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The public-school systems in both Collier and next-door Lee counties, a conservative pocket in southwest Florida that includes Naples, announced on Thursday, Sept. 3, that their students won't be seeing Obama's speech. In a statement, Collier County schools superintendent Dennis Thompson cited "the logistics of making...
That point was often raised Thursday night further north on Florida's Gulf Coast, in Tampa. There, as a result, the Hillsborough County School Board ruled at a meeting that it would allow the speech. Dean and other speech opponents insist the Administration has not given educators an advance look...
The original version of this article incorrectly stated that Barack Obama was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Florida since FDR. He was in fact the first Democrat from the northern U.S. to win the Sunshine State since FDR.
- Helped found the Democratic Party of Japan and served as its head from 1999 to 2002. Took over again in May.
"I told him that the Democratic Party's victory is thanks to President Obama ... That change required courage, and U.S. citizens and President Obama across the ocean gave the Japanese people that courage." - After a phone call with President Obama. (Reuters, Sept. 2, 2009)