Dan Gelber for Attorney General

Service Project: Best Buddies and the "R" Word

Mar 7, 2010

Legislative Session 2010

Mar 2, 2010

Helping Women Veterans

Feb 13, 2010

Update: It's time to come clean

Feb 11, 2010

Fighting public corruption

Feb 8, 2010

Spinning Scott Brown

Jan 21, 2010

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FCAT Week. Ugh.

Mar 9, 2010

By Dan

Yes, once the results are announced there will be winners and losers in Florida's race to the middle, and tears of joy and sorrow aplenty. But such is the way of a state that has wrongly decided it can test its way out of underfunding public education.
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Service Project: Best Buddies and the "R" Word

Mar 7, 2010

By Dan

Spent the morning with Best Buddies of Broward for their annual festival at Brian Piccolo park. My project was to staff the booth (with Joan and the kids) where we were soliciting passer-byers to pledge to "End Using the 'R' Word". Since nearly everyone there was a supporter, family member or participant of Best Buddies, we quickly filled up our bed sheet with the signatures of folks who promised to not use the "R" word. It was a beautiful day and sunshine and friendship were in abundance.
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Legislative Session 2010

Mar 2, 2010

By Dan

Most of the commentators are already declaring this legislative session as one of the worst ever. Most assume - perhaps correctly - that the legislature will lack the courage or vision or competence to adequately deal with raging unemployment, a mortgage foreclosure crisis, and a full-blown multi-billion dollar budget crisis. While I probably am inclined to agree with that assessment, I still hold out hope if we are able to resist the lesser impulses that too often dominate this place.

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Helping Women Veterans

Feb 13, 2010

By Dan

Spent some time at Athena House in Tampa with my good buddy Sara Romeo. Sara is the Executive Director of Crossroads which is a Tampa based organization that provides residential housing and related services to homeless women military veterans.
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Update: It's time to come clean

Feb 11, 2010

By Dan

It has been reported in the news and, indeed, alleged by some Republicans, that in the wake of the gift ban, the Republican Party of Florida issued widespread credit cards to elected officials to allow them to charge travel, food and expenses to the party. This is troubling on many levels and I believe that the allegation is worthy of investigation and, at the very least, full disclosure to the public. If the distribution of credit cards was intended to avoid the gift ban, then the public has a right to know.
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Fighting public corruption

Feb 8, 2010

By Dan

There has been much talk lately about the prominence of corruption in government. The truth is most public officials are not corrupt. They came to office with a real desire to serve. Whether to improve schools, provide better services, or make government more efficient - the great majority of public officials are in it for the right reasons...
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Spinning Scott Brown

Jan 21, 2010

By Dan

But the great truth is that Florida has had only one party in control over the last decade so it will be difficult, indeed self-destructive, for my Republican colleagues to make the case in 2010 that we need to throw the bums out.
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Haiti, MLK and self-winding flashlights

Jan 18, 2010

By Dan

Yesterday, I took our family to K-mart where we went shopping for supplies. Joan and I wanted to give our young children (aged 11, 9 and 5) some real sense of what the families in Haiti were going through. Each of our children picked what they thought would be important. Sophie (the pragmatist) concentrated on water; and Hannah (who tends to fixate on doctor appointments) picked medical supplies. Max, age 5 (who fixates on being 5), first thought buying some toys might be good, but quickly changed his mind and decided on flashlights so no "other kids" would be afraid in the dark.
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Helping out our friends in Haiti

Jan 13, 2010

By Dan

The pictures and stories coming out of Haiti are heartbreaking. I am blessed to have friends from our Caribbean neighbor, many of whom still have family there. Right now, they need our prayers—and they need our support.

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It is very cold— Help your fellow Floridians

Jan 9, 2010

By Dan

Below you will find an email that I sent to our list this morning encouraging folks to pitch in and help local homeless shelters. There have been press reports around the state, particularly in the north and central parts of Florida, of shelters receiving very high numbers of people looking for help. Thanks for helping out
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