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Staff ReportsAugust 9, 2018

The last of Florida’s 67 counties now have submitted applications for federal election security grants, which qualify them to receive $14.5 million of the $19 million allowed to the state, Gov. Rick Scott announced Thursday. “As we approach the 2018 election season, there is nothing more important than ensuring the security and integrity of Florida’s elections,” […]

Scott PowersAugust 8, 2018

Senate Majority PAC and Priorities USA Action PAC are launching a new $1.1 million digital ad campaign to blanket the internet with a new advertisement hitting Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gov. Rick Scott for refusing to expand Medicaid in Florida and charging that he opposes mandatory insurance coverage of people with pre-existing conditions. The first […]

Peter SchorschAugust 8, 2018

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Progressive advocacy group For Our Future Florida announced Wednesday that it will pitch in on the effort to flip the state Senate, starting with the seats held by Republican Sens. Keith Perry and Dana Young. Senate District 8, the Gainesville-based seat held by Perry, and Senate District 18, the Tampa-based seat held by Young, sit […]

Danny McAuliffeAugust 8, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott‘s latest attack on Sen. Bill Nelson is a sham, according to one member of the Florida Congressional Delegation. Orlando-area U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, a Democrat facing a tough primary challenge, called Scott’s Medicare-focused ad bogus and ironic just a few hours after news of the ad spread on Tuesday. The 30-second TV […]

Scott PowersAugust 7, 2018

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gov. Rick Scott is launching a new television commercial accusing his opponent, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, of voting to cut Medicare when he voted for the Affordable Care Act. The 30-second spot, “Unfair,” will be playing on television and in digital internet advertising. It charges Nelson with supporting Medicare cuts […]

Jim RosicaAugust 7, 2018

Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Rick Scott‘s claims that Nelson refuses to debate him are “silly.” Nelson spoke with reporters in Tallahassee on Tuesday, before a ceremony at the Tallahassee Veterans Affairs Health Care Center to name the facility after Marine Corps Sgt. Ernest “Boots” Thomas. “Obviously, it’s to my advantage to debate him,” […]

Scott PowersAugust 7, 2018

A few days after seeing Republican Gov. Rick Scott‘s campaign launch a TV commercial seeking to blame him for Florida’s algae crisis, Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is firing back with an internet ad attempting to portray the environmental disaster as entirely Scott’s fault. The new 30-second video, “Algae,” begins with images of putrid, green […]

Scott PowersAugust 6, 2018

Republican Gov. Rick Scott is telling his oft-told tale of his humble upbringing in public housing and rise to success, in Spanish now, with a new TV commercial. The 30-second spot, “Esperanza,” [“Hope,”] produced for Spanish-language television, tells his story in old photo-album snapshots and narration. And then the narrator, text, and his own comments […]

Jacob OglesAugust 6, 2018

Gov. Rick Scott announced late Sunday that he would travel to Colombia for the inauguration of new President Ivan Duque in Bogota. While in South America, he plans to meet with exiled leaders from Venezuela. Scott, who right now is running against incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, stressed his longtime connections to South American leaders […]

Peter SchorschAugust 4, 2018

Every July Fourth, Florida Supreme Court Justice Ricky Polston reads a copy of the Declaration of Independence reprinted in the Tallahassee Democrat. “I always sit in the morning with a cup of coffee and read back through that,” Polston told members of the Economic Club of Florida in Tallahassee this week. “I just enjoy doing […]

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Remaining counties file for federal elections security grants

Democratic PACs hitting Rick Scott on Medicaid, pre-existing conditions

Progressive group sending backup to state Senate battlegrounds

Darren Soto: Rick Scott is ‘blatantly lying’ in newest ad

Rick Scott ad accuses Bill Nelson of cutting Medicare when he voted for Obamacare

Bill Nelson: Rick Scott is ‘silly’ about debate refusal claims

Bill Nelson ad: Florida’s algae crisis is made by Rick Scott

Rick Scott tells his rags-to-riches story in new Spanish ad

Rick Scott to attend inauguration of Colombian President Ivan Duque

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