Tag: neil combee

Scott PowersNovember 27, 2017
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A coalition of mostly conservative organizations is joining former state Rep. Neil Combee to push a proposal from the Florida Constitution Revision Commission that would allow lawmakers to make new criminal statutes retroactive. CRC Proposal 20 would repeal Article X, section 9 of the Florida Constitution, which dates back to 1885. Called the “Savings Clause,” the law […]

Ana CeballosNovember 16, 2017
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As state Rep. Neil Combee prepares to leave the Florida House to take a post in President Donald Trump’s administration, he announced Thursday that state Rep. Jennifer Sullivan will be taking over his chairmanship at the Oversight, Transparency & Administration Subcommittee. “Be kind, be generous and do a good job,” Combee told teary-eyed members of […]

Peter SchorschNovember 8, 2017
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Self-described “conservative” cattle rancher and agribusiness woman Josie Tomkow filed her paperwork Tuesday in the special election expected to take place following the presumed exit of state Rep. Neil Combee, who was appointed to a position at the USDA last week. Tomkow is a third-generation cattle rancher and has been involved in Florida’s beef industry since birth, according […]

Jim RosicaNovember 4, 2017
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has appointed state Rep. Neil Combee as Florida State Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), the department announced in a news release Friday night. Combee could not be reached late Friday. (Update: He later told the News Chief he will resign his House District […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 19, 2017
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The 2018 Legislative Session will see two bills from Florida Democrats that will take aim at Confederate symbolism: holidays and monuments, specifically. Coral Springs Rep. Jared Moskowitz’s HB 277 would strike Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis birthdays and Confederate Memorial Day from the list of legal holidays in Florida. Moskowitz asserts that legal holidays should not […]


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