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Dena Minning files to succeed beau Alan Grayson in Orlando congressional seat

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Dr. Dena Minning — a medical doctor and “biotechnology entrepreneur” — has officially filed to succeed her boyfriend and fellow Democrat U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson in the Orlando-based 9th Congressional District, according to records filed today with the Federal Election Commission. The move makes formal a move that was expected for months, shortly after rumors intensified that Grayson would leave his safe, minority-plurality House district to make a run for the Senate seat being vacated by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio. Minning joins a heated, now…

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Jeb Bush can’t satisfy anyone with his stances on immigration

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Although Jeb Bush’s moderate stances on immigration have been portrayed as a potential drag on his chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination, it’s immigration advocates who are speaking out critically today, his first full day as an official candidate for president. In Derry, N.H., Bush conducted a sit-down interview with Sean Hannity that will be broadcast later tonight on Fox News. When pressed by the conservative talk-show host that securing the southern border with Mexico should be his first action…

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Session is over: Supreme Court rules against Senate Ds

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The Supreme Court of Florida on Friday refused to grant a writ of mandamus to Senate Democrats who were seeking to compel the Florida House to return to Tallahassee to finish the 2015 regular legislative session. But five of the seven justices opined that the House’s actions violated the state Constitution as the Democrats argued. In a unanimous ruling, the court denied the write of mandamus because Democrats failed to show that the issuance of the writ of mandamus “would…

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Senate Democrats talk lawsuit and tweets

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In a Friday afternoon press conference on the last regularly scheduled day of the 2015 legislative session lawmakers weren’t voting on the budget or scurrying to get their bills passed in the waning hours. Instead, Senate Democrats held a press conference addressing a suit they had filed in the Florida Supreme Court over the abrupt sine die of the House on Tuesday and answering questions about an offensive Tweet posted by state Rep. Matt Gaetz. An odd press conference in…

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Steve Crisafulli says he has no plans to call legislators back ‘at this time’

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House Speaker Steve Crisafulli sent a memo to representatives Thursday telling them he had no intention of calling them back to Tallahassee because of a lawsuit filed in the Florida Supreme Court by Senate Democrats. “We strongly disagree with the arguments that were filed by 13 Democrat members of the Senate and believe that the House’s actions complied with the Constitution and the historic practices of both Chambers. Accordingly, I have no plans to ask you to return to Tallahassee at…

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Water, fracking bills die as Senate meets without House

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A House bill establishing comprehensive water policy was amended and passed by the Senate on Wednesday but was dead because the House had adjourned on Tuesday. And House bills dealing with hydraulic fracturing were not voted on in the Senate because their Senate sponsor said they lacked the two-thirds vote needed. The 2015 legislative session continued in an unusual atmosphere on Wednesday with the Senate taking up bills after the House adjourned amid a budget impasse over healthcare spending. A…

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Florida Senate panel postpones vote on gay adoption ban

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In Tallahassee this afternoon, a Senate committee postponed a vote on a controversial bill that would allow private adoption agencies in Florida to be able to turn away same-sex couples based on religious and moral beliefs. The fate of the legislation is now in question. Chairman David Simmons said he would confer with Senate President Andy Gardiner on what to do next with the measure, which passed the entire House of Representatives earlier this month. The Conscience Protection for Actions of Private…

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