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The Glades County Democratic Executive Committee (Glades DEC) is the local county organization of the Florida Democratic Party (FDP). Not all small Florida counties have a DEC. In fact, Glades County is the smallest Florida county (in number of registered Democrats) that has an active DEC.

The key responsibility of a DEC is to get out the Democratic vote for each election. To support Democratic election turnout, DEC’s register voters, encourage vote by mail sign-ups, organize events, educate voters, and recruit candidates.

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What kind of future do you want for yourself, your family and our community?
The Democratic Party is a place where you can join with others to discuss these important questions, learn from one another, and together decide how we want to move forward. Democracy is hard work. It must be defended not only in times of conflict, but protected daily through the thoughtful, energetic, and compassionate participation of every citizen in the affairs of our communities and nation. We ask you to become part of this shared process. You have much to contribute, regardless of whether it is in the form of time, money or simply sharing your personal and community perspectives.

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The COVID-19 Vaccination Bus will be at Buckhead Ridge Fire Station (29012 SR 78) from 10am to 6pm today. Anyone 18 and older is eligible.
Glades County Florida Democratic Executive Committee
Glades County Florida Democratic Executive Committee
How is it that people of such hedonistic nature invariably ascend to the pinnacles of political "leadership" and how is it that even when knowing of their awful nature, Florida voters continue to support them?

In most cases, simple observation of the public persona and conduct of these people is more than sufficient to infer their more hidden behavior.

How incredibly flawed is our democracy when people are repeatedly fooled by these individuals. Worse yet, some are not deceived...they are simply tolerant or perhaps even aspire to such depravity. What manner of a society are Florida voters complicit or actively engaged in creating?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/14/politics/gaetz-parties-women-drug-use-sex-payments/index.html

Orlando, Florida (CNN)The first thing some of the women were asked to do when they got to the house parties in the gated community in suburban Orlando was to put away their cellphones, according to two women in attendance who spoke to CNN in recent days. The men inside, a who's who of local Republican officials that often included Rep. Matt Gaetz, did not want the night's activities documented.

The partygoers, at times dressed in formal wear from a political event they'd just left, mingled and shared drugs like cocaine and ecstasy. Some had sex.

Gaetz, the brash Republican, liked to discuss politics, said one of the women. He behaved like a "frat type of party boy," she said, sometimes taking pills she believed were recreational drugs.
Glades County Florida Democratic Executive Committee
Glades County Florida Democratic Executive Committee
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Glades County Florida Democratic Executive Committee
Glades County Florida Democratic Executive Committee
REPUBLICAN FORMER STATE SENATOR ARRESTED ON FELONY.
Republicans conspired to deceive voters in the 2020 election in which Senator Jose Javier Rodríguez (JJR) - the Democratic State Senator with the best environmental voting record in the Florida Senate = lost to the Republican challenger, Ileana Garcia, by a mere 32 votes out of more than 215,000 that had been cast. A candidate with the same last name as JJR, Alex Rodriguez, had received 6,382 votes and played the spoiler. After law enforcement investigation issued warrants, two of the conspirators, former State Senator Frank Artiles and Alex Rodriguez, turned themselves in for arrest. They were each charged with three third-degree felony charges related to violating campaign finance law, including for conspiracy to make campaign contributions in excess of legal limits, making those excess contributions and false swearing in connection to an election. However, responsibility for this criminal election fraud lies with the Republican Party of Florida. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/us/florida-senate-race-fraud.html
Glades County Florida Democratic Executive Committee
Glades County Florida Democratic Executive Committee
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Glades County Florida Democratic Executive Committee
Glades County Florida Democratic Executive Committee
After watching pieces of a second impeachment trial do you find yourself scratching your head trying to figure out why some people do silly, dangerous things? A lifetime of experience has shown us how and which people segregate themselves into problematic actors vs those who try to think of social governance in a more holistic and long-term fashion. Life has also shown us how this self-segregation is replicated in every other nation/region. For a more formal presentation of some physiological foundations of these observations, watch this video (instead of some lame movie). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bnSY4L3V8s
The take-home message from this lecture is that we shouldn’t get our hopes up that adult Republicans will reform. Yes, they may regroup and adjust their tactics, but a meaningful change in values and their susceptibility to collectively-bad decisions is unlikely...at least on a scale that would make a fundamental difference in our national trajectory. What matters more is what we, the more careful thinkers do to influence the world around us, particularly providing guidance to the young.
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Author & Neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky | JCCSF
What drives human behavior? Why do we do what we do? Is free will an illusion? Has civilization made us better? Can we escape our tribal past? These question...
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