An old friend of mine recently tossed off a phrase that really stuck with me: bottom feeders at the top. It elegantly captures what the conservative movement in our country has achieved; elevating the very worst people to positions of the greatest power. And while it is easy attach this phrase to President Trump, there […]
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by Roger C. Kostmayer In the midst of a deadly and highly contagious epidemic, one unlike any we have seen in our lifetime, the President of the United States wants to overrule our Constitution and give himself, and all future Presidents, what he calls “total authority” over States’ decisions about when to reopen their economies […]
by Stuart Strickland, Precinct #8 Captain, Key West We can all agree we are living in extraordinary times. Our entire way of life is changing very rapidly. We stay at home. We wear face masks. We social distance. But what about of one of our most fundamental constitutional rights and, I say, duties—the right to […]
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by Susan Anderson, Precinct #29 Captain, Key Largo As Keys Democrats, our goal is clear: we want to turn the Florida Keys BLUE. But the stark reality is that we cannot expand our party membership without first becoming more visible in our community.
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This is a statement from an epidemiologist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Hey everybody, as an infectious disease epidemiologist, at this point I feel morally obligated to provide some information on what we are seeing from a transmission dynamic perspective and how they apply to the social distancing measures. Like any good scientist I have […]
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by Debra Walker, State Committeewoman for Monroe County, and Upper Keys co-chair My grandmother Rebecca Mitchell Campbell died of the Spanish flu one hundred years ago. The echoes of it still reverberate across the generations through stories told and retold in my childhood. My mom heard them from the grandmothers who raised her. A toddler […]
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Bottom Feeders at the Top
An old friend of mine recently tossed off a phrase that really stuck with me: bottom feeders at the top. It elegantly captures what the conservative movement in our country has achieved; elevating the very worst people to positions of the greatest power. And while it is easy attach this phrase to President Trump, there […]
No Total Authority
by Roger C. Kostmayer In the midst of a deadly and highly contagious epidemic, one unlike any we have seen in our lifetime, the President of the United States wants to overrule our Constitution and give himself, and all future Presidents, what he calls “total authority” over States’ decisions about when to reopen their economies […]
Vote by Mail: Protecting Our Right to Vote in a Global Pandemic
by Stuart Strickland, Precinct #8 Captain, Key West We can all agree we are living in extraordinary times. Our entire way of life is changing very rapidly. We stay at home. We wear face masks. We social distance. But what about of one of our most fundamental constitutional rights and, I say, duties—the right to […]
#BeBlue: A Proud, Subtle, and Creative Way to Display Your Party Affiliation
by Susan Anderson, Precinct #29 Captain, Key Largo As Keys Democrats, our goal is clear: we want to turn the Florida Keys BLUE. But the stark reality is that we cannot expand our party membership without first becoming more visible in our community.
Changing Behavior is Hard. Do It Anyway.
This is a statement from an epidemiologist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Hey everybody, as an infectious disease epidemiologist, at this point I feel morally obligated to provide some information on what we are seeing from a transmission dynamic perspective and how they apply to the social distancing measures. Like any good scientist I have […]
Lessons from the Past
by Debra Walker, State Committeewoman for Monroe County, and Upper Keys co-chair My grandmother Rebecca Mitchell Campbell died of the Spanish flu one hundred years ago. The echoes of it still reverberate across the generations through stories told and retold in my childhood. My mom heard them from the grandmothers who raised her. A toddler […]