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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. RANDOM DRAW TURNS INTO GAME OF POLITICAL DOMINOES The random renumbering of Florida’s state Senate districts Tuesday, notes Jeremy Wallace of the Tampa Bay Times “touched off a series of complicated twists that one key lawmaker said only adds more chaos to a continuing redistricting saga.” Renumbering is important, at least in part, because the assignment of odd or…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. THE FUTURE OF THE FREEDOM-LOVING WORLD IS AT STAKE TODAY! – Today, at 9 a.m. in the rather nondescript Room 412 of the Knott Building at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Auditor General Sherrill Norman will use a Microsoft Excel random number generation program to assign the district numbers to Florida’s forty state Senate seats. With this lottery, so goes the…

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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. ON TURNING 40 Today is my 40th birthday. First of all, thank God for allowing me to live this long … to be born an American … and for all of the gifts he has bestowed. The only way to appropriately reflect on turning forty is by thinking back to when I turned thirty. What a disaster I was then.…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. VOTE FOR THE TOP FLORIDA MAN HEADLINES OF 2015 Understatement Alert: “Florida is home to many of the nation’s oddest news stories.” That’s the opening to a new blog post at Sachs Media Group, where 2015 is ending with a contest to name the “‘Florida Man’ of the Year,” based on a selection of Top 10 wacky…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica, and material from the Associated Press. FIRST AND FOREMOST — HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my good friends, Rep. Chris Latvala and Charlie Dudley, managing partner of Floridian Partners and chronicler of high school basketball. Both men share more than a birthday, they are both also dedicated friends with oversized, generous hearts. If only Chris enjoyed Charlie’s love of good red…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. With just three days before New Year’s Day, Florida politics finds itself in a dichotomy. On one hand, the business of state and local government is in a holiday slumber. The capital is as quiet as a Christmas mass, despite many in The Process dreading the early start to the 2016 Legislative Session. On the other hand,…

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