Posted on 09/14/2018 1:49:54 AM PDT by familyop
Incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson and retiring Republican Governor Rick Scott are in a virtual tie in the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Florida.
The first Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone and online survey of Likely Florida Voters finds Nelson with 45% support to Scott’s 44%. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate and six percent (6%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
I’m not a Floridian and was only trying to help by posting the Rasmussen survey news. Didn’t Scott pass a bill for raising the age for purchasing rifles to 21? If so, then you have a good point.
And if so, my guess that he was probably throwing a bone to most of the state and big city municipal employees (e.g., police) and lawyers to avoid an uprising. There’s been a steady stream of migration from the northeast into Florida for a very long time, and those migrants head straight for government jobs within the first or second generation.
Is that the right thing to do? Never. Would that have been a good political strategic move under the circumstances? I don’t know. I’m not there.
Florida conservatives will know best what to do.
Legislation a “sop” to shut down media intensive discussion. SCOTUS will remove it.
Thinking the same thing.
Yet I have been pleasantly surprised by his performance as Florida governor and although he may not worship at the Altar of DJT, he needs to be elected at least for the reason supreme court judges and blocking conviction in an impeachment trial. Nelson is going to be hard to beat. Conservatives cannot afford to sacrifice anybody over a purity test.
(I'm sure using "sop" a lot!) ;)
Texas, too. :(
The Bolsheviks have poisoned our wells.
Consider roughly how many school teachers are in Florida, and that’s only school teachers. We have a political fight on our hands in all of the states. Around 40 million people receive their incomes from government, and many more are socially or chemically messed up.
From outside of Florida, it appears that Scott is trying to use effective political strategy including the incrementalism of the Democrats. I might be wrong, but that’s the way it looks from here.
But complain, yes! Write to Scott, and let him know what you think. But don’t let many voters think that he’s going to lose. Too many idiots out there will vote for the candidate who appears to be the likely winner, no matter how wrong.
If I lived in FL I’d vote for Scott, without question, but I think it’s important for us all to understand what the Trump election means to Republicans going forward. It’s simple to me, either they change and embrace the platform he was elected on or they wither away into national irrelevance. Scott seems to be choosing the latter and it might cost him and us big.
Exactly...
Anti gun Scott rino
Huh?
Ditto on Texas. O’Rourke promised to legalize marijuana and appears to be getting a sewage tsunami of support for that one issue.
He did pass new gun legislation after Parkland.
However you have to look at it closely. Most of it is pretty neutral. One item that I question some, and one item that is fantastic.
Basically it had a bunch of stuff about mental competency / baker act / etc. That did little to change other laws already on the books so no big deal.
It did raise the age to buy to 21 and ban bump stocks. I could care less about bump stocks but question the age raising.
And then it enabled to School Guardian Program. This allows school personnel to undergo training and then carry guns on campuses. That is fantastic.
So, could it have been better? Yes. Were there compromises given to the left? Yes but very minor. Did it actually do something that could prevent this happening again? Absolutely.
No.
Scott is no conservative , we know. However, a vote for the reptilian Nelson is a vote for socialism. Period. What other choices do we have? You either do a write in (same as voting for the reptile) or vote for Scott. It’s pretty simple.
Btw....your language is atrocious
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