Winners and losers emerging from the 2017 Legislative Session
Dysfunction seems to run in Tallahassee like a sine wave. We went from the collapse of 2015 โ the House going home early, no budget, a Special Budget Session โ to the trains-on-time Session of 2016, to the no-budget-at-the-end-of-regulation Session in 2017. We saw another Session in which we got oh-so-close to a gambling bill, only to have victory swallowed by the maw of Capitol defeat. And yes, the war of words between Gov. Rick Scott and House Speaker Richard…