A Tallahassee judge sided with life insurance companies Monday, restricting preliminary information-gathering by the state in defense of a new lawĀ requiring insurers to track down beneficiaries. The outside lawyer for the Department of Financial Services, which advocated for the measure, said he plans to appeal the decision that allows only limited discovery.
House Speaker Paul Ryan told a national cable television audience Thursday night that federal troops won’t beĀ coming after undocumented immigrants onceĀ Donald Trump takes power next week. But that comment aloneĀ isn’tĀ likely to reverse the high anxiety felt in that community. On Saturday, Latino immigrant rights groups are planningĀ for a national day of protest and activities around immigrant and refugee rights. On Friday, representatives from various organizations expressed their own concerns at a news conference inside the West Tampa offices ofĀ Mi Familia…
Eckerd CollegeĀ PresidentĀ Donald EastmanĀ has joined 109 other college and university presidents around the country urgingĀ Donald TrumpĀ to condemn acts of violence that have sporadically erupted since his stunning Electoral College victory for president 10Ā days ago. TheĀ Southern Poverty Law CenterĀ has counted more thanĀ 400 casesĀ of hateful harassment or intimidation in the U.S. since Election Day. And in aĀ video statement released Friday,Ā U.S. Attorney GeneralĀ Loretta LynchĀ said FBI statistics for 2015 showed a 67 percent increase in hate crimes against Muslim Americans. Hate crimes against Jewish people,…
Donald TrumpĀ named Republican National Committee ChairmanĀ Reince PriebusĀ his White House chief of staff, elevating one of his loyal GOP advisers with a deep expertise of the Washington establishment Trump has vowed to shake up. Priebus, a close ally of House SpeakerĀ Paul Ryan, called the appointment “an honor” and predicted the billionaire “will be a great president for all Americans.” Trump also namedĀ Stephen Bannon, his campaign CEO and executive on leave from conservative website Breitbart, to be the president-elect’s chief strategist and…
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is perennially one of the strongest financial supporters of Republicans around the country. The group spent more thanĀ $35 million in the 2014 midtermsĀ and hadĀ already spent more than $1.9 million for embattled Pennsylvania SenatorĀ Pat Toomey, more than a million for Arizona SenatorĀ John McCain, and $1.5 million in ads against Democratic Senate candidateĀ Patrick Murphy. TheĀ Chamber also spent some serious money on Republicans in contested congressional races,Ā spending more than $650,000 on Georgia RepublicanĀ Drew FergusonĀ and more than $200,000 on…
WhenĀ David JollyĀ introduced his legislation that wouldĀ prohibit federal lawmaker from directly soliciting political contributions, heĀ citedĀ New York DemocratĀ Steve Israel’sĀ admonition that he had spent roughly 4,200 hours on the phone asking people for money while in office as evidence of how gratuitous lawmakers are called on to dial for dollars. But Israel isn’t a fan of the proposal. “If I thought it would solve the problem, I would support it,” he told FloridaPolitics.com while briskly walking up Arch Street in downtown Philadelphia on…
Like Donald Trumpās narcissism, the misogyny driving the vitriol aimed at Hillary Clinton is bottomless. The best that can be said of the legions of her critics is that some, women among them, donāt know history. Worse yet, few who are puzzled by the vitriol directed at Clinton bother to see her through the lens of her experience as a woman. Clinton is part of the last generation of women who could only gain access to political power through their…