The Lakeland Area Chamber of Commerce held its Political Hob Nob event in the Florida Air Museum at the SUN ‘n FUN Expo Campus in Lakeland, Florida, last night. The event attracted 292 people and more than 25 candidates competing for a variety of offices. It’s traditional straw poll added some excitement and surprises to […]
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August 3, 2016 – I have had the unique misfortune to experience media bias in two different elections this year: the Democratic Presidential Primary and Florida’s United States Senate race. The coverage has been blatantly unbalanced and skewed toward name recognition only. I expected to receive disproportionately less coverage at the beginning of the Democratic […]
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The Hillsborough County Democratic Black Caucus will be hosting a Candidate Forum at Beulah Baptist Institutional Church on Saturday, July 16th, 2016. The forum will begin at 11:15 AM with candidates for the Hillsborough County School Board District 5 and conclude at 4:30 PM with candidates for the Florida State House of Representatives District 63. […]
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July 08, 2016 – These are names of people we should not know: Officers Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael Smith, Brett Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa of Dallas, TX; Philando Castile of St. Paul, MN; and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, LA: We recognize them only because their lives came to a tragic end through no cause […]
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July 8, 2016 – No one ever says they are against human rights. However, many people are perfectly willing to deny basic rights to classes of people with whom they differ. The LGBT community suffers that indignity on a daily basis. If we truly believe that we are “all created equal,” why is it so […]
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July 4, 2016 – Today is Independence Day; the day our nation declared its independence from the rule of Great Britain. That is what we have been celebrating ever since the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, to memorialize that courageous act. Let me emphasize how courageous it was. In effect, our […]
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June 27, 2016 – Even though short-staffed, the Supreme Court of the United States was able to reach an important majority decision today that I fully support. With a 5-3 decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, the court reversed a decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision prevented the ability […]
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June 24, 2016 – Yesterday was an amazing day in the history of Great Britain and potentially a disastrous one: Great Britain voted to leave the European Union. If we’re smart, it gives us a glimpse at what happens when a leader becomes mistakenly overconfident in his influence and woefully underestimates the emotional state of […]
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June 23, 2016 – Immigration reform is a critical issue for our nation. Yet, due to the Republican boycott of its responsibility to confirm Supreme Court Justices, the Supreme Court was unable to rule on President Obama’s use of an executive order that impacted 4 million undocumented immigrants. The 4-4 tie among the remaining Justices […]
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On June 12, 2016, Orlando suffered an unfathomable tragedy when a lone gunman entered the Pulse Club and opened fire on its guests; a massacre that left 49 dead and dozens more wounded. On June 20, 2016, the United States suffered a second equally incomprehensible tragedy when the Senate rejected four gun reform bills along […]
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