Anne GeggisAugust 21, 2023
5min0
Broward County Tax Collector will be an elected position starting with the 2024 election, and 1 contender says she's already doing the job.
Tag: constitutional officersA nice warm evening in Tallahassee on a very busy street while taking this shot.
Anne GeggisAugust 21, 2023
Scott PowersJune 26, 2019
6min522
Will Roberts becomes Volusia County's first Tax Collector election candidate in 50 years
Scott PowersApril 18, 2019
13min553
The Supreme Court of Ron DeSantis reversed the court of Rick Scott.
Danny McAuliffeOctober 30, 2018
6min335
While Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum have fundamental differences in how state government should be shaped for the next four years, each will face the important task of ensuring it continues to operate. That’s why the nonpartisan research and policy group Florida TaxWatch is again publishing its “Governor’s Transition Decision Handbook,” a cheat-sheet aimed […]
Drew WilsonApril 16, 2018
4min337
Voters in Florida’s largest county are in favor of a constitutional amendment to require county constitutional officers be elected, a new poll found. The poll, commissioned by Constitutional Officer Resource Experts (C.O.R.E.), found more than three quarters of likely voters in Miami-Dade County were in favor of electing constitutional officers such as county sheriffs or […]
Peter SchorschApril 5, 2018
3min207
More than three quarters of Hillsborough County voters say they’re in favor of making countywide constitutional offices nonpartisan, according to a new poll. The poll of Hillsborough County voters found 76 percent were in support of the change while 13 percent were opposed. It was paid for by Leadership for Florida’s Future, a political committee […]
Scott PowersJanuary 4, 2017
8min273
Wednesday is the day that Orange County’s voters figured they had turned their sheriff, tax collector, property appraiser, clerk of courts, supervisor of elections and comptroller into non-partisan, term-limited county officials – but it’s not happening. And it is unclear if it will ever happen. Late Tuesday Judge Bob Leblanc of Florida’s 9th Circuit Court […]
Scott PowersDecember 29, 2016
19min324
Story co-written by Orlando-Rising staff reporters Scott Powers and Lawrence Griffin. In Orlando, 2016 will always be remembered as the year of the Pulse gay nightclub massacre, and Pulse redefined everything; but it’s not the only major event to have shaped politics in Orlando during the year. Here are a few events that defined politics […]
Scott PowersJuly 18, 2016
3min298
BusinessForce, the political action arm of Central Florida’s chambers of commerce, has voted unanimously to support all three proposed charter amendments Orange County voters will consider in the November election. Two of the amendments are the Orange County Charter Review Commission’s reaction to a recent judge’s ruling that threw out an earlier charter amendment, approved […]
Keith MorelliJune 29, 2016
6min245
The collecting began last year, and the contributions flowed into Tampa Bay incumbent constitutional officers focused winning this fall’s elections and keeping their jobs for four more years. By last week, when qualifying ended, nearly a dozen had raked in close to $900,000, ready to wage war with challengers to their positions as sheriffs, tax […]