Various media sources even outside Florida report the placement
of “ghost” candidates by Republicans to confuse voters and divide off a (Democrat) competitor’s
vote in races for the Florida State Senate, with the use of “dark money”,
leading to a defeat of a Democratic candidate by a mere 32 votes. Here are two
of them: WWNYTV and KION546.
The incident is significant in that it is at least
tangentially related to concerns in the early 00’s with campaign finance reform,
where unaccountable entities (even Bloggers with their own resources) could unduly
influence policy and political race outcomes with no transparency or accountability. I had written about this in an important Wordpress post in 2014.
I also wanted to call attention to an article in Vox
in early June 2020 by Brian Resnick, “What public health experts want critics
to know about why they support the protests” with the subtext, “For black folks,
the cost of not doing something is potentially a lot greater than potentially
getting a virus.”
Indeed, throughout the summer it did not seem that
there was a lot of spread in all the outdoor protests, even to the journalists
who covered them. People would bus together and put each other up in apartments
at what we would see today as a considerable risk of contagion.
The rhetoric seems tribal and overheated, but maybe if
you are a parent of black sons and have to worry what happens when they start
driving alone. We do have a problem (the "Am I Next?" meme).
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