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Former Planned Parenthood communications director wants to be mayor of Orlando
Live Action News ^ | December 21, 2024 | Cassy Fiano-Chesser

Posted on 12/22/2024 8:17:04 PM PST by Morgana

State Rep. Anna Eskamani, a former Planned Parenthood staffer and abortion activist-turned politician, has announced that she will be running for mayor of Orlando, Florida.

Eskamani previously worked as the Senior Director of Public Affairs and Communications for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, and was a keynote speaker at the 2017 Women’s March in Orlando, where she boasted of her work with Planned Parenthood and her support for abortion.

Eskamani has served in the Florida House of Representatives since 2018, and can no longer seek re-election after winning a fourth and final term last month.

She said she was encouraged to run for a statewide office, but wanted to focus on her hometown of Orlando instead.

“In 2027, Orlando faces a pivotal moment,” she told Orlando Weekly. “And with so much uncertainty at the national level, we need a people-centered leader with the courage to challenge the status quo and the vision to deliver bold, creative solutions to address our community’s everyday challenges — from homelessness and public safety to small business support and affordability. These issues are complex, but through grit, grace, and a relentless work ethic, I know I am the leader Orlando needs to move us forward into the future.”

Eskamani further added that her goal was to add a “people-centered approach” to politics. During her time in the Florida House, she was an ardent supporter of abortion.

She fought against a bill that would protect pain-capable preborn children from abortion, and attempted to overturn pro-life laws in Florida — like a 24-hour waiting period, limits on taxpayer funding for abortion organizations, and laws allowing patient records to be reviewed during abortion facility inspections.

Additionally, she was involved in the failed campaign to make abortion a constitutional right in Florida. Throughout her political career, she has made it clear that supporting the abortion industry is still a priority for her.

“More and more attacks are coming our way and it’s important that we don’t just surrender,” she has previously said. “Winning is not measured by passing a bill. It’s measured by how hard we fight.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: abortion; florida; plannedparenthood; prolife
I sure hope Florida has better sense
1 posted on 12/22/2024 8:17:04 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

We all do.


2 posted on 12/22/2024 8:25:52 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: All

A rather extensive wiklipedia page for someone I never heard of (but I’m a long way from Florida.).

However, she is an 0bama endorsed daughter of Iranian immigrants, so that should tell Orlando Voters much all they need to know.


3 posted on 12/22/2024 8:46:41 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: Morgana

An Iranian abortionist... Mayor of Disneyworld.


4 posted on 12/22/2024 8:58:13 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: Morgana
I live in the Orlando area and Eskamani is my state Representative. She is a genial, smiling, stone hard Leftist well-suited to the Orlando area's long evolution into a progressive Democratic stronghold based on the massive base of cheap labor employed in tourism, retail, and lodging.

Eskamani has a good shot at getting elected Mayor of Orlando unless the local business community and big money donors find and fund a better candidate and build an effective new political organization. The odds are against that because, with the Left's capture of the Democratic Party, moderate Democrats no longer have a political vehicle to convert money and business influence into favorable election outcomes.

5 posted on 12/22/2024 8:58:27 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: LegendHasIt

Why are so many of these politicians and wannabe politicians from other countries or first generation? Is she natural born? Is her loyalty to this country or to power?


6 posted on 12/22/2024 9:06:50 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: DesertRhino; LegendHasIt; No name given ; Chode; nickcarraway

Let her go fight for abortion rights in Iran, I’d love to see that! The morality police would get her! Dawg I’d move to Iran and join the morality police just to go after her.


7 posted on 12/22/2024 9:07:56 PM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul )
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To: Morgana

This leech should not be allowed anywhere near public office.


8 posted on 12/22/2024 9:11:32 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Morgana

actually... and still stricter than the democRATS

Abortion is currently legal in cases where the mother’s life is in danger, and also in cases of fetal abnormalities that makes it not viable after birth (such as anencephaly) or produce difficulties for the mother to take care of it after birth, such as major thalassemia or bilateral polycystic kidney disease.

Abortion in Iran - Wikipedia
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Abortion_in_Iran


9 posted on 12/22/2024 9:23:03 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

I’ve posted about abortion in Iran. In farsi I’m called a “nafas”, that is how they say “pro life” over there.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4234765/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4235149/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4235154/posts


10 posted on 12/22/2024 9:50:06 PM PST by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul )
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To: Morgana

Why Orlando? Of all the places to want to “help”. Too many kids at the amusement parks? Too many families on vacation? I don’t think she is in touch with the vibe of the place.


11 posted on 12/22/2024 11:05:03 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Morgana

She’s likely to get a bunch of Disney Dollars to try to get her elected.


12 posted on 12/22/2024 11:10:34 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Morgana


"I helped kill the unborn. Make me mayor!"
13 posted on 12/23/2024 1:01:25 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris
Due to the infinite wisdom and the Solomon like intelligence of the Orlando voters, she has an excellent chance of being elected.
14 posted on 12/23/2024 1:05:59 AM PST by sport
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To: LegendHasIt
[However, she is an 0bama endorsed daughter of Iranian immigrants]

Democrat Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama certainly DOES like baby-killers - it's in his Satanic DNA

AND if a baby SURVIVED an ABORTION ATTEMPT Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama MADE SURE their lives were NOT saved by going AGAINST the Illinois Born-Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA). Jill Stanek, nurse, told us ALL about it.

What many Americans voted for in November, 2008:


15 posted on 12/23/2024 1:08:15 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: sport; StarsnnnStripesFOREVER

Let us pray that doesn’t happen, somehow

Please Lord, turn the hearts of Orlando voters to righteousness and life, not death

Maybe for the prayer ping list?


16 posted on 12/23/2024 1:09:54 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Morgana

Eskamani may not even get the “Iranian-American” vote...


17 posted on 12/23/2024 1:31:44 AM PST by Does so (A country about to outlaw Yellow #4 food dye, but makes Marijuana legal?...🇺🇦...Dem☭¢rat...≣ ∅)
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To: stars & stripes forever; Kitty Mittens; pollywog

I think I messed up my ping


18 posted on 12/23/2024 1:41:08 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Morgana

Florida does. But Orlando doesn’t and will elect her if she wins the primary.


19 posted on 12/23/2024 2:26:37 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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