Farid Khavari, Gubernatorial Candidate Coming To Gulf Breeze

Democrat candidate for Governor of the State of Florida Dr. Farid Khavari will be in the area next week. He will be speaking at the Fourth Annual Luau Gala in Gulf Breeze presented by the Santa Rosa County Democrats.

Do you care enough for Florida’s economy to support the only candidate with a plan that will generate jobs and opportunity, while lowering costs for every citizen in the state? Of course you do. Whether you’re a republican, or libertarian, never mind the D. He’s not a politician. He’s an economist. He’s not a teleprompter kind of guy.  His platform is what is important. And it is superior to all others of both parties.

From the Pensacola News Journal . . .

When: Saturday, April 17, 2010.  3:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Where: Shoreline Park South, 801 Shoreline Drive, Gulf Breeze, Fl

Admission: $25 for adults; $10 for students; free for children 12 and younger.

Phone: 623-2345.

Link: Khavari for Governor

Is Alex Sink's Ship Sinking?

The short answer is Yes.  And frankly, that is as it should be. Follow these articles for some background on Sink’s troubles.

From CentralFloridaPolitics.com:

“The poll numbers are bad enough, with Republican Bill McCollum 15 points ahead of Alex Sink,” Khavari said, referring to the March 29 Mason-Dixon Poll showing McCollum leading Sink by 49% to 34%. “But these poll numbers are really much worse than they seem.

From CapitalSoup.com:

“The news that Alex Sink fired her campaign manager and her finance director is just the latest tumultuous personnel shake-up in a string of failed attempts to reintroduce a lackluster candidate that even fellow Democrats continue to vocally doubt.”

“If Alex Sink can’t manage her own campaign, how can Floridians expect her to run the fourth largest state in the nation?”

With his economic plan and platform for Florida, both of which are in writing and on his website, Farid Khavari can beat both Sink and McCollum hands down. Both of whom have only campaign rhetoric to offer.

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Black Activists Reject Racist Tea Party Picture

Congressman Should Know Better than to Compare Tea Party Attendees to Klansmen, Black Leader Says

Washington, DC: Deneen Borelli, full-time fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network and frequent speaker at tea party rallies, says Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)’s recent comparison of tea party rally participants to members of the Ku Klux Klan is baseless.

What’s more, Project 21’s Borelli notes, Cohen should know better, as he himself suffered similar charges during his last primary election campaign.

Borelli said: “Representative Cohen’s comments seem to be the norm these days in the effort to dispatch anyone opposing the progressives’ big-government agenda. The goal of partisans such as Cohen is obviously to demonize and discredit ordinary citizens – people who attend rallies, town hall meetings, make phone calls and visit their representatives with the simple, legitimate concern of wanting to preserve their liberty.”

“The tea party movement is making a positive difference for the direction of our country in a manner that would make our Founding Fathers proud, and the derogatory comments targeting these freedom-loving citizens really only shames those hurling them,” added Borelli. “And it is especially odd that Representative Cohen was the one hurling the mud this time. Two years ago, he suffered through an opponent publicly comparing him to a Klansman. He certainly must not have enjoyed that. Is Cohen that tone-deaf that he is willing to immediately turn around and use the same vitriol against others?”

Borelli continued: “Let’s not forget that none of the racial allegations made against tea partiers the weekend of the Obamacare vote have yet been corroborated by video or audio. Representative Cleaver, who initially charged he was spat upon, has even begun to distance himself from his allegation.”

While appearing on “The Young Turks” radio show on Sirius XM satellite radio April 1, Cohen said tea party rally participants “are, kind of, without robes and hoods” and “against any type of diversity.” He later suggested the motivation behind the tea parties are not necessarily issues but “to be against Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel and the different people.” He additionally called the sight of people protesting on the U.S. Capitol grounds on the day of the Sunday Obamacare vote in the House of Representatives “a very sad scene on America.” The interview can be viewed on YouTube at http://tw0.us/A7W.

Cohen represents a majority-black congressional district in Memphis. In 2008, Nikki Tinker, a primary opponent, ran television ads that placed a photo of Cohen next to one of a Klansman. Tinker based the implication against Cohen on the fact that, as a member of the Center City Commission, Cohen once voted against exhuming the body of the late Confederate General (and KKK founder) Nathan Bedford Forrest from Forrest Park in Memphis.

Project 21, established in 1992, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research (http://www.nationalcenter.org), a non-profit foundation established in 1982 and funded primarily from the gifts of over 100,000 recent individual donors.

The New Nuclear Strategy, Quit

Seems like only yesterday that then candidate Obama said if you bring a knife to a fight, I’ll bring a gun. That was the campaign version of Obama. The real version is this one, virtually disassembling the nuclear deterrent strategy that won the cold war and has kept the peace among other nuclear equipped nations since the end of WWII.

President Obama has a unique talent apart from all previous U.S. presidents. He demonstrates a natural ability to diss our allies all over the globe, including our own country, while giving potential adversaries hope in America’s new found weakness. Weakness in our economy with overwhelming debt for future generations, exacerbated by his fundamentally transforming America into yet another welfare state. And now weakness in our military deterrence.

This is like the apology tour gone wild. As if his words are not bad enough, this Commander in Chief is dismantling our defenses around the world where missile defense is concerned, and now is telling potential aggressors that they are entitled to a free shot at the United States with no fear of being squashed like a bug with a nuclear warhead landing in their homeland. Well isn’t that special?

How’s that hope and change working for you?

Khavari, Bank Of The State Of Florida

From the Naples Daily News . . .

Farid Khavari makes a campaign promise that should shoot him straight to the top of the field running for governor of Florida.

“We have to get rid of taxes,” says Khavari, a Democratic challenger to the party’s favored nominee, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink.

Khavari, who claims a doctorate in economics from the University of Bremen in Germany, believes eliminating most state taxes is more than just an empty promise to get himself noticed.

He’s laid out an economic plan for Florida, something he says his opponents both Republican and Democrat have failed to do, that funnels billions of dollars to the state in mortgage interest payments.

If you look a little further, you’ll also see that Khavari is the only candidate that has a specific plan. And it’s in writing. The others, including Alex Sink, haven’t a clue. They have the campaign rhetoric, but no plan on boosting the economy and jobs.

Asked whether a state-owned bank is socialism, Khavari smiled. “Are public schools socialism? Public roads, police and fire protection, municipal water? Socialism is where everyone works for the state. In these cases, and with our Bank of the State of Florida, the state is working for everyone. I call that general capitalism.”

Links: Brent Batten: Khavari banks on interest in governor’s race » Naples Daily News.

Obama's Oily Rope-a-Dope

President Obama announced today that he is opening up some areas for oil and gas development. Some in the Gulf of Mexico, some in the Atlantic. Alaska, not so much. Alaska needs more study. ‘More study’ is political-speak for ‘it ain’t gonna happen.’

Nevertheless, the President seemed to echo what he said in his State of the Union Address in January.

But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. And that means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. (Applause.) It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. (Applause.) It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies. (Applause.) And, yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America. (Applause.)

And today, President Obama said . . .

But the bottom line is this: given our energy needs, in order to sustain economic growth, produce jobs, and keep our businesses competitive, we’re going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel even as we ramp up production of new sources of renewable, homegrown energy.

Don’t think for a minute that the President is serious about drilling. Just like he isn’t serious about nuclear energy. Seen any new refineries being built? Seen any new oil drilling going on? Seen any new nuclear plants being built? NO! What we have seen is ANWR and Bristol Bay being held hostage, and the closing of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. With no place to put nuclear waste, how many new nuclear plants will be built?

Today’s show at Andrews Air Force Base was a political rope-a-dope. His goal is far from using and getting more of our own energy resources. His goal is cap and trade legislation that will do exactly the opposite of what he said he wanted to do today. It will kill economic growth and jobs, depress business, and raise costs. We will pay more for electric and all other products because of tax pressure put on the industries that produce them. And in the end, the redistribution of wealth in the name of social justice.

NPR is trying to make sense out of Obama’s statement. Here’s what they came up with . . .

Much of the speculation for the administration’s reasoning has been on the need to get Republican votes for Obama’s climate legislation. Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) are trying to hammer out a bipartisan climate bill, but Graham is getting no GOP backing on this, and Graham himself has said that he couldn’t support a bill that “doesn’t have off-shore drilling in a meaningful way.”

The New York Times’ John Broder writes that today’s proposal by Obama could “help win political support for comprehensive energy and climate legislation,” . . .

He is repeating his SOTU line in order to get support from Republicans for his cap and trade agenda. Combine this with Obamacare and the American Dream will be history. America will have its newest founding father.

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