Good morning and welcome on Monday.
The daily rundown — Between Saturday and Sunday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 6,229 (nearly 1.2 percent), to 532,806; hospitalizations went up 254 (0.8 percent), to 30,251; deaths rose by 77 (0.9 percent), to 8,186.
Question Time – Almost a month ago, we asked this: Who is guilty of Florida schools? With the time elapsed before a new school year, it doesn’t seem to have been answered.
Small letter – In July, Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an emergency order for all school districts to have “physical” schools open five days a week. At the time, the Florida Department of Education also said millions of dollars of public investment depended on reaptric plans, adding face-to-face learning.
Obscured – However, since this order, the message has remained confused.
Fallout: DOE officials have been irritated by calling it a mandate, insisting that it provides flexibility to districts. (This is the case, but basically about how districts are eligible for funding.) Governor Ron DeSantis has tried to distance himself from the order. He advocates opening schools, but at the same time warned that he would not withhold the funds. Meanwhile, some school districts have reorganized their opening plans and the Florida Education Association has filed a complaint challenging the order. The original order concerned the possible role of local fitness officials, who seem unable to tell whether schools deserve to remain closed.
Read the letter – Then a senior attorney representing the branch told Orange County schools last July that “everyday” decisions to open or close schools depended on local authorities. But wait: then Corcoran stepped in last Friday and rebuked Hillsborough County officials for deciding to switch to an online style only during the first month of school. Corcoran said this violated style was due to a pre-reopening plan approved through the DOE and, by the way, it may lose its public funds.
Meet the new boss: yes, it looks like a court order, so the DOE can prevent with semantics, as it is not. Surprise exam time: An unelected public servant working for a council appointed through the governor, the schools of that state? Or school forums or local superintendents? Or the governor of Florida schools? This will not be noticed on a curve.
– OR IS IT RON? – Governor DeSantis will be in the Tampa Bay area.
It’s time to update Internet regulations to avoid interference in elections. We have tripled our security and protection groups to 35,000 people, added a political advertising audit in five steps, and partnered with security researchers, corporations of other generations, and law enforcement to combat foreign election interference. What’s next? We update Internet regulations.
CONFRONTATION – “Hillsborough’s plan to keep schools closed hits the state hurdle,” through Jeffrey S. Solochek and Marlene Sokol of the Tampa Bay Times: “The passage from Hillsborough County to online courses only during the first month of school is prohibited, the Florida Department of Education says. In a letter to district officials Friday night, Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran wrote that the school board’s action on Thursday violated its own reopening plan, which presented families with 3 possible options for their return to school, adding a person option.
MUM – “Health care administrators have been saying to remain silent as Florida leaders press to reopen test rooms,” through Andrew Marra of the Palm Beach Post: “While Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed for the reopening of schools this summer, state leaders told school forums that they would apply for the Approval of the Department of Health if they wanted to keep the exam rooms closed. Then they asked the fitness managers not to give them. Following a board of directors of the DeSantis administration, Florida County fitness administrators refused to give recommendations to school forums in one of the highest heartbreaking public physical fitness decisions in fashion history: if reopening schools in the event of a worsening pandemic, he found an exam through Gannett USA NETWORK TODAY.
– “A Florida instructor writes his own obituary to protest the reopening of the state in the middle of the coronavirus,” through People’s Jason Duaine Hahn
DO NOT DO – “The abandonment of census offices complicates efforts to knock on the door,” through Mike Schneider of The Associated Press: “Bob Garick was looking ahead to be a cash manager when the 2020 census knocked on the door, but as the number of new coronavirus cases in Florida exploded last month , replaced his mind. With widespread home visits for the 2020 census starting next week, the Census Bureau is wasting staff like Garick because of fear of a pandemic. plans to intensify its efforts to succeed in the hardest-to-count communities, adding minorities and immigrants, according to a shorter schedule.”
Tear. – “Pensacola’s circle of relatives loses 3 joyful in five days because of COVID-19,” through Jake New through the Pensacola News Journal: “In the face of an unthinkable tragedy, a circle of Pensacola’s relatives reacts strongly. Granddaughters Shanaita Kirkland and Rakisha Collins lost their grandmother and two uncles in the five-day area this summer when Voncile, Sylvester and Arthur Rich died of COVID-19 headaches between July 29 and August 2.
– “An injured cruise shipping employee is ‘forgotten’ after seven months in hotels in South Florida,” through Taylor Dolven of the Miami Herald: “For 95 days, he continually asked the Miami-based company to send his home to Peru, where his wife and two teenagers are waiting for him. Although five team members’ repatriation flights had departed since April, the corporate did not respond to calls or state that their repatriation was at the time. After receiving questions from the Miami Herald on Friday about Face the Situation, the corporate indicated that he would be sent home on September 1.”
“IT’S UNFORTUNATE” – “Shevrin Jones tried to donate plasma after COVID-19. FDA policy has pushed him back,” through Saguytha J. Gross of the Miami Herald: “Rep. Shevrin Jones, a Democrat who recently ran for the state Senate, said he fired Friday while looking to donate his plasma in a OneBlood truck installed in the parking lot of Pembroke Park church where his father is beyondor. Jones, who went to donate plasma with his father, mother and brother, all recently recovered from COVID -19, said his donation had been “deferred” after answering “yes” to a varied question asking him if he had had sex with a boy in the last 3 months. Jones is one of the few bravably gay lawmakers in Florida.”
WELCOME TO THE HOUSE – “‘It’s not the flu’: Randy Fine discharged after hospitalization at COVID-19,” through Tyler Vasquez of Florida Today: “Fine said that his lungs may be broken for weeks, months or even indefinitely and that he will continue to consult a pneumologist for testing and remedy imaginable even though the worst of his symptoms have been treated.” When the flu runs out, ” he said. He doesn’t regularly face that.” In addition to the residual effects on his lungs, Fine said he felt largely healthy and was taking several prescriptions to relieve the cure. Process. “
– “COVID-19 blocks dozens of homicide fees on Treasure Coast while jury trials are suspended” through Treasure Coast newspapers Melissa E. Holsman
– “The Daytona Domain is for more corporate layoffs and closures,” through Clayton Park of Daytona Beach News Journal
– “Happy Lake Boca Navigators Considerations about COVID-19,” via Karina Elwood of Sun Sentinel
“A EMBED” – “Puerto Rico stops voting number one at polling stations without ballots,” through Danica Coto of the Associated Press: “Puerto Rico was forced Sunday to partially suspend voting for the primaries marred by the lack of votes while officials called the chairman of the U.S. territory election commission to resign. Primary schools that did not get ballots in the early afternoon deserve to be postponed, while voting would continue elsewhere, the committee said. “I’ve never noticed anything like what just happened here in Puerto Rico on American soil. It is a disgrace to our government and our people,” said Pedro Pierluisi, who is running opposite the governess Wanda Vazquez to the candidate of the new progressive pro-state party.
PRIMARY ADVERTISING SURVEILLANCE – With 8 days to pass through the August 18 primary, the Republican contest in florida’s 19th Congressional district remains by far the most expensive in the state, according to research through corporate advertising analysis tracking. More than $5.9 million spent on TV commercials in southwest Florida’s race. Businessman Casey Askar spent the maximum of more than $2.1 million. But the Club for Growth Action, which supports state rep. Byron Donalds, has invested nearly $1.5 million, while Donalds has spent more than $383,000. William Figlesthaler, a urologist from Naples, spent approximately $1.27 million on advertising. In other races, applicants competing for Florida’s 3rd Congressional District spent $1.16 million. Just under $500,000 spent in Florida’s 15th Congressional District, providing competitive primaries for both parties.
POWERING GIMENEZ – “House GOP PAC adds $45 million to fall advertising,” through POLITICO’s Ally Mutnick: the leader of space Republicans, super PAC, reserves an additional $45 million in fall advertising, a massive sum that will describe more to the Congressional battlefield as the Republican Party fights nationally against the narrow Democratic majority … And that includes a new offensive target that wasn’t in the April lot. [Congressional Leadership Fund] has booked $2.7 million in Miami, a massive bet on the chances of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez, as opposed to Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-Fla.) In a South Florida district that Hillary Clinton won with 16 points. .
2020 IN CHIFFERS – To date, 1540320 votes have been cast by mail for the 18 August primaries. Of these, 759,864 are from Democrats and 549,739 from registered Republicans. In general, 2.73 million mailed ballots are requested that have not yet been returned. Of these, nearly 1.27 million are in the hands of Democrats and 823,877 are Republicans. In addition, 150,904 electorates cast their votes at early polling stations. So far, 80,358 Republicans have voted early as opposed to 61,475 Democrats.
HOT – “The Bay County Judge Candidate claims the holder violated regulations through the state seal,” through Jacqueline Bostick of the Panama City News Herald: “A candidate running for the Bay County Judges Group 1 said he filed a complaint with the state after noticing that outgoing judge Tim Campbell used the Florida seal in his re-election campaign.” He’s breaking the code for the big Florida stamp in a campaign,” Crawford said in an interview last week.” Either he didn’t know the law, or he didn’t care about the law, and he still wanted to use it. This is not appropriate for a judge, ” he added later.
COURT: “Florida’s lack of transparency about the electoral security budget helped maintain an alleged awning, according to a control body,” through Jeffrey Schweers of the Tallahassee Democrat: “A scandal of public corruption at a rural Florida electoral workplace one hour west of the state capital shows how easily federal dollars destined for election security can be diverted to control impromptu times. Arrangement according to a government supervisory body. The former election manager in Liberty County, the beggar, is accused of having an election security budget to hide $42,000 in -Public expenses: a possible liability challenge in any small workplace where a user holds the strings of the bag and no one else is watching, observers said.
IN THE BUS – With President Trump’s election rallies suspended (for now), his re-election crusade brings back a staple of the days before Covid-19: the crusader bus tour. The Trump Crusade will launch two national bus tours on Monday, adding one in Kissimmee. The “Trump Team on the Bus Tour” will come with Eric Trump, Lieutenant Jeanette Nunez, former Attorney General Pam Bondi and Corey Lewandowski, a 2016 aidesa chief advisor and senior adviser to Trump 2020.
– “Before the Florida bus tour, Corey Lewandowski talks about Trump’s re-election strategy,” through A.G. Gancarski of Florida Politics
– “Monkey or heather?” Biden’s replacement under the fire of a strange metaphor, “through Marc Caputo of POLITICO
– “The Sarasota Democrats have great merit on Republicans on the mail-mail ballots they are asked for and returned,” through Zac Anderson of the Herald-Tribune
– “A fierce summer for two Very Similar District Republican Pioneers,” through Fort Myers News-Press Janine Zeitlin
THREE FERROCARRIL – “In Florida, where Social Security is vital, Democrats denounce Trump’s commitment to payroll taxes,” through Antonio Fins of the Palm Beach Post: “Saturday, talking to journalists and watched through members of his golfer in New Jersey, Trump issued an executive order postponing payroll taxes until the end of the year. And he also promised that if he is re-elected, he will make the tax freeze permanent. Florida Democrats understood the possible ramification of this commitment, which would deprive Social Security of his “In the midst of the negligence of yesterday’s exercise, Trump continues to unnecessarily jeopardize health and social security insurance benefits for the elderly,” U.S. Rep. Was Debbieserman Schultz, Weston’s Democrat, said in a statement. The only certainties that his executive orders bring with it greater debt to executing families, greater layoffs in local states and communities, and a persistent refusal to take into account the measures of detection and detection of uras necessary to get us out of this pandemic impasse.
LET US EXPLAIN — “Trump declaration of no drilling in eastern Gulf may be result of military briefing,” by Northwest Florida Daily News’ Jim Thompson: “President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that he has signed an unidentified order to prohibit oil and gas drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, site of a massive military test range, may have been the result of a briefing on foreign military capabilities, guesses the Florida state representative who chairs the Florida Defense Support Task Force.”
UNRWA – “DeSantis says he opposes a $110 million contract for a company that built a faulty unemployment system,” through Steven Lemongello of the Orlando Sentinel: “Governor Ron DeSantis said Friday that he opposed a lucrative state contract worth at least $110 million for the same company that created the bespoofed unemployment system , but added that there is nothing you can do about it. A protest filed against the agreement, DeSantis said, possibly through one of the other bidders, however, neither he nor his workplace said who sent or why.
ANOTHER CHANCE — “Appeals court to reconsider Epstein victims case,” by News Service of Florida’s Dara Kam: “In a major victory for victims of notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an Atlanta-based appeals court on Friday agreed to revisit a decision in a lawsuit alleging that federal prosecutors violated victims’ rights by hatching a secret non-prosecution deal without getting the input of women who were abused by the wealthy financier when they were minors. Courtney Wild, a Florida woman who as a teen was one of Epstein’s numerous victims, filed a lawsuit against prosecutors in 2008, alleging that the agreement violated her rights under the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act to confer with the government’s lawyers and to be treated fairly by them.”
OPERATION GIDEON – “Former green berets sentenced to 20 years of attack in Venezuela,” through Scott Smith and Joshua Goodman of The Associated Press: “A Venezuelan court sentenced two former U.S. Special Forces to 20 years in prison for their involvement in a mistake: a full beach attack aimed at overthrowing President Nicols Maduro.The lawyers for former Green Berets Luke Denman and Airan Berry said they were excluded from the secret criminal proceedings on Friday night for what they consider a violation of their constitutional rights to a defense.
DO YOU GO SOMEWHERE? – ‘Brightline ends its dating with Virgin Trains, but Virgin disputes separation’, via Joshua Solomon of Treasure Coast Newspapers: “After 20 months, the Brightline high-speed passenger rail is no longer known as Virgin Trains USA. Brightline ended its 20-year license agreement with Virgin Enterprises at the end of July, according to its latest bond report released Friday. Brightline claims virgin “challenged the validity of the termination agreement.” “Virgin no longer has any association with us,” Brightline said in bond documents to investors.”
‘DISTRACTION STRIKES’ — “When Florida cops punch first, they say it’ for safety. Critics question tactic and training,” by Miami Herald’s David Ovalle, Linda Robertson and Charles Rabin: “As jarring as the videos were, the reality is that police officers across Florida have long employed — and are trained to use — punches and slaps to quell someone they believe is a threat. As the death of George Floyd in May sparked waves of protests and a national reckoning on how police confront Black men in particular, departments moved to ban controversial chokeholds, including the knee-to-the-neck restraint that robbed Floyd of his last breaths.”
“A WALKING TIME BOMB” – “Neighbors feared it. Then he was shot and killed by smothering an officer from St. Pete,” the sheriff said, “through the Tampa Bay Times Christopher O’Donnell, Jamal Thalji and Romy Ellenbogen: “Neighbors” fears came true Friday night when a St. Petersburg police officer shot and killed Haarsma while suffocating him,” the government said. “It was a reaction to someone who was attacking him,” Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said at a later press conference. “It was because her life was in danger, because she might no longer be able to breathe, because he had to suffocate her. She did what she had to do under the cases and we’re very grateful she’s okay.”
We update regulations to establish transparent regulations and hold companies accountable, adding to Facebook: – to combat foreign election interference – to protect people’s privacy – for the safe and simple portability of cross-platform knowledge
– “This is the largest PPP loan program in the state. Three other people from South Florida have been charged,” by Jay Weaver of the miami Herald: “Three other South Florida people have been accused of participating in a $24 million loan program to defraud a federal program to corporations suffering from the coronavirus pandemic,” the government said. This is the largest case of alleged state fraud involving the Small Business Administration’s aid program. »
BIRTHDAYS: Former state Sen. Jeremy Ring … Bay News 9’s Phil Willette … (Was Sunday) Mark Harper with the Daytona Beach News-Journal … (Was Saturday) State Sen. José Javier Rodríguez … Eva Armstrong, president of ReThink Energy Florida’s board of directors … Slater Bayliss, partner with The Advocacy Group at Cardenas Partners
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