The GOP is in trouble in Florida. It's one thing to stand up against Barack Obama, but Florida isn't Washington, DC. State Republicans have had an uninterrupted lock on the executive and legislative branches. Voters can't blame the Democrats in Florida for so much that has gone wrong in the state economy. How sweet it was.
The excesses of the housing bubble not only track back to the GOP agenda; it through shilling for the housing asset bubble that a GOP majority prevailed.
It is a marvel to behold: in fact, if you are an observer of politics we have never seen anything close to it. Who thought the Growth Machine would collapse; particularly the model of suburban sprawl that is fully and completely cooked? The broken Growth Machine gives state legislators very little to do except to cut a budget already cut to the bone. They can't beat up citizens, except Florida Hometown Democracy. With construction and development at a standstill, all the Republican leadership can do is get in trouble: former House Speaker Ray Sansom case in point. What is happening to the GOP sort of has the feeling of an industrious ant colony scattered by a sudden interruption.
Which is one reason it makes sense for Senator Martinez to step down early, giving Governor Charlie Crist the chance to appoint a successor. In 2009 and next year it will be very difficult to raise campaign cash from the usual suspects-- the sprawl lobby-- and where intense national focus will be on the future of Martinez' Senate seat, whoever Governor Crist chooses to fill the vacant US Senate seat would have an instant advantage over a Democratic challenger.
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Adios Mel-icious Martinez and say sayonara to Ray Sansom. Gop nightmare is waning; it's daylight in the swamp. But the conservative lesbian mafia still has a grab on 18th district.
I heard this morning on the news that Charlie Crist wants the post.
AMERICA IS TRUELY THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY.
If we want our State to have fair representation and not a dictatorship controlled by the present legislature, PLEASE go to"progressflorida.org/pages/s/fairdistricts" and get a petition to sign to bring fairness to our voting.
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