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Happy birthday this week to these Florida politicos, including Reps. Bileca and Braxson, Stephen Gately, Kristy Campbell and Janet Zink

Happy birthday this week to these Florida politicos, including Reps. Bileca and Braxson, Stephen Gately, Kristy Campbell and Janet Zink

It’s one of the busiest political weeks of the year, so don’t forget these important political birthdays (if I am missing someone special, e-mail me at saintpeter4@gmail.com): Tuesday, March 6 – Stephen Gately Thursday, March 8 – Rep. Michael Bileca Friday, March 9 – Kristy Campbell, Adam Smith Saturday, March 10 – Angelette Aviles, Rep. [...]

March 5 2012 | Posted in Headlines, Statewide | Read More »

Happy Birthday to Rep. Carlos Lopez-Cantera

Happy Birthday to Rep. Carlos Lopez-Cantera

Happy Birthday to Rep. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, who has the distinction of having the last legislative birthday of the year.

December 29 2011 | Posted in Headlines, Statewide | Read More »

Happy Birthday to Chris Latvala

Happy Birthday to Chris Latvala

How about for Chris Latvala‘s birthday, we all agree to think of UCF as a football powerhouse — at least for one day.  Chris frekin’ loves his Golden Knights, or whatever the hell the mascot is for the University of Central Florida. But that’s Chris Latvala: unfailingly loyal.  Loyal to his family. Loyal to his [...]

December 29 2011 | Posted in Apolitical, Headlines | Read More »

A must-read from Inside the Lines: What Florida’s congressional districts could look like under ‘Fair Districts’

A must-read from Inside the Lines: What Florida’s congressional districts could look like under ‘Fair Districts’

Juris Doctorate candidate Nicholas Ortiz recently finished the onerous congressional redistricting task that Florida lawmakers just began. The work is based largely on the 2010 U.S. Census population for Florida of roughly 18.8 million. Ortiz’s challenge was to draw 27 districts instead of the current 25, each with the same population of about 696,345. In [...]

May 20 2011 | Posted in Headlines, The Bay and the 'Burg | Read More »

A tipping point for gay marriage?

A tipping point for gay marriage?

Like yesterday’s poll on the issue, Gallup’s new poll via Andrew Sullivan on marriage equality finds majority support, with the biggest annual shift in opinion since the poll began. The divide: Democrats’ and independents’ support for legalized same-sex marriage increased this year by 13 and 10 points, respectively. Republicans’ views on the issue did not change from [...]

May 20 2011 | Posted in Headlines, Politix | Read More »

Randy “Macho Man” Savage dies in car accident

Randy “Macho Man” Savage dies in car accident

Macho Man Randy Savage, who is considered one of the most famous wrestlers of all-time, died in a car accident Friday morning, TMZ is reporting. According to TMZ , Savage had a heart attack at the wheel of his car and lost control. Savage, 58, was famous for his flamboyant style and catch phrase, “Ooh YEAH!” [...]

May 20 2011 | Posted in Apolitical, Headlines | Read More »

Wengay Newton facing familiar foe in Gershom Faulkner

Wengay Newton facing familiar foe in Gershom Faulkner

When Gershom Faulkner ran against Wengay Newton in 2007 for the District 7 seat, many considered Faulkner the favorite. After all, it was Faulkner, a self-employed business and political consultant, who had the endorsements of then-mayor Rick Baker and other top officials. But it was Newton who won. Now, Newton will have to do it again. Since [...]

May 20 2011 | Posted in Headlines | Read More »

Chris Ingram’s only been completely wrong twice this week…

Chris Ingram’s only been completely wrong twice this week…

Not only was their no “mutiny” at Republican Party of Florida’s quarterly meeting, as Chris Ingram predicted, but Chris’ other brilliant prognostication this week failed to materialize.  From Ingram’s Twitter feed: @IrreverentView: I’m going to bed. still expext Hogan will be mayor-elect tomorrow in Jax. #jaxmayor #rpof #sayfie Of course, before going to bed, Ingram had already called [...]

May 20 2011 | Posted in Headlines, Media & Tech | Read More »

***Updated***Because of new election laws, some Florida ballots have to be mailed no later than June 30, 2012

***Updated***Because of new election laws, some Florida ballots have to be mailed no later than June 30, 2012

Do the math with me… The now-in-effect changes to Florida’s elections pushes the date of the state’s primary to August 14.  State law requires ballots being mailed to military and overseas absentee voters to be sent no later than 45 days before the election.  Looking at the calendar, that means ballots will start flying no [...]

May 20 2011 | Posted in Headlines, Statewide | Read More »

A look inside the numbers shows why Republicans don’t like allowing early voting on weekends

A look inside the numbers shows why Republicans don’t like allowing early voting on weekends

Why do Republicans oppose weekend voting and expanded early-voting hours on weekends? Look at the numbers below (from 2010) and you can quickly see that Democrat voters like to vote on weekends (probably right after they visit their local farmers’ market):

May 20 2011 | Posted in Headlines, Statewide | Read More »

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