From Joy Reid, who is keeping her eye on…Allen West defends his vote to replace Medicare with vouchers at yet another town hall, this time admitting how he really feels about the program that’s so important to his Palm Beach constituents. WPTV in Boca Raton captured the action: BOCA RATON, Fla. – If those opposed to [...]
House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, said Friday night that the House and Senate appear to be close to a deal on Medicaid reform before the bill has been debated by the Senate, reports the News Service of Florida. Cannon said Rep. Rob Schenck, R-Spring Hill, and Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, have been negotiating a [...]
The House-Senate conference committee overseeing the transportation and economic development portion of the budget agreed on all but a handful of issues that will be bumped to leadership beginning this weekend, reports the News Service of Florida. At the same time, the two chambers struck a deal on a massive growth management bill, angering environmental [...]
The endgame on the state budget drew closer late Friday, as Senate Budget Chairman JD Alexander and House Appropriations Chairwoman Denise Grimsley met after a day of deal-making on the spending plan for the fiscal year that begins July 1, reports Brandon Larrabee of the News Service of Florida. The brief meeting between Alexander and [...]
AFP-FL applauds U.S. Senate candidates Adam Hasner and George LeMieux for signing the group’s “No Climate Tax Pledge.” Hasner and LeMieux join more than 500 bipartisan lawmakers and candidates on the federal, state and local levels pledging to “oppose legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue.” “We applaud candidates [...]
A Tallahassee woman has filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Erik Fresen, R-Miami, for failing to abstain on votes that involve charter schools, reports the News Service of Florida. Fresen’s sister and brother-in-law are principals in a for-profit charter school company called Academica, the complaint says. Trish Thompson, who filed the complaint, says “Fresen failed [...]
The House on Friday backed off a move in its latest budget offer that targeted the salaries of school district lobbyists, reports the News Service of Florida. At this morning’s Pre-K-12 budget conference meeting, Rep. Marti Coley, R-Marianna, included an addendum that said school districts may not spend more than $100,000 on contracted lobbyists. This [...]
A broad group of Floridians alarmed by a legislative proposal they say would dramatically alter access to the voting booth plan to raise their voices in opposition at the state Capitol on Monday morning. From election supervisors to the state’s senior U.S. senator to the Democratic Leadership in the state Senate and House, all agree [...]
What the hell is the matter with political candidates these days? Or, more to the point, why can’t politicians get out of the starting gate without tripping-up? Start with the most recent horse breaking from the gate, US Senate hopeful Adam Hasner, who at least had the decency to warn us with a Tweet: Because we [...]
As the conference committee on a sweeping House deregulation bill (HB 5005) began meeting, interior designers held a press conference Thursday to keep up pressure on lawmakers not to include their profession in the measure, reports the News Service of Florida. They say the change would keep interior designers from handling some commercial projects and [...]
