewhere going "he needed to wait until November, like -->I<--- did." And of course, you know if he loses this election, Fox news and it's allies will keep repeating "Those Gays cost him the election those gays cost him the election, supporting gays is political suicide!", until it becomes more widely believed than 2 plus 2 =4.

If you really claim to be the champion of gays, you have a vested interest in Obama beatung Romney, it is that simple. If you continue to work to get Obama out, then you, yes you, will be responsible when Mitt Romney uses his chance to salt the fields for all our rights, forever.