I saw a woman and her kids in apparent distress on OBT the other day while I was running an errand on lunch. The mom and the older kid were fanning a younger kid, about kindergarten age, who was slumped on the sidewalk.
I stopped to see if I could help (I carry water, glucose gels, basic first-aid stuff). She gladly took two waters and had him drink one while pouring the other over him. I called 911 and they got there quickly.
This was their first taste of Florida heat after moving here from California, and the little guy wasn’t hydrated.
Anyway, this post isn’t about them, but I hope they’re okay.
This is about the large political banner under which this all unfolded, it was for a candidate named Moe for governor.
I googled him and thought a lot of his platform planks are much-needed, and also love that he’s a product of Pine Hills.
Many of his policies seem centered around - and driven by - his experiences of growing up poor in Orlando. Rather than using Orlando as a test tube to enact punishments for being too… whatever DeSantis is mad about that week… he wants to use Orlando as an incubator for change. I thought that was interesting.