As we get closer to the presidential election, and Donald Trump increasingly fears he is holding a losing hand, the bizarre description of “American Carnage” in Trump’s inauguration speech in 2017 becomes more ominously an uncanny prediction for 2020. In the 2016 presidential debates, former Florida governor Jeb Bush remarked
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The National Security State
by Mel Goodman,
With various national polls showing Joe Biden leading Donald Trump in key battleground states, the president is acting somewhat irrationally and deploying his cabinet secretaries and departments to influence the election. Trump has used most of the past four years to enforce Steve Bannon’s “deconstruction of the administrative state,” and most …
Chad Wolf, COVID-19, Gina Haspel, Hillary Clinton, John Ratcliffe, Mel Goodman, Melvin A. Goodman, National Security State, Pompeo, Trump BarrElection 2020 Candidate Forum
As part of the FLVCS Election 2020 Project, the October 2020 Monthly Meeting will feature a Florida House District 71 & 72 Candidate Forum. Candidates, Andy Mele (confirmed) and Will Robinson from District 71 and Dale Buckman (confirmed) and Fiona McFarland from District 72 have been invited. Find out more about the candidates’ views and …
Buckman, Candidate Forum, Election 2020, Florida District 71, Florida District 72, McFarland, Mele, RobinsonFLVCS Election 2020 Update
Election 2020 Project Update
While the FLVCS Election 2020 Project candidate questionnaires are still coming in, grades for the returned questionnaires are being posted at federal candidate results and state candidate results, as received.
The Election 2020 Project aims to educate candidates and the general public on issues that FLVCS values. To learn more …
Election 2020, Election 2020 Project, flvcsLowering the “Barr”
By Melvin A. Goodman,
The Trump Administration is lowering the “Barr” on justice and decency. Attorney General William Barr, who virtually serves as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, has made unprecedented interventions in cases at the Department of Justice (DoJ) on behalf of his leading client. He intervened in the sentencing of the president’s …
Attorney General Barr, Mel Goodman, Melvin A. Goodman, President Trump, Trump, William BarrCOVID-19 Timeline
Image by CDC
FLVCS has compiled a COVID-19 Timeline to detail the Trump Administration’s failed response to the pandemic.
Of course, the first duty of a President is to keep Americans safe and he has failed at that.
Now we have over 7,000,000 COVID-19 cases and 200,000 dead Americans, as many as the population …
Coronavirus, CoV-SARS-2, COVID-19, COVID-19 Timeline, pandemic, TrumpTrump’s War on Ethics
By Melvin A. Goodman,
Burying The Hatch Act
Trump’s war on government ethics continues unabated. The outrageous events at the Republican Convention last month provided more evidence that there is no law or tradition or custom that Donald Trump is unwilling to break. The violations of the Hatch Act, the anti-corruption law that Congress …
Betsy DeVos, Chad Wolf, Emoluments Clause, Ethics, government ethics, Hatch Act, Mark Meadows, Mel Goodman, Melvin A. Goodman, Mike Pompeo, President Trump, TrumpCOVID-19 Crisis and Climate Crisis
A Wake Up Call
This video comparing the COVID-19 Crisis and Climate Crisis from the Manatee Clean Energy Association is our first in a series of videos. The series will share local subject matter experts and concerned citizens perspectives on the lessons we can learn from society’s response to the pandemic. More importantly, you will …
SURF Project Highlighted
Tim Rumage, Professor of Environmental Studies at Ringling College of Art and Design, highlighted the FLVCS Fund SURF project in a recent presentation given to the Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay. Professor Rumage’s talk was on Biomimicry and Biophilic Design.
FLVCS Fund, Rotary Club of Sarasota Bay and START (Solutions to Red Tide) jointly manage …
September Meeting – 2020
Micah Kubic Speaks at September Meeting
Join us for the September Meeting on Monday, September 14, 2020 at 7:00 PM EDT on Zoom.
Featured Speaker: Micah Kubic, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
Register for the September Meeting now!
See the September calendar event for more details and instructions on joining …
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