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Scott PowersDecember 16, 2016

Florida’s beleaguered tourism promoter has fired two of its top executives in the wake of revelations and criticism of a $1 million contract with Miami rapper Pitbull, an action that Gov. Rick Scott said was a matter of holding people accountable. Scott confirmed Friday morning in Eatonville that Visit Florida’s President Will Seccombe has fired Chief Operating Officer […]

Scott PowersDecember 13, 2016

Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran sued PDR Productions Inc. Tuesday for a judge’s permission to publicly release documents involved in the Visit Florida deal used to hire Miami rapper Pitbull to promote Florida tourism. At issue is Corcoran’s concern that Visit Florida deals — done increasingly in secret — may require deeper scrutiny in how it’s spending state […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 21, 2016

If you ever want to complain about how the Lottery is run in Florida, just take a gander at how other states royally screw it up. And how they victimize the companies getting it right. The most recent lesson comes from Maryland. Lottery officials there admitted they “inflated” an 8-year, $262 million IT contract “to include […]

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