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Ryan Ray writes about campaigns and public policy in Tampa Bay and across the state. A contributor to FloridaPolitics.com and before that, The Florida Squeeze, he covers the Legislature as a member of the Florida Capitol Press Corps and has worked as a staffer on several campaigns. He can be reached at [email protected].

Gwen Graham performs work day at rural North Florida textile plant

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U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham held another district “work day” today in Chipley, the seat of tiny — and heavily Republican — Washington County in the northwest part of her sprawling 2nd Congressional District. The move is at once a continuation of her preeminent father Bob Graham‘s work days, in which the former Florida governor and senator worked hundreds of shifts across the state alongside mostly poor and middle-class workers, as well as a way of promoting the freshman’s new legislative effort in…

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Activists to rally against Klan tonight at Capitol; militia group vows counter-protest

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Amid reports of ongoing public recruitment efforts on the part of a Ku Klux Klan-affiliated group — this reporter received a pro-Klan flyer last month in midtown Tallahassee — the city’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society will march from the campus of Florida State University to the state Capitol this evening as a public symbol of opposition to white supremacy in the capital city. “We’re out here because the KKK has been flyering in our neighborhoods, just minutes…

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Gwen Margolis’ ‘palcohol’ ban progresses in Senate

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A bill to prohibit the sale of powdered alcohol — known in industry lingo as ‘palcohol’ — before it has even arrived at Florida retailers passed another test in the Senate on Thursday. The ban was unanimously approved by the Rules Committee. State Sen. Gwen Margolis’ SB 998 now awaits a vote by the full Senate. Brandon state Sen. Tom Lee spoke for a lot of casual observers as well as his panel-mates when he asked Margolis — like Lee, a former Senate president…

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Could Eric Eisnaugle’s speakership become a casualty of House gay adoption fight?

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As debate over a bill to protect “religious conscience” — the upshot of which is to prevent gay couples from adopting children — raged for hours Wednesday afternoon on the floor of the House, another battle in the Capitol was just beginning: one that might cost staunch social conservative state Rep. Eric Eisnaugle the 2021-22 House speakership. Simply put, a coup is afoot in the House. The immediate cause of the falling-out seems to be a failure on Eisnaugle’s part…

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Jim Waldman lends himself $200k to jump start Senate campaign

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Former Coconut Creek city commissioner and former state Rep. Jim Waldman has kicked in $200,000 of his own money to his bid to succeed Margate state Sen. Jeremy Ring in the state Senate, according to recent filings with the Division of Elections. Waldman is putting his money where his mouth is with a substantial personal investment in taking over for the term-limited Ring, who like Waldman is known as a well-heeled Democrat capable of bringing home the bacon, both personally and in the…

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As Dana Young pushes reworked House gaming plan, Senators file amendments

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When House Majority Leader Dana Young of Tampa filed her new, somewhat less provocative House gambling proposal, a careful observer could already hear the gears turning in the Senate. Though Young originally called her sprawling original plan merely a “work in progress,” it ruffled more than a few feather upon its release. The anti-gambling group No Casinos immediately came out with a statement trashing the plan, saying it provided for “the biggest expansion of gambling in the history of Florida,” with all “the social costs and crime…

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Republicans sweep NE Florida House, Senate special elections

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Rep. Travis Hutson prevailed big time in his bid to jump up to the Legislature’s upper chamber today, defeating Democratic nominee Adam Cox by a margin 69.7 to 30.3 with all precincts reporting. Hutson will become senator-elect in District 6 tonight at midnight. Down the ballot, the battle to replace Hutson — who in turn is resigning from the House to take former state Sen. John Thrasher‘s old seat — in House District 24 was won by Paul Renner, who thrashed Democrat Adam Morley, garnering 67 percent of…

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