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Florida Businesses for a Competitive Workforce names Patrick Slevin as campaign manager

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In preparation for the upcoming 2016 Florida legislative session, Florida Businesses for a Competitive Workforce (FBCW) named GOP consultant Patrick Slevin as its new campaign manager. Slevin will help lead the bipartisan coalition to pass the Competitive Workforce Act, which seeks to modernize state law to include anti-discrimination protection based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. During the 2015 session, state Rep. Holly Raschein, a Key Largo Republican, and Democratic state Sen. Joe Abruzzo from Boynton Beach filed…

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Floridians for Fair Business Practices decries House panel’s ‘whiskey and Wheaties’ thumbs down

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Pro-growth business group Floridians for Fair Business Practices said members of the House Regulatory Affairs Committee were regrettably in error when they shot down state Rep. Greg Steube’s HB 107, the so-called “whiskey and Wheaties” bill that would allow big retailers and grocers to sell liquor in the same store as regular groceries in a cordoned-off place specially designated for that purpose. “On behalf of Floridians for Fair Business Practices coalition, we are disappointed that the House committee did not side in…

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‘Whiskey and Wheaties’ bill goes down in House panel

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A proposal to allow big-box grocers and retailers to sell hard liquor in a cordoned-off section of a larger store — the so-called “whiskey and Wheaties” bill, for those keeping score at home in this year’s legislative food fights — was rejected by a House panel Tuesday afternoon, likely bringing an end to the effort supported by retail giants like Walmart and Target this session. After a debate that took up the lion’s share of the third hour of the…

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