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

Scott PowersMarch 3, 2016

U.S. Rep. David Jolly, a U.S. Senate candidate, said Thursday he has introduced a bill that would stop the federal government from buying Apple computers and phones until the company cooperates with federal law enforcement. Jolly’s “No Taxpayer Support For Apple Act,” House Resolution 4663, would forbid federal agencies from buying Apple products until the company provides law […]

Scott PowersMarch 3, 2016

The fallout continues over President Barack Obama‘s endorsement of U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy in the Democrats’ race for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat. On Wednesday Murphy announced he had received the endorsements of Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Murphy is one of only two Democrats the president has endorsed in contested U.S. Senate primary races […]

Scott PowersMarch 3, 2016

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Donald Trump released details Thursday of his plans for health care reform starting with repeal of Obamacare and focusing on cost reduction measures. Trump’s seven-point plan begins by calling for the elimination of any mandates for individuals to possess health care through a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. The plan does not address any […]

Scott PowersMarch 3, 2016

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In a desperate appeal Thursday, Mitt Romney drew on passion and bluntness he never showed in his 2012 presidential campaign as he called on Americans to reject Donald Trump as a phony, a fraud, a misogynist, a bully and a vulgar man. Speaking from the Hinkley Institute in Utah, Romney blasted Trump’s economic policies, saying they […]

Scott PowersMarch 3, 2016

Val Demings has received the endorsement of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers in her bid for the Democratic nomination to run for Congress in Orlando-based Congressional District 10. The union endorsement follows several others she has received, including from a coalition of unions representing Walt Disney World employees. “It means […]

Scott PowersMarch 3, 2016

Orlando and seven other cities announced Thursday they are launching an initiative called the Energy Secure Cities Coalition and dedicating to change municipal vehicles to alternative fuels. West Palm Beach also is among the charter cities in the group, which was organized by the organizations Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) and the Electrification Coalition. “The […]

Scott PowersMarch 2, 2016

Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera wants Floridians to know his love of America comes in part from his family’s flight from Cuban oppression, in a new video ad released by his U.S. Senate campaign. In the 60-second spot called “Freedom,” Lopez-Cantera tells the story of how his grandfather was arrested and detained in Cuba in 1960, and […]

Scott PowersMarch 2, 2016

Orlando lawyer and law school professor Aramis Ayala has filed to challenge fellow Democrat Jeff Ashton for state attorney in the Orlando-based 9th Judicial Circuit. Ayala, who is a former assistant state attorney in that office, said she is running because the office has a structurally cumbersome set up that makes it inefficient in “keeping […]

Scott PowersMarch 2, 2016

The Florida Board of Governors gave the University of Central Florida a critical green light Wednesday for a downtown Orlando campus focusing on workplace education. The solid but not unanimous majority means UCF has the Board of Governors’ blessing to seek $20 million from the state to build a multiuse building in downtown Orlando to […]

Scott PowersMarch 2, 2016

Tribune Publishing Co. has shaken up leadership at all its newspapers, ousting publishers and promoting editors to dual positions as editor-publishers, including at the papers in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, according to news reports. At the Orlando Sentinel, Nancy Meyer is out as publisher after a little more than a year in that position. Editor […]

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David Jolly wants federal government to lock out Apple until Apple unlocks phones

Patrick Murphy blasts Alan Grayson campaign’s blast of Barack Obama endorsement

Donald Trump releases health care plan: repeal Obamacare, focus on costs

Mitt Romney rips Donald Trump as “phony,” “fraud,” “misogynist,” and “vulgar”

Union endorses Val Demings in CD 10 race

Orlando, 7 other cities, launch “Energy Secure Cities” initiative

Carlos Lopez-Cantera highlights his family’s Cuba history in first campaign video

Aramis Ayala files to challenge Jeff Ashton for state attorney in 9th Circuit

Board of Governors approves UCF downtown campus

Tribune Publishing shake-up includes leadership shake-ups at Orlando, Fort Lauderdale newspapers