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A.G. GancarskiNovember 11, 2015

On Tuesday in Jacksonville, Congresswoman Corrine Brown announced her ballot access drive for a ballot initiative called Creation of a Healthy Florida Plan. She was dismissive of Governor Rick Scott‘s tax cuts that save “$10 on your light bill,” saying they are a smoke screen for a larger grift. “Floridians are being taxed,” Brown said, […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 11, 2015

Jacksonville’s bigger-name Democrats seem to be lining up behind Hillary Clinton. On Tuesday, Corrine Brown confirmed her support of Clinton to a media gaggle. And FloridaPolitics.com has learned that a $500 minimum per person fundraiser is planned on Clinton’s behalf on the evening of Dec. 2 at the home of Sallyn Pajcic. The Pajcics, of […]

Gary FineoutNovember 11, 2015

A long-running legal battle over Florida’s political landscape wound up back before the state Supreme Court on Tuesday where several justices sounded skeptical about the changes proposed by the Republican-controlled Legislature. The hope is that the court will soon end three years of lawsuits, court hearings and special sessions by finally endorsing a new map […]

Jim RosicaNovember 10, 2015

Despite questions on many parts of the map, the Florida Supreme Court Tuesday focused on South Florida during the final scheduled oral argument in an ongoing congressional redistricting challenge. That inflamed Democratic U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, whose north-south district had been ordered changed by the court to an east-west configuration. That district didn’t get a mention. Brown, wearing […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 10, 2015

A good Corrine Brown press conference has a prop. The one she held on a misty Tuesday morning in Jacksonville, promoting a petition drive to get a referendum for Medicaid Expansion on the November 2016 ballot, had two. The first prop: Decked out in orange and blue, Congresswoman Brown wore a Gator-themed shawl, appropriate because […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 30, 2015

Whodini posed the immortal question: “Friends – how many of us have them?” In the case of U.S. Representative Corrine Brown, she has plenty, including two groups of them: “Friends of Corrine Brown” and her new posse, “Friends of Congresswoman Corrine Brown.” And in a Friday afternoon email, the latter group warned about a “Republican dirty trick” […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 29, 2015

The congressional districts of Democrat Corrine Brown and Republican Ron DeSantis abut each other in Northeast Florida. It’s appropriate there’s a boundary line between their districts, since a more than symbolic line exists between their thinking on current issues, as was exhibited by this week’s vote on the federal budget. The House approved the budget 266 to […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 28, 2015

U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, an alumnus of Florida A & M, has a clear understanding of the importance of historically black colleges and universities, and to that end, her Land Grant Opportunity Act, introduced on Monday, is intended to redress funding inequities. Her news media office asserted on Wednesday that “the “Land Grant Opportunity Act … […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 23, 2015

In a series of news releases late on Thursday, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown addressed a variety of issues, ranging from Benghazi hearing and the FAMU Board of Trustees to the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015. Regarding the Benghazi committee, Brown said, “I attended the House Select Committee on Benghazi hearing today. In the […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 22, 2015

Duval County School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti may be the most unpopular figure in Duval County politics. Teachers complain about teaching to the test, the dehumanizing strictures of 21st century education. They pass those memes on to the kids they teach. Vitti embodies 21st century education for them, almost like an Eastern European leader might have Communism, right about […]

Tag: Corrine Brown

Rick Scott unmoved by Corrine Brown’s push for Medicaid expansion on 2016 ballot

Big-ticket Hillary Clinton fundraiser in Jacksonville set for December

Supreme Court considers changes to Florida’s political map

Corrine Brown lambastes state Supreme Court over congressional redistricting

Corrine Brown urges Floridians to “soldier up” for health care expansion

Email insights: “Friends of Congresswoman Corrine Brown” on “Republican dirty trick”

Corrine Brown, Ron DeSantis diverge on federal budget vote

Corrine Brown introduces bill to boost black college funding

Corrine Brown addresses Benghazi, FAMU, transportation bill

Nikolai Vitti frames school system’s inconvenient truths