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Reportersā€™ roundtable: Lawmakers back again, and again, to Tallahassee

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Expect Florida lawmakers to spend a long hot summer in Tallahassee. And they will be at the state Capitol for a pretty contentious fall as well. And they just might, with a little luck, be able to fit in a holiday break before returning for the 2016 legislativeĀ session in January. Thatā€™s the consensus of a handful of Capitol reporters who spoke Wednesday at a Florida Leadership luncheon co-hosted by Sachs Media Group about the busted 2015 session that failed to…

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FDLE head says severance deal with Jim Greer not ‘pertinent’ to investigation

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From Gary Fineout: The head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said on Tuesday that the proposed severance agreement thatĀ Jim Greer reached with Republican Party of Florida officials this year was not ā€œpertinentā€ to the investigation that resulted in Greerā€™s arrest. ButĀ Gerald Bailey, the FDLE commissioner, said that ā€œthings are known now that were not known when that severance agreement was executed. So I donā€™t really see that that is pertinent.ā€™ā€™ Look for more on this issue from Gary…

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FDLE head says severance deal with Jim Greer not ‘pertinent’ to investigation

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From Gary Fineout: The head of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said on Tuesday that the proposed severance agreement thatĀ Jim Greer reached with Republican Party of Florida officials this year was not ā€œpertinentā€ to the investigation that resulted in Greerā€™s arrest. ButĀ Gerald Bailey, the FDLE commissioner, said that ā€œthings are known now that were not known when that severance agreement was executed. So I donā€™t really see that that is pertinent.ā€™ā€™ Look for more on this issue from Gary…

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Gary Fineout: Here’s one Democratic stronghold that could go for Charlie Crist

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From one of Florida’s best political reporters, Gary Fineout: It probably didn’t get much notice outside of Leon County, butĀ Gov. Charlie Crist did something last week that may have given him an edge in at least one Democratic stronghold. Crist on Friday vetoed a state retirement bill that would have reduced the interest earnings paid to state workers who enter a special kind of program known as the Deferred Retirement Option Program or DROP. This program is basically designed to…

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Gary Fineout: Here’s one Democratic stronghold that could go for Charlie Crist

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From one of Florida’s best political reporters, Gary Fineout: It probably didn’t get much notice outside of Leon County, butĀ Gov. Charlie Crist did something last week that may have given him an edge in at least one Democratic stronghold. Crist on Friday vetoed a state retirement bill that would have reduced the interest earnings paid to state workers who enter a special kind of program known as the Deferred Retirement Option Program or DROP. This program is basically designed to…

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Photo: Charlie Crist, fed up with politics, quits U.S. Senate race to join biker gang

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Saying he was fed up with a life of elected office and government, Charlie Crist shocked the political world today when he announced that he was abandoning his campaign for the U.S. Senate and joining a biker gang. Pictures reflecting Crist’s decision first surfaced Monday evening after reporterĀ Gary Fineout posted them on his Twitter account. “They say the U.S. Senate is the most exclusive club in the world,” Crist said Monday while stopping by a VFW picnic in Panama City.…

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Gary Fineout: 10 things in the state budget you may not know about

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Completely wonky, but still a must-read from Gary Fineout: Gov. Charlie Crist could act sometime Thursday on the $70.4 billion budget that state lawmakers adopted during their spring session. Many salient facts about the budget have been reported including that it’s bigger than what Crist himself proposed, that it includes money for items only if Congress kicks in extra federal help, and that it contains many projects pushed by the two budget chiefs in the Legislature. But there’s always some…

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