The unique perspective and provocative opinions of Joe O’Neill
Florida Fodder
It’s about time; it’s progress; we’ll take
it. Gov. Ron DeSantis has officially requested that a statue of Mary
McLeod Bethune, the iconic civil rights leader and educator, replace that
of a Confederate general (Edward Kirby Smith) as Florida’s representative in
the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. Symbolism matters—more than ever
right now.
Undervote
Update: Recent research now indicates that in Broward County voters who
skipped the 2018 Senate race likely did, indeed, do so by accident. A poorly-designed
ballot isolated it from other marquee contests. Sorry about that, Bill
Nelson. But how the hell does an informed voter leave a voting booth
without having cast a vote for one of the highest-profile races—Rick Scott vs.
Bill Nelson—in the country? This is not just about bad ballot design.