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Phil AmmannJune 19, 2015

In successfully hosting seven presidential candidates in Orlando this month, Gov. Rick Scott had one invaluable partner: Walt Disney World Parks and Resorts. As first reported by the Tampa Bay Times, campaign finance records show that on June 2, the day of the Economic Growth Summit, the Walt Disney Co. gave nearly a quarter million […]

Peter SchorschJune 3, 2015

In a Columbia Journalism Review story about the demand for political reporters in Florida, the Naples Daily News Manny Garcia offers an eerily prescient quote about the hot-stove league nature of the state’s journalism. “You have to have a pipeline because sometimes you’re going to lose people,” Garcia told Susannah Nesmith. Why is this prescient? Well, because Garcia is about to lose one of […]

Peter SchorschMay 27, 2015

Forgive me, regular readers, for defending Rick Scott, but he’s being accused of snubbing the Florida GOP when, in fact, he has not. Adam Smith of the Tampa Bay Times writes today about Scott’s upcoming Economic Growth Summit where several of the prospective 2016 Republican presidential candidates will be given “an opportunity to talk about […]

Rick Scott’s big partner for successful Economic Summit: Disney

Matt Dixon headed to POLITICO

When a snub is not a snub, even if it involves Rick Scott