Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Peter SchorschMarch 31, 2016

Conservative blogger Javier Manjarres has evidently returned from a stint in jail and returned to blogging about Florida politics on his site, the The Shark Tank. The blog was on hiatus over the weekend, with no posts published between Friday and Monday. Manjarres was processed and released from the Palm Beach County jail after his arrest Saturday on […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 23, 2015

Earlier this year, a Florida GOP lawmaker made an immature, offensive, possibly racist comment on Twitter about two black legislators. Meanwhile, another Florida GOP lawmaker told a gathering of Republican activists that the key to defeating Corrine Brown, a black Jacksonville Democrat, was to boost the number of black prisoners in her north Florida congressional district. Guess which […]

Janelle Irwin TaylorJuly 21, 2015

A group of four journalists from Uzbekistan traveled to the United States this past week for a series of seminars and meetings with local journalists. World Partnerships Inc., an organization based in downtown St. Petersburg, brought the journalists to the U.S. to further their educations in various media and to learn about U.S. journalism practices. […]

Guest AuthorNovember 3, 2014

Get out and vote. Who am I to suggest such a thing? The other day someone described me as a lobbyist. I’m not. Lobbyists form close relationships with lawmakers and encourage them to vote in ways that would benefit their clients. I recognize a lobbyist’s value, but would never consider myself one of them. First […]

Tag: bloggers

Javier Manjarres posts bail, returns to blogging

Y’all better give Janet Adkins as much sh*t as you did Matt Gaetz

Janelle Irwin: What this American blogger learned from her Uzbek counterparts

Catherine Durkin Robinson: We citizens are the solution so get out and vote today