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Rick Scott-led pro-Donald Trump super PAC struggles, scales back

Published on September 3, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by Phil Ammann

Rebuilding America Now, the Rick Scott-run super PAC intended to be the main advertising support for Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is struggling after the departure of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. CNN is reporting that individuals associated with Rebuilding America are beginning to worry as donors ignore repeated pleas for last-minute cash. At first, the super PAC was imagined as a force to compete with Democrat Hillary Clinton’s $100-million-plus operation. Now, Scott and others are scaling back operations, instead focusing…

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News conference amid reports Donald Trump aide won’t be prosecuted

Published on April 14, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press

A Florida prosecutor’s office plans to hold a news conference amid reports that presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s campaign manager won’t be prosecuted over a videotaped altercation with a female reporter. In an e-mail, Mike Edmondson of Palm Beach County state attorney Dave Aronberg‘s office says there will be a news conference at 2 p.m. Thursday. Edmondson would not say what the news conference will be about. Police in Jupiter, Florida, charged Corey Lewandowski with simple battery, a misdemeanor, last month.…

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Diane Roberts: Yale tells Rick Scott it’s not ready to swap ivy for kudzu

Published on April 4, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Diane Roberts

It’s springtime! and idiocy is in full Florida bloom. The state Supreme Court just ruled that a disingenuous and dissembling solar energy initiative is good to go on this November’s ballot. The proposed amendment, “masquerading as pro-solar” (in the words of dissenting justice Barbara Pariente), is sponsored by utility companies. Yes, utility companies, those nice people who charge the taxpayers for power plants they may not even build, those great environmentalists who want solar about as much as you want…

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Today on Context Florida: Jupiter police blotter, Pam Bondi & climate change, corporate child abuse and when the bad voices win

Published on April 1, 2016 in Apolitical by Phil Ammann

Today on Context Florida: Donald Trump’s campaign manager is now part of the Jupiter, Florida police blotter, says Bob Sparks. His victim, according to the probable cause affidavit, is a battered and bruised former reporter for the conservative Breitbart News. Corey Lewandowski and Michelle Fields were not household names before this avoidable public spectacle. If the cable news outlets and bloggers have their way, the video capturing the incident will loop over and over again. As all of this plays out,…

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Police charge Donald Trump campaign manager with battery

Published on March 29, 2016 in 2017/Top Headlines by Associated Press

Florida police have charged Donald Trump‘s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski with simple battery in connection with an incident earlier in the month involving a reporter. Police in Jupiter, Florida, issued Lewandowski a notice Tuesday to appear before a judge on May 4 for the misdemeanor charge. A surveillance video released by the police appears to show Lewandowski grabbing a reporter for Breitbart News as she tried to ask Trump a question during a March 8 campaign event. The Trump campaign…

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Marco Rubio says he’d order up Tex-Mex in his first meal in the White House

Published on September 30, 2015 in 2017/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

Marco Rubio talks policy and his own personality in a quick Q&A with the Skimm, the daily email newsletter designed for millennial women. The Florida senator, who has had a topsy-turvy relationship with primary voters in the GOP presidential polls since declaring his candidacy back in April, has now become the favorite of the media again following his impressive performance in the second debate at the Reagan Library earlier this month. Rubio tells the Skimm that he considers his strong beliefs…

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