Not an easy job….
Since the road reopened on June 1, infections have leaped twelvefold. The rest of Florida has been gripped by the coronavirus, with more than 461,000 cases and over 6,500 deaths. Thursday was the third day in a row that Florida broke its record for the most deaths reported in a single day.
Yet the experience in Key West, which had made a living off providing a place to escape the world’s troubles, shows that while adopting state and local mask regulations may be politically difficult, making sure they are obeyed can be just as hard.
More than 30 states and an even larger number of cities have enacted a hodgepodge of mask ordinances and executive orders, but many municipalities are barely enforcing them.
Several sheriffs in Colorado and New Mexico have openly defied local rules and publicly refused to carry them out. In California, some city officials publicly warned of harsh penalties but now acknowledge that no one has been ticketed.
A spokesman for the Boston Police Department stressed that it was not enforcing mask rules because Massachusetts has no law requiring masks, which is true. He did not respond when asked about the order the governor issued in May that provided for a $300 fine for not wearing masks in stores, on mass transit and in taxis.
In a summer that has seen enormous protests of people fighting excessive use of force by the police, many law enforcement agencies have been hesitant to take on a politically divisive issue like masks. Code enforcement officers like Ms. Kobylas in Key West often lack law enforcement training, and many have lost their jobs to city cutbacks….
image…Key West, a city of about 25,000 on the southernmost edge of the continental United States, managed to hold off the coronavirus for several months after the county put checkpoints on the only road into town, keeping visitors out.
An example of the problem with “law enforcement.”
The “enforcement “ part, particularly for minor offenses, is totally subjective and discretionary.
And THAT is why I think Harris and Deming might have the same issues as Klobuchar if picked….
Odd comment.
I thought you were Mr.Police booster.
What are you suggesting?
It would seem that ,if you believed that Harris and Demings are strong law and order types,you would be their biggest booster.
Here you seem to suggest that such disqualifies them.
Harris would my pick for AG were she HAS experience and her toughness would be a asset….
Demings would my choice for Homeland were she has experience…
I simply point out facts about law enforcement and the real world just like i try to also do so on many subjects…
It’s one the reasons i do this…
If Rice is the VP?
Any guesses on the Sec of State here?
Could Biden bring back John Kerry who HAS been advising him ?
No, you point out your opinions on law enforcement ,as you do everything else ,and pretend they are “facts.” You are well known for that by everyone who posts here.
Harris wants to run for President again.Obviously, she wants to be VP ,as that is a position from which people often run for President (See Biden, Gore, GH Bush, Mondale Nixon etc).
AG is not.Usually the AG position goes to an attorney who serves a while and then returns to the private sphere.The only AG in recent memory ,who later ran for President ,was Bobby Kennedy but he later served in the Senate and was a Kennedy.
Indeed the Presidents Cabinet rarely yields successful presidential candidates.The last one I can remember is Herbert Hoover who served as Secretary of Commerce almost a hundred years
Harris might rather stay in the Senate than serve in the Cabinet if She contemplates a future presidential run.
I hope she would take the AG spot…
It WILL take a strong person….
I would then ask Amy Klobuchar, Sally Yates or Preet Bharra
Not sure if Harris would want to be AG, but I imagine that Feinstein will retire in 2024. Harris would win that sear. So it seems to me to be low risk For Harris to take the AG job if offered.
Kamala does not want to be AG, I know that for a fact.
Adam Schiff is a better bet.
Now if the President asks, all bets are off.
Playing this VP speculation game is kind of useless, sort of like making electoral predictions about states you have never set foot in.
I think some of the negative Kamala stories are being driven by the Newsom wing of our State Party. I am fairly certain she and Gavin made a deal, you run this time, and if not successful, I will run next. But, if Kamala is VP all bets are off since she would be successor in waiting.
There is history here dating all the way back to Kamala’s race for DA and Gavin’s time as Mayor that is instructive as to who is fueling these stories.
It will all be moot one way or the other in a week.
But we have an abundance of riches as far as political talent is concerned her in the Golden State, so we’ll be well represented in a Biden Administration.
Ah Keith?
You didn’t go back to the Mayor part…
The whole “successor in waiting” thing is key. Figure it out James.
Then i would double down for Rice….
Qualified….
Will have worked with Obama and Biden CLOSELY FOR 12 YEARS and hits the ground running prepared for the job….
Will little of the baggage of Harris…
Ah Keith?
You DO remember the Harris / Mayor thing I know….
CG and GOPer’s are sure to devise ot in public before the election…
She has TONS of baggage ….
Biden don’t need this…
AG spit
What Mayor thing? That she dated one?
I was talking about why some of her “friends” would be eager to keep her from the VP nomination.
I wasn’t talking about who she might have slept with when she was young and single.
Only people without the experience of dating and all that it entails might think that this would be a negative.
First, you are being misogynistic James, and sexist, since you could give two shits if a male candidate slept around in his single days.
But you’re really giving us the best reason for our Party to put a woman in the White House. So we can move past this bullshit.
Why would anyone care what Corey and his ilk think, say, or do on this subject. The level of prude is enormous here. Besides, I want a candidate who is at least worldly enough to comprehend what the “Devil’s Triangle” really is.
So you just want to get the “info out here??”
You do you really think that the six or so people who regularly post here don’t know that Kamala Harris once dated Willie Brown when she was single and he was Mayor of San Francisco? Is that anything like you “just reporting?”
So you’re making no call on her private life. What call are you making by trying to make an issue of her relationship with an older black man with power? Is there something wrong with what she was doing? Was it illegal? Are you making a moral judgment?
Do you think that this issue wasn’t thoroughly vetted every time Kamala was on the ballot from DA to Attorney General to Senator? What has changed now James other than you support someone else for the VP nomination. Oh, and Willie opposed Kamala in her run for DA and Attorney General. What does that say? Can you make something of that?
For the record, I think that this is Biden’s call and will support anyone he picks. I am also rather baffled as to why you continue to push this line of discussion. Do you think you are somehow influencing Biden’s pick?
It might interest everyone to know that the majority of Biden supporters overwhelmingly support Harris for the VP pick (YouGov). That might have some influence over Biden’s selection don’t you think.
But what you are doing, in your limited way, is trying to tear down a female candidate because of her personal life (one that she was entirely entitled to).
Of course the GOP will throw anything they think will work against any VP nominee. But that’s now why you keep repeating these stories.
Yes, james thinks he has Some minor influence over who Biden nominates because he sees himself as part of the media. And he will try to discredit people he doesn’t want,
Harris would be A fine pick as would most of the others.
I have no problem with any of those mentioned,although I don’t think we should essentially give up aSenate seat just to have Elizabeth Warren as the candidate .I have no issues problem with her though.
James has been very vocal as to his support of Susan Rice.If Biden chooses Rice ?Ok by me;however , I reiterate these sort of unknown candidates for VP don’t have a good track record .
In my view, Harris is the obvious choice.Ive thought that for months now and nothing has happened in the interim to change my opinion.
If Rice is chosen and elected VP?
She would be the first person elected to that office without previously serving in an elected office since Henry A Wallace in 1940.
Wallace had served in FDRs Cabinet as Secretary of Agriculture.
That’s a very good point Jack.
I see Rice as Tim Kaine. Very qualified, boring, a good person, but at least Kaine nailed down Virginia.
Not sure that one has to have lived in a state to have insights about electoral predictions. So I lived for example in NC for 16 years, and in LA and TX after that, but the reality is that I don’t think I would have any better insight as to who would win there than anyone on this site.
And even if you are currently living in a state, it doesn’t mean you know much about the rest of the state other than the part of the state that you live in. For example, I know little about southern Illinois other than it elects Republicans.
I wasn’t talking about living in a place. I was talking about having some familiarity with a place. Being able to get the flavor of local politics and life.
But historically far Southern Illinois was Democratic. Not now with the racist realignment. In my first staff position for the 76 Carter campaign I ran a massive phone bank in Carbondale.
And it isn’t just who will win, but what type of person makes up the electorate. I got to see first hand how hostile old white voters were to Hillary in Cleveland, and got the sense she might lose. I would have never seen that vitriol if I had stayed In Sonoma.
You have a good sense of who makes the communities you have lived in and visited Zreebs.
Just reading polls and the Cook Report doesn’t get it. You need to have some hands on experience.
That was my point.
Good point Z….
We can only give views on what we have seen and know from being in that state…
Biden hasn’t yet called me, but if he docs, this is who I would recommend:
1) A black women. Biden has gone out of his way to indicate that he is strongly considering multiple black women, and so at this point, he has created an expectation.
2) someone that progressives will not object to. The party is united as of now, but we can’t take chances of that unraveling
3) a persuasive speaker. – this is a Biden weakness, so we need someone strong here.
4) Someone that Biden can work effectively with.
I think all of the potential candidates tick all those boxes, some a little more than others.
But don’t forget, dating an influential black man at the start of your career is frowned upon.
Jim Acosta
As some members of the task force tried to stress the dire nature of the situation to the president during the meeting, the source said Trump repeatedly attempted to change the subject.
“He starts talking about something else,” the source said.