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Panel OKs erasing Confederate flag from Senate seal

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The Florida Senate’s Rules Committee on Thursday unanimously recommended removing a Confederate flag from the chamber’s official seal and replacing it with the state flag. Senators on the panel voted for the move 9-0. The matter now goes before the full Senate, which could consider it at the beginning of the 2016 Legislative Session in January. The change will require a two-thirds vote of the chamber. As reported earlier, the Senate is reviewing its seal after a renewed debate about Confederate symbols,…

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Bill filed to replace Confederate general statue at U.S. Capitol

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A Miami-Dade lawmaker introduced legislation on Tuesday to replace the statue of a Confederate Army general at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. If passed, the bill (HB 141) would ask Congress to remove the statue of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith and replace it with another “prominent Florida citizen.” The new statue would be paid for by the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, the bill says. The bill was filed by state Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, the Miami Republican who chairs…

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Mitch Perry Report 8.25.15 – Will Florida GOP Legislature pay any price in ’16?

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In a just, accountability-fueled society, Florida Republican lawmakers would pay a price next year for the shenanigans they’ve been up to this year. As reported by the AP’s Gary Fineout, the nine-day June special session that occurred after House Speaker Steve Crisafulli pulled his members off the floor 72 hours before the session was scheduled to end in the spring cost taxpayers $651,000, the costliest special session in the past 15 years. We won’t know for awhile what the costs will be…

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Today on Context Florida: Confederate flags, Hillsborough County and thank goodness for Alan Grayson

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Today on Context Florida: With all due respect to serious prayer, Peter Schorsch says what is on the mind of every political pundit in the state or anyone who loves reading about Florida politics. As U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-No Filter Whatsoever) enters the race for U.S. Senate, we are thrilled. Yes, we are all bowing our heads and doing a Tim Tebow at our respective desks: “Dear Lord, thank you! Thank you!” When Catherine Durkin Robinson taught high school, several…

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Kickstarter project aims to erect unity flag next to giant I-4 Confederate flag

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The giant Confederate flag on Florida’s I-4 highway has been pissing people off since it went up in 2008. It’s 30 feet tall and 60 feet wide and flies 139 feet in the air. When you drive by, it’s like the thing’s screaming at you — what it says depends on where you stand on the matter. A group called Harmony Branch clearly doesn’t like it. And the organization is ready to scream even louder than the notorious Stars and Bars flying…

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NASCAR fans defend, display Confederate flags at Daytona

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Steven Rebenstorf has numerous flags flying atop his canopy tent inside Daytona International Speedway. The Confederate flag is front and center. It’s been like that for years. And the 57-year-old Rebenstorf has no plans to take it down — not even if NASCAR decides to ban the embattled flag from its racetracks. “They’d have to come and get it,” Rebenstorf said Saturday, pointing out that his American flag purposely flies a few inches higher than the rest. Rebenstorf and others…

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Gary Stein: Symbols and cymbals mark Fourth of July

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As we prepare to celebrate the holiday formally called Independence Day but more commonly known as the Fourth of July, visions of fireworks, barbecue and red, white and blue come to mind. But, taking a step back, I think a more apropos name, albeit less patriotic sounding would be to call it Symbols Day. Most holidays are filled with symbolism, but as secular, government-sanctioned holidays go, “The Fourth” beats them all. Symbols can range from icons to symbolic acts. Flags…

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