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  • Mentorship in the Democratic Party

    Mentorship - a developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps a less experienced or less knowledgeable person to develop in a specified capacity. I did a quick google search using various keywords such as “mentorship in the democratic party”, “mentorship programs democrat”, etc.  I found a [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 10:21am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Florida’s Economy and Spending Priorities

    The Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy completed an annual report on the key economic indicators to access Florida’s well-being and the results are not good. Here are the major findings: Much of Florida’s economic well-being over the past few decades was tied to growth in population. The state’s population is [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 8:38am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Stupid Republican Twitters

    Like many of you, I have been transfixed by what is going in Iran in the last couple weeks.  It seems regardless of whatever crisis is at hand the Republicans have nothing constructive to add. Apparently it wasn’t enough that Pete Hoekstra (R) Michigan said last week: “Iranian twitter activity similar to [...]
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    Posted: June 22, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Florida Political News Roster

    Kos finds the Republican race for Florida Senate humorous. Sink leads in Early Polling - Quinnipiac puts Sink ahead of McColllum 38-34 in Governor’s Race. Vern’s Legal Woes - Representative Vern Buchanan (R, FL13) has 14 lawsuits against him accusing his auto stores of shady dealings. Drill Nuts Back At It - conservative activists [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 9:11am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Dan Gelber and Dave Aronberg run for Attorney General

    I like them both.. Dan Gelber Today I announce that I am running for Attorney General of Florida.More than two decades ago, at the age of 25, I stood in a small federal courtroom in Miami and said for the first time “My name is Dan Gelber and I represent the United [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 7:48am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Hillsborough County Animals At Risk

    Dear Florida Animal Advocates, In 2007, Tampa became a partner community in ASPCA® Mission: Orange™, a program committed to increasing adoptions of shelter animals and eliminating the euthanasia of healthy, adoptable pets due to lack of homes or resources. With the proactive work of Hillsborough County Animal Services (HCAS) and the [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 11:44am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Alex Sink Running for Governor

    Alex Sink for Governor Floridians from Pensacola over to Jacksonville and all the way down to Key West are facing enormous challenges. Each and every day, the global financial crisis tests our families, our economy and our resolve. In unique and challenging times like these, our state needs a new and [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Florida legislature, Charlie Crist, etc

    Props to my fellow bloggers, I don’t know how you do it every day. Between working 8-10 hours a day and caring for a diabetic cat, I’m lucky if I can get something up here once a week, let alone daily. Plus, since I work on a computer for a [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 12:25pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Constitutional Amendment to Extend Sunshine Laws to the Legislature

    Yesterday I highlighted an editorial by  Tim Nickens over at the St. Petersburg Times, specifically: “The Times‘ editorial page today is calling for a constitutional amendment to extend the sunshine requirements that already apply to local governments to the Legislature. The public’s business should be conducted in public, regardless of whether [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 9:49am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Redistricting

    FairDistrictsFlorida.org garners more national attention as CQPolitics says Florida is where the early action is: In Florida, an effort is under way to gather signatures for a 2010 ballot initiative that would require the legislature to draw congressional districts that are compact, contiguous and do not “favor or disfavor an incumbent [...]
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    Posted: May 05, 2009, 8:42am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Legislative Update and other news

    Epic Fail: Legislature leaves a record of failure - “The 2009 Legislature has little to be proud of and much to be ashamed of. In a time of crisis, it has allowed partisanship and rhetoric to substitute for leadership and solutions. For the most part, Florida is no better off 60 [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 9:24am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Legislative Update and other news

    Healthcare: Single-payer system and Florida’s budget are linked, by practicing physician Ray Bellamy. ( I meant to include this one yesterday). Budget: A “Special Session” needed for Florida Legislature - “The fact that state leaders, supposedly united by party and political ideology, couldn’t craft a new budget in a timely fashion reflects [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2009, 2:47pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Diagnosis for Missy the Cat

    For those of you who don’t already know this, I use the screen name “meowmissy” because I adopted a beautiful tuxedo colored kitty from the Humane Society a couple weeks before I started getting involved with blogging, which at the time was primarily at Daily Kos over three years ago. Isn’t she [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2009, 8:57am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Legislative Update and other news

    Take Action: Sign Civic Concern’s petition to tell the legislature No Drilling Off Florida’s Coasts! Budget: Florida Budget Begins to Take Shape | Early budget deal: $1 a pack on cigarettes (Download: Draft Budget Allocations [PDF]) The Fine Print: The entitlement reform that Republicans aren’t talking about - Bright Futures Dim. Costs of Higher Education: Tuition [...]
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    Posted: April 29, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Budget Talks: State Employees

    From the House Democrats: TALLAHASSEE, FL — State Representative Alan Williams (D-Tallahassee) issued the following statement in response to House Speaker Larry Cretul’s announcement today about House-Senate budget conferences: “In establishing ground rules for budget talks that are underway between the House and Senate, House Speaker Larry Cretul stated today that the [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2009, 8:07pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Where They Would Drill …

    The image below is a map of existing drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The broken green line indicates where House Bill 1219 proposes to allow drilling. From House Democrats: Pandering to Big Oil, Florida House Republicans overwhelmingly voted today to reverse a 19-year-old ban on drilling in state waters and to [...]
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    Posted: April 27, 2009, 4:18pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Are the proposed election changes really dead?

    According to the St. Petersburg Times: House Majority Leader Adam Hasner said Friday that his chamber will not revive the debate over a highly contentious, last-minute elections bill. What about the Senate? According to the News-Journal Online: Senate action remained a possibility, though. “I think the sooner we have a concrete bill that we [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2009, 7:14pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Outrage over proposed voting law yields results

    Earlier, I wrote about Republican efforts in the Florida Legislature to change the voting rules and thankfully the outrage expressed by activists, the Democrats, the universal condemnation by the media on their editorial pages and a veto threat by Governor Crist has caused the Republicans to step back. As reported in the St. Petersburg [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 9:17am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Philisophical differences hold up Florida’s Budget

    From the office of Senator Dave Aronberg: So what’s the hold up? Philosophical differences on taxes and the role of government have all but paralyzed budget negotiations in recent days. For example: The Senate has passed a $1 cigarette tax, along with a surcharge on other tobacco products. Thus far, the House [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2009, 8:45am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Legislative Update and Other News

    Editorials:  A bad election bill | Voting bills deserve veto | Assault on voting Budget: Away from prying eyes, Florida’s legislators work on compromise budget | Future speaker of the House a power in secret budget talks Florida Population:  More Leave Than Come from Other States: “For the first time since the 1940s, more [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2009, 10:33am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • No public comment allowed on Election Changes

    From the Democratic Office of the Florida House of Representatives: At today’s House Rules & Calendar Council meeting, Florida House Republicans signaled intent to trample on the public’s right to participate in the legislative process with a partisan refusal to allow public testimony in House committees about their sweeping election law [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 8:52pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Locally Grown, Organic Blogger

    The National Blog Firedoglake.com is doing something I wish we could do here in Florida - they’re raising money to pay for their own full-time investigative blogging team with their Support Marcy Wheeler Campaign. The goal is “to raise $150,000 to support Marcy, another investigative blogger to work with her, and [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 4:43pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Legislative Update and Other News

    Editorial on Budget: Legislature fails to address key taxing, spending solutions Editorials on Elections Legislation: Bad for voters and Democracy and Voting-law rewrite on the wrong track Democrats on Elections Legislation: Dems Oppose Elections Bill (via Florida Progressive Coalition) Governor on Elections Legislation:  “What is it we’re trying to cure?” Crist asked in a Herald/Times [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 1:58pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Florida Budget Process a Petrie Dish for Corruption

    A grand jury points out the need for the sunshine laws to be more broadly applied to the Florida Legislature too: The grand jury that charged Rep. Ray Sansom and college president Bob Richburg with crimes Friday saved its harshest criticism for the Legislature itself — for backroom dealing and a [...]
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    Posted: April 20, 2009, 12:37pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Republicans: Changing the Voting Rules Again

    St. Pete Times writer Steve Bousquet has two must read articles regarding Republican efforts in both the House and Senate in the Florida Legislature to change the rules to restrict voting.    The first is an article about an elections bill in the Florida Senate: Last-minute push would create obstacles for voters. Senate Bill 956 would [...]
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    Posted: April 20, 2009, 8:52am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Legislative Update and Other News

    State Workers:  Furloughs or pay cuts? Both hurt. Technology Infrastructure: Florida jobless-benefits computer at ‘increasing risk of … failure’ Florida Gaggle: The Florida Gaggle is the first real-time platform to track Florida politics through the aggregation of social media posts, public blogs, and public videos. Created by the Gaggle Group, in partnership with [...]
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    Posted: April 14, 2009, 1:35pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Florida Lawmakers: Layoffs or pay cuts only option for state employees?

    I just read an article on Tampa Bay Online called Lawmakers face choice: Layoffs or pay cuts and I think I have an alternative. Here’s the Hobson’s choice they’re looking at: •The state Senate’s budget proposal doesn’t cut pay much – 1 percent for the fairly small number who make more than $100,000 [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2009, 2:02pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Random Things You Should Know

    Here’s a few items that caught my attention: Associated Press brings teh Stoopid: Ok, I knew the Associated Press was struggling to find the right balance between protecting digital copyright and sharing content based on some of their bone-headed decisions in the past, but to go after an AP affiliate for embedding a [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 10:50am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Using Online Technologies in Plain English

     As a blogger and user of various other online technologies, I often find it difficult to explain to political activist who are totally new to these technologies what they are and how they can be useful. Luckily, I found an awesome set of introductory videos by Common Craft on YouTube: Blogs in Plain [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 1:26pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • 10 Random Things You Should Know

    Really?  Its been that long since I posted!  The last couple of weeks have been brutal work wise, but here’s 10 random things you should know: Friday 13th - The Consensus Estimating Conference comes out with the numbers that the Florida Legislature will use a basis for their budget. Then the [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 3:40pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Florida High Speed Rail

    $8 Billion in the federal stimulus for High Speed Rail.  It’s just a drop in the bucket, but the Map from the Federal Railroad Administration is pretty. Below you’ll see the designated corridors for the Southeast: Now, if there were only a line connecting Orlando to Jacksonville and another one connecting [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 2:42pm EST
    by meowmissy

  • Lovely Anti-Facebook Rant

    Someone under the username “The Termite” posted an anti-Facebook rant on Daily Kos: No, actually, I don’t “need to get on Facebook”.   Given the bizzare number of Facebook “friend” requests I’ve gotten lately (fyi, I’m not on Facebook) this post amused me.  Icanhascheezburger is my favorite place to waste time online. [...]
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    Posted: February 23, 2009, 3:30pm EST
    by meowmissy

  • 207,000 Jobs in Florida

    I generally don’t cover topics at the federal level, but since has very clear state and local implications, it seems important to highlight.  The White House has issued state by state estimates on the number of jobs that will be created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  For Floridians, that estimate [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 2:01pm EST
    by meowmissy

  • Florida’s Budget: Tax Expenditures

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    With all the news about how the Florida Legislature is cutting the budget,  I thought it might be useful to look at the revenue side of the equation, particularly with regards to special interest tax cuts, exemptions or subsidies that may no longer be needed (if they were even needed in the first [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2009, 11:18am EST
    by meowmissy

  • Special Session Budget

    Here’s the House and Senate Conference Report detailing the budget cuts: Special Session Appropriations Act - Conference Report on Senate Bill 0002A - in case you really want to sort through all 135 pages and I hope you do - this is our future Florida. Ken Quinell has a good general overview [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2009, 8:00pm EST
    by meowmissy

  • Props for Legislative Coverage …

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    Ok, I gripe about the need for Florida Bloggers pay more attention the Florida Legislature, so I have to give props to the Florida Progressive Coalition:  Special Session, House Bill Update, Senate Bill Update And to the ever present FLA Politics, the daily “Florida Political News and Commentary” is must read if you want [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2009, 8:56am EST
    by meowmissy

  • More on Fed Aid for Florida’s Budget Woes

    Earlier, I wrote Fed Aid for Florida’s Budget Woes providing a copy of what Governor Crist requested in terms of an Obama Economic Stimulus package for our state. Now I’ve got a listing of “Ready to Go” Florida projects provided by the United Conference of Mayors. Florida cities included: Clearwater, Coconut Creek, [...]
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    Posted: December 23, 2008, 4:12pm EST
    by meowmissy

  • Sack Sansom

    Ah, it seems Florida’s Speaker of the House Ray Sansom is, let’s say, ethically challenged and it is time for some accountability. In case you hadn’t heard, after quietly steering $25 million to the Northwest Florida State College (in the midst of a budget crisis no less) he “coincidently” gets a six-figure [...]
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    Posted: December 23, 2008, 8:54am EST
    by meowmissy

  • Florida: An Economic Overview

    Yesterday, the Senate Select Committee on Florida’s Economy heard a briefing from Amy Baker, head of the Legislature’s Office of Economic and Demographic Research, which painted a bleak picture for our state. Download a copy of the presentation - Florida: An Economic Overview (PDF).  Budget According to the presentation, Florida’s budget shortfalls are [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2008, 11:09am EST
    by meowmissy

  • How Higher Education in FL Measures Up

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    The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education has released Measuring Up 2008, the fifth in a series of biennial report cards to provide the public and policymakers with information on the condition on higher education in each state. I don’t have much time to blog today, but I thought [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2008, 8:16am EST
    by meowmissy

  • Fed Aid for Florida’s Budget Woes

    Florida Governor Charlie Crist attended the National Governor’s Association meeting in Philiadelphia today, where President-elect Barack Obama spoke of helping out states most of which are facing budget shortfalls this year. According to an article in CNN Money: The NGA and the National Conference of State Legislatures urged lawmakers on Monday to [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 12:52pm EST
    by meowmissy

  • Bingo!

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    As usual, Ray Seaman of Progress Florida is totally on the ball!  Please read: The Road Ahead: Part 1 : The Road Ahead: Part 2 If we want better governance, we need to stop allowing our elected officials to draw their own electoral districts.  One paragraph that particularly caught my attention: Let me be clear: no [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 11:11am EST
    by meowmissy

  • Not until we learn our lesson

    Stephen Goldstein of the Sun-Sentinel writes: Earth to Republicans, whatever planet you’re on: Your agenda is dead and cannot be resurrected. A party that looks to yesterday cannot hope to have a successful future. Frankly, I want Republicans to keep looking backwards. They keep me in columns and belly-laughs. Unless they take [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 10:33am EST
    by meowmissy

  • Election Results

    I’ll try to post Florida election results as they come in … the final tally will be posted later. [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 7:10pm EST
    by meowmissy

  • Election Day Blogging

    In memory of ‘Toots’ (Obama’s Grandma) please donate to the American Cancer Society. Election Day Blogging [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 1:06pm EST
    by meowmissy

  • My Early Voting Experience

    I went to my early voting location on Sunday morning around 11:00 am and there was a line all across the front of the courthouse.  I didn’t mind having to wait and the vibe I got from the people there was that they didn’t mind either.  [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 2:22pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Call for Grand Jury investigation into lack of Early Voting Sites

    Jon Ausman just issued a press release calling for a grand jury investigation of Manatee County Supervisor of Elections  Bob Sweat and Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark. Back in September, I did a study of Registered Voters per Early Voting Site and now it appears as if the Democratic Party [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2008, 8:47am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Vote, Vote, Vote!

     You can only vote once, but there are three options for how you can vote: Early voting - Starts on October 20th and lasts through November 2nd. Vote by Mail - The LAST DAY to request an absentee ballot is 5:30 p.m. EST, the Wednesday before Election Day, October 29, 2008 (101.62(2) F.S.).  Your [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 11:29am EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Bumper Sticker Politics

    I saw this slogan on a bumper sticker of a parked car as I was coming out of the grocery store today: “I’m bipartisan.  I’ll hug your elephant if you kiss my ass.” [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2008, 1:40pm EDT
    by meowmissy

  • Registered Voters per Early Voting Site

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    Out of curiousity,  I decided to check to see what the ratio of registered voters to early voting site is for each county and I compiled my findings in an excel spreadsheet. The data is based on the information available at each county Supervisor of Elections website on September 28, 2008.  If voter registration [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2008, 8:04pm EDT
    by meowmissy
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