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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. ARE DONALD TRUMP’S DAY AS THE REPUBLICAN FRONTRUNNER NUMBERED? If you believe a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, the answer may be yes. The survey of national Republican primary voters showed Ted Cruz leading Trump, 28 percent to 26 percent. It is the first time since November that Trump has fallen to the No.…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. With just three weeks left in the 2016 Legislative Session, there was a flurry activity by lawmakers in Tallahassee following the President Day’s holiday weekend. Among the developments included Senator Joe Negron’s statement that he believes he has the votes to pass his amendment that would allow six counties who have who have already conducted voter-approved referenda…

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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. IT’S A PRETTY GOOD TIME TO BE A LOBBYIST via Peter Schorsch’s new column in the Tallahassee Democrat It’s a pretty good time to be a lobbyist in Florida. As various groups clamor for the attention of lawmakers in statehouses across the nation, a new report shows the Sunshine State enjoys one of the highest…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray and Jim Rosica ICYMI (BUT HOW COULD YOU MISS IT) SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA FOUND DEAD IN TEXAS via The Associated Press – U.S. Marshals Service in Washington confirmed Scalia’s death at a private residence in the Big Bend area of South Texas … Scalia had retired the previous evening and was found dead in the morning after he did not…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. GUT CHECK: LEGILSATIVE SESSION REACHES MIDPOINT Mind if we lead Sunburn with something other than Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio? With the half-way mark of the 60-day 2016 Legislative Session on Wednesday, the theme so far is like a line from a Frankie Valli song: “… so close/And yet so far.” Take the 2016-17 state budget, the…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica DONALD TRUMP, BERNIE SANDERS TRIUMPH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE As expected, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump were the winners in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night, and it wasn’t even close. Sanders and Trump were projected by the Associated Press as the winners of the respective Democratic and Republican primaries at 8 p.m. eastern…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. New Hampshire voters go to the polls today, in what is being predicting to be a record 550,00 cast in the first-in-the-nation’s presidential primary. Secretary of State Bll Gardner believes 282,000 Republican ballots will be cast, a record for the GOP, with 268,000 Democratic ballots, which would the second highest, behind the Obama-Clinton 2008 race.…

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