Scott PowersJanuary 15, 2019
1min263
Lois Frankel joins Charlie Crist on the House budgeting committee, now controlled by Democrats.
Tag: Charlie CristComing off an offseason injury, Arik Armstead will need to increase his workload as the season progresses.
Scott PowersJanuary 15, 2019Scott PowersJanuary 10, 2019
2min820
Democratic U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist has won an appointment to powerful House Committee on Appropriations. Crist, of St. Petersburg, will be taking a seat on the A-list committee responsible for funding for most of the functions of the federal government, his office announced Thursday morning. He takes a lead in the Democratically controlled 116th Congress […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 8, 2019
4min402
Congress members Charlie Crist, Kathy Castor, Francis Rooney and Vern Buchanan reintroduced Tuesday the Florida Coastal Protection Act seeking to ban offshore drilling around the state. The bill would make the current federal moratorium permanent. The current ban is set to expire in June of 2022. The reintroduced act would also extend the ban into […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorJanuary 8, 2019
8min307
Congressman Charlie Crist joined several ex-felons to register to vote Tuesday morning at the downtown St. Petersburg Supervisor of Elections office opened. It was the first day qualifying former offenders could register. Florida voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 4 last November, which automatically restores nonviolent ex-felons’ right to vote as long as they have fully paid their […]
Lloyd DunkelbergerJanuary 6, 2019
9min686
Ron DeSantis will be Florida’s youngest governor in more than a century when he takes office on Tuesday. DeSantis, a former congressman from Ponte Vedra Beach, turned 40 about two weeks after he won the Aug. 28 Republican primary. He will be the youngest governor on Inauguration Day since Park Trammell took the oath of […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 29, 2018
4min611
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor will lead Congress’ Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi announced Friday. Pelosi is reviving the committee after it was defunct for about eight years. In her role, Castor will oversee research into mitigation strategies to combat climate change. Conservatives in Congress killed the committee after regaining control of the House in […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 21, 2018
3min478
Pinellas County Congressman Charlie Crist was recognized Thursday night on the House floor for his efforts to bring more civility to the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Claudia Tenney, a Republican from New York, thanked Crist during a speech before the freshman class of Congress for bracelets he gifted members. “It says, ‘practice the Golden […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 11, 2018
5min794
Barbara Scott wants to shift the perception of the Pinellas Democratic Party. That shift: From an exclusive, members-only club, to one open to all Democrats. Scott was elected county party chair Monday night, unseating four-year incumbent Susan McGrath in a shocking landslide vote. “You don’t need to be a member of the Democratic Executive Committee […]
Janelle Irwin TaylorDecember 11, 2018
6min813
In a major upset, Pinellas County Democratic Party Chair Susan McGrath lost to former chef Barbara Scott during a party meeting Monday night. Scott won with nearly two-thirds 0f the vote. McGrath’s publicly facing campaign to hold onto her chairmanship seemed to be going well. She was rolling in endorsements from elected Democrats in Pinellas County […]
Peter SchorschDecember 8, 2018
42min363
This may come as a surprise, but state lawmakers don’t have an innate understanding of the legislative process. After all, subjects like bill drafting and budgeting don’t come easy — and they aren’t known to rile a political crowd during campaign season. Legislative leadership hopes to remedy this problem next week through a series of […]