Flap Your Lips Friday
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 7th, 2016
Good morning.
The republicans will do anything try to get an edge on the election. At a time when Hurricane Matthew is hitting Florida, Florida Republican Governor, Rick Scott, refuses to extend Florida’s voter registration.
Here’s the write from the Huff Po:
Rick Scott Refuses To Extend Florida’s Voter Registration Due To Hurricane
“Everybody’s had a lot of time to register.”
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) won’t extend the state’s voter registration deadline as an enormous storm is set to bear down on the coast.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) refuses to extend his state’s voter registration deadline because of Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 storm approaching the U.S. southeast coast.
The storm, predicted to be the strongest to make landfall in the U.S. in more than a decade, prompted Hillary Clinton’s campaign to call for extending voter registration beyond next Tuesday’s deadline.
“We’re hoping and expecting that officials in Florida are adapting deadlines to account for the storm,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook told reporters Thursday.
Scott, who has endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump for president, said he wouldn’t honor that request.
“I’m not going to extend it,” Scott said during a press conference Thursday evening. “Everybody’s had a lot of time to register. On top of that, we have lots of opportunities to vote, early voting and absentee voting, so I don’t intend to make any changes.”
Scott quickly faced pushback. Speaking with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) said she and other members of the state’s congressional delegation would send a letter to Scott pressing him to extend the deadline from Tuesday to Friday.
“It’s clearly the responsible and essential thing to do, we have people who have been expecting to have a few extra days before that deadline to register to vote,” Wasserman Schultz said. “That’s the most fundamental right we have is to be able to register and cast our ballot to select our leaders and, you know, I certainly hope Gov. Scott will … reconsider.”
Wasserman Schultz’s office told The Huffington Post that all members of the Florida delegation, including Republicans, are invited to sign the letter.
South Carolina, which the storm also is forecast to hit, has already extended its voter registration deadline.
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Readers: Floridians make your phone calls. Use your voice.
My heart goes out to those that have been killed in Haite due to Hurricane Matthew. I HOPE that all of my readers and their loved ones, who are in the path of Hurricane Matthew, are safe and sound. ❤️
Before I sign off and declare that the forum is open, let me just say this…I know that Hillary is winning according to the polls but let’s not start celebrating just yet. And just as important, let’s not stop giving our support whether you are lending your time by canvasing or making phone calls.
And if you can give a few dollars, they could use that too. The campaign has been lagging in fundraising for 3 months in a row. The Clinton campaign has missed their fundraising goals in August and September. And they are $100,000 off base for October.
Trump, on the other hand, says they are near 3 million individual donors – They could be just a bunch of LSOSs but I’d rather be safe than sorry. Clinton only has 2.6 million. Clinton supporters are falling behind, and Trump supporters are stepping up. This is not good.
From the Clinton Campaign:
We’ve set a must-hit goal of raising $7 million before Hillary’s second debate with Donald Trump on Sunday — that’s the number we absolutely need to reach to get back on track, and we need 16 people from San Francisco to step up today to get there. Can you help right now? When you make your first donation (you haven’t stepped up yet!), we’ll send you a free Team Hillary sticker as a thank you.
I made a donation. Can you donate even $1? If we all donated just $1 we would add a substantial chunk of change to the campaign. If you can, please click here: https://www.hillaryclinton.com
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
The forum is open. Flap your lips.
SuzyQ: No worries, it is something to be concerned about. I googled and found this write: What if Hurricane Matthew Hits Florida’s Nuclear Reactors? Nice to see you here a lot lately – you are becoming quite a “regular.” :) I hope you are well.
Peace & Love & Safety during this storm.
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michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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October 7th, 2016 at 12:44 pm
Little Girl: Daddy, how come my barbie doll doesn’t have a vagina?
Daddy: Barbie is a republican honey.
Happy Friday Michelle, and everybody, and prayers to those affected by Hurricane Matthew.
/SB
October 7th, 2016 at 2:27 pm
You’re so sweet for the shout out Michelle! And thank you so much for the info on the article you found. You’re just wonderful.
Today I heard that Trump made history: He’s honored to be the first presidential candidate EVER to have ZERO endorsements for a major newspaper. I hope the idiots still supporting him wake up.
October 7th, 2016 at 2:28 pm
oops… *from* a major newspaper.
October 7th, 2016 at 2:44 pm
Trump is such a pig! What kind of a woman supports this misogynist ? Why would anybody want a president with personal character such as this? I dont get it.
http://usuncut.com/politics/grab-em-by-the-pussy/
October 7th, 2016 at 3:04 pm
Rick Scott is a creatin. He supported drug testing of welfare recipients and others because of course, he also co-founded one of the larger drug testing companies in Florida, Solantic.
A few days before he took office, he moved his shares in Solantic to the Frances Annette Scott Revocable Trust. His wife’s trust held enough stock in the private company to control it. By transferring the Solantic shares to his wife’s trust, which is represented on the Solantic board by one of his former business associates, Scott maintains he is free from any possible conflicts.
But that’s not all. He axed funding for people with disabilities, slashed public education funding, he fought the prescription drug database, and he’s gutted environmental protection programs.
He also lied about the high speed rail project:
Florida’s own transportation department predicted the train would make money from the start, and the federal government was willing to pony up $2.4 billion of the estimated $2.6 billion in construction costs. As gas prices reached $4 a gallon, the train looked more and more like sound public policy. But Scott chose to believe a study by the Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank partially funded by oil companies, that called into question the number of people who would ride the train. He feared taxpayers would be on the hook for future costs. His general counsel, attorney Charles Trippe, had told the Florida Supreme Court that $110 million in state funds had already been spent on the proposed rail project. So Scott sent the money back to Washington. Only later did the citizens of Florida learn that Scott was fudging the numbers. Turns out the state had spent only $31 million. Trippe apologized to the court, but the money was already gone by then.
This guy is one of a long line of politicians that have been bad for Florida, and Floridians.
October 7th, 2016 at 3:09 pm
and about your article today of him not helping voters, that’s nothing new for him either:
“After squeaking into office with just 61,550 more votes than his opponent, Scott wasted no time in disenfranchising people who might oust him in the next election cycle. In March, the Florida Clemency Board — composed of Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and other members of his cabinet — passed a ban on felon voting rights, forcing nonviolent offenders to wait five years after completing their sentences to apply to have their rights restored.
That rule turned back the clock on Florida’s voting laws. During the 2000 election, thousands of voters were wrongfully purged from the rolls because they were misidentified as felons. That mishap brought to light the painful fact that Florida had the largest number of disenfranchised felons in the nation — a disproportionate swath of whom were African-American.
Govs. Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist heeded the outcry over this injustice and made it easier for ex-felons to get their voting rights restored. But Scott undid all of their reforms, dismissing the racist implications of his decision.
He really is a cretin (and i guess me too, since i misspelled the word in the above, lol).
Off the soapbox now :-)
October 7th, 2016 at 6:18 pm
Great soapbox rant, SuzyQ!
I am on all lists, republican and democrat, and this guy’s emails are priceless. He is a world class Cretin.
Great info to sit up and take notice of…these are the people who would be running the US show.
I can tell you the rest of the world citizens are totally BAFFLED as to why we would let this election get this far with him running, at all. I know many of you racists will say you don’t care what the world thinks and I’m saying you better start bc US is not the center of the universe.
And when you look at this incident with Scott and how easy it would be to give people two more days due to extreme circumstances, you see the rigidity and lack of empathy of this party. He couldn’t care less how people are doing during a hurricane in his state?? What the…?
Off my soapbox also.
Luv, Zen Lill
October 7th, 2016 at 8:33 pm
The woman Donald Trump was caught making crude comments about on video was identified Friday night as “Entertainment Tonight” anchor Nancy O’Dell.
October 7th, 2016 at 9:45 pm
Tune in to Fox, they are avoiding the tape of trump talking to Billy Bush. They are doing the storm.
October 8th, 2016 at 8:07 am
#4 I’m With Her
The “grab her by the pussy” comment is unforgivable. The nail is in the coffin for his presidential run.
/SB
October 8th, 2016 at 8:14 am
Trump is toast
From the NY Post today:
Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who was floated as a possible Supreme Court nominee by Trump, released a video on Facebook shortly after Trump’s apology that excoriated the former reality TV star.
“It’s occurred to me on countless occasions today that if anyone spoke to my wife or my daughter or my five sisters like the way Mr. Trump has spoke to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, I wouldn’t want to be associated with that person,” Lee said.
“You, sir, are the distraction. Your conduct is the distraction . . . Mr. Trump, I respectfully ask you, with all due respect, to step aside. Step down.”
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
/SB