Carolina Amesty, 30, a Venezuelan immigrant who served a single term in Florida’s legislature (read her bio here), is with embezzling $122,000 of Covid relief funds, an Orlando TV station reported on Friday, January 17, 2025 (read story here). She’s accused of diverting the money “[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Florida’
Teen Trumper at Harris rally punches 70-year-old woman
He’s only 17 years old, but is an in-your-face kind of teenager. He wore a t-shirt emblazoned with the American flag and Trump raising a middle finger (it might’ve looked something like this). He’d gone to a Harris rally with friends to heckle and antagonize Harris supporters. He w[...]
November 3rd, 2024 - 1:33 am § in Law and Courts
Florida sheriff should say something about mishandled child rape case
The last time I wrote about Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd (photo, left), I wasn’t complimentary. I noted that he “routinely goes on TV to pronounce suspects guilty before they’ve had a trial,” and he referred to “voters up north” as “stupid.” (S[...]
Governors don’t get to decide which political advertising is “false”
It’s now clear it was Gov. Ron DeSantis who ordered Florida TV stations to stop airing ads for an abortion-rights initiative. The cease-and-desist letter to TV stations was signed by the state health department’s top lawyer, who has since resigned and now says he was coerced to sign the [...]
Should we abandon climate ostriches to fate?
When Miami-based TV weatherman John Morales (profiled here) issued a dire warning last week about incoming Hurricane Milton, some viewers called him a “climate militant” and accused him of “overhyping emerging weather threats” (read story here). Many Floridians are paying hug[...]
Will Florida voters ditch the GOP in 2024?
You wouldn’t think so, and Democratic strategists didn’t believe it, until they saw some shocking polling results. There are a million more registered Republicans than Democrats in the Sunshine State, where about 11 million people voted in 2020. They’ve elected a radically rightwin[...]
Can states ban lab-grown meat?
That’s a complicated legal question the courts will have to answer. The closest analogy I can think of is Wisconsin’s margarine ban in effect from 1895 to 1967 (see story here); as far as I know, it was never struck down by the courts. That ban was enacted to protect Wisconsin’s da[...]
July 26th, 2024 - 11:49 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
What just happened to Florida’s “anti-woke” law?
It was carried into the ER on a litter and pronounced “really, really, dead on arrival.” Florida House Bill 7, a Gov. DeSantis venture passed in 2022, in essence banned critical race theory from schools and DEI training from workplaces, characterizing these forms of education as discrimi[...]
July 19th, 2024 - 6:39 pm § in Politics, Republicans
GOPers hijack ballot statement on Florida abortion rights
Florida Republicans tried but failed to keep an abortion rights initiative off the November 2024 ballot, losing by 4-3 in the state supreme court (read the court’s opinion here). It would amend the state constitution as follows: “SECTION __. Limiting government interference with abortio[...]
Florida’s gunning for “Cocaine Bear”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “signed a bill on Friday that makes it legal for people to kill ‘crack bears’ in self-defense,” News Nation reported on Sunday, June 23, 2024 (read story here). The story continues, “The bill was dubbed ‘the cocaine bear bill’ on so[...]