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Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years’ experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at [email protected].

Alan Grayson’s hedge fund controversy comes down to details about 4th investor

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Controversy over U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson’s hedge funds is narrowing to a simple question that has sparked serious speculation: Was the SEC filing for his only active investment fund supposed to indicate three investors or four? whether his SEC filing for his only active fund was supposed to report three, or four, investors. The question was raised regarding his Securities and Exchange Commission filings for his fund originally known as the Grayson Fund LP, one of his hedge funds that are Delaware-based, not Cayman Islands-based. The answer…

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Club For Growth president David McIntosh eyeing more Florida races

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The fiscal conservatism political organization Club For Growth has its hands unusually full with the presidential race this year but is taking a close look at weighing in on several Florida races beyond the two it already has targeted. CFG President David McIntosh said Wednesday in Orlando that the fluidity of Florida’s congressional races, due in part to the redistricting ordered last fall, has the club looking at two or three more races. Club For Growth typically targets congressional and…

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Theme park companies have poured (at least) $2.77 million into state politics during 2016 election cycle

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Orlando’s theme park beheamoths — mostly Walt Disney companies — have already poured $2.77 million into campaign and political committees and parties for this election cycle so far, preferring Republicans by almost three to one over Democrats. Disney, as usual, is leading the way, with a combination of cash and in-kind services (typically providing tickets or opening theme parks or other Disney facilities to party events) worth $2.4 million in political contributions, according to campaign finance reports through Jan. 31, filed with the Florida Division…

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Bill Nelson expects Supreme Court nomination within month, hopes for hearing, vote

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Florida’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday he expects President Barack Obama to nominate someone within a month to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court and hopes the Senate will get a hearing and a vote. Nelson’s comments, coming at the ribbon cutting of a health care facility in Orange County, come in the wake of Republicans calls, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, that Obama should allow the next president to nominate Scalia’s replacement.…

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Alan Grayson campaign: Patrick Murphy abuses Valentine’s Day with smear attack

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The campaign of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson responded to his opponent U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy‘s attack by calling it an uninformed smear inconsistent with Valentine’s Day. Earlier Sunday, Murphy charged that Grayson has serious problems with criticism and ethics investigations of his handling of private hedge funds and should close the funds immediately and consider leaving the U.S. Senate race and even resigning his seat in Congress if any of the ethics violation allegations stick. Murphy…

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Bill Nelson, Alcee Hastings, Mario Diaz-Balart introduce Everglades bills

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A bipartisan group led by Florida’s U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and U.S. Reps. Alcee Hastings and Mario Diaz-Balart introduced bills Tuesday intended to green-light Everglades restoration projects by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nelson’s office reported. Nelson and Hastings, a Democrat from Palm Beach County, and Diaz-Balart, a Republican from Miami, are pushing a plan that had been dependent on an Army Corps of Engineers report that arrived too late in 2014 to allow the effort to be authorized in…

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Tribune Media puts Orlando Sentinel property up for sale, report says

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The buildings and land occupied by the Orlando Sentinel have been put up for sale by Tribune Media, the company that formerly owned the newspaper and still owns the real estate, according to GrowthSpotter. GrowthSpotter, a business news service that’s a sister publication of the Sentinel, cited anonymous sources “with direct knowledge” in reporting Saturday that the 18.69-acre property at the southeast corner of Colonial Drive and Orange Avenue is on the market. In 2014 the owner of the Orlando Sentinel…

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