Florida Political and Community Selected Weekly News
Candidate for Federal Congress Gabe Ferrer in his own words:
Selected Political News from the week of December 15-31st, 2017
The time to open Cuba is now. There is a time to hate, a time to forgive. Our time as Cuban-Americans is now.
At the insistence of my youngest son and after more than a 50-year absence, I visited Cuba. He assured me that it would be safe but I expected to be arrested and put in jail the minute that I landed. To my surprise, was welcomed home.
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Year 2. Volume 1. Number 2. January 1st 2018
Politics
Is Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen “full of hot air,” as she said her husband teases her?
Depends on whom you check with and how you define “hot air.”
C-SPAN, the network that covers Congress and keeps track of the times that a member speaks on the House floor, lists the Republican Ros-Lehtinen, who holds the Miami-based District 27 seat, fourth with 81 speeches in 2017.
Only Republican Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania (122), Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee (115) of Texas and Republican Ted Poe (100) of Texas visited the floor more often.
By comparison, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz trailed at 19 floor days.
National
Departing GOP lawmakers warn that their party could lose majorities in 2018
Republicans could easily lose their congressional majorities in 2018, two retiring GOP lawmakers warned Sunday, pointing to a lack of diversity in the party and President Donald Trump's pattern of catering to his narrow conservative base as likely harbingers of bad news for their party.
"When you look at some of the audiences cheering for Republicans sometimes, you look out there and you say, 'Those are the spasms of a dying party,'" Sen. Jeff Flake, R-AZ. said on ABC's "This Week." "By and large, we're appealing to older white men..."
Little Haiti
Fatal shooting in Little Haiti continues recent spate of gun violence in Miami-Dade
Miami police are investigating their second fatal shooting incident in the past three days after a teenager was killed in Little Haiti Wednesday night.
The shooting happened just before 8 p.m. in the area of Northeast 57th Street and Miami Place, police said. They found 16-year-old Jose Velez dead with a gunshot wound.
So far there is no information on suspects or a motive for the shooting.
Wednesday’s shooting happened one day after Pedro Lazaro Blanco was found shot and killed early Tuesday
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Tallahassee
Five Scumbags Florida Was Glad to See Leave in 2017
This year was, thankfully, a year in which America's most sexually rapacious scumbags finally began to get their comeuppances. And guess what? Florida is filled with scumbags. You're not surprised? Literally everyone has known this fact since Florida was incorporated?
But, hey, at least we got to watch the following list of garbage people get their just desserts this year. Here's to a 2018 free of these jerks:
1. Jack "The Sexually Deviant Bowl of Congealed Duck Fat" Latvala. What's worse than getting repeatedly sexually assaulted by a man who looks like Fat Bastard's divorce lawyer?
Immigration
Exactly how cruel is Homeland Security?
Families and unaccompanied children detained at the Mexican border are often fleeing horrific conditions in Central American countries, especially El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, where violent gangs, drug trafficking and rampant criminality contribute to some of the world’s highest murder rates. Now the Trump administration, alarmed at the recent surge in border crossers, is considering a new strategy to deter them. The message: “You think your native country is cruel? America is even crueller.”
That’s the logic behind a proposal under consideration...
Cuba
Goodbye Venezuela, hello Russia. Can Vladimir Putin save Cuba?
When Cuban ruler Raúl Castro met recently with Igor Sechin, head of Russia's state-owned Rosneft oil company, it was an intimate gathering, held in the same office from where Castro announced the death of his brother Fidel last year.
No details of the Dec. 16 meeting have emerged so far, but it is now expected that Rosneft will take over Venezuela's stake in the Cuban-Venezuelan refinery in Cienfuegos, in Central Cuba, under an agreement that will favor the island.
Just a few hours before his meeting with Castro...
Puerto Rico
3+ months after Maria, barely half of Puerto Rico has power
Puerto Rico authorities said Friday that nearly half of power customers in the U.S. territory still lack electricity more than three months after Hurricane Maria, sparking outrage among islanders who accuse Gov of mismanaging its response to the Category 4 storm.
Officials said 55 percent of the nearly 1.5 M customers have power, marking the first time the government has provided that statistic since Maria hit on Sept. 20 with winds of up to 154 mph. Officials had previously reported only power gen., which stands at nearly 70per cent of pre-storm levels.
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Embargo Against the Cuban People:
A Mistake that we need to stop now
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