Game changer in District 3: Chris Hart, Sr. files to run on last day of qualifying
Via the Bay Buzz: On the last day of qualifying, former Hillsborough County Commissioner
Personnel note: Rick Scott adds to Gov.'s office staff
Governor Rick Scott today announced further staff appointments in the Executive Office of the Governor. Scott announced the appointments of Doug Darling as Deputy Chief of Staff/Director of Cabinet Affairs, Jesse Panuccio and C.B Upton as Deputy General Counsels, Melinda Miguel as Chief Inspector General, and Brian Hughes as Deputy Communications Director.
Scott, media adjusting to differing ideas on access
Gov. Rick Scott’s public schedule on Wednesday left out the fact that he was holding a dinner for a group of seven lawmakers at the governor’s mansion that night. To be clear, he didn’t have to include it, or tell anyone about it. Rigorous as Florida’s public access laws are, they don’t require the governor to announce every event or meeting. But the omission was the latest reflection of the fact that the current governor has his own ideas about…
Is a deal in the works between Dave Bitner and Deborah Cox-Roush?
That’s what this report from Sunshine State News suggests: According to sources who spoke confidentially to Sunshine State News, Cox-Roush and Bitner have “an arrangement” going in to Saturday’s RPOF elections. The agreement stipulates that the winner will support the other for vice chair. Cox-Roush rejected that scenario on her part, saying, “I am not a candidate for vice chairman.” Bitner was not available for comment.
Check out the new-and-improved yard sign from Dick Greco
Photographer unknown.
And the absolute, hands-down winner of the race for RPOF Chair is…
…Florida Democratic Party chair Rod Smith. No matter who the Republicans select as Chair of their party this weekend, the absolute, hands-down winner of the race is newly installed Democratic leader Rod Smith, who was elected by acclimation and has nowhere to go but up. In contrast, the leader of the Florida GOP, whoever it is, will have been elected as part of the most contentious intramural scrum this side of a rugby field.
Rep. Rick Kriseman files term-limit legislation
In an effort to tame the influence of money in politics and do away with Florida