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Charlie Crist: ‘Who’s going to vote against a ban on offshore drilling?’

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From Steve Bousquet: Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday he wants a special legislative session soon — maybe the week of May 24 — to deal with two timely issues: a proposed constitutional ban on drilling for oil off Florida’s coast and tax incentives for utilities to diversify and explore renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. Crist said the special session looks more likely after a phone conversation with Senate President Jeff Atwater. “I’d like to do it…

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Charlie Crist: ‘Who’s going to vote against a ban on offshore drilling?’

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From Steve Bousquet: Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday he wants a special legislative session soon — maybe the week of May 24 — to deal with two timely issues: a proposed constitutional ban on drilling for oil off Florida’s coast and tax incentives for utilities to diversify and explore renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power. Crist said the special session looks more likely after a phone conversation with Senate President Jeff Atwater. “I’d like to do it…

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Tens of millions of ‘turkeys’ in state budget

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Steve Bousquet reports: In a bleak budget with more cuts to human services programs, state lawmakers are following a time-honored practice: stashing away tens of millions of dollars in hometown spending to appease constituents in an election year. Many of the budget earmarks — nicknamed “turkeys” by some in Tallahassee — surfaced for the first time in the past few days and some didn’t come up until almost midnight Monday in the final negotiating session. The budget landed on lawmakers’…

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Tens of millions of ‘turkeys’ in state budget

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Steve Bosquet reports: In a bleak budget with more cuts to human services programs, state lawmakers are following a time-honored practice: stashing away tens of millions of dollars in hometown spending to appease constituents in an election year. Many of the budget earmarks — nicknamed “turkeys” by some in Tallahassee — surfaced for the first time in the past few days and some didn’t come up until almost midnight Monday in the final negotiating session. The budget landed on lawmakers’…

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Catfight! Rep. Janet Long files complaint against Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff

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Steve Bousquet reports about a nasty catfight developing between Reps. Janet Long and Ellyn Bogdanoff: Rep. Janet Long, D-Seminole, filed a complaint with the speaker’s office Tuesday accusing Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, of making “threats of harm and retaliation” against her that violate House rules by impugning the reputation of the House. Bogdanoff, reached before the complaint was filed, acknowledged she had lost her cool with Long, but denied saying anything threatening. “I didn’t say anything to her that…

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Times: The secret severance offered to Jim Greer

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I really hate to copy an entire article, but John Frank does a masterful job laying out all of the details concerning the severance package offered to Jim Greer.  With apologies, here is his work: The state Republican Party is denying the severance agreement (download here) with Jim Greer is valid, saying the former chairman didn’t sign the documents. Greer’s attorney contends otherwise in a letter to the party written Tuesday (download). But what is lost is the fact the…

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Frank Peterman racks up flight expenses

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At a time when state employees face travel restrictions to save money, Florida’s top juvenile justice official racked up $44,000 on travel — much of it for commercial flights between his office in the capital and St. Petersburg, where his family lives. Frank Peterman, secretary of the Department of Juvenile Justice, has flown at taxpayer expense 68 times between Tampa and Tallahassee since taking office in February 2008, at a cost of nearly $20,000. Many flights left Tallahassee on Thursday…

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