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Jim RosicaSeptember 22, 2015
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Two prominent Republican state senators are on the witness list for Thursday’s wrap-up hearing in the congressional redistricting court fight. Sen. Tom Lee, the chamber’s budget chief, and Sen. Bill Galvano, head of its redistricting panel, are set to testify. The witness list refers them as “will calls,” meaning they will definitely take the stand. […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 11, 2015
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4min205
Circuit Judge Terry Lewis has given parties in the ongoing congressional redistricting case until Monday to submit their final versions of how to draw boundary lines for those districts. At a brief hearing on Friday, Lewis set the date for all competing maps to be submitted. A final hearing on the matter still is set for Sept. 24, court […]

Jim RosicaAugust 28, 2015
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3min160
State Rep. Jose Oliva has told House colleagues he’s unswayed by the latest Senate attempt to bring lawmakers back to the Capitol to agree on a new congressional district map. In a memo released Friday, Oliva – the Miami Lakes Republican who chairs the House redistricting panel – thanked his counterpart, state Sen. Bill Galvano, […]

Jim RosicaAugust 27, 2015
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6min258
State Sen. Bill Galvano isn’t giving up on a legislative fix to the state’s congressional map mess, proposing yet another compromise he hopes will bring the House back to the table. On Thursday, the chairman of the Senate’s redistricting panel released a version of Florida’s 27 congressional districts that notably puts the southern flank of […]

Gary FineoutAugust 20, 2015
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4min157
Gov. Rick Scott is defending the use of taxpayer money to pay a hefty legal settlement, but there are questions about whether his administration was transparent in how it got the money. State officials last week paid $700,000 to Tallahassee attorney Steven Andrews to settle seven lawsuits. The lawsuits contended that Scott, Attorney General Pam […]

Ryan RayAugust 12, 2015
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3min233
Despite the recent political pyrotechnics on display in Tallahassee last month when former Gov. Jeb Bush came back to town to highlight lobbying reforms approved during his administration, recent initiatives to clean up Adams Street have produced more heat than sunshine, according to a recently released national survey. The Sunlight Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based public interest watchdog […]

A.G. GancarskiAugust 11, 2015
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2min249
During Tuesday morning’s hearing about Congressional redistricting maps, Duval Legislative Delegation members from both parties questioned what state Sen. Tom Lee called a “remedial process” of remapping, ahead of U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown’s 1 p.m. press conference on the matter. State Sen. Audrey Gibson took issue with the minority population in the new district, echoing […]


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