Good morning and welcome to Tuesday.
Daily summary: Between Sunday and Monday, the number of coronavirus cases in Florida increased from 4,155 (almost 0.8%) 536,961; higher hospitalizations across 534 (1.7 consistent with the penny) to 30,785; deaths up to (1.1 consistent with penny) to 8277.
Pigskin policy – Can Republicans like President Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis “save” school football? Well, let them take a look even as time comes to an end (and an election is some early failures).
A smart defense is a smart offense: DeSantis, who played baseball at Yale, promotes a desire to revive the game for months as a component of a return to normality amid the coronavirus pandemic. He even asked the state of Florida and Florida to play their annual rivalry game, even though the SEC followed a calendar this year to eliminate it. “The Southeastern Conference and the CCA. I think most of those establishments want to play because I think they understand, you know, what it’s like for the well-being of their student-athletes,” DeSantis said on Fox Sports Radio on Monday.
Three meters and a cloud of dust: he and other Republican politicians have greater urgency in recent days, as some sports gatherings have selected to avoid fall sports due to Covid-19. And there is a threat that more meetings will be registered in the coming days. Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, who might not have much to do in those days, went on to write a letter to each and every rector of the university on Monday urging them to find a way to practice school sports. Senator Rick Scott tweeted that “we fans should watch.” The president of the university and meetings are not expected to cancel school football this year. (You can also object to the fact that Scott calls himself a football fan. It’s more of a kind of baseball, but it’s fine.)
Ventilate it: the argument is that coaches and players need it. Well, yes, some players do. But it’s far from a unanimous feeling and a developing player move is the backdrop to this debate to call for adjustments in school athletics.
Game Plan: Some Florida Democrats seem to be on the other side, saying there are more vital things to worry about. After Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan tweeted, “America wants school football,” rep. Donna Shalala replied, “Americans want a plan to pay the rent.” Rep. Val Demings responded to the same tweet with: “America Needs: A National Strategy to Defeat Covid19 – Health Care, Detection, Detection and Treatment – Unemployment Insurance $600/week – Safe Schools – Deportation and Hunger Relief.”
Two-minute warning: Look, there’s no doubt that football, especially school football, is a faith in the South and has been a component of Florida’s political psyche for decades. (The FSU-UF rivalry has focused on many legislative battles over higher education policy.) I guess the next few weeks will show whether it’s a last-minute winning political piece (like the “Puntrooskie”) or a Hail Mary pass that hits gently.
– OR IS IT RON? – Governor DeSantis is in Tallahassee.
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OMAHA SET HUT – “Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ‘100% for’ the ACC, the SEC plays football in the fall,” through Ryan Gaydos of Fox News: “Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said Monday his support for some Power Five conferences. football in the fall, as reports imply that the seasons of some schools will possibly be postponed. DeSantis said in an interview with Clay Travis of Outkick that he thinks the CCA and SEC deserve to play.”
WE WANT IN: “Florida players, coaches say #WeWantToPlay amid the risk of a cancellation of the school football season,” through Matt Murschel of the Orlando Sentinel: “Florida, Florida State, UCF and USF would possibly be fierce rivals on the football field, yet they agree on one thing: they need to play football at school this fall. Florida State players and coaches joined a motion on social media that began Sunday night and intensified Monday, saying they were looking to play the 2020 season, despite the Big Ten moving toward the cancellation of all games due to the coronavirus pandemic.
– “Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, FSU players make it clear that they must play school football,” through Curt Weiler of Tallahassee Democrat
– “In the midst of COVID-19, student-athletes opposed the culture of football plantations,” Diane Roberts’ column for Florida Phoenix.
– “The chaotic Monday of school football shows leadership in the game,” through Matt Baker of the Tampa Bay Times
A RECORD – “Florida sets a record for hospitalizations,” through Alexandra Kelley of The Hill: “New cases of coronavirus in Florida are slowly declining, hospitalizations in the state continue to increase. Florida finished last week with a record number of weekly hospitalizations reported. due to the coronavirus The Orlando Sentinel reports that from Sunday, August 2 to Sunday, August 9, the Sunshine State reported 3355 coronavirus admissions in hospitals, a record for the total observed in a week.”
– “The 4,155 coronavirus infections in Florida on Monday are the lowest overall in a day since June,” through Anastasia Dawson of the Tampa Bay Times
DISCLAIMER TO BUDGET – “In Florida, with coronavirus while DeSantis rejects the Tampa-area school plan,” through LAWO’s Andrew Atterbury: Governor Ron DeSantis took a hard line over reopening schools on Monday, a state firmly opposed to Florida’s third-largest school district in a showdown over schooling in the classroom and Covid-19. DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran visited Hillsborough County on Monday to reiterate their case to reopen schools a few days after rejecting a plan through the county school district to keep online categories only for their 223,300 academics in the first 4 weeks of the fall semester scheduled to begin. August 24.
– “Broward Schools Will Stay Online until at least October,” through Scott Travis and Karina Elwood of Sun Sentinel
– “Some Florida schools start when new cases of coronavirus fall,” through Mike Schneider and Tamara Lush of the Associated Press
– “Superintendents ask the state to solve COVID-19 check problems” through the press of Ana Ceballos of Florida
CLEMENCY PLEA – “The inmates of the ‘Florida Five’ insist that they are innocent and must be on the loose before COVID-19 kills them,” through Laura Cassels of Florida Phoenix: “Five state inmates insist that they are innocent of the crimes for which they are serving their criminal sentences until the Florida closet meets next month , which would be their meeting time in 2020, and releases them. Represented through Florida Innocence Project attorneys, the five asked for a pardon in July, demonstrating their innocence and expressing fear that the immediate spread of COVID-19 in state criminals could succeed before the courts act to exonerate them.
GOOD QUESTION – “Coronavirus in a Hurricane: Can Retirement Homes in Florida Distance In case of a Power Outage?” Through Bailey LeFever of the Tampa Bay Times: “Residents of Florida’s long-term care facility, already beshed by the fatal coronavirus, now face a threat: the peak of hurricane season, when storms descend on the peninsula, threatening to knock out power. “
NO, THANK YOU – “The Mayor of Ocala, Kent Gunn, vetoed the mandate of the Ocala emergency mask,” through Carlos E. Medina of Ocala Star Banner: “Mayor Kent Guinn vetoed Monday’s emergency mask ordinance passed by Ocala City Council last week. Guinn announced his veto an appearance on The Sky 97.3 FM on Monday morning. Guinn said the resolution was limited to the order, which would come with a fine for non-compliance, which was too difficult to enforce.
GONE – “Many restaurants and bars would probably not reopen after the virus,” through ‘Curt Anderson of the Associated Press:’ The Tropicana Café is the cornerstone of the historic Latin-influenced Tampa district of Ybor City since the 1960s, known as a gathering position where movers, agitators and even gangsters mingled with structure staff while drinking Cuban coffee and sandwiches. Now, its doors are probably closed forever, like so many other bars and restaurants affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
– “Busch Gardens, SeaWorld’s attendance down 96% due to coronavirus,” through Jay Cridlin of the Tampa Bay Times
– “Royal Caribbean floats passengers for COVID-19 as cruise resumes” via Taylor Dolven of the Miami Herald
– “Mayor Demings predicts” catastrophic effects “if there is no eviction”, through Erik Sandoval of News 6
– “Five members of the Florida Marshals Association tested positive for COVID-19 after the conference,” through Adam Walser of WFTS
– “Volusia Sheriff Mike Chitwood Returns to Work After Battle against Coronavirus,” through the Daytona Beach News Journal
MORGAN TIME – Democratic mega-donor John Morgan, one of the country’s best-known trial lawyers, says he personally lobbied Chris Dodd on behalf of Val Demings, who is on Joe Biden’s list of vice presidents. Dodd, a former Connecticut speaker, helped Biden’s crusade control the dozen shortlisted vice presidents, all women. “When Chris Dodd called me, I told him precisely who I liked best. I told her I think she can help, and I think she deserves a genuine opportunity. I put the case to him,” Morgan told POLITICO.
“NO MY GRUDO” – He also tried an opposite possibility to California Sen. Kamala Harris, whom many understand as the favorite. Morgan said that due to a debatable confrontation between the two men in the number one debates, harris would not be decided. Biden said he “doesn’t hold a grudge,” but Morgan says yes. “It’s not my fucking grudge, but if I did, [Harris] wouldn’t understand.” Demings stays above the fray. When asked about Morgan’s comments, his workplace said, “Joe Biden has several ordinary women who are in a position and willing to become vice presidents. What a blessing each and every woman is to our nation.”
IN BUS: “Trump’s bus tour begins in Kissimmee, with Eric Trump, Bondi and Nunez,” through Steven Lemongello of the Orlando Sentinel: “On a hot summer day, President Trump’s re-election crusade introduced a Florida bus tour Monday in one of the state’s bluest counties, with Eric Trump and the most productive Republicans in the Sunshine State on board. President Eric Trump’s son, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Governor Jeanette Nuez were outdoors at the Osceola Gop headquarters in Kissimmee as the first prevent in one that will take the bus from the crusade to the towns of Ocala, Gainesville, Miramar and Tallahassee. »
“IGNORE THIS DESS GENDER” – “Robotext uses the herald’s tale about blood donation to target Shevrin Jones’ sexuality,” through Samantha J. Gross of the Miami Herald: “Someone took a Miami Herald story about the state representative. Donate plasma on Friday and turn it into a crusader tactic to succeed in the electorate in Senate District 35, North Miami-Dade and southern Broward County, where Jones is in a crowded elementary school … He sent a rebuttal text to the electorate on Monday morning calling for the attack.’ discriminatory.'”
2020 IN CHIFFERS – So far, 1554816 votes have been cast by mail for the 18 August primaries. Of these, 767,327 came here from Democrats and 554,639 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 821,465 are Republicans. In addition, 177,922 voters voted at early voting sites. So far, 93,863 Republicans have voted early compared to 73,187 Democrats.
DUVVVALLL – “How this conservative Florida county has become a wonderful battlefield in 2020,” through NPR’s Asma Khalid: “Before COVID-19 and before George Floyd’s death, Monique Sampson said he thought Joe Biden and President Trump were ‘different wings on the same bird. The 23-year-old American history instructor with dying earrings proclaiming, “A woman’s position is in the fight,” hoping for a Bernie Sanders presidency. She still doesn’t like Biden’s policies very much, and she’s not thrilled that he’s the alleged Democratic nominee, but a summer of chaos led her to think again about her own politics.
THE INFIGHT – “Eskamani seeks to overthrow fellow House Democrats who lack ‘fundamental democratic values'”, Through Gray Rohrer of the Orlando Sentinel: “State Rep. Anna Eskamani, an Orlando Democrat who has a left core of the component amid rumors about her run for governor in 2022, violates an unwritten rule and backs 3 challengers to other House Democratic incumbents. He says he is not doing so as part of an ideological struggle within the components, but that he must still rid the Democratic Florida House group of members. who voted with Republicans on abortion spending and school choice, or made anti-LGBTQ comments.”
EL CHAUFFAGE – “Sheriff Gregory Tony accuses Scott Israel’s crusade of racism, then drops the N-word in a live television interview,” through Skyler Swisher of Sun Sentinel: “Viewers have understood how heated the race for Broward County Sheriff is, Gregory Tony dropped the N-word in an interview and accused his opponent Scott Israel of conducting a racist. In the same program, Israel presented its own attacks, accusing Tony of “killing a teenager and lying about it,” referring to decades – Old Homicide: Tony was found not to be to blame for the murder at the age of 14, and says it was in self-defense.
– “Matt Gaetz, Roger Stone, far-right activist Laura Loomer, congressional candidate,” through Aris Folley of The Hill
SPEND THE MONEY? – “We Desperately Want It”: Florida lawmakers say Ron DeSantis deserves to settle for the Trump deal, through Lawrence Mower of the Tampa Bay Times: “Governors across the country have been disappointed by President Donald Trump’s questionable executive order that extends unemployment benefits to $400 but in Florida, Republican and Democratic lawmakers are encouraging Governor Ron DeSantis to point out the first governor. State unemployment benefits are so low that they exceed $275 per week, that DeSantis has no choice, lawmakers said. “We locked ourselves in a corner,” said Senator Jason Pizzo, Democrat for North Miami Beach. “I don’t see how he doesn’t stick to that.”
COVID SESSION – “Florida Governor DeSantis says COVID-19” will float “over the next state budget”, Through the Florida Press Service Jim Turner: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed hope that the coronavirus crisis will simply ease in the southern states In September, he said Monday on morning radio broadcasts that the pandemic “looms” in all budget and political debates of the 2021 legislative consultation.
“EXEMPLE HEARTBREAKING” – “A video looks like of Key West Police to handcuff an 8-year-old boy,” through David Goodhue of FLKeysNews.com: “A video was posted Monday of a 2018 incident in which police officers appeared in Key West to handcuff an 8-year-old who is crying after an incident at his elementary school.
Light? A court ruling involving the founder of Victoria’s Secret could bring down more of Jeffrey Epstein’s dirt,” through McClatchy DC’s Kevin G. Hall: “A federal ruling issued Monday ordered the opening and publication of correspondence from noted lawyers attorney Alan Dershowitz and Victoria’s Secret founder Leslie Wexner in a defamation case that is likely to reveal more about the life of the financier.
IN COURT – “The Court of Appeals sided with a transgender st. Johns student in the Battle of the Baths,” through the Jim Saunders News Service of Florida: The St. Johns County School District prevented him from going to the children’s bathroom at his best school. Friday’s 2-1 decision through a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decreasing court decision that the district violated equivalent rights to protect Drew Adams, a recent graduate of Nease High School, and violated a federal anti-discrimination law. known as Title IX. »
– “Can you hear me?” ‘Zoom’s first American essay arrives in Duval County,’ through Andrew Pantazi of Florida Times-Union
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– “Don Lewis, from Tiger King’s Circle of Relatives, is filing a lawsuit against Carole Baskin and others,” through Christopher Spata of the Tampa Bay Times: “The surviving daughters of Don Lewis, a Tampa boy who disappeared 23 years ago this month, have filed a lawsuit. The Hillsborough County Court that opposes Tiger King is bringing Kenny Farr and Carole Baskin and a woguy indexed as a witness in Lewis’ will. But this is not a trial for money. trial,” said Jacksonville attorney John M. Phillips, who specializes in non-public injury and negligent death cases and represents Lewis’ circle of relatives in action.”
ANIVERSAIRES: Jim DeFede of CBS Miami
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