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Mayernick Group — led by the husband and wife team of Frank Mayernick and Tracy Mayernick, along with governmental specialist Jodi Lea Snell — brought in nearly $870K in revenue for the second quarter of 2014. In Q2 2014, the Mayernick’s posted estimated maximum earnings of $649,960 in legislative fees, $219,978 for executive advocacy, for a total of up to $869,938, about $40,000 more than the firm’s first quarter numbers. The three-person lobbying team, as well as 44 legislative and…

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It’s of little surprise that education is a primary focus of Strategos Group, especially with a lobbying team that includes Jim Horne, who served as Jeb Bush’s first appointed Commissioner of Education, Georgia McKeown (also a former chief of staff at the Department of Education), as well as former Tampa state Rep. Trey Traviesa. Strategos brought in nearly $740K — $349,978 legislative and $389,976 executive – during the second quarter of 2014. That’s only about $10,000 off from the Q1…

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Florida mandates lobbying firms to file quarterly compensation reports, identifying clients and how much they are paid – but unlike the federal lobbyists, which are required to report exact figures – state lobbyist disclosures are limited to broad dollar ranges. Even with estimates, quarterly figures can often be an important tool, revealing patterns and trends in both current issues and legislative battles to come. Nevertheless, in the case of venerable Tampa law firm Pennington PA, the diverse client list makes…

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Robert Levy & Associates is one of South Florida’s leading lobbying and advocacy firms specializing in healthcare, debt collection and nursing. The Miami-based firm’s four-person lobbying team — founder Bob Levy, Jose Diaz, Jean Carlo Canabal and Erica Chanti — and 11 legislative and 14 executive clients brought in nearly $440K for the second quarter of 2014, mostly with a mix of healthcare, debt collection, process servers and municipal interests. Compensation for the second-quarter includes $289,976 from 11 legislative clients and…

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A day after he sent a letter to Duke Energy urging the company him to reconsider charging its customers more under a new billing schedule, Republican state Senator Jack Latvala has written to the state’s Public Service Commission asking it to “intervene” in the matter. As Ivan Penn of the Tampa Bay Times explained Wednesday: … Duke is reorganizing the way it reads meters. As a result, Duke is temporarily extending its billing cycle, typically a month, by as many as 12…

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Let me start at the beginning. We conducted a quick brushfire poll to see where things were in the contested (or what we assumed was contested) House District 96 Democratic primary and the results were, well, a little crazy. Of those who have already voted, Kristin Jacobs was beating, destroying, walloping (choose your term) Steve Perman by an unbelievable margin of 86 to 8 percent and 53 to 13 percent for the entire sample. Some simple calculations and it appears…

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With five days to go before the Primary, here is an update on the state of several state House races which have been described as relatively competitive during the course of the past several months; in some cases, that’s no longer accurate, while in other campaigns, the race is still up for grabs. St. Pete Polls was in the field on Wednesday evening and here are the results (full results can be accessed by clicking on the links): In House District…

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