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Ron DeSantis Hire
A Democrat? After Election, A Shift In Tone
After Florida’s Election Chaos, The Broward County Election Supervisor Has Resigned
Brenda Snipes — the Broward County, Florida, elec- tions supervisor who oversaw the recent recounts — resigned from her position on Monday, ending her tenure by saying that she was “ready to pass the torch.”
Snipes’s 15 years as su- pervisor of elections in Florida’s second-most-popu- lous county (and the county with the most registered vot- ers) was stormy, to say the least. She oversaw multiple elections in which there were problems with ballots, most recently and notably the 2018 midterm elections, which de- scended into what ABC News called a “messy” recount to de- termine the victors in the
Brenda Snipes, Broward County supervisor of elections, signs results with other canvassing board members after they were transmitted to the state capital on November 10, 2018, in Lauder- hill, Florida. Joe Skipper/Getty Images
state’s gubernatorial and Sen- ate elections.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz is being considered for a position in Ron DeSantis' administration.
Upon winning the Florida governor’s race, Ron DeSan- tis had firmly established him- self as an unyielding partisan who’s an ardent defender of President Donald Trump and a relentless prosecutor of his Democratic opponent, An- drew Gillum.
But in the two weeks since Election Day, the 40-year-old former congressman has been tinkering with his brand.
DeSantis is considering tapping a Democratic state
lawmaker from deep blue Broward County, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, to lead the Florida Division of Emergency Management, the Times/Her- ald has confirmed through multiple sources. Moskowitz, who hails from Coral Springs and whose district includes Parkland, played a major role in advocating for tighter re- strictions on gun rights after the shooting at Marjory Stone- man Douglas High last Febru- ary.
Stacey Abrams To Sue Georgia For ‘Gross Mismanagement’ Of State Elections
Stacey Abrams has ended her bid to become gov- ernor of the state of Georgia, but she’s not slowing down. During a speech from her Georgia headquarters Friday (Nov. 16), Abrams thanked supporters and announced plans to file a federal lawsuit against Georgia for “gross mis- management” of state elec- tions.
Abrams made it clear that she wasn’t conceding the race to opponent Brian Kemp. “Concession means to ac- knowledge an action is right, true or proper,” she explained. “As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede that. But, my assessment is the law currently allows no further viable remedy.
“Now, I can certainly bring a new case to keep this one contest alive, but I don’t want to hold public office if I need to scheme my way into the post,” Abrams continued. “Because the title of governor isn’t nearly as important as our shared title — voters. And that is why we fight on and why I want to say thank you to those of you who organized your community and shattered records.”
In a series of tweets Friday, Abrams reiterated her plan to take legal action.“Today, I an- nounce the launch of Fair Fight Georgia, an operation that will pursue accountability
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in Georgia’s elections and in- tegrity in the process of main- taining our voting rolls,” Abrams revealed. “In the coming days, we will be filing a major federal lawsuit against
the state of Georgia for the gross mismanagement of this election and to protect future elections from unconstitu- tional actions.”
The statement aligns with the Democrat’s campaign against her Republican oppo- nent, whom she called out for voter suppression tactics against disenfranchised com- munities.
Kemp was Georgia’s sec- tary of state at the time of the campaign, and was in charge of overseeing the same elec- tion that he ran in against Abrams. The 55-year-old politician resigned from the position one day after declar- ing himself the “clear and con- vincing” winner in the November 6 midterms.
‘Purely Political’: Black Conservatives Protest Scrubbing Ben Carson’s Name From High School
A Black, conservative group is protesting a recent decision by the Detroit Board of Educa- tion to reconsider naming a high school for Ben Carson.
The group, known as Proj- ect 21, said the move to look for a new name is a “purely politi- cal act which willfully ignores the accomplishments and char- itable acts of the famous De- troit native who now serves as the U. S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,” ac- cording to the Detroit Free Press.
Last Tuesday, the school board voted 6-1 to approve a process seeking new names for the Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medi- cine, located on Mack Avenue near I-75, and several addi- tional schools expected to open next year.
The new policy allows the school board to change names of existing schools under the following circumstances:
• To commemorate individ- uals who have made a signifi- cant contribution to the
enhancement of education
• If a school facility is newly
built or redesigned
• If the name of a school
doesn’t reflect the current school population
• If the community of the geographic area where the school is located requests a name change that more closely aligns with the history of the lo- cality
• If information newly dis- covered about the current name of the school is negative in nature.
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