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Mitch PerryOctober 30, 2015

The Florida Democratic Party will gather this weekend for their fall convention in Lake Buena Vista. The confab comes almost a full year before the 2016 election, where in addition to trying to keep the state blue for the third straight time at the presidential level, the party is hoping to get one of their to join […]

Mitch PerryOctober 6, 2015

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Last week, a number of Democrats in the Florida Legislature took the “Minimum Wage Challenge,” a weeklong attempt to live on what a minimum wage worker earns and endures to show empathy and solidarity with the Fight for 15 movement. That’s the effort led by the Service Employees International Union in Florida to have fast-food workers, […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 28, 2015

Democratic state Rep. Dwight Dudley and Congressional District 13 candidate Eric Lynn said Monday they’ll live on minimum wages for the duration of this week to show their support for workers striving to get the minimum wage raised to $15 an hour. They talked about their plan at a press conference outside of a McDonald’s […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 28, 2015

• Lawmakers will try to live on $17 a day: At least 18 Florida lawmakers plan to live on a minimum wage this week to draw attention to efforts to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. Starting Monday, the lawmakers will live for five days on $17 per day. That figure represents what […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 23, 2015

Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Allison Tant is calling on state Rep. Janet Adkins to apologize after a disclosure of her remarks about including as many prisons as possible in U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown‘s new district to help “get rid of” her. Adkins, a Fernandina Beach Republican, made the comments during a closed Republican Party of Florida meeting […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2015

Efforts in recent years by Florida Democrats to have Florida’s minimum wage raised have gone nowhere, and the odds that may change in 2016 don’t look promising. Last week in Tallahassee, Miami Democratic state Sen. Dwight Bullard and Orlando state Rep. Victor Torres announced their legislation that would raise the state’s minimum wage from the […]

Drew WilsonSeptember 8, 2015

In a flurry of political activity, several no-party-affiliated candidates filed in South Florida House and Senate seats during the long holiday weekend. Each candidate is associated with a group pushing to reform the Department of Children and Families and the state’s family court system. Mercedes Cristian, the founder of Fundación Lideres de Paz, an organization that […]

Jim RosicaSeptember 8, 2015

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Another South Florida lawmaker is trying again to establish pilot programs in coastal communities to outlaw plastic shopping bags. State Rep. David Richardson, a Miami Beach Democrat, filed his bill (HB 143) on Tuesday. Last session, state Sen. Dwight Bullard, a Cutler Bay Democrat, filed similar legislation that died in committee. Richardson’s bill would let […]

Melissa RossSeptember 4, 2015

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The fight over fracking is heating up again in Florida. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is an oil and gas drilling technique that involves pumping fluids and chemicals at high pressure deep underground to break up rock formations. Last month, Democratic Sens. Darren Soto of Orlando and Dwight Bullard of Miami filed legislation that aims to ban fracking in […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 2, 2015

The nationwide campaign to raise fast-food workers’ wages to $15 an hour has incorporated child-care workers into the effort. The campaign is being led nationally and in Florida by the Service Employees International Union. “We have to share the story to create a groundwell,” said Monica Russo, president of SEIU Florida State Council, and executive […]

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Florida Democrats to convene this weekend at Disney Resort

Florida Democrats talk about living on the minimum wage for a week

In St. Petersburg, Dwight Dudley, Eric Lynn vow to live on minimum wage for a week

Monday morning roundup from the Tallahassee desk

FDP’s Allison Tant says GOP state Rep. Janet Adkins should apologize

17 Florida state Democrats to live on minimum wage for a week

Several NPA candidates file in South Florida races over Labor Day weekend

Ban the bag, South Florida lawmaker says

Will Florida see fracking?

SEIU Fight for $15 embraces child-care workers, wins support of Ed Narain, other local officials