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		<title>Progressive groups sue over Rick Scott&#8217;s judicial appointment power</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/rick-scotts-judicial-appointment-power/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2017 23:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Pariente]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Common Cause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deirdre Macnab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Rick Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeb Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John S. Mills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Labarga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[judicial appointment power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawton Chiles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Liza McClenaghan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pamela Goodman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peggy A. Quince]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quo warranto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R. Fred Lewis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ricky Polston]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Gov. Rick Scott appointed a conservative jurist to the state&#8217;s Supreme Court in December, he made clear he wasn&#8217;t done. “I will appoint three more justices the morning I finish my term,” he said, referring to the mandatory retirement in early 2019 of the court&#8217;s liberal-leaning triumvirate of Justices Barbara Pariente, Peggy A. Quince and R. Fred Lewis. Now, two progressive organizations are saying to Scott: Prove you can. They say he can&#8217;t. The League of Women Voters of Florida (LWVF)&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Martin Dyckman: Judges are not politicians, nor should they play politics</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Dyckman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 08:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jeb Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Labarga]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kimberly Shepard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawton Chiles]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[When the Florida Constitution Revision Commission was debating the election of judges 20 years ago, I sat in the gallery to hear my own words used to attack something that my editorials and columns consistently had supported. The issue was whether all trial judges should be chosen exclusively by appointment, without elections, in the same manner as Supreme Court justices and judges of the district courts of appeal. A commission member who opposed that found a column in which I&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>As a teen, Gainesville pivotal to shaping Andrew Gillum&#8217;s political rise, ambition</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/teen-gainesville-pivotal-shaping-andrew-gillums-political-rise-ambition/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Washington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Gillum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gillum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gainesville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gainesville High School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawton Chiles]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the charismatic, 37-year-old mayor of Tallahassee, a day in Gainesville was an opportunity to campaign for Florida governor — the job he hopes to win in next year’s election — but also a chance to reconnect with a place and some people who he describes as “pivotal.” Following an economic roundtable discussion with University of Florida students and local leaders in business and government Tuesday afternoon — at Tower Technology Park, near Interstate-75 in Alachua County — Andrew Gillum,&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Martin Dyckman: Florida’s overbearing ‘politics of death’</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin Dyckman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aramis Ayala]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death warrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gerald Kogan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Joe Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawton Chiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LeRoy Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mario Cuomo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics of death]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[He would put it off as long as he could, aides said, and trembled when he finally had to sign a black-bordered death warrant. Despite his profound opposition to capital punishment, LeRoy Collins sent 29 men to their doom during his six years as Florida&#8217;s governor. He was in anguish each time. To some people, that example casts a poor light on Aramis Ayala, the state attorney for Orange and Seminole counties, whose announced decision to seek no death sentences&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Carlos Nathan: An open letter to Florida Democrats</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Guest Author]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2016 18:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cool Hand Luke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lawton Chiles]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“What we have here is a failure to communicate.” That quote from “Cool Hand Luke” could be directed squarely at the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party has been suffering from this issue and a message problem since 1998. The performance of the Florida Democratic Party has led to a complete Republican dominance in both the Legislature and the Governor&#8217;s mansion. In 2008, Florida helped elect a young, vibrant senator to the highest office in this land under the premise of&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hillsborough County Commissioners honor Kevin Beckner as he departs the board</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/hillsborough-county-commissioners-honor-kevin-beckner-departs-board-8-years/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mitch Perry]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2016 19:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[The Bay and the 'Burg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Higginbotham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chip Fletcher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Wasserman Schultz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gil Sainz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Hagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Beckner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawton Chiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Iuculano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Merrill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Kates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Frank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pat Kemp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandy Murman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stacy White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Crist]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kevin Beckner was feted with plaudits and awards by his colleagues on Wednesday, his last day on the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners. &#8220;My service was never about me, it was always about we,&#8221; the 45-year-old Indiana native said at a ceremony celebrating his eight years of service on the board. Term-limited out of his seat this fall, he had hoped to continue his political career by running for the Hillsborough Clerk of the Circuit Court seat, but lost in a bitterly&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Ron (Sachs) met Matt (Gaetz)</title>
		<link>https://saintpetersblog.com/ron-sachs-met-matt-gaetz/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Rosica]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2016 19:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Statewide]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Federal Election Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lawton Chiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Gaetz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Sachs]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ron Sachs, one of Tallahassee&#8217;s premier pitchmen, comes from a progressive background: Iconoclast college newspaper editor, spokesman for Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles and the state&#8217;s teachers’ union, speechwriter for Democratic Gov. Reubin Askew. Matt Gaetz, a firebrand state representative from northwest Florida, is the picture of Republican values: Tax cutter, gun rights defender, abortion foe. So why did Sachs, CEO of the eponymous PR shop, give $2,500 to Gaetz&#8217;s campaign this week? (Here&#8217;s the Federal Election Commission filing) Gaetz, Republican candidate for the solidly-conservative 1st Congressional District, is&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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