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Statement from Rep. Darryl Rouson regarding budget vote

Published on May 1, 2010 in Statewide/The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

Representative Darryl Rouson, (D) St. Petersburg, offers the following comments regarding his decision to vote in favor of the 2010-11 Florida budget: On the last day of a tumultuous 60 day session filled with highs and lows; filled with days of bad bills resurrecting and nights of good bills dying with very little rhyme or reason, I cast the lone Democratic vote in the Florida House in favor of the budget. I did so with a heavy heart and a…

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Senate candidate Jack Latvala to help lead grassroots opposition to offshore oil drilling

Published on November 10, 2009 in Statewide/The Bay and the 'Burg by Peter Schorsch

A Panhandle restaurateur is asking thousands of Floridians to hit the beaches to fight offshore oil-drilling along the state’s Gulf coast. Dave Rauschkolb, owner of Bud and Alley’s and two other beachside restaurants in the town of Seaside, has launched an effort dubbed Hands Across the Sand, which is emerging as the first grassroots opposition to the oil-drilling effort led by Florida Energy Associates, a group of independent oil producers. Rauschkolb’s goal is to get Floridians to hold hands and…

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Interview with Mark Foley

Published on September 23, 2009 in Statewide by Peter Schorsch

If you thought that former Congressman Mark Foley was going to disappear from the political landscape forever, think again. Foley is still popular and loved by many of his friends and supporters in his former Congressional District as well as throughout Palm Beach. Case in point– last Tuesday, following a fundraiser at the West Palm Beach hot spot Pistache, talk show heavyweight and lovable little fuzz-ball himself Rush ‘El Rushbo” Limbaugh identified Mark sitting down at a table, walked up…

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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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