Episode 4 w/ Collier Voter Protection Team Leads Anne Daley and Marvin Diamond

We have a great show for you today. We have our interview with the leaders of our local voterprotection team here in Collier County, Anne Daley and Marvin Diamond. We talk about what they aredoing to prepare for an election in a pandemic, we talk about the importance of vote-by-mail, and wediscuss what they expect to see from the Republican Party.We also have our panel discussion where we talk about news stories that caught our eye. This week wetalk about the Republican parties efforts at voter suppression over the years nationally and here locally.We look into President Obama’s reemergence into the political fray and we discuss the Rebekah Jonesdata scandal and how the officials at the Florida Department of Health are manipulating data in regardsto Covid 19.But first, let’s go over some party info.We are excited to announce that we have a new candidate. Ms. Laura Novosad is the President of theHendry County Democratic Women’s Club and she has filed to run in Florida State House District 80. Thismeans we have candidates in all Florida State seats that are up this year. You can find out moreinformation about Ms. Novosad’s campaign and all our other candidates on our website. Please checkthem out and volunteer.Some upcoming events.June 6th – The Collier County Democratic Party and Biden Campaign will be having a virtual meetingwhere the Biden Campaign will talk about their efforts and plans here in Florida. They also want to hearfrom local Democrats about issues that are important to you. Be on the lookout for details on ourwebsite. Saturday June 6 th at 4:00 PM. Check out our website, www.collierdems.org.June 10 th – Trivia with the Democrats! We are having another virtual trivia event for you to attend. Thecost is $10 to attend and you will get a link that allows you to join other like-minded people and testyour knowledge. All the information about signing up can be found on our website.All June – We have virtual phone banks going on every week targeting local democrats and encouragingthem to sign up for vote by mail.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-gop-just-received-another-tool-for-suppressing-votes/550052/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/us/Voting-republicans-trump.htmlhttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/11/26/barack-obama-2020-democrats-candidates-biden-073025https://geojones.org/2020/05/22/public-statement/https://cbs12.com/news/local/woman-who-designed-floridas-covid-19-dashboard-has-been-removed-from-her-position