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Scott PowersNovember 29, 2017

Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson took to the floor of the Senate Wednesday to slam the Republican tax reform bill and Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio followed him a few minutes later to make a last pitch for the childcare tax credit he’s been seeking to make the reform more “pro-worker.” The Senate is debating […]

Mitch PerryNovember 29, 2017

UPDATE A progressive group is attacking Gov. Rick Scott with a new website — Rick’s Recession — for what they claim is the state’s unequal recovery from the Great Recession and the detrimental cost of his policies for Florida families. The site, published by progressive group “For Florida’s Future,” highlights what it contends are the majority of Florida counties […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 28, 2017

Steps away from Sen. Marco Rubio‘s Jacksonville office, a group of Jacksonville preachers thundered against the “immoral” tax bill in the U.S. Senate Tuesday. The clergymen, brought together under the aegis of the “Faith in Public Life” group, called for Rubio and Sen. Bill Nelson to vote against the tax bill based on “religious” values. Nelson has objected […]

Peter SchorschNovember 22, 2017

From the soup kitchens of Tallahassee to the conch houses of Key West, from the toniest mansions in Coral Gables to the double wides in Dixie County, people from all walks of life will sit down to celebrate the most American of holidays: Thanksgiving. “Americans traditionally recognize the ‘first’ Thanksgiving as having taken place at […]

Mitch PerryNovember 21, 2017

Chanting “tax cuts will destroy us,” a group of citizens marched a block from MacDill Park to a Wells Fargo bank in downtown Tampa on Tuesday to protest the recently passed tax reform plan in the House and warn against approval of the Republican Senate’s tax reform plan that could be voted on next week. […]

Mitch PerryNovember 20, 2017

Democratic U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, joined his Florida colleague Bill Nelson at a business roundtable discussion in Tampa Monday. At the event, the two lawmakers blasted the GOP tax reform bill that passed the House last week and could come up in the Senate as early as next […]

Scott PowersNovember 17, 2017

School districts and colleges in Florida and other states may be in line for some of $1.24 billion in federal support for taking in Puerto Rican children displaced by Hurricane Maria, U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy announced Friday. Murphy, a Democrat from Winter Park, has been leading the charge, which has included several other Florida Congress […]

Scott PowersNovember 17, 2017

The U.S. Senate’s $692.2 billion defense budget includes includes provisions that would allow far more frequent private rocket launches from Cape Canaveral and other provisions that should help Florida, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson declared. The bill, approved by the U.S. Senate late Thursday and by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, includes provisions to […]

Peter SchorschNovember 16, 2017

How do you solve a problem like Al Franken? Tell him to stay away. Far, far away. The boob-groping (not “allegedly,” by the way, because there’s – yipes – a photo) Democratic senator from Minnesota was set to headline a fundraiser this Saturday for Florida’s Bill Nelson at the Thonotosassa home of former state CFO Alex Sink. But […]

Drew WilsonNovember 13, 2017

Gov. Rick Scott’s political committee, Let’s Get to Work, spent over $1.2 million last month on advertising, a blitz that foreshadows his likely 2018 bid for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Bill Nelson. Of the committee’s $1,281,290 in expenditures last month, $1,229,813 went towards ads. The main beneficiary was Maryland-based OnMessage, which has […]

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Bill Nelson slams tax bill; Marco Rubio makes final pitch for child credit

Website blasts Rick Scott’s policies for working Floridians

Jax preachers call Senate tax plan ‘economic genocide’

What Florida’s political elite should be thankful for

Tampa Bay sees protest of GOP tax proposals

Ron Wyden visits Bill Nelson in Tampa to call for bipartisanship in tax reform

Stephanie Murphy leads effort to get $1.2B to help schools accept Puerto Rican migrants

Defense budget bill includes much for Florida, Cape Canaveral, Bill Nelson says

Al Franken ‘no longer available’ for Bill Nelson fundraiser

Rick Scott spent more than $1.2M on advertising last month