Scores of Florida House Republicans have sent a letter to U.S. Sens. Bill Nelson and George LeMieux urging them to oppose health care changes that will add an estimated 1.4 million Floridians to Medicaid, costing the state billions.
"With Florida already facing budget shortfalls of potentially $2.3 to 5.5 billion over the next two [...]
Public Counsel J.R. Kelly, the lawyer who represents the public before the Public Service Commission, told the House Energy and Utilities Committee today that he supports making the PSC more like a judicial body, instead of the quasilegislative, quasijudicial body it is.
"We should take a very strong look at commissioners acting [...]
Ray Sansom's lawyer today filed a motion that seeks to squash State Attorney Willie Meggs' appeal of a circuit decision throwing out part of the criminal charges against the former House speaker.
The motion with the First District Court of Appeal matches one previously filed by co-defendant Jay Odom.
"The [...]
On the day George LeMieux was sworn in as U.S. Senator, a black limousine pulled up outside the Capitol and out popped a well-dressed bunch including Scott Rothstein, the now-beleaguered lawyer and political fundraiser. That's the last we saw of him.
But Rothstein and entourage kept the party going later [...]
Gov. Charlie Crist today set a Feb. 2 primary and April 6 general election for the Congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton. Memo here.
Wexler surprised many last month by saying he was leaving Congress in January to join the Center for Middle East [...]
If there's one group that can sway loads of votes in Florida with a single blast e-mail, it's the NRA. And it just sent out this big, wet kiss of an e-mail in support of Sen. Paula Dockery, who is running against Attorney General Bill McCollum for governor:
ALERT Paula Dockery, [...]
With Republicans grappling with the fallout of an intra-party battle that may have cost them a House seat, the head of the Senate Republican campaign effort is making a pledge that may ease some of the anger being directed at the party establishment.
"We will not [...]
Sen. JD Alexander, clearly dissatisfied with the Department of Management Service's compliance with his monthslong push for a comprehensive inventory of state real estate and buildings, is considering legislation that would turn DMS into a Cabinet-level agency.
"There are some good people at DMS, and they're doing some good things," said [...]
Sen. Dan Gelber, the Miami Beach Democrat who's running for attorney general, used an appearance before Florida prosecutors Wednesday to push a series of legislative proposals aimed at restoring honesty in government. Gelber said historically, the Legislature has been "very cold" to the idea of cracking down on forms of corruption, but that [...]
A fake Twitter account aimed at discrediting a prominent critic of state GOP leaders appears to have been linked back to a senior official at the Republican Party of Florida. Brevard County Republican Chairman Jason Steele says three months after discovering someone was tweeting inflammatory messages using his name and [...]
Don Winstead, Gov. Charlie Crist's stimulus czar, briefed the Senate's budget committee Wednesday and said that, under federal formulas Florida can be credited for creating jobs or helping employ 47,069 directly, indirectly or by way of some complicated "induced" formula due to the federal stimulus package.
That doesn't mean, though, that 47,000 [...]
Surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren, former House Speaker and lobbyist John Thrasher was sworn in to the state Senate this morning -- taking the Jacksonville seat long held by Sen. Jim King, who died this summer of cancer.
King's current and former staffers and aides watched from the gallery [...]
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