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A.G. GancarskiDecember 8, 2016

Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry wants new city hires on defined contribution plans. Public safety unions want the Florida Retirement System. And Rick Scott will let the locals figure it out, he said Thursday in Jacksonville. “That’s clearly a local decision. This community will make a decision on that,” the governor said. “I think what’s important with regard […]

A.G. GancarskiDecember 8, 2016

On Thursday, Florida Governor Rick Scott and Education Commissioner Pam Stewart held a “teacher roundtable” at an elementary school in Northwest Jacksonville. Reynolds Lane Elementary, located near the industrial areas of Commonwealth Avenue, is in a neighborhood that shows up on the crime blotter and the lead stories of the news all too frequently. Thursday saw Gov. Scott […]

Jim RosicaDecember 8, 2016

A Seminole Tribe of Florida spokesman Thursday declined comment on whether the tribe would stop payment to the state from its blackjack revenue. A source close to the tribe told FloridaPolitics.com on Wednesday that it’s considering not paying “one more dollar” to the state treasury without a new gambling agreement. According to a federal judge, it […]

Associated PressDecember 7, 2016

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is ending a holiday tradition this year: Giving state workers an extra day off. A spokeswoman for Scott said Tuesday that the governor will not be closing state offices an additional day around the Christmas holiday. Scott for five straight years had ordered state offices to be closed an extra day […]

Jim RosicaDecember 6, 2016

Gov. Rick Scott Tuesday held his cards close to his vest about the future of a gambling agreement with the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Seminole Gaming CEO Jim Allen, general counsel Jim Shore and others were in Tallahassee Monday for meetings. Scott, who spoke with reporters after a Florida Cabinet meeting, didn’t get into specifics […]

Scott PowersDecember 6, 2016

John Morgan has powerful split emotions about the prospect of running for governor in 2018 as a Democrat, and figures he has at least a year to decide. Morgan, the 60-year-old Orlando trial attorney who championed Florida’s Amendment 2 medical marijuana initiative this year, said others – not he – are pushing for him to run for […]

Mitch PerryDecember 6, 2016

One of my favorite sections of Bernie Sanders interview with Matt Taibbi in the current Rolling Stone is when the curmudgeonly Vermont Senator bitches about the corporate establishment media. “They live in a bubble, talk about their world, worry about who’s going to be running 18 years from now for office,” he says. “Meanwhile, people can’t […]

Mitch PerryDecember 5, 2016

Rick Scott is declining to comment on a proposal filed for the 2017 Florida Legislative Session that would repeal a major immigration policy change that he signed into law two years ago. Last week, Sarasota state Senator Greg Steube filed a bill (SB 82) that would repeal legislation approved by the GOP-led Legislature in 2014 that offers lower […]

Mitch PerryDecember 5, 2016

Speaking in the parking lot of the Tampa office of the Florida Dept. of Highway Patrol with about a dozen FHP officers standing behind him, Rick Scott made the case for the Legislature to get behind his proposal to give all sworn law enforcement officers a five percent pay raise in his 2017-2018 budget. “The brave men […]

Associated PressDecember 5, 2016

A company Gov. Rick Scott was praising more than a year ago for creating jobs is now delinquent in its property taxes and has never met its hiring goals. The Fort Myers News-Press reported Sunday that Altair Training Solutions was supposed to be a multi-million dollar enterprise with facilities in Hendry and Collier counties where […]

Tag: Rick Scott

Rick Scott: Jacksonville public pension debate a ‘local decision’

Northwest Jacksonville Title I teachers sound off to Rick Scott, Pam Stewart

Seminoles still paying state blackjack money—for now

Rick Scott won’t give state workers extra day off for Christmas

Rick Scott mum on meeting with Seminole Tribe

John Morgan torn on possible governor run, and in no hurry

Mitch Perry Report for 12.6.16 – “Run, Joe, Run” was so 2015, wasn’t it?

Rick Scott declines to comment on proposal to repeal immigration bill he signed in 2014

In Tampa, Rick Scott lays out why FHP officers deserve a pay raise

Company praised by Rick Scott hasn’t lived up to promises