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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. As if things could not get any more tense in Florida politics, state Senator Joe Negron threw a bowling ball into the bathtub yesterday, releasing the names of the 14 Republican senators, including himself, who support his claim for the Senate Presidency for 2016-18. In terms of timing, it was an incredibly insensitive move that comes on the…

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Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, and Ryan Ray. FIRST AND FOREMOST — HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY GARY FINEOUT! What do you get the reporter who knows where to find everything? Seriously, Gary is the tops. And Sunburn apologizes for not mentioning his birthday yesterday. Universally regarded as the best reporter among a first-class Capitol Press Corps, Fineout has been a true friend to the ‘burn for the last couple of…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Mitch Perry, Ryan Ray, and Jim Rosica. What are Florida voters thinking. A new Quinnpiac poll of Floridians shows … a majority of Floridians (53 percent) support allowing the majority of undocumented immigrants in the country to stay in the U.S. … additional 12 percent say the undocumented should be allowed to stay in the U.S., but not be allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship. Thirty-one…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. FLORIDA CONGRESSIONAL MAP REMAINS IN LIMBO NEAR DEADLINE via The Associated Press A new map for Florida’s 27 congressional districts remains in limbo. The Florida Legislature is still divided over how to follow a court order to redraw congressional districts. Legislators are supposed to end their special session Friday. The Florida House on Thursday rejected a map passed a day earlier by the Florida Senate and instead voted 60-38 for a new version that…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. Quite simply, it was an ugly day in Florida politics and bad day for one of the state’s favorite sons. While the Florida Legislature continued to struggle with how to redraw the map of the state’s congressional districts, a Star Wars bar’s worth of bizarre Sunshine State figures angled for attention. From Ann Coulter and Rick Wilson feuding to George Zimmerman hawking Confederate flag, it just seemed like an…

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Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch ([email protected]; @SaintPetersBlog) with Phil Ammann ([email protected]; @PhilAmmann) and Ryan Ray ([email protected]; @RyanRay_Fla). In Sunburn’s hometown, the difficult subject of race is being debated as fiercely as it has been in a generation. The Tampa Bay Times will compete for a Pulitzer Prize because of its “Failure Factories” investigation into how, after eight years of overworked teachers, failed integration and cutbacks in budgets and resources, several predominantly black neighborhoods in Pinellas County have produced five…

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