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Tampa Bay Times’ mind-boggling figures in ‘rooftop solar fight’ don’t add up

Published on November 2, 2016 in Peter/Top Headlines by Peter Schorsch

Consider the eye-grabbing Tampa Bay Times’ front-page headline Wednesday: $43M spent to limit solar. Beyond the silliness of assuming that every dollar utilities donated this cycle is part of a plot to fight rooftop solar — as if there is nothing else they care about — the story is screwed up six ways to Sunday. If a politician were to use these numbers, PolitiFact would rate them somewhere in the range of Mostly False to Pants on Fire. Let’s start from the top: “Lost…

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Solar Amendment 1 committee takes in another $3.5M, now at $25M raised

Published on October 31, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Drew Wilson

The committee backing Amendment 1 took in $3.5 million in contributions last week, including another $3 million from utility companies. Consumers for Smart Solar received $2 million from Florida Power & Light, $1 million from Duke Energy, and $250,000 each from conservative retirement group the 60 Plus Association and from a group called “Let’s Preserve the American Dream.” Consumers has now raised more than $25 million this cycle, with more than $20 million of that money coming from the state’s…

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Duke, FPL fuel pro-David Jolly super PAC

Published on October 28, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Peter Schorsch

U.S. Rep. David Jolly’s re-election campaign in Florida’s 13th Congressional District took in $625,000 over the first 19 days of October, with half coming from utility companies. People for Pinellas, the committee backing the incumbent Republican, received a $250,000 check from Florida Power & Light and another $100,000 from Duke Energy, with the American Society of Anesthesiologists PAC donating $100,000, and St. Pete businessmen James MacDougald and Bill Edwards giving $50,000 apiece. Jolly has been on the receiving end of attack…

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Dwight Dudley, activists slam David Jolly; Jolly’s spokeswoman slams Charlie Crist

Published on October 25, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Anne Lindberg

Outgoing Democratic state Rep. Dwight Dudley and several Pinellas activists gathered Tuesday to call out U.S. Rep. David Jolly for his “failure to stand up for” the people of Congressional District 13. Dudley and the others gathered in Williams Park, across from Duke Energy, which they accused of “ripping off” consumers. “Big energy companies like Duke Energy continue to rip off Florida’s working families, over billing consumers by millions of dollars,” Dudley said. “David Jolly took thousands of dollars in…

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Solar amendment backers raise another $560K, now at over $22M

Published on October 24, 2016 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Staff Reports

The committee backing Amendment 1 took in another $560,000 between Oct. 7 and Oct. 14, all of it from Florida Power & Light. Consumers for Smart Solar has now raised more than $22 million this cycle and had about $1.5 million of that money on hand Oct. 14. FPL has donated about $6.1 million of Consumers’ total fundraising, with another $5.7 million coming from Duke Energy, $3 million from Tampa Electric, and $2.2 million from Gulf Power Company. The utility-backed…

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Outside group hits David Jolly over nuke fees

Published on October 4, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

House Majority PAC is out with its second ad of the political cycle attacking David Jolly — this time on Florida’s controversial nuclear cost recovery law. Called “Cost,” the ad hits the Congressional District 13 Republican for taking thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Duke Energy while saying he was doing nothing to stop the utility from charging taxpayers for a nuclear power plant that will never be built. The ad opens with a St. Petersburg couple identified as “Lucinda and Howard…

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Direct mail round up: Consumers for Smart Solar making pitch to vote ‘Yes on 1″

Published on September 19, 2016 in Statewide by Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster

The push to vote “Yes on 1” is underway. Mailers from Consumers for Smart Solar are hitting Floridians’ mailboxes, encouraging them to support the solar initiative. The mailers call the proposal a “straightforward plan that encourages solar.” The amendment is backed by the state’s major electric companies, and outlines the rules for solar power in Florida. It would put existing law dealing with the rights of homeowners and businesses to own or lease solar equipment into the state Constitution. According…

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Tampa Bay Times’ mind-boggling figures in ‘rooftop solar fight’ don’t add up

Solar Amendment 1 committee takes in another $3.5M, now at $25M raised

Duke, FPL fuel pro-David Jolly super PAC

Dwight Dudley, activists slam David Jolly; Jolly’s spokeswoman slams Charlie Crist

Solar amendment backers raise another $560K, now at over $22M

Outside group hits David Jolly over nuke fees

Direct mail round up: Consumers for Smart Solar making pitch to vote ‘Yes on 1″

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