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Only 2 applicants clear Insurance Commissioner pre-screening

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Only two of the 25 applicants aiming to replace outgoing Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty answered ‘yes’ to the state’s two pre-screening qualifying questions as of Monday. Kirk Schmidt, of Jefferson City, Missouri, is president and CFO of an insurance company after having been Chief Financial Examiner for the Missouri Department of Insurance, he said in his application. And Jeffrey Bragg, of Palm Harbor, retired from the U.S. Department of Treasury in 2014 after serving as head of its Terrorism Risk Insurance Program. He also…

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Jeff Atwater may be pulled into Capitol’s ‘Storage Wars’

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A version of “Storage Wars” came to the Capitol this week as one bill that would change the law governing self-storage facilities and involve Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater got jammed up in committee. The measure (SB 720) is bottled up in the Senate after getting postponed in the Regulated Industries Committee. But its House companion (HB 559) could be heard on the floor after the Regulatory Affairs Committee OK’d it 15-3. If passed, the legislation would take away the monopoly that newspapers have long had for public notices when storage…

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Cabinet members praise ‘taxpayer friendly’ policies during Florida TaxWatch State of the Taxpayer dinner

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The defining debate of the 2016 Legislative session? Tax cuts. That was Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam’s prediction Wednesday during Florida TaxWatch’s inaugural State of the Taxpayer Dinner. The event featured several state lawmakers, including Putnam and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater. “If you think about the foundation of this organization and what this state has been through, you have every reason to be extraordinarily proud of your taxpayer friendly House, taxpayer friendly Senate and taxpayer friendly Cabinet and governor,” said…

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Report: Governor’s Office eyeing Bill Hager, Tom Grady for insurance commissioner

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Outgoing Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty may have just turned in his resignation, but Gov. Rick Scott already is leaning toward his replacement: Tom Grady, former interim president of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Sources inside the Governor’s Office told FloridaPolitics.com that Grady, a friend of Scott’s and a fellow resident of Naples, is at the top of the list. He was a one-term member of the Florida House of Representatives in 2008-10 before a stint as  Commissioner of Financial Regulation, the…

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Pam Bondi goes to Nevada

Drawing on lessons learned after a nightclub massacre last year in Orlando, Attorney General Pam Bondi and members of her

Jeff Atwater lays out legislative wish list

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Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater says he’s “championing” bills this legislative session in three policy areas: Life insurance, divestment from Iran, and medical billing. Atwater, first elected in 2010, laid out his priorities in an email sent Wednesday. Life insurance: Atwater wants to “ensure that insurance companies will utilize current technology and public information that will assist them in determining when a policyholder has passed away and policy benefits need to be paid.” In fact, he’s supporting SB 966, filed by GOP…

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Six years after passing, Jim King may be gone, but certainly not forgotten

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Here’s how Jim King is remembered around the Florida Capitol. The laughter was immediate and spontaneous when CFO Jeff Atwater was asked last year to recall a story about the late Senate President. “My goodness, my goodness,” Atwater said, clearly enjoying a memory. King was a fixture around the Capitol for 23 years. The Jacksonville Republican was first elected to the State House in 1986 and became one of the most powerful politicians in the state, serving as Senate President from…

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This holiday season is brought to you by these Florida lobbyists and political associations

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The 2015 holiday season marks a quiet before the storm in Florida politics, before the lawmakers and lobbyists take over Tallahassee in January and the high drama of Jeb Bush vs. Marco Rubio and the rest of the GOP presidential field reaches its primary crescendo. So this year, before the annual rites and rituals of “The Process” come to the forefront with visions of appropriations spreadsheets replacing the sugarplums dancing in our heads, the celebrations and good times with friends and family promise to…

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