The includes how much influence our local governments can have during times of declared emergencies. Get ready for the legislative firehose. It’s coming and it’s likely to have the biggest impact on South Floridians.
By Brian Mudd
Top Three Takeaways – April 20th, 2021
The jury is out. Hours? Days? Weeks? We don’t know but what we do is that whatever the jury comes back with in the case of Derek Chauvin will be one of the most consequential verdicts in modern American history. The problem regardless is that there are no winners. In fact, Gallup has consistently polled on race relations since 2001. According to us, they’re the worst they’ve been during the course of those twenty years and by a lot. In 2004, 68% of Blacks and 74% of Whites said race relations were good. Today only 36% of Blacks and 46% of Whites say that’s the case. Is that because racism wasn’t pervasive in 2004 but is today? Is it the case that we’ve increasingly failed to listen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and apply his principals?
By Brian Mudd
Top Three Takeaways – April 19th, 2021
Publix & Ron Desantis. Florida’s two most approved of entities. In fact, in the most recent polling within Florida, nothing surveyed received higher approval ratings. This ranks Publix and the governor ahead of Major League Baseball, President Biden, every major social media platform, Donald Trump and traditional news media. Speaking of which.
Mainstream media. There’s nothing less popular in the state of Florida that’s been surveyed than them. Traditional news media sports a 39% approval rating with a net disapproval rating of 14%. It’s completely earned and ironically, it’s these journalistic frauds that have attempted to use every dirty trick in the book to smear, besmirch and slander Governor DeSantis for over a year at this point. Most recently, on back of the 60 Minutes hit piece, two-thirds of Floridians had a higher opinion of DeSantis after the mainstream media’s attempted hit on our governor. It s fu
By Brian Mudd
Top Three Takeaways – April 15th, 2021
Do facts matter? The officer who killed Daunte Wright, Kim Potter, has been charged with 2nd degree manslaughter. Now, we all know she’s responsible for the death of Daunte. The question becomes do the charges fit the crime? Here are Minnesota’s Statues governing this charge:
609.205 MANSLAUGHTER IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
A person who causes the death of another by any of the following means is guilty of manslaughter in the second degree and may be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than ten years or to payment of a fine of not more than $20,000, or both: (1) by the person s culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk, and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another; or (2) by shooting another with a firearm or other dangerous weapon as a result of negligently believing the other to be a deer or other animal; or (3) by setting a spring gun, pit fall, de