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

Scott PowersJune 24, 2016

An Atlas V rocket blasted off into a beautiful Florida summer sky Friday morning, lifting a Navy communications satellite into orbit. The United Launch Alliance rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at the first chance in its launch window, at 10:30 a.m. The Atlas V successfully delivered the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Mobile […]

Scott PowersJune 24, 2016

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will air a Spanish-language ad Sunday during the COPA America soccer final match, contrasting Republican Donald Trump‘s deportation policy with statements of Latinos. The ad, called, “Nuestra Historia,” or “Our History,” begins with footage of Trump declaring his intention to oversee a massive deportation, and then follows with five Hispanic Americans […]

Scott PowersJune 24, 2016

UNITE HERE, a union representing hotel maids, food-service workers and others at Walt Disney World and other Orlando tourism and lodging businesses has endorsed Democrat Susannah Randolph in Florida’s 9th Congressional District. UNITE HERE’s two locals, 362 and 737, represents union members who work in the hotel, transportation, food service, manufacturing, textile, distribution, and laundry industries. “In […]

Scott PowersJune 23, 2016

The City of Orlando and a long list of news media are headed to court to decide whether scores of phone call recordings of the Pulse nightclub massacre should be released to the public. Media companies including the Associated Press, the Orlando Sentinel, several Orlando TV stations, various other newspaper companies, TV networks and online […]

Scott PowersJune 23, 2016

Rollins College business professor and former Department of Defense analyst Stephanie Murphy has filed to run for Congress as a Democrat in the Seminole County-based Florida’s 7th Congressional District. The last-moment entry of Murphy 37, of Winter Park, gives the Democrats something they have been beating the bushes for all year, a credible candidate to […]

Scott PowersJune 22, 2016

Most of Florida’s Democratic members of Congress are among 168 House of Representatives Democrats and 34 Senate Democrats staging a sit-in on the House Floor Wednesday, and U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson took the occasion to remind the others of Orlando’s Pulse nightclub massacre victims, by name. Besides Grayson, of Orlando, the protest includes his U.S. […]

Scott PowersJune 22, 2016

Orlando’s commuter rail service, SunRail, has its first executive director, Nicola Liquori, currently a Florida Turnpike Enterprise executive. Florida Department of Transportation Secretary Jim Boxold appointed Liquori to be executive director of SunRail, putting her in charge of keeping the trains running on time even as the operation expands its line to the south and […]

Scott PowersJune 22, 2016

Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs said Wednesday she plans to move forward in proposing a county ordinance to set rules on future uses for tourist tax money. Her statement comes a day after the Orange County Charter Review Commission reversed course Tuesday, and decided to not send a similar proposal to voters as a charter amendment. […]

Scott PowersJune 22, 2016

The last-week moves today by U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis to seek re-election will have the backing of a group that played a major role in getting each of them elected in the first place. The Club for Growth PAC, a conservative economics committee, had strongly backed both of them in […]

Scott PowersJune 22, 2016

Democratic State Sen. Darren Soto‘s relatively newfound commitment to gun control has won him another endorsement for his U.S. Congress election bid from a member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut. Himes, whose district is near but does not include Newtown, Connecticut, home of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, made news […]

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Milton damage. Image via City of Tampa.

ULA Atlas V rocket lifts Navy satellite into orbit

Hillary Clinton to air Spanish ad during soccer game Sunday

Disney/lodging union UNITE HERE endorses Susannah Randolph in CD 9

Media and City of Orlando go to court over Pulse nightclub massacre tapes

Stephanie Murphy files to run against John Mica in CD 7

Dem’s House sit-in includes most Florida Congress members; Alan Grayson reads Pulse victims’ names

Nicola Liquori named executive director of SunRail

Teresa Jacobs plans to move forward on tourist tax ordinance

Club for Growth endorses Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis

Darren Soto gets gun-control congressman’s endorsement