Peter Schorsch, Author at Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Peter SchorschSeptember 25, 2016

As fans of the Rolling Stones know (as well as anyone who ever attended a Donald Trump rally): “You can’t always get what you want; but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.” That maxim was proved true yet again this week, when the Jacksonville political establishment decided, seemingly […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 23, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. WHO IS EXCITED TO TALK ABOUT WATER???!!! Two years after Amendment 1 was overwhelmingly adopted by Florida voters, questions about the best way to spend billions of earmarked dollars. Experts from across […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 23, 2016

While much has changed in Florida over the years, for environmentalists, one thing has remained somewhat constant — polluted discharges from Lake Okeechobee. And when they point fingers at what is causing the recent toxic blue-green algae blooms plaguing the Treasure Coast, agriculture has reliably been held up as one of the “usual suspects.” For […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 22, 2016

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE… … But how to keep it clean? Florida’s water woes will be at the center of Associated Industries of Florida’s two-day Florida Water Forum, which kicks off today. The annual […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 21, 2016

As for the much-heralded sinkhole at the Mosaic Company’s New Wales Facility in Polk County, readers of the Tampa Bay Times may be in for a shock. Truth be told, both the state of Florida and Mosaic have been much more proactive than they are led to believe. And Mosaic and the Florida Department of […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 21, 2016

If you ever want to complain about how the Lottery is run in Florida, just take a gander at how other states royally screw it up. And how they victimize the companies getting it right. The most recent lesson comes from Maryland. Lottery officials there admitted they “inflated” an 8-year, $262 million IT contract “to include […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 21, 2016

Sunburn – The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics. By Peter Schorsch, Phil Ammann, Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster, Mitch Perry and Jim Rosica. PEERING INTO THE CRYSTAL BALL The electoral map is changing. Florida is still a toss-up. States that once leaned Democratic now lean Republican. Larry Sabato and the team at Sabato’s Crystal Ball revised its […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 20, 2016

In response to a rather benign story we published about the latest mailer from opponents of the medical marijuana initiative, we received the email below from the obviously charming Thomas Soldo of Hernando. Obscene letters-to-the-editor are nothing new to us here at Florida Politics. What is surprising is that Mr. Soldo had the courage to call someone […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 20, 2016

A recurrent frustration of the Northeast Florida political class is how the media doesn’t “get” politics. It’s a frustration often heard at our NE Florida Bureau, especially as it relates to one issue: the expansion of the Human Rights Ordinance to include the LGBT community. Proponents of expansion will tell anyone who listens that 600 […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 20, 2016

More than 300 candidates are running for the 160 seats in the Florida House and Senate. And, try as we will, FloridaPolitics.com won’t be able to interview them all. So we are asking every candidate, including incumbents, to complete a questionnaire we believe offers an interesting, albeit thumbnail, sketch of who they are and why […]

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Jacksonville bold for 9.25.16 — The Establishment Strikes Back

Sunburn for 9.23.16 – Are you ready for some more water?

Perhaps faulty septic tanks cause algae blooms after all

Sunburn for 9.22.16 — Water woes

DEP takes aim at media’s coverage of Mosaic sinkhole story

IGT made a victim in Maryland lottery brouhaha

Sunburn for 9.20.16 – Peering into the Crystal Ball

This letter-to-the-editor is all #$@&%*! class — and NSFW

Jacksonville Bold for 09.20.16 — HRO and small-town mentality

Meet Robert Simeone, Democrat running for House District 85