Andrew Gillum is an exciting new face in the Democratic party. He has pledged to reverse the damage inflicted on Florida’s infrastructure and education if he is elected Governor.
I am happy to endorse Gillum!
Here are good reasons to change the leadership of the state:
1. The Republican party has inflicted pain on the public school system and its teachers. They have enacted very loose charter laws and voucher laws. Florida has three different voucher programs, despite the fact that vouchers are specifically banned in the State Constitution, and despite the fact that voters rejected an effort to change the State Constitution to allow vouchers in 2012. The legislature and the governor have given away hundreds of millions of dollars to private and religious and charter schools, which have minimal accountability. They have enacted laws to judge teachers by test scores, even though this method has been proven ineffective and harmful in Florida and everywhere else.
2. The Republicans have run the state like their private candy store, bestowing millions on charter chains owned by their family and friends and ignoring rampant corruption via real estate deals in the venal charter industry.
3. The Republican party is the party of climate change denial. The current governor, Rick Scott, now running for the Senate, is a prominent denier of climate change, even though Florida is ecologically fragile. See this article in Politico, which shows the green slime that is infiltrating the state’s waterways. Scott is notorious for ignoring the environmental damage caused by his policies.
Vote for Bill Nelson for Senator and Andrew Gillum for Governor.
Andrew Gillum is a good man with solid experience as Mayor of Tallahassee.
Florida has a chance to start fresh and break free of the grip of the greed hogs now running the state and destroying its education system and its environment.
Vote for Andrew Gillum!
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And the Republican candidate said to the people he hopes will vote for him, I don’t remember the exact quote, something about we don’t want to MONKEY it up. Any candidate that makes such outrageous racist comments can not be elected to any position. Unfortunately because of the President overt comments like this are not getting the attention they deserve. I fully support Andrew Gillum. Even if someone doesn’t they should still vote for him to send a message that racism will not be tolerated.
The candidate running on the Republican ballot is a Trump replica, climate change denier, and all-around empty suit.
Ron Desantis’ comical tribute to Trump
The “monkey it up” comment angered me more than anything I’ve heard in the Trump Era.
These people are unreconstructed middle school bullies. I loathe such people.
Thank you!
The first debate is on CNN tonight. Conservatives have been trying to label Gillum a “radical.” They have implied that he is soft on crime, and they have been trying to link him to an FBI investigation on someone that works in his office.
There’s a lot of positive change coming out of the states.
“As Ohio’s latest report card scores yet again show a strong correlation between poverty and low achievement, state lawmakers are preparing another revamp of Ohio’s school funding formula.
Some experts say addressing the nagging income achievement gap requires fixing the funding.”
Ed reformers had an absolute lock on the legislature for a decade and Kasich believes the ed reform slogan that “money doesn’t matter” so nothing got done on public school funding for ten years- we were busy chasing charters and vouchers and measurement schemes. That’s changing.
Eventually someone in DC will notice that public schools are fashionable again and the ed reform monolith can be busted up there, too.
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20181022/after-latest-report-cards-ohio-lawmakers-plan-school-funding-fix/1
a great short video: https://www.facebook.com/nenebalo/videos/10216566351169293/
about GILLUM
Desantis’s closing remark that included “prisons are the heart of justice” should disqualify him from being anywhere near public office. Kind of like claiming hell is the justification for faith. Whoops, bad example!
How low can things get? This isn’t even pretending to be decent.
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BLACK FLORIDA CANDIDATE MOCKED BY MINSTREL ROBOCALL A white supremacist website in Idaho sent out a racist robocall against Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum. Speaking in an exaggerated minstrel dialect, an actor pretends to be Gillum, saying: “Well hello there. I is the negro Andrew Gillum, and I be asking you to make me governor of this here state of Florida.” [HuffPost]
My man crush has shifted from Pete Strzok to Andrew Gillum. What an incredibly poised and cool candidate he is! And his remark in the second debate gets my nomination for political zinger of the year: “I’m not calling Mr. DeSantis a racist. I’m simply saying the racists believe he’s a racist.” Take heed Democrats. Stand for something and don’t be afraid to say something.