Episode 8 w/ FL House 105 Candidates Maureen Porras and Javier Estevez

On this week’s podcast we have both Democratic Candidates for Florida House District 105, Candidate Maureen Porras and Candidate Javier Estevez. This District is a very important district this election cycle as there are more registered Democrats than Republicans. The incumbent Ana Maria Rodriguez is stepping down and running for a Florida State Senate seat. It’s an open seat and we need to flip it. And we have two awesome candidates who will do just that.As always, we have our panel discussion with Amber and Linda. This episode we look at the local protests over Oakes Farms and the controversial comments made by the owner of Oakes Farms, Alfie Oakes. We dig into the explosion of coronavirus cases here in Florida and the decisions by the Governor to continue re-opening without precautions. Finally we talk about voting rights and the effects, both negative and positive, that Republican efforts to restrict voting across the country is likely to have come November. But, first here is some local party info.We are very excited to announce that all of our local candidates qualified and will be on the ballot this November. Obviously, we have two races with primaries so those will be on the ballot this august with the winner moving on to the general election. We have candidates in all of the Florida legislature seats running this election cycle and Democrats across the state are competing in every single legislative seat except one. We are contesting every seat to make sure that voters hear progressive values, as well as all of the Democratic candidates who are contesting Republican incumbents will hold those incumbents accountable for their record. Voters must hear about the decisions made by Republican incumbents and the best way to highlight decisions that do not help constituents, is by directly confronting them in an election. So congratulations to all of our candidates here in Collier County and all of the Democratic candidates across the state.In an effort to support our candidates, we will be putting on candidate spotlights for our candidates who do not have primary challenges and a candidate forum for FL House 105, which has a primary. These will begin on June 30th with County Commission Candidate for District 5 David Turrubiartiez Jr. We will do one a week for the next 5 weeks, so Democratic voters get to know their candidates.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/voter-turnout-soared-georgia-despite-massive-primary-day-problems-n1230806https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article243349186.htmlhttps://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.htmlhttps://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/860458708/pandemic-puts-a-crimp-on-voter-registration-potentially-altering-electoratehttps://www.news-press.com/story/news/education/2020/06/11/alfie-oakes-lee-schools-severs-ties-oakes-farms-following-ceo-alfie-oakes-social-media-post-black-li/5337091002/<a href="https://www.winknews.com/2020/06/16/another-protest-held-in-response-to-oakes-farms-owners-social-media-post/" rel="noopener noreferrer"...