Librarian, teacher, political junkie, liberal, hobby farmer, blogger, reading evangelist, innovator, podcaster, PATS fan, MIZZOU alum.

Naples, FL
Joined April 2009
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Attention Florida teachers: these are the stakes.
NEW: Byron Donalds received $100,000 from Future of Education LLC – a company tied to a Texas-based executive who is pushing for AI teachers in publicly-funded school classrooms. 🧵
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Millions upon millions of reasons the Donalds should never be anywhere near the State of Florida Governor seat. Vote accordingly. Not blindly Florida.
NEW: Charter schools FUNNELED over $30M in taxpayer money to companies run by Byron Donalds' wife.
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⚠️⚠️⚠️ FLORIDIANS, Not enough voters are paying attention to the damage to our education system in FL the tag team of grifters, the Donalds, will unleash if elected. Vote for JOLLY!
⚠️Florida !! The taxpayer funded grifters Erika and Byron Donalds ( with her anti public schools/anti teacher offsite “schools”and stated she wants LESS AI restrictions) want to stick your kid in your basement , slap a pair of Meta Headphones on them and call it “education” as they reap millions in taxpayer dollars …
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Ron DeSantis .. James Uthmeier , Ashley Moody and RPOF threatened tv stations to remove this ad … they are still not showing it despite judge striking that suit down This is that ad they don’t want you to see .. Byron Donalds is cool with this crime and said it’s “settled” David Jolly says .. not so fast Who do you trust more when it comes to government transparency , Florida ? Oh ya .. one of Byron’s handful of bills he brought to the floor in Florida Legislature ( 2 terms) was one to weaken Sunshine Laws of government transparency Knowing what we know of he and his wife , a vote for them OR MOODY OR UTHMEIER would be punching yourself in the face
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If you like public schools, vote for Jolly.
NEW: Byron Donalds received $100,000 from Future of Education LLC – a company tied to a Texas-based executive who is pushing for AI teachers in publicly-funded school classrooms. 🧵
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NEW: Charter schools FUNNELED over $30M in taxpayer money to companies run by Byron Donalds' wife.
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The billionaires are trying to buy Florida and they found their politician who is willing to sell it.
A single billionaire has now given 15,000,000 dollars to one of the candidates for Florida governor.
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He'd be the most corrupt governor in Florida history.
Byron and Erika Donalds are expecting to pull in $15 MILLION next year through her charter school hustles. Those are TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
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"Donalds’ federal financial disclosures show that the majority of the couple’s collective wealth comes from his wife’s companies — and the public dollars they rely on."
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Byron and Erika Donalds are expecting to pull in $15 MILLION next year through her charter school hustles. Those are TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
"Donalds’ federal financial disclosures show that the majority of the couple’s collective wealth comes from his wife’s companies — and the public dollars they rely on."
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New reporting shows that state-funded charter schools have paid more than $30 million to private companies tied to Byron Donalds' family. I'm calling on him to divest. tampabay.com/news/florida-po…
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Byron Donalds and his wife are crooked charter school scammers who ripped off kids, and he wants to be Governor so he can keep shoveling money into his wife's offshore bank accounts. David is more polite than I am, but there you go.
New reporting shows that state-funded charter schools have paid more than $30 million to private companies tied to Byron Donalds' family. I'm calling on him to divest. tampabay.com/news/florida-po…
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Byron Donalds has gotten rich on the backs of Florida's students. He wants to dismantle public schools so he can keep profiting from the money meant for helping Florida's kids learn the skills they need to thrive. That is why I support @davidjollyfl & @GwenGraham.
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This James Talarico ad is phenomenal. Every Texan needs to watch it.
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The Republican Party of Florida is suing to stop you from seeing this ad. They threatened TV stations with criminal charges for running it. We’re not taking it down. We will make this as clear as possible to all Floridians: James Uthmeier and Ashley Moody stole $10 million from sick kids.
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Urgent Notice: Important update: Today at approximately 1:30 PM Eastern time the main accounts for the No Kings coalition (@nokingscoalition) on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. The admins have lost access to the account. We are unable to login. This happened at the peak of our national day of action. We need amplification to drive attention towards this attempt to impact our free speech and our ability to communicate with the general public. Please help!!!
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David Jolly: “I'm less concerned that he sold drugs to kids than I am that he's selling the governorship right now, whether it's to big utilities, big tech, big data, big ag, go through the list. He's selling our governorship. I'm less concerned that he was arrested for bank fraud than I am while serving in Congress he’s continued to engage in stock trades without divulging the information as required by law to the people of Florida. I'm also less concerned that he received a diversion program for his own drug arrests than I am that when he got to Congress, he refused to extend that grace to other young men who are similarly situated. And then you move to where he and his wife have made their wealth. It's through these for-profit charter school management companies that have been defunding public education, setting up charter schools that too often don't even have to teach a kid to read, and they become private equity for-profit real estate plays. And the way they're trying to cut costs now is Byron and his wife want to stick headsets on your children.”
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NEW AD: Are you better off today under Donald Trump and Byron Donalds? You’re not. We all know that. That’s why I’m asking for your vote.
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Byron Donalds’ data center plan: ✔️ Build on Florida’s “pristine” land, your backyard ✔️ Take $5M+ from big tech donors and developers ✔️ Cash in on up to $390K in data center-linked stocks David Jolly’s plan: moratorium on new data centers in FL. Say no to Data Center Donalds on Nov. 3rd motherjones.com/politics/202…
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