For 25 years, the GOP has had almost exclusive control of the FL legislature & admin.

It fashioned every law it could to advantage Republicans, gerrymandered at a bionic level & stymied popular efforts to increase voter participation such as restoration of felon voting rights.

During that same time, the FL GOP poured MILLIONS into turning the state party into a sophisticated, permanent, well-funded voter contact machine.

This gave GOP candidates two massive advantages: 1) they didn’t have to spend on selling the GOP position, 2) all of
in-state messaging got backed up by the RNC, and most importantly, the constant drum beat of Fox News.

There is no biological way to overstate the advantage that Fox News gives to Republicans in red states. MSNBC is NOT the opposite of Fox News.
MSNBC does not structure its programming around whipping up white grievance and fear. Whereas Fox News is the propaganda arm of the RNC, MSNBC is the left leaning version of CNN, not the DNC.

So when I say that Fox News is a huge advantage for the GOP, I know of what I speak.
In FL, Dem candidates spend a inordinate amount of time debunking Fox News lies, even to died in the wool Dems.

Because GOP candidates at every level do not have to spend on messaging, and so not have to spend on attacking Dem policy, they spend almost exclusively on 2 things:
1) upping their own name recognition, and 2) ATTACKING their Dem opponent. That is pretty much all they have to six

By contrast, Dems have to find their voters, build name recognition, fundraise non stop, defend against bottomless attack as spending, and try to clap back at
opponent, all in the six weeks between the primary & general election. The late primary was designed to advantage incumbents, and it DOES!

Dems spend 9/10ths of the cycle preaching to die hard Dem primary voters and because we have closed primaries, and then have to
catch up to massive war chests in a tiny period of time. That is how an incredibly talented candidate like Andrew Gillum, who outperformed DeSantis by an order of magnitude, lost by hair’s breadth, instead of winning by a landslide.
Andrew had six weeks to build a statewide GOTV effort. And even though money came like manna from heaven once he won the primary, it had no infrastructure to be poured into. The first two of the six week general election was spend hiring people and trying to get materials into
field. That is NOT on Andrew. That is how every Dem in Florida is handicapped against a well funded Republican.

DeSantis, who was straight pathetic on the campaign trail, was simply plugged in as the next one up, to a sophisticated and very well funded GOP a machine. He lost
not a single hour in gearing up to beat Gillum.

So no matter who the Dem candidate for Governor or US Senate might be, he or she will lose if we put them in the same predicament as Gillum.

So if you were wondering how it is that such horrid GOP candidates win in a state
that has such a balance (slight advantage in D registrations) in voter registration, THAT’S the answer. Bad GOP candidates can always rely on really good GOP infrastructure.

It’s time to speak hard truths about the fundamental problem at issue here.
The Florida Democratic Party is a CLUB, not a voter contact machine. In fact, it leaves almost every task involved with winning elections to candidates.

The FDP focuses on registration and vote by mail campaigns. It also supports state-wide candidates with canvassing and
literature distribution.

But what it does not do, is the kind of year-around messaging and voter contact that would make all the difference.

The FDP is NOT set up to do that, and has never really had the money to do it.

Florida has some amazing ancillary grassroots groups, but
they tend to focus on the big counties where there is most bang for the buck.

Bottom line is huge swaths of the state see no Dem activity whatsoever, and Dem candidates in those areas get no help at all.

So here is a hard another truth. Floridian Dems cannot win Florida.
We can’t.

BUT AMERICA’S Dems absolutely CAN.

If Dems all across America decide that winning the 3rd most populous state, w/one of the fastest growing populations & (at least) 29 electoral votes, then we WILL win FL in 2022.

But it won’t happen trying to tinker with what we
have.

Florida needs a state-wide permanent and professional voter contact, messaging and campaign support infrastructure, and that kind of thing will actually need to be built.

Doing so requires vision & most importantly, MONEY! Not money spent on consultants, pollsters &
galas.

Money to pay permanent professional staff to engage in real, sustained community engagement across the state, most especially in rural areas.

If we invest in standing that up, we will break the GOP stranglehold on FL. We WILL win back the 2 Congressional seats we lost
in South Florida.

We WILL get Black turnout in north Florida that will look like the turnout in GA, & we will be able to hold on to that advantage for years to come.

If you’re wondering if I have a plan for that, the answer is YES!

Stay tuned for announcements in coming
soon.

But understand this, catching up to 25 YEARS of GOP infrastructure building and voter engagement WILL. NOT. BE. CHEAP.... or easy.

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Remember the government wanting to "follow the science"? It is remarkable how far it is ignoring scientific advice on this new ultra-infectious variant of #Covid-19 by keeping schools open... both SAGE and @imperialcollege issuing warnings on school closures. Stay with me. /1

First the @imperialcollege paper, which finds that the new variant is still being ultra-infectious despite November lockdowns - link here, but cases of new variant trebled in SEast, even under lockdown /2

https://t.co/fdvuVX3OkW


The paper then notes (given schools were open and under 20s are most infected): "A particular concern is whether it will be possible to maintain control over transmission while allowing schools to reopen in January 2021." /3


This echoes what govt science advisory SAGE cmme told ministers on Dec 22...that it was "highly unlikely" the R number can be kept below 1 (cases falling, it is currently 1.1-1.3) with schools open /4

https://t.co/yV5qcSkErJ


But on Dec 30 Gavin Williamson announce primaries would go back, and secondary schools would have staggered return while testing regime (lateral flow, not that sensitive) was set up - see statement here
Caveat: This article is sourced from @Daily_Express !!!

"End of Sturgeon?"

Frankly, an appropriate response from @NicolaSturgeon might be to quote the infamous Mark Twain response to an erroneous 'obituary' known to all...

"The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated."

https://t.co/Ce1xVVISR2

More accurately, the media have quoted:

"Ms Sturgeon said she had a “real job to do” and was focused on guiding Scotland through the Covid-19 pandemic."

It's very reassuring to hear that @scotgov and @ScotGovFM have prioritised safeguarding lives and Scotland, above all else.

"I’ll leave others to play games or politics. I have got a real job to do and people can decide themselves whether I am doing it well or not, but I am absolutely 100 per cent focused on leading this country through a pandemic."

💯% 😀👍

Making her priorities crystal clear!

“That’s what I’ve done since this time last year and it’s what I’m going to continue to do for absolutely as long as necessary.”

And again, making it absolutely crystal clear!

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राम-रावण युद्ध समाप्त हो चुका था। जगत को त्रास देने वाला रावण अपने कुटुम्ब सहित नष्ट हो चुका था।श्रीराम का राज्याभिषेक हुआ और अयोध्या नरेश श्री राम के नेतृत्व में चारों दिशाओं में शन्ति थी।
अंगद को विदा करते समय राम रो पड़े थे ।हनुमान को विदा करने की शक्ति तो राम में थी ही नहीं ।


माता सीता भी हनुमान को पुत्रवत मानती थी। अत: हनुमान अयोध्या में ही रह गए ।राम दिनभर दरबार में, शासन व्यवस्था में व्यस्त रहते थे। संध्या को जब शासकीय कार्यों में छूट मिलती तो गुरु और माताओं का कुशल-मंगल पूछ अपने कक्ष में जाते थे। परंतु हनुमान जी हमेशा उनके पीछे-पीछे ही रहते थे ।


उनकी उपस्थिति में ही सारा परिवार बहुत देर तक जी भर बातें करता ।फिर भरत को ध्यान आया कि भैया-भाभी को भी एकांत मिलना चाहिए ।उर्मिला को देख भी उनके मन में हूक उठती थी कि इस पतिव्रता को भी अपने पति का सानिध्य चाहिए ।

एक दिन भरत ने हनुमान जी से कहा,"हे पवनपुत्र! सीता भाभी को राम भैया के साथ एकांत में रहने का भी अधिकार प्राप्त है ।क्या आपको उनके माथे पर सिन्दूर नहीं दिखता?इसलिए संध्या पश्चात आप राम भैया को कृप्या अकेला छोड़ दिया करें "।
ये सुनकर हनुमान आश्चर्यचकित रह गए और सीता माता के पास गए ।


माता से हनुमान ने पूछा,"माता आप अपने माथे पर सिन्दूर क्यों लगाती हैं।" यह सुनकर सीता माता बोलीं,"स्त्री अपने माथे पर सिन्दूर लगाती है तो उसके पति की आयु में वृद्धि होती है और वह स्वस्थ रहते हैं "। फिर हनुमान जी प्रभु राम के पास गए ।
The entire discussion around Facebook’s disclosures of what happened in 2016 is very frustrating. No exec stopped any investigations, but there were a lot of heated discussions about what to publish and when.


In the spring and summer of 2016, as reported by the Times, activity we traced to GRU was reported to the FBI. This was the standard model of interaction companies used for nation-state attacks against likely US targeted.

In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.

This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.

In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.