Staff ReportsJuly 25, 2024
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Staff ReportsJuly 25, 2024
A.G. GancarskiJuly 26, 2023
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The Governor continues to respond to the VP's speech last week.
Renzo DowneyOctober 20, 2020
5min481
The Governor received high marks on policy performance and tax policy.
Mitch PerryApril 3, 2017
4min339
In Tampa, Florida Democratic Party Chair Stephen Bittel waxed optimistically last month about the Democrats’ chance of winning back the state Senate in 2020. Notably, he didn’t say anything about the House, where Republicans outnumber Democrats, 79-41. Tampa Rep. Janet Cruz, serving the first year of a two-year stint as Minority Leader and four weeks into the 2017 Session, admits […]
Mitch PerryMarch 13, 2017
5min411
A raft of bills that would reform Florida’s criminal justice system sponsored by St. Petersburg Republican Jeff Brandes were approved by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee Monday. That included legislation that would create a criminal justice task force (SB 458) consisting of 27 members that would take a “holistic” review of the state’s criminal justice system, including (but […]
Mitch PerryJuly 21, 2015
7min320
In advance of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) national meeting which begins Wednesday in San Diego, the good government group Common Cause Florida is calling on two state lawmakers to disclose any corporate or special interest funding that is paying for state lawmakers to travel to the west coast for the meeting. ALEC meetings place business executives with […]
Daniel TilsonApril 12, 2015
6min185
I’m a longtime liberal political activist, a Florida Democrat proud of his pragmatically progressive pedigree. That’s why I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton for president and Patrick Murphy for the U.S. Senate in 2016. I’m urging other liberals, Democrats and progressive activists to do the same. I’m endorsing Clinton and Murphy because I believe they’ll continue to […]
Daniel TilsonMarch 30, 2015
7min150
Gov. Rick Scott and Florida House Republicans must love the classic TV series, 24. That’s the one where each episode unfolded as one hour in the same nerve-racking, dangerous day, as the good guys battled against time to thwart terrorist plots. Maybe it’s fondness for suspense that has Scott and GOP House members still stringing […]
Daniel TilsonFebruary 22, 2015
5min244
On behalf of ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, I want to thank you, especially you, Governor-elect Scott, for having me here. What can I say? Jobs are first, last and everything. Jobs. J. O. B. S. Create enough more jobs – the right kind – and drive down those ugly unemployment numbers, and you’re […]
Mitch PerryDecember 4, 2014
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One of the few tangible (if not necessarily positive) events with nearly universal appeal that came out of the entire Michael Brown tragedy was the call for body cameras on police officers. Local police departments in the Tampa Bay area are about to start pilot programs with the cameras. And yesterday Gulfport Police Chief Robert […]