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Take my shiny new train…please

By SoundOffSister / February 25, 2011 /

We did a post last week about Florida Governor Rick Scott rejecting $2.4 billion of your money “granted” to the state to build a high speed rail between Orlando International Airport and Tampa.  After the Governor’s decision, Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, announced that he would give Florida until today to “reconsider”. Yesterday, Governor Scott politely…

My Governor has guts

By SoundOffSister / February 16, 2011 /

Today, Florida Governor Rick Scott announced that Florida will be rejecting $2.4 billion of your money earmarked by President Obama to build a high speed rail from Orlando to Tampa. Governor Scott’s press release cites numerous reasons why this project makes no sense, not the least of which are that Florida would have to come up with $280…

State of Florida, et al. v. Obamacare

By SoundOffSister / December 17, 2010 /

Yesterday, United States District Court Judge Roger Vinson heard oral arguments in the case brought by Florida and nineteen other states challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare’s requirement that all obtain health insurance or pay a penalty.  Of course, the federal government is now calling it a tax, not a penalty when arguing its constitutionality, but that…

Missouri voters say no to Obamacare

By SoundOffSister / August 4, 2010 /

On Monday, a federal district court judge in Virginia ruled that Virginia’s lawsuit against Obamacare, challenging the mandate that all purchase insurance or pay a penalty, could proceed.  Yesterday, the voters in Missouri weighed in on the same issue.

Florida US Senate race: Rubio on his way to raising $787k by Feb. 10

By Steve McGough / February 8, 2010 / Comments Off on Florida US Senate race: Rubio on his way to raising $787k by Feb. 10

In an effort to raise campaign funds for his GOP primary run against Charlie Christ for the Florida US Senate seat, Marco Rubio racks up more than half of his $787,000 goal. The Stimulus Bomb campaign ends in three days. The Rubio campaign is looking for $1,000 in donations for every billion of the federal…

Let’s create more dumb students

By SoundOffSister / October 15, 2012 /

This is scandalous. Unfortunately, it comes from the Board of Education  of the State of Florida. That would be my Board of Education.

You mean I have to spel gud? Update

By SoundOffSister / May 15, 2012 /

Yesterday, the State of Florida released the results of the state’s mandatory writing test for fourth, eighth and tenth graders.  The scores were so shocking that the State Board of Education has called an emergency meeting for 10:30 this morning.

Voter fraud in Florida – Non-citizens registered to vote … and voting

By Steve McGough / February 6, 2012 /

Voter fraud is voter fraud. I don’t care if the fraud is perpetuated by Democrats, Republicans or Martians. As far as I’m concerned, those who illegally vote in the United States invalidate the vote of a citizen. We need to tighten down the voter registration process, validate voter rolls and demand positive ID at polling…

Florida Results: Mitt 47%, conservatives 45%

By Steve McGough / January 31, 2012 /

Even if Gingrich or Santorum pulled out of the race prior to the Florida primary, and all of their votes went to the other, Mitt Romney would have still won Florida by a couple of points. If you’re of the belief Gingrich and Santorum represents the conservative point of view … what does this tell us?

Your money and high-speed rail

By SoundOffSister / December 12, 2010 /

Remember all of the hoopla earlier this year when President Obama gave your money away to various states to build high speed trains?  Well, sanity has prevailed, at least in two states.  Last week, the newly elected Republican governors of Ohio and Wisconsin said no thank you to $1.2 billion, and “returned” it to the…