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A.G. GancarskiJune 9, 2016

Attorney General Pam Bondi is in the news this week for soliciting a donation from Donald Trump concurrent with a considered, then scuttled, 2013 investigation of Trump University. Next week, she will be in the news for soliciting donations in a different context — the re-election campaign of Angela Corey, the incumbent Republican State Attorney in Florida’s 4th […]

Jim RosicaJune 9, 2016

Chief Deputy Attorney General Tyler Cathey is leaving Pam Bondi‘s office for the private sector, her office announced Wednesday. “I want to thank Tyler for his service as my chief deputy and congratulate him on his new role as chief operating officer and general counsel at a Tampa-based nationwide commercial real estate and financial services firm,” […]

Gary FineoutJune 8, 2016

Months after Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature rejected the idea, the state’s highest court was urged Wednesday to throw out the three-decade-old law that prohibits openly carrying guns in public. Dale Norman, who had a permit to carry a concealed weapon, was arrested by Fort Pierce police in 2012 because his gun was in a holster as […]

Bill RuftyJune 8, 2016

The Florida Federation of Republican Women will officially endorse Donald Trump for president during Trump’s rally at the Tampa Convention Center at 11 a.m. Saturday. “I have been asked to speak, and that is when I will announce our support,” said Dena DeCamp, president of the Florida Federation and a Republican National Convention delegate pledged […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 8, 2016

The Donald Trump scandal d’jour involves his criticisms of a judge presiding over his Trump University trial, whom Trump believes may be biased because of his Mexican heritage. Trump has already lost one endorsement, that of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, and seems to have caused one Iowa state senator to leave the Republican Party over it. Meanwhile, Trump […]

Mitch PerryJune 8, 2016

There are now calls for an independent investigation into Pam Bondi‘s decision not to investigate consumer complaints against Trump University, the for-profit education company created by Donald Trump that ran a real estate training program from 2005 until at least 2010 — and not just from Democrats. “Attorney General Pam Bondi owes Floridians a full accounting of […]

Jim RosicaJune 7, 2016

Attorney General Pam Bondi‘s admission this week that she personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump comes months after she evaded questions about it. That was in March, when — instead of directly answering — Bondi said she “hadn’t heard” about Trump’s representatives saying she asked for the money. The recent revelation came from Bondi’s spokesman to The Associated Press, […]

Jim RosicaJune 6, 2016

A list of everyone who has blocked, or been blocked by, an elected official on Twitter might be a public record, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi‘s office. Then again, maybe not. “The question presented … involves mixed questions of law and fact that this office cannot resolve,” said an informal Attorney General’s advisory opinion issued last […]

Associated PressJune 4, 2016

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has moved to muzzle a former state regulator who says he was ordered in 2010 to drop a fraud investigation into Trump University for political reasons. Paxton’s office issued a cease and desist letter to former Deputy Chief of Consumer Protection John Owens on Friday after Owens made public […]

A.G. GancarskiJune 3, 2016

School may be ending soon throughout Florida’s 4th Congressional District, but there’s no summer vacation when it comes to politicizing the issue of school bathrooms. On Friday, CD 4 Republican candidate Bill McClure issued a statement expressing “outrage” over a “federal directive on Florida and the country, forcing schools to allow transgender students to use the […]

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Pam Bondi to fundraise for Angela Corey next week

Pam Bondi’s chief of staff leaves for private sector

Sand, surf and gun? Florida’s highest court may say yes

Florida Federation of Republican Women to officially endorse Donald Trump

Rick Scott says he’s not ‘responsible for what any candidate says,’ including Donald Trump

Mitch Perry Report for 6.8.16 — Common Cause Florida calls for Pam Bondi to come clean

Pam Bondi’s March evasion on Donald Trump contribution becomes June admission

Pam Bondi’s office can’t resolve Twitter public record question

Pam Bondi, call your office – ex-Texas official: Trump U probe dropped due to politics

CD 4 Republican Bill McClure: ‘Outraged’ by presidential directive on school bathrooms