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Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterFebruary 5, 2016

Americans for Prosperity—Florida is out with a new advertisement taking aim at sports incentives. The digital advertisement ad campaign asks Floridians to tell their elected officials to oppose efforts to give incentives to sports teams. The digital ad campaign is scheduled to run through Super Bowl Sunday. “As wealthy team owners and NFL executives gather […]

Associated PressFebruary 1, 2016

The Florida Legislature is being asked to give tens of millions to help sports teams in Jacksonville and Miami and Daytona International Speedway. The state’s economic development agency on Monday forwarded three sports applications to state lawmakers to review. The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity did not rank the applications but suggested that all three […]

Phil AmmannDecember 30, 2015

In the opening weeks of 2016, Florida’s three professional football stadiums and Daytona International Speedway will each vie for taxpayer funds to help pay for upgrades, many already in progress. Ranking the applicants — Jacksonville Jaguars, Daytona International Speedway (DIS), Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Miami Dolphins — will be the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, […]

Phil AmmannDecember 6, 2015

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Four Florida sports teams have come to Tallahassee with the hope of leaving with state money to renovate and improve facilities, a process where the first step is scheduled to begin at month’s end. Each applicant – Daytona International Speedway, the Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars – is jostling for a slice […]

Associated PressNovember 3, 2015

Several of Florida’s professional sports teams are trying again to win state money from the Florida Legislature. State officials said Monday that they had received requests to spend money on the stadiums used by the Miami Dolphins, the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The state has also received a funding request from Daytona […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 27, 2015

There is a right, smart way to take on Republican Marco Rubio and there is a dumb, ineffective way to challenge him. What you are seeing out of Donald Trump this week – attacking the first-term U.S. senator and former speaker of the Florida House as a “disloyal” and “sweaty” “lightweight” – is the latter. […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 25, 2015

There is a right, smart way to take on Republican Marco Rubio and there is a dumb, ineffective way to challenge him. What you are seeing out of Donald Trump this week – attacking the first-term U.S. senator and former speaker of the Florida House as a “disloyal” and “sweaty” “lightweight” – is the latter. […]

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 19, 2015

A high-stakes multimillion dollar tug-of-war over funding for professional sports is now in overtime. A 14-member joint legislative budget panel on Thursday voted to delay a decision on whether to approve the ranking of four applications for state subsidies. Joint Legislative Budget Commission Chairman Rep. Richard Corcoran said he was opposed to awarding any incentive […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 19, 2015

At 2:30 p.m. today, the state’s Legislative Budget Committee will consider granting millions of dollars in tax breaks to four entities for sports stadiums: The Daytona International Speedway, the city of Orlando for Orlando City Soccer, the city of Jacksonville for the NFL Jaguars, and South Florida Stadium LLC, the home of the Miami Dolphins. […]

Christine Jordan SextonFebruary 11, 2015

Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood III sent a letter to the state’s chief economist Wednesday night saying the racetrack should have ranked higher in a competitive bid for sports incentive dollars. In his letter to Office of Economic and Demographic Research Coordinator Amy Baker, Chitwood said the speedway should have been ranked No. 2, […]

Tag: Miami Dolphins

Americans for Prosperity-Florida takes aim at sports incentives in new ad campaign

Legislature asked to consider money for sports teams

Daytona International Speedway a perfect fit for Florida Sports Development Program

Miami Dolphins ask state for stadium funding; short on ROI, long on wishful thinking

Florida pro sports teams make another push for state money

Peter Schorsch: How to effectively take on Marco Rubio

How to effectively take on Marco Rubio

Joint Legislative Budget Commission punts on sports tax incentives

AFP warns LBC to skip support of stadium incentive proposal

Sports incentives debate heating up as Daytona Speedway questions its ranking