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Ryan RayOctober 1, 2015

Cate Communications founder Kevin Cate today sent out the first month of data on Florida lawmaker responsiveness, as determined by his newest product Rocket Lobby. Rocket Lobby organizes and measures efforts by constituents to contact their local legislators. A citizen can enter their address and be directed towards the politician who represents them in both the state […]

Ryan RaySeptember 30, 2015

The Florida Nurses Association (FNA) today launched a public awareness campaign designed to bring attention and an end to violence against nurses in the line of duty. The campaign, called “Take the Scare Out of Care,” seeks to educated nurses, heath care facilities, the public and policymakers that assault and battery of nurses will no […]

Ryan RaySeptember 29, 2015

Longtime water consultant and former South Florida Water Management District staffer Tom McVicar says that according to new data, water quality in ecologically sensitive parts of The Everglades is improving despite the conventional wisdom to the contrary. McVicar told attendees of Associated Industries of Florida’s 2016 Water Forum last week that according to data collected between […]

Ryan RaySeptember 29, 2015

According to a new poll released Tuesday morning by the Florida Chamber Political Institute, likely Florida voters’ attitudes on proposed constitutional changes continued to take shape, with support for pro-business group’s “counter-amendment” to environmentalists’ solar energy ballot language gaining steam. When it comes to Floridians for Solar Choice‘s ballot language to limit or prevent barriers […]

Ryan RaySeptember 29, 2015

This year’s Sayfie Review’s Florida Leaders Summit will feature Bloomberg Politics analyst and author of 2010’s best-selling Game Change Mark Halperin, the publication announced Monday. Halperin, a longtime political reporter for Time, ABC News and MSNBC who sits of the board New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, will bring his insider’s perspective to a 2016 Sayfie […]

Ryan RaySeptember 28, 2015

Former Vice President Al Gore – the man who came just 527 Floridian votes away from becoming president in 2000 – on Monday headlined a gathering of some 1,000 climate change activists and researchers in Miami, the nation’s ground zero when it comes to sea level rise and the political controversy surrounding it. Gore gave an updated […]

Ryan RaySeptember 27, 2015

Southern Political Report, a glossy quarterly focused on insider aspects of Dixie politics, has ranked the top law and lobbying firms in each southern state for its newest issue. The top “small firms” (the magazine’s words, not ours) devoted to governmental affairs consulting in Florida were listed as follows: Ballard Partners Southern Strategy Group Capital City Consulting […]

Ryan RaySeptember 25, 2015

A perennial power player in Tallahassee politics singled out two Republican lawmakers for praise on Friday for their work on behalf of the Florida oil and gas industry. Associated Industries of Florida applauded Sen. Garrett Richter and Rep. Ray Rodrigues for sponsoring, respectively, SB 318 and HB 191, bills aimed at preempting local regulations related to “exploration, development, production, processing, storage, […]

Ryan RaySeptember 25, 2015

When asked whether she would vote for locally unpopular Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi if elected to the House, U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham replied many time on the campaign trail last year that both parties need new leadership in Congress. With Friday’s surprise announcement Speaker John Boehner will step down from leadership next month – and resign his seat altogether – that vision came […]

Ryan RaySeptember 25, 2015

Democratic state Senate candidate Andrew Korge came out swinging against Republican Rep. Janet Adkins on Thursday. Korge, son of major Democratic bundler Chris Korge, called Adkins’ private comments published in POLITICO Florida discussing how to defeat U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown by manipulating her district to include more black prison inmates “disgusting” in a statement Thursday evening. “Representative Adkins should be ashamed […]

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Family members appear behind a pile of debris outside their home in Steinhatchee, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, after Hurricane Helene slammed Florida's Big Bend as a Category 4 storm Thursday night. (Ashleigh Lucas/WUFT News)

Kevin Cate’s first Rocket Lobby results are in: MRV, Lizbeth Benacquisto most responsive Fla. lawmakers

Florida’s nursing association seeks to “Take the scare out of care”

Former Fla. water official: Data shows Glades water quality improving

New Chamber poll: Florida voters favor “smart” solar amendment

Mark Halperin to keynote Sayfie Review Summit

Al Gore headlines climate change activism conference in Miami

Big-time Tallahassee influence firms ranked in regional magazine

Associated Industries praises Garrett Richter, Ray Rodrigues for carrying onshore gas bill

Gwen Graham, CD2 opponents react to John Boehner’s retirement

Andrew Korge slams Janet Adkins’ comments on black prisoners in CD 5