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mickysavage - Date published:
1:54 pm, August 31st, 2018 - 18 comments
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In a somewhat crowded field this campaign video by Repubulican Ron Desantis, who is seeking to be the next Florida Governor takes a lot of beating.
He is someone who used the phrase “monkey this up” in a barely disguised racist dog whistle when talking about his Democratic opponent.
His opponent, Democrat Andrew Gillum was backed by Bernie Sanders, spent millions less than others on the Democrat Primary campaign, has a distinctly left wing policy platform and is willing to take on the NRA by insisting that guns should not be shot in public parks.
Iâm proud to be supporting @staceyabrams for Governor of Georgia, @BenJealous for Governor of Maryland, and @AndrewGillum for Governor of Florida. Victories for these three great candidates will change America in a very significant way. https://t.co/V0mwrsjW5d
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) August 30, 2018
He replied to Desantis’ comment by saying that it was straight out of Donald Trump’s playbook.
His campaign video is distinctly different to Desantis’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz4EqoeHJTA
It is good to see the emergence of left wing community based candidates not depending on corporate finances in the United States.
And if anyone has seen a worse campaign video than Desantis’ mention it in comments.
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Gillum v Desantis is a close proxy run for Sanders v Trump, since they are both heavily backed by them.
Both have hard left and hard right policies respectively (for a US policy context).
So there’s a fair bit riding on the result.
Hogwash, Gillum isn’t hard left by anyones analysis – a truly a out of touch statement Ad. You need to stop watching the 5 corporate media outlets for your news and start looking at alternative media to get some balance.
Because you calling a social democrate hard left in the US context is radically out of touch.
Not in a US context.
You just don’t exist in the US political spectrum.
I know I’m not in the US. But I know enough people in the US ‘hardleft’ to use your term, to know your talking through a hole in your head.
Because MSNBC call someone hard left, is hardly an endorsement of their leftism. Where as Fox news calls anyone hard left by the virtue of being civil. You need to get your head out of the corporate media analysis of the US political landscape and realise that something more is going on in the US rather than this simple, bipartisan, sound bite, 24 new cycle, corporate mythmaking you have brought into.
Classic freudian slip! The republican interviewed fronted it well & his advice to apologise promptly was spot on. Explain that it wasn’t intended to mean what those offended assumed it meant.
Easy to see why some call this stuff racist despite it actually not being so – perceptive observers would suspect a freudian slip like that could only happen if there’s closet racism in the speaker.
Yeah, let’s give racists the benefit of the closet.
UPDATE: Rep. Ron DeSantis has quit the Facebook group that trafficked in racist and offensive slurs, following American Ledgerâs reporting on Wednesday. â 8:54 PM
Ron DeSantis, the Trump-endorsed congressman who won Tuesdayâs GOP primary for Florida governor, is an administrator on an active Facebook group where conservatives share racist, conspiratorial and incendiary posts about a litany of targets, including black Americans and South Africans, the âdeep state,â survivors of Februaryâs massacre at a Florida high school, immigrants, Muslims and, in recent days, John McCain.
https://american-ledger.com/accountability/desantis-moderates-hate-filled-facebook-group-that-attacks-african-americans-parkland-survivors-and-muslims/
This ad for the gubernatorial primaries in Georgia was a winner. So now that knuckledragger is up against Stacey Abrams, the first major party black female gubernatorial nominee. Who just might become the first black female governor ever in the US.
Hope the Dems make them as good as that.
Wow …
There is this one with an Elvis impersonator and a guy with his tshirt tucked into his pants …
The DEM one is the only one that doesn’t look like satire.
Yeah, the Repug ones could be satire, if any conservatives had a detectable sense of humour. But they don’t.
It’s likely that Republican state officials will be cranking up the voter suppression tactics. Very hard for Dems to win. But if they do win, will there be unprecedented civil strife? I’m watching in fascinated horror.
ahh, can you smell that economic anxiety?
so much economic anxiety.
So ingrained that they can’t help themselves.
A county GOP official in Pennsylvania resigned on Friday, just a day after it was revealed that she repeatedly called NFL players who kneeled during the national anthem âbaboons.”
Carla Maloney, secretary of the Republican Committee of Beaver County, made the comments in a series of Facebook posts last year, according to The Beaver County Times.
Maloney reportedly published the posts under the name Carla Belich Fueller.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/404658-county-gop-official-who-called-nfl-players-who-kneel-baboons
On the subject of republicans and their use of racial slurs –
Here is a bit of humour from “The Shovel” over the recent controversy over Trump’s use of the “N” word.
Talk about kissing babies!
The worst bit for me was the end where Desantis is described as a “conservative warrior”.
Also he chooses to be endorsed by a President with a 60% disapproval rating!
Otherwise he’s your bulk standard anti-immigrant, nationalistic, Trump-aligned, war-making, anti-socialist, dog-whistling racist Right wing candidate.
Florida is a state where many blacks are disenfranchised by past criminal convictions.
27 percent of all the disfranchised felons in the U.S. live in Florida; of those Americans who have completed all their punishments but still cannot vote, 48 percent live there. In 2016, Florida disfranchised 10.4 percent of its eligible voting-age population.
17% of Florida’s population is Afro-American. Florida has a population of 20 million. 29% of Florida’s registered Democrat voters are Afro-American whereas 1% of registered Republicans are.
Democrats are losing support amongst Florida’s white who are 65% of the population.
No wonder Denaris’s stupid campaign video is not so electorally stupid.
I’m a registered voter in Florida’s 16th district. The incumbent, Vern Buchanan (R), is one of the richest members of the House of Representatives. On the day that the House passed a 1.2 trillion dollar tax cut Vern went out and bought himself a yacht. Vern financed the purchase of his yacht with a $5 million loan from BMO Harris Bank. BMO Harris had invested $760,000 in lobbying efforts for Congress to pass favourable tax reform.
More on Vern’s dodgy dealings…
Our governor, Rick Scott (R) who is running for senator, somehow got elected twice as governor, even after overseeing the largest Medicare scam in US History. Scott was CEO of Columbia/HCA, the hospital company that was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2014/mar/03/florida-democratic-party/rick-scott-rick-scott-oversaw-largest-medicare-fra/
Just another day in the Sunshine State.