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Daniel TilsonNovember 7, 2013

Forget for a minute about Florida jumping on the weed legalization bandwagon and think about why we can’t seem to make progress on a more important cause: workers’ civil rights. While I strongly support marijuana decriminalization legislation and appreciate its ballot referendum “sexiness,” it’s also time to see Florida voters bypass the politicians and win […]

Daniel TilsonNovember 5, 2013

As middle class Floridians are repeatedly reminded in the months ahead about Charlie Crist’s history of shifting policy positions, it’s his vision of what constitutes genuine economic and tax fairness in Florida that deserves closest attention. While conservative-to-liberal conversions on issues like marriage equality, abortion and gun control have him inhabiting space on the political […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 30, 2013

Florida Democratic Party leaders, staffers, grassroots activists, old-school community organizers, new-school social media mavens and assorted behind-the-scenes “bigwigs” all converged in Orlando last weekend for their annual statewide conference. With so much yardage still to gain on electoral and policy-making playing fields dominated for so long by the GOP, Democrats arrived fired up and determined […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 20, 2013

Although Florida’s Republican U.S. House contingent voted 10-6 against ending the shutdown and raising the debt ceiling, a cooler overall collection of bipartisan heads prevailed last week in averting national default and reopening the American government. The full House vote was 285 in favor of raising the debt ceiling and ending the shutdown, and 144 […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 13, 2013

Given how the Tea Party’s long-planned sabotage of the U.S. government has gone here in 2013, the time is ripe for the remains of what was once a proud and patriotic Republican Party to disown its bastard child once and for all. Doomed never to be fully grown or sentient, this has always been more […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 10, 2013

Now that President Obama has rightfully rejected the “deal” offered by House Tea Partiers — a six-week debt ceiling extension in exchange for presidential “negotiation” (give-ins) to get them to reopen the government — the two-ton elephant in the national living room remains their unwillingness to admit the shutdown hand they’ve played has failed, and […]

Daniel TilsonOctober 9, 2013

With Secretary of State Ken Detzner wrapping up a five-city tour selling a new and improved version of voter purging, it’s worth noting that some citizens still don’t know or believe that the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) engaged in a voter suppression conspiracy leading up to the debacle that was the 2012 election. That’s not suspicion or rumor. […]

Daniel TilsonSeptember 30, 2013

GOP government shutdown shenanigans aside, the launch of Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges this week shows that Florida is lurching along on the rocky road to health-care reform. It’s high time Floridians understood that the congressional melodrama in DC has little to do with actually blocking health reform and everything to do with conservative […]

Daniel TilsonSeptember 17, 2013

In a move some will see as vain, in vain, or both, Gov. Rick Scott Monday sent a letter to U.S. congressional leaders sounding the identity-theft alarm that only opponents of Obamacare seem to find in any way alarming. The letter addressed to Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid […]

Daniel TilsonSeptember 10, 2013

I woke up to the distant sound of television last Thursday morning, the first day of Rosh Hashanah, and headed to the family room to join my wife and daughter, figuring I’d find a Disney Channel show in progress. Instead, I was momentarily flummoxed to find them raptly wrapped up in the first 15 minutes […]

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Daniel Tilson: The progressive push that Charlie Crist needs

Daniel Tilson: Holding Florida congressional shutdown supporters accountable

Daniel Tilson: GOP’s bastard child needs a new party to crash

Daniel Tilson: Time to give Tea Party shutdown showboats a time-out

Daniel Tilson: Coming soon: “Deliberative & transparent” 2014 Florida voter purge

Daniel Tilson: New ‘public option’ at heart of health reform: Pressure

Daniel Tilson: Scott ups anti-Obamacare ante with letter to Congress

Daniel Tilson: Reflections on the Jewish holidays and the Yellow Brick Road