Despite the inevitable tag hoisted around Hillary Clinton, believe it or not, not every Democrat supports her candidacy in 2016. So just like the case around six years ago, there are those in the party looking for the "anti-Hillary," if you will. For many, Elizabeth Warren was the ideal candidate to take her on.
But that won't be happening. Or probably not. The freshman U.S. Senator from Massachusetts announced yesterday that she has no intention for running for higher office, at least not until she finishes up her first term, which isn't for five more years.
But as every article reporting on this development adds, a guy by the name of Barack Obama said the same thing early into his one and only term as Senator.
[jump]Still, the news may disappoint those progressives who consider her a hero for economic populism. Then again, Vermont Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders says he's still mulling over a run.
In other news - It's going to be 82 degrees today and around those same conditions through the weekend. Though some (most?) of you may dig that, can't there be a happy medium between these spring like temperatures in December and what the rest of the country is going through right now? Probably not, says George Luber, Associate Director for Climate Change with the Centers for Disease Control who gave a speech on climate change in Tampa on Tuesday night. He says the extreme weather - and hotter weather -is going to be our reality forever, unless we make drastic changes.
This reporter has spent some quality time this week with both Kathleen Peters and David Jolly, the two leading contenders for the GOP nomination for Congress in the CD special election to be held next month. Trying to be ever so helpful, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee posted a new website yesterday calling on voters to ask the Republicans their thoughts on such divisive events as the government shutdown and personalities like Ted Cruz.
And after a barrage of negative embarrassing news accounts about their homeless services division, Hillsborough County officials say they're getting out of that business, but will continue to fund nonprofits working on the vexing issue. County Administrator Mike Merrill said yesterday he believes the county can "end homelessness in a business-like way."