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Rick Scott announces Feld Entertainment will expand in Manatee County

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Gov. Rick Scott today continued a string of jobs announcements, reporting today that Feld Entertainment, which moved its international headquarters from  Vienna, Va., to Ellenton, Fla.,  in 2013, will continue to expand its workforce in Florida by relocating the corporation’s Motor Sports division to Manatee County. The live-show production company will shift some 200 jobs and a $2.975 million capital investment to the southern Tampa Bay area. Feld vice president of finance and strategic planning Casey Rodgers said Florida’s active economic development…

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Rick Scott says new Accusoft HQ in Tampa will create scores of new jobs

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Gov. Rick Scott announced on Tuesday the opening of a new Accusoft headquarters will bring some 125 new jobs to the Tampa Bay area. According to a release from the Governor’s Office Accusoft, a “global provider of document, content and imaging solutions,” will expand its base of operations in Tampa, where the company was founded in 1991 under the moniker Pegasus Imaging Corp. Scott said in a statement the move is in keeping with his employment-centric mission as governor. “Each job that…

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‘It’s working!’: Executive agency veto statement round-up

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In the wake of this morning’s budgetary blood bath that left $431 million in state spending on the Rotunda floor, state senators have had a thing or two to say about Gov. Rick Scott‘s line-item veto spree. So have the governor’s many boosters within state governmental agencies, who worked up prepared statements and sent them out into the world today. Below is a selection of statements from the inside looking out. Department of Education — Education Commissioner Pam Stewart said, “We are fortunate…

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Tom Lee says House is ‘doing the bidding’ of Rick Scott on Enterprise Florida funding

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Senate budget Chief Tom Lee said on Monday the House is “doing the bidding” of Gov. Rick Scott in pushing to increase funds to Enterprise Florida. The remarks followed state Sen. Jack Latvala‘s abrupt move to adjourn the Tourism and Economic Development budget conferee meeting early Monday morning  just minutes into the meeting and as the House started to discuss a budget offer that would have increased funding at the agency charged with economic development. Lee said the offer was at…

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From horse trading to horse whipping: budget talks break down over economic incentives

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A day after Transportation & Economic Development budget conference chair state Sen. Jack Latvala touted his open, public approach to dealmaking with the House, things got testy at a Monday morning meeting as budget offers grew further apart and the conversation was brought to an abrupt end. Committee vice chair state Rep. Clay Ingram, like Latvala a Republican, began to present the House’s second bite of the TED conference apple on Monday, walking through a 10-page packet detailing his chamber’s positions on…

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