Florida Governors race: Berniecrat beats centrist

Christine
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Florida Governors race: Berniecrat beats centrist Aug 29, 2018 18:40:14 GMT -5 Don likes this

Post by Christine on Aug 29, 2018 18:40:14 GMT -5

Aug 28, 2018 22:09:20 GMT -5 maxinquaye said:

It may be pure prejudice on my part, but I see Florida as a state with an older demographic.

This is true.

People who can afford to up sticks and move across the North American continent.

Eh... I dunno about that. Fellow Floridians (southeast Floridians, at least) are pretty die hard. Snow, cold, state income taxes, for starters ... literally and figuratively, the grass is arguably greener over here.

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Florida Governors race: Berniecrat beats centrist Aug 29, 2018 22:59:33 GMT -5

Post by prozyan on Aug 29, 2018 22:59:33 GMT -5

Aug 29, 2018 15:55:00 GMT -5 nighttimer said:

Aug 29, 2018 13:45:01 GMT -5 prozyan said:

"Monkey fuck things up" is a fairly common saying here in SE New Mexico/West Texas.

If I recall my geography, Florida is nowhere near SE New Mexico/Texas and when you're a right-wing White Republican taking a shot at a left-wing Black Democrat, there's no sugarcoating the absolute shit Ron DeSantis is shoveling.

Fox News host Sandra Smith said Wednesday that the network did not condone Rep. Ron DeSantis's (R) language when he warned voters not to "monkey this up" by voting for his Democratic gubernatorial opponent Andrew Gillum.

DeSantis's remark about Gillum, who would be Florida's first black governor if elected, prompted quick backlash, with the state Democratic Party chair saying he was "launching his general election campaign with racist dog whistles."

“A little while ago, we had Ron DeSantis, the Republican nominee for governor in Florida on for an interview to discuss the Florida election,” Smith said on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom” before reading a statement from DeSantis's campaign clarifying his earlier remarks.

"We do not condone this language and wanted to make our viewers aware that he has since clarified his statement," she added.

The host noted that Gillum was set to appear for an interview on the network later in the day with anchor Shepard Smith.

During his appearance on Fox News earlier in the morning, DeSantis, who won his GOP primary the previous night, called Gillum "an articulate spokesman for those far-left views" and a "charismatic candidate" after his stunning Democratic primary victory on Tuesday night.

He then launched into an attack on Gillum, a candidate backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), accusing him of embracing a "socialist agenda."

“Let’s build off the success we’ve had on Gov. Scott. The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases bankrupting the state. That is not going to work," DeSantis said.

You might think after Roseanne Barr's monkey meltdown, these Trump-slurpers would know better, but they just can't help themselves. They try to hold their racism in but it bursts out like a fart.

Exactly right on both counts.

I have zero doubt as to what his intent was when using the phrase. Didn't mean my comment to serve as an excuse at all.

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Florida Governors race: Berniecrat beats centrist Aug 31, 2018 8:50:57 GMT -5

Post by robeiae on Aug 31, 2018 8:50:57 GMT -5

I'm just happy that neither Levine nor Greene won. Those two clowns were running some of the worst commercials, and both were running on nothing but being anti-Trump, even though both had no problem buddying up to Trump in the past.

Of course, the fact that both took decent chunks of votes is exactly why Gillum was able to win. But I hope he does well, as I think he has a lot to offer, works his ass off like nobody's business, and is fundamentally a good person, even though I have a problem with a good chunk of his platform.

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Florida Governors race: Berniecrat beats centrist Aug 31, 2018 16:45:22 GMT -5

Post by Optimus on Aug 31, 2018 16:45:22 GMT -5

This is fucking disgusting. Apparently some mangy dogs answered the whistle:

www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2018/08/31/racist-robocalls-mar-floridas-race-for-governor-589468

TALLAHASSEE — A neo-Nazi group began bombarding the phones of Florida Democratic voters Friday with a robocall narrated by a person who mocks the party’s first African-American gubernatorial nominee, Andrew Gillum, in a black minstrel-style voice as jungle noises play in the background.

The automated calls were issued by the Road to Power, an Idaho-based white supremacist group linked to other racist robocall campaigns in Charlottesville, Va., Oregon and California, according to the Tallahassee Democrat, which first reported the calls and is the hometown newspaper of Gillum, the city’s mayor.

Trump's America, I guess. I'm not convinced that there are more racists now than before 2016, but the ones we have are certainly a lot more publicly bold now about being miserable wastes of oxygen.

Last Edit: Aug 31, 2018 16:45:36 GMT -5 by Optimus

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Florida Governors race: Berniecrat beats centrist Oct 2, 2018 8:47:27 GMT -5

Post by robeiae on Oct 2, 2018 8:47:27 GMT -5

So, the governor's race down here in sunny ol' F-L-A is quite interesting. Gillum is getting a lot of love still, from what I'm seeing. I believe Obamahas now publicly endorsed him, as has the Miami Herald.

He's also had a few apparent setbacks, like this one: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/andrew-gillum-campaign-staffer-fired_us_5bb216ffe4b027da00d569f4

Manny Orozco-Ballestas, recently hired to oversee youth outreach for Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum’s campaign, was fired late last week due to a trove of incendiary and offensive social media posts, including ones critical of President Donald Trump.

In now-deleted tweets from 2012 and 2013, the staffer made a variety of sexist and fat-shaming comments. In another tweet, Orozco-Ballestas tweeted at Trump: “You need to be executed.”

But I think it's to Gillum's credit that the staffer was quickly and decisively axed.

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Florida Governors race: Berniecrat beats centrist Oct 16, 2018 14:29:40 GMT -5 Optimus likes this

Post by robeiae on Oct 16, 2018 14:29:40 GMT -5

Dumb. Ass.

www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2018/oct/15/andrew-gillum/andrew-gillum-unemployment-claim/

In an interview on CBS Miami’s "Facing South Florida," host Jim DeFede asked the Tallahassee mayor if he gave Scott any credit for the economy.

"I give him credit for an economy that is largely propped up on low-wage work," Gillum said. "Of course you've got a low unemployment rate when people have got to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet."

That's pretty stupid from a guy whom I thought was pretty sharp, honestly. How could he make this kind of flub on the heals of Ocasio-Cortez's similar one?

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Optimus Illuminati Posts: 2,508	Florida Governors race: Berniecrat beats centrist Oct 16, 2018 15:37:50 GMT -5 Post by Optimus on Oct 16, 2018 15:37:50 GMT -5 Drawing from the same well of mindless talking points, perhaps?
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