MIAMI — Andrew Gillum, the Florida Democratic Party’s first African-American candidate for governor, officially called it quits Saturday and congratulated Republican Ron DeSantis as the governor-elect of Florida.
Gillum’s announcement follows an automatic recount that ended Thursday and showed him gaining just one net vote in the process, making the margin against DeSantis officially 33,683 votes, or 0.41 percentage points.
In 2008 Al Franken was first elected to the United States Senate in 2008 as the nominee of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, defeating incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman by 312 votes out of nearly three million cast (a margin of less than 0.01%). Preliminary reports on election night, November 4, were that Coleman was leading by over 700 votes, but the official results, certified on November 18, 2008, had Coleman leading by only 215 votes. As the two candidates were separated by less than 0.5 percent of the votes cast, the Minnesota Secretary of State, Mark Ritchie, authorized the automatic recount provided for in Minnesota election law. In the recount, ballots and certifying materials were examined by hand, and candidates could file challenges to the legality of ballots or materials for inclusion or exclusion. On January 5, 2009, the Minnesota State Canvassing Board certified the recounted vote totals, with Franken ahead by 225 votes.
Now we have Florida, remember Florida, the Democrats lost the presidency to George W. Bush by 1 chad. After an intense recount process and the United States Supreme Court‘s decision in Bush v. Gore, Bush won Florida’s electoral votes by a margin of only 537 votes out of almost six million cast and as a result became the president-elect. The process was extremely divisive, and led to calls for electoral reform in Florida.
We are again back to the future in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties. Fraud at the highest degree is taking place on our watch. The governorship and the Senate seat are at stake. CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST DEMOCRAT PLOT IN FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. What the Democrats are trying to do as they have in the past is win through fraud by going to the liberal Democrat courts to overturn an election.
“HE IS A COWARD“, said President Trump, referring to Deputy Scot Peterson who went AWOL deserting his post resulting in 17 deaths.
It is obvious that the states with the most egregious heinous crimes are in the hands of Democrats. If they are not, you can rest assured that the education function of most municipalities is union run. After Sandy Hook calls were made for a change in gun laws which were to prevent a crime of the one we just witnessed in Florida. Well folks we have to tell you that they did absolutely nothing – zilch.
How is it that they obviously failed to do what had to be done. No Democrat proposed upping the age to acquire a long rifle or AR-15. No Democrat proposed stricter regulations prohibiting the mentally ill from acquiring firearms. Why are the schools still accessible? How come armed security personnel aren’t utilized? Why no metal detectors upon entrance? How is it that non-students aren’t prohibited from campus grounds? Yes, there are many failures here that we can focus on, but that does no good when 17 of our students have been murdered in a preventable tragedy.
So now is the time for action, no to be Democrat reactive as they always are. As Rahm Emanuel said on numerous occasions.
However, we remind you THAT TIME AND TIME AGAIN THEY WASTED OPPORTUNITIES. Why? Because the Democrats are photo-op specialists and do nothing blabbers for the media. The next week all is forgotten. When election time comes they dig the story back up from the grave.
As the debate rages over how to prevent future school shootings, it’s emerged there may have been dozens of opportunities to stop Florida gunman Nikolas Cruz before he killed 17 people last week.
Local law enforcement declined to arrest Cruz on numerous occasions, including two incidents in which he allegedly involving a gun. The FBI failed to follow through on two reports pegging Cruz as a possible school shooter. And Thursday it was revealed a cop on the school campus Cruz targeted chose to hide rather than fight.
Palm Beach County police officers were posted outside the home of disgraced former deputy Scot Peterson on Friday following his resignation a day earlier, after officials – citing surveillance video – said he “never went in” Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while the attack was unfolding.
“He should have went in, addressed the killer, killed the killer,” his ex-boss, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, said after reports emerged Thursday of Peterson’s inaction, prompting widespread outrage.
Ben Bennight said he reported a comment made by user Nikolas Cruz that stated “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.” (Ben Bennight)
But rewinding the timeline from the moment Cruz burst through the door of the Parkland school on Valentine’s Day, there now appears to be countless instances where law enforcement, academic and medical officials could have stopped the 19-year-old Cruz and spared the lives of the young students and staff killed in one of the country’s deadliest school attacks.
FBI gets two warnings about Cruz, specifically involving the possibility of a school shooting
In a scandal prompting Attorney General Jeff Sessions to order an “immediate review,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it received a tip about Cruz the month before the attack, but mishandled the information after receiving the call.
“The caller provided information about Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting,” the FBI said in a statement.
However, the information that agents were told Jan. 5 by the caller, identified by the bureau as someone close to the shooter, never made it to the FBI’s Miami Field Office, “where appropriate investigative steps would have been taken.”
The information the caller presented also “should have been assessed as a potential threat to life,” the bureau admitted.
Months earlier, in September, the FBI also received a tip about a troubling YouTube comment made by a user named “Nikolas Cruz” that said “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.” A special agent in charge of the bureau’s Miami division said the comment was investigated but authorities could not determine its origin or find any connection to South Florida, where the shooting took place.
Feb. 19, 2018: Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP)
“It is now clear that the warning signs were there and tips to the FBI were missed,” Sessions said after reports of the blunders emerged. “We see the tragic consequences of those failures.”
Local police pay visit after visit to shooter’s home, but Cruz manages to stay out of jail — or a hospital
Frequent fights with their mother and each other. Items being thrown about. One “out of control” escapade after another allegedly involving Cruz and his brother Zachary unfolded at the home of their adoptive mother in Parkland, according to police records.
Despite local law enforcement reportedly receiving dozens of callsbetween 2011 and 2016, with issues ranging from “domestic disturbance to child/elder abuse,” state investigators deemed the shooter low risk and felt he was unlikely to hurt anyone other than himself.
Israel admitted in the wake of the shooting authorities received “20 calls for services in the last few years,” with local media putting the number as high as 39. Israel says every one of those calls will now be “looked at and scrutinized.”
Social services and mental health professionals also investigated Cruz in 2016 after Snapchat videos were uncovered showing him cutting both of his arms.
But a visit by a mental health clinician at Henderson Behavioral Health ended with a determination Cruz “was not at risk to harm himself or others,” and the teen was instructed to sign a safety contract.
A Florida Department of Children and Families report obtained by Fox News also showed that it closed its investigation into Cruz in November, “based on his caregiver’s protective capacity, in-home services through Henderson, and engagement in school.”
Feb. 14, 2018: Students hold their hands in the air as they are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (AP)
Months later, after Cruz’s massacre, he told police that voices in his head — called “demons” by law enforcement sources — told him to carry out the attack, according to reports.
School ‘disciplinary problems’ start piling up
Cruz was frequently in trouble at school in the years leading up to the shooting.
He was suspended for a day in January 2017 for assaulting someone and got into a fight months earlier, according to disciplinary records obtained by the Sun-Sentinel. The records also said Cruz’s adoptive mother was called in more than a dozen times for discussions and Cruz was often sent to counseling.
One report mentioned bullets were found in his backpack. A former classmate said Cruz followed her around, would abuse his girlfriend and even talked about killing his friends’ parents. The former classmate and another student also claimed the shooter used to sell knives out of his lunch box.
Cruz ended up getting expelled from Marjory Stoneman last year for “disciplinary problems” and bounced around a few alternative schools before reappearing there, rifle in hand, on Valentine’s Day.
Reports also linked Cruz to frequent trouble during his time at Westglades Middle School, where he apparently was disciplined for insulting teachers and staff, using profanity and racking up unexcused absences and at least one fight.
An officer was on scene during the shooting, and did nothing
Peterson was near the shooting site for four minutes of Cruz’s six minute rampage. But instead of the armed, trained officer engaging Cruz — something that could have saved several lives — Peterson remained outside, taking shelter behind a concrete barrier, according to authorities who viewed surveillance film.
President Trump lambasted Peterson on Friday after being asked about the former deputy.
“When it came time to get in there and do something, he didn’t have the courage, or something happened,” Trump said. “He certainly did a poor job. That’s the case where somebody was outside, they are trained, they didn’t react properly under pressure or they were a coward.”
All of the progressive hate groups were wishing – not praying – because they don’t believe in God, that Hurricane Irma would destroy Mar a Lago. “Didn’t happen folks.” It was an active of Divine intervention.
The hypocrisy now is that the same progressive hate groups are asking President Trump to open up the resort to those who lost their homes, belongings and in some cases loved ones. Believe us, this is an invitation to looters, rapists and gang bangers.
The Republicans have gone to War. They have enlisted the media, they have enlisted Harry Reid, they have enlisted foreign powers, if fact they have enlisted Mitt Romney to do their dirty work. Mitt Romney is not supposed to be a pit bull, but that is why the Republican have sought his help. Most people have a high regard for him which is the reason why the mainline Elephants
enlisted him to send out a message. Romney is a looser, a light weight, the progenitor of Obamacare; why would anyone take his advice or give what he says any serious consideration?
Tonight at 11.30 p.m. eastern time, Romney will deliver a speech supposedly on the state of the 2016 race for the presidency. We do not know what he will say but speculation is rampant. There is speculation and a real possibility that Romney will jump into fray. Wow, that will be a bombshell. However, we would not count on it. If he did, the Republicans would be assured of losing not only the Presidency, but the Senate and House. Trump voters will sit out the election. There is another scenario, Mike Bloomberg of Big Apple fame is also considering making a move.
We the People are sick and tired of inside politics and for this very reason the Republican Old Boys Network is at War with Trump and his supporters. Imagine the dirt they are hiding, the deals that they have made, the bribes taken, etc. Trump will no doubt unleash his Justice Department in one fell swoop. No one would be immune; the likelihood of many indictments is sending the fear into the Republican insiders.
Currently the media is out to get Trump no matter what the cost. Don’t think for a moment they are doing this for journalistic purposes. They are paid lackeys spent on stopping Trump’s campaign before it is too late. Questions need to be raised why they are doing this and for what reason.