Pinellas Democratic Senior Caucus

Thank you!

On behalf of the Pinellas Democratic Senior Caucus, we would like to acknowledge all who answer to the title of Mother.

Congratulations to our members who graduated the St. Petersburg Citizen Police Academy on Tuesday.

Amazing visit with our member, Carla Bristol at St. Pete Youth Farm today. We were also able to tour Enoch Davis Recreation Center. Our goal is to continue to visit and find way to contribute to these gems in our community. Please join us, there is much work to be done!

Join us next Wednesday at 10am for a tour of St. Pete Youth Farm and Enoch Davis Center.

To kick off Older Americans Month the caucus hosted a POT LUCK gathering at Lake Seminole Park on Monday, May 1st. at 1:00 p.m. instead of our usual meeting date. A great time was had by all.

Love this mural in downtown St. It's a great reminder to register and VOTE! Www.votepinellas.com

Please join us at this amazing event tomorrow to celebrate Mother Earth Day!

FREE EVENT - Join us this Saturday at the Tampa Bay Women's Expo. We will have a table and you can enter to win prizes! Look for our table. (Please share)

This man is dangerous. Florida voters apparently were taken in by his lies, but his dreams of unchecked power on a national/international stage must be nipped in the bud.

Opinion | DeSantis’s flop on foreign affairs comes as no surprise In his international foray, the Florida governor predictably falters.

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/democrats-get-another-poll-indicating-improving-midterm-landscape-rcna41349?icid=latestpost_bot

A bit of good news! Now we have to bust a... to turn our voters out. Go Blue in "22!

Democrats get another poll indicating an improving midterm landscape A new national Monmouth poll shows an 11-point swing on generic ballot since May despite Biden's sub-40% approval rating.

From the SUN SENTINEL:

DeSantis sinks lower and lower. What a drag.

Here’s what President Biden did last week. He worked with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on the nation’s most comprehensive response to climate change — a Biden priority.

The Biden administration secured passage of legislation to increase domestic production of computer chips. Supply-chain issues continue to drag on U.S. manufacturing, especially in the auto industry. “On-shoring” is another Biden priority.

Oh, and Biden approved the drone strike Monday that killed the leader of Al-Qaeda and a key 9/11 planner.

This is what Gov. DeSantis did last week.

He hobnobbed with wealthy campaign donors — in Utah.

He criticized “woke” companies.

He got tough on drag shows.

Just before his latest examples of juvenile pandering, the governor had slammed Biden before a litter of lapdogs at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, where DeSantis again referred to Biden as “Brandon,” a rhetorical trick worthy of grade-school playgrounds.

Despite DeSantis’ criticism, Biden and Democrats — with occasional help from some Republicans — are the adults in the room. They’re the ones trying to solve real problems.

Meanwhile, as the costs of housing and insurance soar in Florida, the governor continues to focus on imagined problems. Such as drag shows with children present.

DeSantis’ response to the entertainment at R House Restaurant in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood was a typical mix of low-grade farce and hypocrisy from the state’s petty tyrant.

DeSantis said of the performances, “That is not the way you look out for our children. You protect children. You do not expose them to things that are inappropriate.”

Parents took their children to the shows. DeSantis is all about parents’ rights when parents exercise those rights as he sees fit. He also opposes government regulation of businesses — unless those businesses annoy him.

The governor did more than try to score cheap points. He sicced the Department of Business and Professional Regulation on R House, seeking to yank its liquor license. Losing it could put R House out of business.

From all reports, the shows at R House’s popular Sunday brunch are raunchy but not explicit. They’re also legal.

The governor who touts the “free state of Florida” sees it differently. His complaint against R House states, “The performance … particularly when conducted in the presence of young children, corrupts the public morals and outrages the sense of public decency.”

DeSantis wasn’t done chumming the right-wing base. He vowed that the state Board of Administration, on which he serves, would order Florida’s pension fund managers to avoid “using political factors” when investing the state’s money.

Specifically, he opposes Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) policies. Republicans nationwide have criticized that strategy, mostly because it generally shuns fossil fuel companies.

DeSantis would have Floridians believe ESG is a fringe industry. Actually, it’s a $35 trillion worldwide industry in which many leading money managers participate.

As usual, DeSantis demonstrates selective hostility.

A year ago, he used “political factors” to demand that the Board of Administration avoid Unilever, the corporate parent company of Ben & Jerry’s. The ice cream retailer had announced that it would stop selling in the West Bank to protest Israel’s occupation.

In protesting Ben & Jerry’s boycott, DeSantis engaged in his own boycott.

Because DeSantis is performing rather than governing, he has to create confrontation — constantly. Given his fundraising haul, the approach works, even if it makes him and the state look more and more frivolous.

As he campaigns against Biden more than Charlie Crist and Nikki Fried, the governor shows what a DeSantis presidency would look like — trashy style over substance.

At the Hard Rock, DeSantis snarked that Biden is “stumbling.” In the polls for now, yes.

But Biden wants to protect the country from climate change and Vladimir Putin. DeSantis wants to protect Florida from drag brunches. Talk about outrage.

Contact Randy Schultz at [email protected].

Good news, Pinellas County Democrats,
You should be receiving your Vote by Mail ballot today..... OR if you do not have one, sign up. You can fill out the Vote by Mail request here:
https://www.votepinellas.gov/VoteByMail

Do it ASAP. The Primary is August 23.

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Request a Mail Ballot The Vote-by-Mail Request Service has been updated in response to legislative changes. Please contact our office if you experience difficulties requesting a mail ballot at 727-464-VOTE (8683) or email us at [email protected].

Spread the news! President Biden’s first year in office was the strongest for economic growth since 1984. In 2021 the U.S. economy experienced not only the strongest annual growth in 37 years, but it was also the second strongest year since 1966. That’s really big when you compare it to Trump's first three years - which failed to reach 3 percent in any year.

How about unemployment and jobs? Unemployment is back to pre-pandemic levels, thanks to higher wages and job creation under the first year of your Democratic President. And those higher wages are due, in no small part, to President Biden’s Federal minimum wage hike to $15/hour, along with a staggering record 6.4 million jobs created in 2021. By comparison, President Biden’s first-year jobs numbers exceeded those of Trump in his first 3 years combined!

And when it comes to the stock market, the S&P 500 ended the year up by 19%. So much for predictions that the markets would crash under a Biden presidency.

Things aren't perfect, and too many are still in need, but with so much negativity and misinformation swirling around, those are the facts.

Well worth your time. Former President Jimmy Carter never fails to inspire, but his concerns for the future of our democracy and recommendations to protect it should be required reading for all those who love this country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/opinion/jan-6-jimmy-carter.html

Opinion | Jimmy Carter: I Fear for Our Democracy Even established democracies can fall to military juntas and despots. We can’t let that happen here.

January 6th, Vigil for Democracy

It has been nearly one year since armed right-wing militants attacked our Capitol and tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Since that time, the same extremist politicians who incited the attack have tried to block the investigation into the violence, state legislators have passed one anti-voter bill after another, local election officials have faced death threats, and the potential for future election sabotage has only grown.

We must not forget what happened -- and we must demand action from our leaders to prevent another attack on our democracy.

That’s why we are part of a coalition effort organizing more than 250 candlelight vigils across the country on Thursday, January 6, to lift up our voices and say: We are One America. This can never happen again. The Senate must act to pass legislation immediately to protect our democracy. Register using the link below and make sure your voice joins those calling for action.

Get there early if possible, as parking may become an issue with a huge crowd. This is a masked event. Questions? Contact Mike Fox at [email protected] or 727-320-4502.
Link to Register for January 6, Vigil for Democracy
https://www.mobilize.us/democracyvigils/event/430782/?mc_cid=f1064e1d9b&mc_eid=3bbb8d4579

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