Wednesday, November 6, 2013

WATCHDOG WIRE - FLORIDA 11/06/2013

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BREAKING NEWS: IN FLORIDA 95.4 PEOPLE SIGN UP FOR OBAMACARE!
Florida is one of thirty-four states with fully or partially federally run Patient Protection and Affordable Care exchanges. According to EnrollMavin.com the number of Floridians who have signed up for the Gold, Silver and Bronze (GSB) plan in Florida is 0.0002% of the goal of 477,000 enrollees. That comes to 95.4 enrollees to date.

Where are those seeking coverage going? According to Sarah Kliff from the Washington Post they are enrolling in Medicaid ...



   
IT’S WAR: GOP ESTABLISHMENT GOES AFTER TEA PARTY, TEA PARTY GOES RINO HUNTING
There are multiple reports that “establishment” Republicans are going after those who do not think like them. It is also reported that the TEA Party is targeting the eighty-seven house Republicans who voted on October 16th to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling. Republican members of the Florida delegation in Congress Vern Buchanan (co-Chair of the delegation), Gus Bilirakis, Ander Crenshaw, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Daniel Webster voted with Democrats to end the government shutdown.

How will this impact Florida elections in 2014? Only the primaries will tell ...



132 CATHOLIC PROFESSORS TAKE “EXTRAORDINARY STEP” OF ASKING ALL BISHOPS TO STOP COMMON CORE
One hundred thirty-two Catholic Professors have taken “the extraordinary step” of signing a letter that asks all Catholic Bishops to stand up and firmly oppose Common Core. The letter states, “[W]e are convinced that Common Core is so deeply flawed that it should not be adopted by Catholic schools which have yet to approve it, and that those schools which have already endorsed it should seek an orderly withdrawal now.”

The letter notes that, “[N]otwithstanding the good intentions of those who made these decisions, Common Core was approved too hastily and with inadequate consideration of how it would change the character and curriculum of our nation’s Catholic schools. We believe that implementing Common Core would be a grave disservice to Catholic education in America.” ...

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LETTER SENT TO AG BONDI DEMANDING INVESTIGATION INTO MISCONDUCT BY FLORIDA ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS
A coalition of twelve Florida based organizations has sent a letter to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi stating, “We the undersigned, ask that your office immediately launch an investigation into the possibility of widespread official misconduct potentially involving fraudulent activity and malfeasance, by elected and appointed officials. While our concerns are primarily involved with SE Florida, the results of such an investigation may affect all Floridians, with likely national ramifications.”

The letter states, “At the heart of our allegations is what appears to be a long-term conspiracy by numerous SE Florida officials and their science advisors to deceive Floridians about the full range of causes and effects of climate change. This conspiracy involves the use of the unproven hypothesis of mankind being the primary agent of climate change." ...

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ISLAM CHAPTER IN TEXTBOOK SPARKS CONTROVERSY IN VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA
This is the third such protest in Florida over textbooks that were found to be on the Florida Department of Education approved list. Similar protests have occurred in neighboring Brevard County while the earlier one was in Sarasota County in 2010; see this WatchDogWire post, “Sarasota, Florida’s Biased Textbook on Islam Problem”.

A meeting at the Volusia school board was cancelled despite more than 45 parents showing up.  Florida State CAR director Hasan Shipley showed up to suggest that this was a national trend of hate groups hating Muslims and such intolerance was out of order. The US Department of Justice even weighed alleged safety issues …

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