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  • What they’re saying: Reaction to Scott’s budget, vetoes


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    Lawmakers, lobbyists and lookers-on chimedin Monday after Gov. Rick Scott signed the state’s $74.1 billion spending planfor the coming year. Some applauded the governor for making historicinvestments in education, ports and business development. Others, smartingafter Scott vetoed $368 million in spending projects ...
    3 days ago

  • Florida News & Commentary


    The StandDown Texas Project — Authority Authority: 154
    The Palm Beach Post publishes the editorial, "Scott should veto ‘Timely Justice Act’ on the death penalty." Its by Randy Schultz for the Post Editorial Board. In 2006, the American Bar Association showed Florida how to fix the state’s death...
    3 days ago

  • Memo To Representative Nan Rich: Put On Your Big Girl Panties


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    by Lone Shark State Representative Nan Rich is supposedly ‘encouraging’ Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford to “man up” and “do the right thing”– abandon his support of the Florida Health Choices Plus program and support her preferred alternative–the federal expansion of the Medicaid program ...
    4 days ago

  • Crist Flip-Flops On Gay Marriage, Can Democrats Trust Him?


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    By JAVIER MANJARRES It must already be political season if the former Republican, then Independent, and now Democrat Charlie Crist, is ‘coming out’ of his shell to flip-flop on yet another issue he either supported or opposed in the past. Crist, who is by far one of the most, if not the most prolific ...
    1 week ago

  • From Florida


    The StandDown Texas Project — Authority Authority: 154
    WCTV-TV posts, "Speeding Up Execution Bill Gets Calls for Veto," by Mike Vasilinda. Florida has averaged three point two executions a year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1979. Three people have already died by lethal injection this year...
    1 week ago

  • Budget lands on Scotts desk, is tuition hike on the chopping block?


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    It was only Friday that lawmakers passed the $74.5 billion budget . Now, its Gov. Rick Scotts turn. The 450-page document landed on Scotts desk Thursday. He has until May 24 to sign it -- and veto anything he doesnt deem appropriate. In his first year in office in 2011, Scott vetoed $615 million in member ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Universities anticipate Gov. Rick Scott veto of tuition increase


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    A 3 percent tuition increase was written into the state budget, but state university leaders arent banking on that money. Gov. Rick Scott has made it clear that he doesnt support increasing the cost of earning a degree. Heres a excerpt from an article that will be published in Fridays paper: Most expect Gov. ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Citizens Organized for Sound Transportation (COST) letter to Florida Governor Rick Scott


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    Below is a letter the Tampa Bay area group Citizens Organized for Sound Transportation (COST) sent to Florida Governor Rick Scott, regarding the budget request for allocation of $200,000 to fund a study of a merger between the Pinellas County and Hillsborough County transit authorities.  When will our trusted ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Medical City Takes Center Stage At Governor’s Cabinet Meeting


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    Lake Nona’s Medical City played host to Florida Governor Rick Scott’s monthly Cabinet meeting Wednesday as  representatives from the Nemours Children’s Hospital, Sanford-Burnham Research Institute, Orlando VA Medical Center and UCF College of Medicine updated state officials on the partnership that is driving ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Charlie Crist Raises Money for Pelosi, Democrats


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    By JAVIER MANJARRES The evolution of former Florida Governor Charlie Crist continues, as he is slated to “headline” a campaign fundraiser in Tampa, Florida for Democratic congressional candidate Gwen Graham. Graham, who is the daughter of former Democrat U.S. Senator Bob Graham, is challenging Republican ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Rick Scotts Obama shuffle: Sequestration is bad (this time because of hurricanes)


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    @MarcACaputo with @cmorganherald Florida Gov. Rick Scott continued his political evolution Wednesday in opposing conservative-sought budget cuts -- this time because of hurricane preparedness. Scotts made his comments during the Governors Hurricane Conference in Fort Lauderdale where he wondered if the National ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Wasserman Schultz Says GOP Vilifies Teachers, Forgets Gov. Scott’s $480 million Teacher Bonus


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    By JAVIER MANJARRES Apparently all Republican politicians and elected officials are out vilifying school teachers, this according to Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In another one of her postings at Democrats.org, the Florida Congresswoman, who was acknowledging Teacher Appreciation Week, said the ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Guns and School Safety


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    After the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in December, State leaders promised that “everything” was on the table when it came to guns and school safety. Efforts to put a guidance counselor in every school to spot trouble, require schools to hold more frequent lockdown exercises…or a bill to ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Federal appeals court upholds ruling striking down Florida law banning hiring of firms with Cuba ties


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    @PatriciaMazzei A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a ruling that struck down a Florida law prohibiting the state and local governments from hiring companies with business ties to Cuba. The ruling continues to block the 2012 law from taking effect. The law “conflicts directly with the extensive and highly ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Democrats urge Medicaid special session, Weatherford says it doesnt make sense


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    Pressure is mounting on Gov. Rick Scott to call a special session to end the Legislatures impasse on Medicaid expansion. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and the 14 Democratic members of the Florida Senate sent separate letters today making that very request, but Scott isnt likely to oblige them if he doesnt think Republican ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Florida legislature rejects Medicaid expansion


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    Gov. Rick Scott Floridas Gov. Rick Scott broke ranks this spring, becoming the most prominent Republican, tea-party type governor to accept federal Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, even though he was probably only doing it to save his political skin . But the Republican House in Florida either doesnt care about ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Additional Commentary on the Florida Capital Legislation


    The StandDown Texas Project — Authority Authority: 154
    The Tampa Bay Times publishes the editorial, "Swift is not sure on death penalty." In Florida and other death penalty states, it can take years and even decades for evidence of a prisoners innocence to come out. Yet the Timely...
    2 weeks ago

  • Florida Legislature Adjourns


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    The Florida Legislature adjourned Friday, May 3, 2013, without passing an expansion of the state’s Medicaid program. Governor Rick Scott has not indicated whether he will call a special session, or leave the issue unresolved until the next legislative session. Photo of the Florida State Capitol building by Jenn ...
    2 weeks ago

  • The Rick Scott legacy: backwards Florida ... by gimleteye


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    Gov. Rick Scott and the GOP legislature used the worst crash in housing markets since the Great Depression to gut land use planning in Florida, a state that boasts virtually no other native industry than converting open space, wetlands, and farmland to platted subdivisions and condos. With voters distracted and easily ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Florida Opinion Roundup


    The StandDown Texas Project — Authority Authority: 154
    Todays Gainsville Sun and Lakeland Ledger in Florida publish the same editorial on the recent law passed by the Florida State Legislature. In the Sun its, "Fast but flawed." In the Ledger it carries the heading, "Sooner Executions: Death Penalty...
    2 weeks ago

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