Scott Powers, Author at Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Scott PowersApril 7, 2017

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is declining to file a challenge supporting Orlando’s State Attorney Aramis Ayala against Gov. Rick Scott and may intervene to oppose anything Ayala files. That sets the stage for Ayala to likely present her challenge early next week, seeking to get a judge to declare that, short of a finding […]

Scott PowersApril 7, 2017

Orlando’s two freshmen Democratic U.S. congresswomen both declared their support for President Donald Trump’s missile strikes on Syria Friday yet expressed a yearning for a long-term solution. U.S. Reps. Val Demings of Orlando and Stephanie Murphy of Winter Park made their statements to the Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida during a luncheon update on […]

Scott PowersApril 7, 2017

Former Winter Garden Commissioner Bobby Olszewski filed Friday to run for the House of Representatives seat for District 44, covering much of western Orange County. Olszewski, who ran unsuccessfully last year for the Orange County Commission, filed for the house seat that will be vacated by state Rep. Eric Eisnaugle, who is not running again. […]

Scott PowersApril 7, 2017

An attorney representing embattled Orlando State Attorney Aramis Ayala has initiated the process to challenge Gov. Rick Scott‘s murder case reassignment orders by asking State Attorney General Pam Bondi to petition the court on Ayala’s behalf. Ayala intends to challenge the legality of Scott’s now 23 and counting executive orders stripping 9th Judicial Circuit first-degree murder cases from […]

Scott PowersApril 7, 2017

After going through the usual positive notes on the economy, building activity, law and order, and county finances, Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs turned Friday to the heart as she delivered her annual state of the county address. For all the government service activity high points she presented, it was Orange County’s – Central Florida’s – […]

Scott PowersApril 7, 2017

Former Osceola County chairman, Florida state representative, and Kissimmee Mayor Frank Attkisson was killed Thursday night when the bicycle he was riding was struck by a car, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Attkisson, 61, was riding on Kissimmee Park Road near St. Cloud around 6:30 p.m. Thursday when his bike was struck from behind […]

Scott PowersApril 6, 2017

Update: On Friday morning, about 12 hours after this story was originally posted, the Libertarian Party of Florida Chairman Char-Lez Braden issued the press release Augustus Invictus said he wanted, retracting statements made in a 2015 press release that had accused Invictus of supporting eugenics and state-sponsored murder. The new release indicates the party found […]

Scott PowersApril 6, 2017

Word has it that others were invited but only one candidate or potential candidate, Democrat Chris King, showed up at the Florida Legislative Black Caucus’s symposium Thursday to talk about the 2018 gubernatorial race. King tweeted such Thursday, “Honored to talk w/the great leaders at the @FLBlackCaucus Gubernatorial Symposium about how to make our future better […]

Scott PowersApril 6, 2017

A bill aimed at preventing tragedies like when two 14-year-old boys disappeared in a fishing boat off the coast of Jupiter in 2015 won approval from the House Government Oversight Committee Thursday. House Bill 711, embraced by Blu Stephanos, the father of of one of the boys in that ill-fated boat, Austin Stephanos, would give Florida boat […]

Scott PowersApril 6, 2017

‘The Groveland Four’ were four young men and teenagers who endured one of the darkest known moments of Florida’s Jim Crow history when they were falsely accused of rape, then all of them were beaten, two of them were killed, and two were convicted and imprisoned on what legal researchers are now convinced was false […]

Scott Powers
Stock image via Adobe.

Pam Bondi declines to file writ for Armamis Ayala

Val Demings and Stephanie Murphy support Syrian missile strikes, seek long-term strategy

Republican Bobby Olszewski files to run for House District 44 seat

Aramis Ayala asks Pam Bondi to initiate challenge of Rick Scott’s murder case orders

Teresa Jacobs: ‘We discovered our culture of compassion’

Frank Attkisson killed in bicycle-car crash

Domestic violence report, lawsuit threats, video complicating Augustus Invictus-Libertarian Party bonds

Chris King only gubernatorial candidate to show up at Florida Legislative Black Caucus

Bill to discount boat safety beacons gets approval

‘Groveland Four’ exoneration resolution passes committee