DUIblog comments on a hometown prosecutor: Pinellas DUI prosecutor pleads to own drunk driving charge TAMPA, Fla. Associated Press – A Pinellas County prosecutor known for being tough on drunk drivers will serve probation and lecture school children on the dangers of drinking and driving to settle her own DUI case. Lydia Dempsey Wardell was [...]
Archive for February, 2005
We still need a paper trail
February 15, 2005
Just received an email from Verified Voting: On February 9, 2005, Senator John Ensign of Nevada introduced S330, the “Voting Integrity and Verification Act” (VIVA), requiring a voter-verified paper ballot, and ensuring that the paper ballot governs in case of any discrepancy between a machine count and paper count. Eight original co-sponsors joined Senator Ensign [...]
Enabling Wal-Mart
February 15, 2005
Corrente has the details on the Bush administration’s Wal-Mart-coddling. More Wal-Mart here.
Who would Jesus fuck?
February 14, 2005
Speaking of going back to the good ole days… Florida group launches drive for amendment banning same-sex marriage A group with ties to conservative Christian organizations officially launched Monday a petition drive aimed at writing a ban on gay marriage into the state constitution. …… “We know homosexual marriage isn’t the only threat to marriage [...]
Jeb! longs for the good ole days
February 14, 2005
Jeb! hates citizen initiatives that interfere with his ability to cut taxes and throw other bones to the rich. Now, he wants to appear to be compromising by simply calling for a modification of Florida’s class size amendment, rather than its outright repeal, but he’s actually setting the stage for separate and decidedly unequal schools [...]
Arthur Miller
February 14, 2005
Go read The Rude Pundit And that’s why we pay attention to Miller here. He fought, fuckin’ fought old school, for the good of those who were run over by governments, cultures, and moralities. And so, so much of what he wrote still has the ability to kick the ass of anyone inundated with the [...]
GOP: The party of fiscal responsibility
February 14, 2005
After Bush Leaves Office, His Budget’s Costs Balloon (washingtonpost.com) For President Bush, the budget sent to Congress last week outlines a painful path to meeting his promise to bring down the federal budget deficit by the time he leaves office in 2009. But for the senators and governors already jockeying to succeed him, the numbers [...]
IRV makes too much sense for FL legislative backing
February 14, 2005
Instant runoff voting in Florida? A reform passed by the GOP dominated legislature that isn’t guaranteed to benefit Republicans? A system that most everyone agrees would be fairer and result in more of the population having their voices heard? It’s a great idea whose time has come, but I’m not expecting to see it in [...]
Shades of WMNF at “Christian” WTBN
February 11, 2005
This morning’s Tampa Tribune informs us that A Christian radio station canceled its advertising contract with a Muslim organization this week on the grounds that the content “did not serve our Christian constituency.” The 30-second spot promoted a Saturday event at the University of South Florida – a Christian-Muslim dialogue. “This is exactly why we [...]
Thought police in Bartow
February 10, 2005
From Florida Politics, we learn that the Christian thought police have way too much time on their hands. Damn! This kind of petty crap really pisses me off. A Polk County mother thinks the word damn has no place in a 10-year-old’s school library book. Kristi Hardee hopes her quest to ban the book, “Anastasia [...]