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Daniel Nordby, former General Counsel to the Florida House of Representatives, is joining the Tallahassee office of the Shutts & Bowen law firm as a partner specializing in governmental affairs. Nordby, a civil litigator with extensive knowledge of Florida government, has worked on several high-profile, high-stakes matters of law and public policy. Currently serving as General Counsel under Speaker Will Weatherford, Nordby also acted as General Counsel to Florida’s Secretary of State and, through his private practice, as outside General…

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With a hat-tip to LobbyTools, here is latest on who is on and who is off the legislative staffing merry-go-round.  On: Brian Logan is in as acting staff director of the House Office of the Majority Leader, replacing Jeff Takacs. Logan was the the staff director of the House Office of the Majority Whip. Off: Ieva Smidt is no longer an executive assistant to the chief of staff in the House Speaker’s Office. Off: Katie Patchett has left her position as a legislative analyst in the House Speaker Pro Tempore…

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A morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. Today’s Rise and Shine Fact-iversary is brought to you by Sachs Media Group, the state’s dominant public affairs PR firm: Until this day 94 years ago, neither political party thought much about the “women’s vote” – because women didn’t have the right to participate in the electoral process. After more than 70 years of struggle by the women’s suffrage movement, Tennessee’s ratification made the 19th Amendment the law of the land, granting women…

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Attorneys for the League of Women Voters submitted an official public records request to the Florida Senate asking for all documents related to the recent redistricting trial. Dated August 14, a request to the Florida Senate was made through the Orlando-based law firm of King, Blackwell, Zehnder & Wermuth. Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis ruled that the GOP-controlled Legislature illegally drew Florida’s congressional districts to benefit the Republican Party. In 2010, Florida voters approved “Fair Districts” amendments to the state constitution,…

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Florida’s newest public university is officially open for business by showcasing the high-tech landmark on its Lakeland campus. Florida Polytechnic University – in a ceremony with Gov. Rick Scott, administrators, campus leaders and more than 1,000 supporters — unveiled its flagship Innovation, Science and Technology (IST) Building at a public LAUNCH Ceremony Saturday afternoon. The celebration featured an actual “launch,” highlighted by a vivid pyrotechnics display showering the IST Building and the adjacent campus lake. Joining Scott in the event were Commissioner of Agriculture Adam…

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In 1984, Ronald Reagan famously said, “I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” That’s not the case in House District 31, with the second negative turn on the GOP primary to replace term-limited state Rep. Bryan Nelson. A new mailer is appearing up in HD 31 mailboxes promoting businessperson Terri Seefeldt and her “life experience” while talking down Youth Development Leader Jennifer Sullivan, who is 23 years old. Nature Coast Conservatives, headed by Mark Zubaly from Southern…

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A two-hour flight from Florida to Washington D.C. is all U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland needs to forget who he works for, says a new Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ad launching today in Florida’s 2nd Congressional District. In the 30-second spot called “Flight Time,” the Panama City Republican is accused of “losing touch” with North Floridians, in order to give tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy. The DCCC calls it “just another example proving how Congressman Southerland’s Washington Way,” something…

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