Monthly Archives: August 2004

Get Up with MorningWood

Update – the playlist links are fixed, and here’s the Paris track I promised. (Right click and “Save target as…” to download to your computer) Get Up with MorningWood, on 70,000 Watt Community Radio WMNF 88.5 fm, Tampa, and streaming at wmnf.org. 4 to 6 am (eastern) every Tuesday! Studio line: 813-239- WMNF WOOD Blogging

Welcome back

To Florida Politics who has rejoined the electric grid and is posting again. Oh, and thanks for the plug!

Vote Ed Austin, Hills. Co. District 6

I don’t know if there’s any way to stop Bob Buckhorn from being elected. I do know that Democrats can vote for former Rowdie Ed Austin in the primary instead of Bob, but Bob’s organization and experience will probably see him through to the general election. Bob likes to legislate morality and has a knack

More on Jeb!’s anti-voting campaign

The Palm Beach Post gives some background on the developing “Keep Out The (Black) Vote” campaign being waged right now by State Troopers in Orlando. What started as an ugly political fight over the Orlando mayoral race exploded on the national scene this week with leading Democrats and civil libertarians branding the state’s top cops

Iraq: 5 Americans dead

Shouldn’t this be on every newspaper’s front page? 5 US Soldiers Killed in 24 Hours, 1 Wounded Let’s see… if I click on the NYT article with the headline about a freed reporter, and I read all the way to the end of the article, and then I keep reading, there seems to be something

Jeb! is determined to suppress the Black vote

The GOP in Florida is determined to suppress the black vote. The (mostly) discarded voter purge list is just the most glaring example of this strategy. Jeb! and his cronies always use the same language in defending their indefensible actions: They act for the “integrity” of the election, or to protect the rights of the

W’s surrogates

Swift, batty veterans spreading hatred and lies

The Kerry campaign is finally responding to the Swift Liars libelous ads: The Kerry presidential campaign filed a complaint Friday with the Federal Election Commission, alleging that ads from an anti-Kerry veterans’ group are inaccurate and “illegally coordinated” with Republicans and the Bush-Cheney campaign. And this from a Kerry press release: (via Eschaton) Eschaton Bush

Jeb! to blacks: Vote at your own risk.

Let’s see: in 2000, black voters were wrongfully purged from voting rolls. Jeb! really wanted to do that again this year, but too many people were watching, and the state was forced to abandon its list (though individual county supervisors may still use the list if they want to – a scary proposition that has

Florida residents: Vote Now

Here’s how. And look here for absentee voting info.