Top Three Takeaways – May 21st, 2021
- Bill Barr is back. And on the most important topic there currently is in our society. Education. Just yesterday in my top three takeaways I had this to say: none of this absurdity stops until we retake control of our children’s education. Florida continues to head in the right direction with expanded school choice, the eradication of common core and mandatory civics education but the absurdity presented to us undermining our constitution, freedoms and values is happening right now. Right on cue in Naples Barr had this to say yesterday...The real issue of systemic racism is our public school system in the inner cities. We’ve relegated inner city school children to these failing schools. Depriving them of a future, depriving them of opportunity. That’s the system of systemic racism. Why is it that the teacher’s unions oppose school choice at every turn? Why is the status quo is the only thing they’ll fight for. That along with trying to keep schools closed as long as possible which only disproportionally impacted minorities.
- More of the same. NOAA’s official hurricane forecast of14-20 storms resembled the previous forecasts from AccuWeather, 16-20 and Colorado State University, 17 named storms. All of this is to stay everyone expects this to be an above average season but at worst 33% less severe than last year’s record30 storms. Two questions...will everyone be right this year or like last year will everyone be wrong? At least this time they agree. And as we have our first named storm on May 21st, you can choose to take the glass half full of the glass half empty approach. We either have one out of the way or... At least Ana developed five days later than Arthur last year. That’s something, right?
- Who doesn’t have dinner in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania? Look, it’s no secret that this side of Donald Trump, our governor is the GOP front-runner for 2024. And while there’s no 2024 discussion without first winning re-election in 2022 – it’s safe to say Governor DeSantis didn’t headline the Allegheny County, Lincoln Day dinner because it was on his bucket list. Also, the organizers weren’t shy about it either. Allegheny County GOP Chair Sam DeMarco had this to say to Politics PA before the dinner: I think that right now, if President Trump chooses not to run…that Ron DeSantis has to be looked at as the frontrunner. Governor DeSantis’s approval rating ranges from 55% to 60% depending on the poll. That’s a commanding lead heading into the cycle. For comparison’s sake, Governor Scott’s average approval rating was 48% during his successful reelection bid. But if there is one weakness that might be exploited it could be this. Nikki Fried, who continues to campaign for governor without officially announcing a run until June 1st, has already said DeSantis would “bail” on Florida if re-elected. Many Floridians may not mind their governor being a presidential front-runner, that’d cut his 2nd term short. But the question is how many, might? That we don’t know at this point.
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