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Will Pam Bondi stay or will she go now?

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Attorney General Pam Bondi played coy with the press Tuesday over continued questions about whether she would be joining President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. Bondi, an adviser to Trump’s presidential transition team, met with him Friday at Trump Tower in New York. After that meeting, she told the press, “I’m very happy being the Attorney General of the state of Florida right now.” Asked again after the Florida Cabinet meeting, she joked with a reporter, “I knew you were going to be…

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Rep. Darryl Rouson shares personal story to help start annual Red Ribbon Week

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Drug czar Gil Kerlikowske shared his views on the importance of treatment for drug addicts — while state Rep. Darryl Rouson shared his story of addiction and recovery — during a kick-off breakfast for the yearly Red Ribbon Week drug prevention program. Read the rest of this story after the jump. Arrests and draconian sentencing laws alone aren’t helping the country win the war on drugs, America’s drug czar told a group of community leaders. “Treatment and prevention can be…

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