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Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, Rep. Alan Williams endorse Patrick Murphy for Senate

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At a joint press conference at Florida Democratic Party headquarters in Tallahassee, Mayor Andrew Gillum and Rep. Alan Williams both offered ebullient endorsements of Congressman Patrick Murphy‘s bid for the U.S. Senate seat soon to be vacated by Marco Rubio. Evoking Murphy’s can-do brand of bipartisanship – as well as the “North Florida Way” emblematic of Congresswoman Gwen Graham, who is publicly friendly with all three aforementioned young Democratic pols – Gillum began with an old chestnut about the pragmatic task of…

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Bill Day’s latest: Let the poor (and lawmakers) eat Medicaid cake

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Florida news flash: Gov. Rick Scott is a double flip-flopper. While that in itself may not be surprising to some, this time it is significant why he reversed course – Medicaid expansion for healthcare to nearly one million low-income and uninsured Floridians. Now, like Marie Antoinette, he tells the poor to “eat cake,” in Bill Day’s latest. That’s putting it nicely. Others see it as something else: Scott simply cannot be trusted to keep his word. He lied. And they…

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Rick Scott reverses course, opposes Medicaid expansion

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday reversed his position on Medicaid expansion, again announcing he will not support providing access to health care for 800,000 uninsured Floridians as called for under the federal healthcare law. After Florida Politics reported the governor’s office would not answer questions on Medicaid expansion on Friday his office released the following statement: “Our priority is to cut more than $600 million in taxes this session and get K-12 education funding up to record levels while…

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Bipartisan biz coalition says now is time to pass healthcare plan

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Bipartisan business group A Healthy Florida Works continues to press legislative leaders to move ahead with a plan to provide healthcare access to uninsured Floridians. Marpan Supply and Recycling President and Chief Executive Officer Kim Williams said at a Tallahassee press conference on Wednesday that the the Florida Senate is moving ahead with a health plan that would hold down the premium for all those who are currently insured by eliminating cost shifting as well as providing care to 800,000 uninsured…

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz rallies Florida Democrats for second half of Session

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Senate Democrats kicked off the second half of the 2015 legislative session with a pep talk from Democratic National Committee Chair and South Florida U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In a pre-floor session huddle Schultz said she came to bolster their efforts to uphold “the will of the voters” on both Medicaid expansion and the spending of Amendment 1 money. The Senate will consider an amendment by state Sen. Thad Altman directing more than $300 million toward land buying for conservation. However,…

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Mitch Perry Report for 3.27.15 — Could Bob Menendez fate affect Loretta Lynch as AG?

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Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s choice to replace Eric Holder as attorney general, was in Tampa yesterday for the swearing-in ceremony of Lee Bentley, the new U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida. Lynch is the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, and would become the first black female AG in U.S. history if confirmed. Obama nominated her way back in November, but she still awaits a vote in the full Senate. Lots of Republicans oppose her nomination because they’re upset over…

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Bill Day’s latest: The widening budget gap over Medicaid expansion

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Both the Florida House and Senate released spending plans for the upcoming fiscal year, providing funding for everything from education and transportation to the newly passed Amendment 1 land-conservation measure. Beyond that, however, the two budgets could not be further apart; almost $5 billion, to be exact. Bill Day’s latest takes aim at this fiscal chasm, which rests on a single issue – Medicaid expansion. The Senate proposal includes a portion of the $50 billion in federal money for expanding…

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