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Florida Alliance for Retired Americans has endorsed Dan Gelber for Florida's Attorney General.
"Dan Gelber knows what it takes to protect seniors, eliminate fraud and take down criminals, and our 200,000 members are proud to support his candidacy for Attorney General," said FLARA President Tony Fransetta. "As a top federal prosecutor, Dan took on the crooks who prey upon Florida seniors, and we know he'll continue to take them on as Attorney General. Dan has been a tireless advocate for retirees in the Florida Legislature, and we couldn't ask for a better candidate to be Florida's top cop."
The organization in question is called ARA - Alliance For Retired Americans. If you're sloppy about details, fact checking and proofreading of your own copy, you discourage serious consideration of your content in general.
ReplyDeleteThe mistake is corrected. So ifI make I minor mistake in a post or wrote one in a hurry (such as my post about your fantasy of Meek quitting.) I am so sloppy that I have won two media awards and Reuters has run my posts.
ReplyDeleteWhat is fascinating is you commented on a post way down on the front page. You have taken up a Kenneth Quinnell-level obsession of fact-checking me. I dealt with this when I said Doug Tudor could not beat Lori Edwards in the primary. I got a serious of negative comments from delusional progressives. These people claimed I was lying. Funny thing is Tudor lost. You want to fact-check me then be my guest. That doesn't change the fact that Meek is a terrible candidate who doesn't support net neutrality and made CREW's most cuorrupt. Personally, I think Florida deserves better than the current Senate candidates.
you discourage serious consideration of your content in general.
News flash: no one is forcing you to read my blog.
Who will be the next enator, governor?
ReplyDeleteThese are the wrong races to focus your attention on.
The important race for Floridians should be the race for the attorney general. This election will directly affect your life like no other.
Focusing on the Senate race is like worrying about how much gas you have in your car as you are falling over a cliff.
Real power in state government resides in the attorney general. For example, it was attorney general McCollum who decided to appeal a judge's ruling making it ok for homosexuals to adopt orphaned children. Neither the governor, a Senator, or DCF could stop him from appealing this case.
It is the attorney general who will decide who to prosecute and whom not to prosecute. The real power is here. As interested, engaged voters, our attention and careful consideration should be here!
As a reult of the power vested in this office, experience, competence, and a voting record should matter.
This is not an office where a new-comer can bring in a different, and therefore better, perspective.
I have my choice, but I propose that you should analyze the candidates, focus on what is right for the state of florida and its people, and come to your own decision. Pretend you are hiring an attorney for your daughter, place this much concern as you would in that situation, care about your decision.
In the end, it is like we are doing this.
Once all of this is done, I believe will choose to vote for Dan Gelber. On Novemebr 2, I hope you will agree.
Bondi v. Gelber, who is the better candidate?
ReplyDeletePam Bondi is the far inferior candidate in this most important office in our state government.
In Florida, the attorney general does not answer to the governor, a Senator nor a Congressman, when deciding which cases to pursue and which policies to enforce.
The attorney general is the chief law enforcement officer. There is no higher official of the law to protect our rights, advocate our issues and defend our freedoms.
To this aim, experience and careful judgment would seem to be most important. As you know, retaining the wrong lawyer can have life-long ramifications. Essentially, what we are doing in this race is retaining a lawyer to advocate for our collective interest.
Pam Bondi has no statewide official experience. She has never held a political office; not a school board, not a community counsel, not one single office. Moreover, while we were participating in the democratic process and voting for those candidaites we felt were in the best interest of the Florida, Pam Bondi failed to vote in two of the last three elections. So though Pam Bondi poo poos her opponent as a politician for having been in elected positions for the past ten years, she should also poo poo voters for having voted for those horrible politicians in the past elections. Not voting is to allow your voice to be silent, to abdicate your responsibility to be informed and to care about our collective futures.
Notwithstanding her lack of experience, when she has had the opportunity to express her judgment, twice-divorced Pam Bondi ended up as a defendant in a civil case where she was accused of not returning a New Orlean family's dog after the tragedy of Katrina. Granted, anyone can have a failed marriage. But if I told my mother that I was getting divorced for the second time, I know my mother would be somewhat more critical of my judgment the second time around. Through small, personal failures, one can gleam some insite into the mind of a person. Bondi's failures should indicate something rather than nothing.
Secondly, Bondi's willingness to force an out-of-state family to hire an attorney, incur all the expenses to file a civil lawsuit, and only agree to return the family pet at the brink of a trial, shows me that Bondi does not by herself do the right thing or even know what the right thing to do is. Bondi was forced to return the dog to the family because a trial was about to begin. She had no defenses and the threat of a judgment forced her act as others would seem to act instinctively. This, too, my mother would frown upon.
Pam Bondi is not the candidate we should be voting for. Pam Bondi won the Republican primary because she was endorsed by Sarah Palin. (BTW, Sarah Palin also endorsed Christine O'Donnel in Delaware and we are still awaiting her to post her favorite Supremem Court case on her website, as she was unable to name one in the only debate she has participated in).
Florida is not Delaware, we are in dire need of a non-partisan, enlightened, attorney general. Pam Bondi will not represent all of us, she should not be seem as a credible candidate.
Vote for Dan Gelber, go to his website, www.dangelber.com, investigate for yourself what he stands for, why he has been endorsed by nine(9) of ten(10) major Florida newspapers.
Florida needs your vote, Florida needs our careful analysis, Florida needs Dan Gelber as attorney general.
October 15, 2010 10:55 PM