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VIDEO: Florida lawmaker uses ‘Mickey Mouse’ argument to defend new elections rules

By | 12.09.11 | 9:10 am | More from The Florida Independent

Wednesday on MSNBC’s Politics Nation with Rev. Al Sharpton, state Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, revived his defense of the controversial voting law he sponsored last session by saying that the new law was a way of ensuring that Floridians do not register fictitious characters such as “Mickey Mouse” to vote,

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DNC launches campaign against GOP-led voter-restriction laws

By | 12.05.11 | 12:25 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The Democratic National Committee launched an online campaign last week to educate voters about what the group calls efforts that aim “to restrict voting purely for partisan gain.”

King Street Patriots using Fox News’ questionable ACORN/Occupy Wall Street link to elicit donations

By | 11.08.11 | 5:16 pm

An anonymously sourced Fox News story claiming the defunct voter mobilization organization ACORN is behind the Occupy Wall Street movement has served as a springboard for the latest fundraising effort from the Houston-based tea party group King Street Patriots, and its nationwide drive to recruit poll watchers.

Banned anti-welfare board game re-released to feature ‘Obozo the Marxist clown’

By | 10.26.11 | 3:52 pm | More from The Florida Independent

A board game that was banned in the 1980s will be re-released as “Obozo’s America: Why Bother Working for a Living?” The game features insulting stereotypes about welfare recipients as well as a depiction of a “Marxist Clown… juggling Hope and Change balls.”

Commission would choose date of Florida primary under new election law

By | 04.14.11 | 2:44 pm | More from The Florida Independent

A proposal by House Speaker Dean Cannon to create a commission to choose the date of Florida’s presidential primary has been added to a controversial overhaul of state election laws.

The commission would consist of nine members — three each appointed by the speaker, the Senate president and the More…

Breitbart, RightOnline headed to Minneapolis

By | 04.13.11 | 6:32 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

Billed as a “counter to the leftwing Netroots Nation Convention” being hosted by Minneapolis in June, RightOnline has announced it’ll also be coming to Minnesota’s largest city this summer. The conference will feature Andrew Breitbart, a blogger whose selective editing of video has generated heated criticism, along with More…

Lila Rose to head anti-abortion event in Iowa

By | 03.28.11 | 4:54 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

A 22-year-old woman who pushed herself into the national spotlight with controversial undercover videos will headline Iowa Right to Life’s annual spring event next month.

Lila Rose, who at age 15 founded the anti-abortion group Live Action, has made secret videotapes of her visits to Planned Parenthood clinics. During More…

Survey: Republican voters still fear undead ACORN

By | 03.17.11 | 3:04 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Hollywood-comedy-writer-turned-news-satirist Andy Borowitz takes aim today at the alternative reality created at Fox News. “Afraid to Watch the News, Millions Turn to Fox… Channel Offers Welcome Break from Reality, Psychologists Say.” Borowitz’s jab comes with extra sting in light of Public Policy Polling’s recent survey of Republican voters. More…

Breitbart, Live Action post Planned Parenthood video in shadow of Congressional abortion debate

A new conservative activist hidden-camera video dropped on the internet Tuesday as part of a multi-state effort to catch Planned Parenthood staff on tape offering assistance to men running a child prostitution ring. The immediate aim of the video and its wide distribution is to strip Planned Parenthood of More…

Florida News - October 30, 2010

As voters go to polls, GOP lawyers prepare legal challenges

By | 11.02.10 | 6:00 am

With midterm races in many states coming down to the wire, David Norcross will likely do what a growing cadre of lawyers plans to do on election day: monitor voting trends and results on the ground and help campaigns prepare for the increasingly likely possibility of swift legal challenges.

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