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Today on Context Florida: Jeb! or Jeb?, Jeff Atwater & speech and Pensacola sickness

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Today on Context Florida: To appreciate why Donald Trump is thumping Jeb! Bush in the polls, Martin Dyckman says to simply substitute a question mark for the exclamation point. Jeb? isn’t doing so well at persuading people that what they think they heard isn’t what he meant to say. It doesn’t take a degree in psychology to know that someone’s first, unguarded remark reveals much more about him than any effort to explain it. The latest example is his vacillating position…

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Jeff Atwater puts his office’s resources behind flood recovery in Tampa

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Flood waters in Tampa are receding and the unusual burst of rain seen over the course of 10 days is over. But Tampa residents still face a multitude of concerns as they survey damage to their homes, cars and property. The office of Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater is available to help residents navigate the insurance claims process. “Rapidly rising flood waters can wreak havoc and quickly cause thousands of dollars in damage,” Atwater said. “My thoughts and prayers…

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$1.5 million goes into public education thanks to CFO Jeff Atwater’s unclaimed property auction

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More than $1.5 million was raised for Florida’s public schools during the 2015 unclaimed property auction held last Saturday in Jacksonville. According to a release from Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater Tuesday, the auction was the second-highest-yielding auction ever, trailing only behind an auction in Fort Lauderdale two years ago that yielded $1.7 million. This year’s auction included more than 50,000 items from abandoned safe deposit boxes. Funds from the contents of those boxes are held in a public education…

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Todd Wilcox says Republican voters in Florida (will) like what he has to offer

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Orlando-based entrepreneur Todd Wilcox says that it was around April of last year that he first thought about the possibilities of running for U.S. Senate, a considerable feat to undertake for a lifelong nonpolitician in the nation’s third-largest state. He didn’t go into exploratory mode until this past April, though, after  Marco Rubio made it official that he wouldn’t be running for re-election to his seat, and the presumptive GOP front-runner to replace him, Jeff Atwater, stunned the Florida political world…

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Wilton Simpson for Florida CFO?

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Is Wilton Simpson for Florida CFO a byproduct of this fall’s Senate map redraw? After the news that the Senate maps must be redrawn to comply with the Florida Constitution, many political futures have been put into flux. The Jack Latvala vs. Joe Negron Senate president’s race and the future of Pinellas lines are tops among the whispers of political observers until the October session unveils the final maps. But now there is also increasing chatter that Wilton Simpson, himself a…

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Jeff Atwater hosting ‘Treasure Hunt’ to auction off $700K in unclaimed property

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Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater is asking members of the public to come to Jacksonville this weekend to participate in an auctioning off of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, held in what is essentially the massive state “lost and found” that his office oversees. Atwater’s office invites “Floridians” — though nearby Georgians will certainly come to join in the spoils too — to the Mariott Hotel in Jacksonville to bid in a massive auction “featuring the sale of 50,000 items valued…

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Rick Scott’s veto list puts friends and foes in sharp relief

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Gov. Rick Scott denied giving consideration to his friends — or retaliating against his enemies — as he threw out more than $460 million spent by lawmakers in this year’s budget. “Absolutely not,” Scott told reporters Tuesday morning after the Tuesday Cabinet meeting concluded. But a close look at what was axed and what was not tells a different story. As lawmakers, state agencies and lobbyists wade through the governor’s hundreds of individual line-item vetoes, they would do well to…

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