March 1, 2024 Former felon’s criminal history caught up with him when he voted, and he’s not alone Two men in Florida, including this one, were recently charged with voting illegally since they’re former felons who apparently didn’t have that right restored.
March 6, 2023 Florida rep files bills ‘requiring bloggers to register,’ helping politicians sue media The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says the government can’t abridge the freedom of speech or of the press, but a state senator in Florida submitted a bill that could do exactly that.
January 5, 2023 Congressional deadlock: 3 days, 11 votes, and still no Speaker of the House Congress may have gone back in session on Tuesday but there’s nothing going on in the House of Representatives except nominating, discussing, voting, and repeating.
November 16, 2022 DeSantis: ‘We just finished this election. People just need to chill out a bit…’ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he is awarding money to victims of Hurricane Ian and to three colleges for workforce education, but he ended his remarks with a quick political note.
November 7, 2022 Help or hurt? Trump calls Florida’s governor ‘DeSanctimonious’ in early 2024 competition Two big-name Republicans from Florida have visited another state with high offices up for grabs in Tuesday’s midterm elections, and one resorted to a disparaging nickname about the other.
March 11, 2022 DeSantis roundtable against Venezuela turns anti-Facebook, anti-Fauci Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a roundtable to rally against the U.S. buying oil from Venezuela, but election law, social media and Covid-19 got a lot of air time, as well.
February 28, 2022 Ted Deutch leaving Congress for American Jewish Committee U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch announced he won’t seek reelection in November. Instead, he’s set to become Chief Executive Officer of the American Jewish Committee.
November 4, 2018 Difficult week, from anger to sadness, as election approaches I don’t remember a seven-day period like the time since last Saturday. That’s when I woke up, turned on the TV, and saw what…
October 28, 2018 Not a good day for political thoughts, the USA as a whole I’ve known I had another blog post “due” before the election, if you know how I think, but too much on my mind and…
October 16, 2018 Political pondering, 3 weeks before Election Day The “game” of politics is no fun anymore. Discussing anything having to do with it used to be educating and entertaining, and sometimes enlightening,…
October 10, 2018 The case against us all paying for private schools Several times a year, before elections, a man in Florida emails me about who to support in elections down there. The goal is to…
October 2, 2018 News starting out good but going downhill fast It’s a happy moment at CohenConnect.com. (Online definition of moment: “a very brief period of time.” The italics are mine.) September’s blog numbers were…
September 14, 2018 Eric Trump and his shekels I try not to go more than a week without posting something. Unfortunately, it has been 11 days dues to holidays that won’t be…
August 29, 2018 Ron DeSantis didn’t learn from Roseanne Barr There are just 69 days until the midterm elections (for those of you who really explored all around this all-around great blog to see…