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Despite bluster, Rick Scott administration moves ahead with hospital plan

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Gov. Rick Scott’s administration is taking steps to try to win federal approval of a plan to draw down federal health funds after being criticized for not doing enough to ensure supplemental hospital funding will flow to the state. The Agency for Health Care Administration has scheduled three, two-hour meetings in Orlando, Miami and Tallahassee on April 29, April 30 and May 1, respectively, to take public testimony on an amendment to its sweeping Medicaid 1115 waiver. The amendment is…

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Carly Fiorina says too many Americans have “flat, hopeless look”

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Call her the anti-Hillary. Carly Fiorina is the only woman considered a possible candidate for the Republican nomination for president in the current field. She presented a refined performance Saturday before hundreds of New Hampshire Republicans in the First in the Nation Republican Leadership Summit in Nashua. “Hilary Clinton must not become president of the United States,” Fiorina said in her speech, hardly a novel concept among speakers at this forum. “I was asked this morning on Fox News about…

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Rick Scott says feds are like The Sopranos, “bullying” Florida

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Gov. Rick Scott appeared on Fox News Thursday night and accused the federal government of behaving like the mafia and “bullying”  the state during negotiations over supplemental Medicaid dollars to pay Florida hospitals. “This is the Sopranos,” Scott said, referring to the hit HBO show about a New Jersey-based mafia family. “They are using bullying tactics to attack our state. It’s wrong. It’s outrageous they are doing this.” Scott announced early Thursday that he would sue the federal government because…

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Marco Rubio to announce next campaign on April 13

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Closing in on an expected announcement that he will run for president, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said Monday that he is planning a political event in two weeks in Miami to announce his 2016 plans. The first-term Republican from Florida, appearing on Fox News, did not explicitly say he is running for the White House, instead telling would-be supporters to go to his website and reserve tickets for the rally. “I will announce on April 13 what I’m going to…

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Jeff Atwater, David Jolly star at Pinellas GOP Lincoln Day Dinner

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As one of the major counties along the I-4 corridor, Pinellas County will undoubtedly be a contested piece of real estate in choosing the next president of the United States, and ensuring that it goes for the GOP nominee is in 2016 is the number one goal for Pinellas Republican over the next 18 months, according to recently elected party chair Nick DiCeglie. The 2016 election was mentioned frequently during the course of the two and a half-hour Lincoln Day…

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James Madison Institute dinner celebrates limited government and school choice

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The James Madison Institute 2015 Annual Dinner was a celebration of “The Florida Story: A Lasting Legacy.” More than 300 politicos and supporters attended the dinner Tuesday night on the campus of Florida State University. JMI was founded in 1987 by former FSU President Stanley Marshall to advance the limited government philosophy of its namesake, James Madison. “There are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment by those in power than…

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David Jolly takes Ryan Pate case to Fox News

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David Jolly made the case once again this morning for Ryan Pate, a Pinellas County constituent in a big legal mess overseas right now. Pate is the helicopter mechanic from Belleair Bluffs who was recently thrown in jail in the United Arab Emirates after he severely criticized his UAE-based employer on Facebook while in the States. He’s scheduled to go on trial in the UAE in 11 days for his critical remarks, where he could face up to five years…

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