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Diane Roberts: Charm and grace again flow downhill from Capitol

Published on October 22, 2015 in Statewide/Top Headlines by Diane Roberts

OCCUPIED TALLAHASSEE – Another Special Session! Why, it’s just like Christmas – minus the joy. Minus the presents, too. While the members of the Florida Legislature rake in lobbyist largesse during committee weeks and every other hour that God sends, trawling for dollars during a Session is verboten. This makes them surly. Surlier. They aren’t exactly enjoying being forced to revisit redistricting for about the 400th time since the spring. No one expects the Special Session, which is supposed to…

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Florida 2010: A Senate Odyssey

Published on September 7, 2009 in Statewide by Peter Schorsch

Amid charges of political cronyism and claims he was picked to be the governor’s proxy in Washington, there is renewed scrutiny of LeMieux’s dealings and those of his law firm, Gunster Yoakley & Stewart, on multiple fronts. Florida senator-to-be George LeMieux plans to watch President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress next week, but he’ll have to do it from the House gallery. From the West Coast to the East Coast, in some of the smallest and largest…

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Southern Political Report: Charlie Crist-Marco Rubio battle marks the GOP’s ideological divide

Published on May 28, 2009 in Statewide by Peter Schorsch

Rush Limbaugh and Gen. Colin Powell campaign against each other on the airwaves. Yet there will be no settling the score between them at the ballot box. To decide their squabble about the definition and direction of the Republican Party, proxies will stand in next year in Florida’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate. Moderate Gov. Charlie Crist is the prohibitive favorite, of course. He has long since made the watershed rite of passage necessary to make his name known to…

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